Tree Service in Auburntown, TN

Auburntown was first called Poplar Stand, after the poplar trees that grew there, before it was renamed after Auburn, New York, and incorporated in 1949. Tree Service in Auburntown still involves plenty of those trees. Today, when people in Middle Tennessee say poplar they usually mean the tulip poplar, Tennessee's state tree: tall, straight, one of the fastest-growing native hardwoods, and capable of passing 100 feet.

Living with tall poplars

Poplars are handsome trees with a few habits worth knowing:

• They grow tall quickly, so a tree that looked a safe distance from the house 20 years ago may now be within falling distance
• Their wood is relatively light and can shed limbs in storms, especially dead lower branches shaded out by the crown
• Large old poplars sometimes develop hollow trunks, which are hard to see from the outside
• Their shallow surface roots can lift walks and get scalped by mowers

None of this means a poplar should come down. It means a large one close to a house deserves a look every few years for deadwood and decay.

A very small town

Auburntown covers about 0.58 square miles and had 272 residents at the 2020 census, in 87 households. Most properties around it are farms and rural homes. That shapes how tree work goes: longer drives, more room to drop a tree in one piece when it is safe, and more decisions about what to do with the wood. Many owners keep the trunk wood for firewood and have the brush chipped and spread.

Getting here

State Route 145 runs about 10 miles north from the west side of Woodbury to Auburntown. From Murfreesboro, it is a drive out through the northeast corner of Rutherford County. We schedule rural jobs in the area so the trip makes sense for the work.

When the wood is too good to chip

Rural removals raise a question town jobs rarely do: is the log worth something? Straight, clear trunk wood from a big hardwood can interest a local sawyer, but yard trees often hide nails, fence wire and old staples that make mills turn them down. If you want to keep a log, tell us before we cut so we can buck it to a usable length and set it where a trailer can reach it. Otherwise we cut it to firewood length or haul it.

Lines and burning

Middle Tennessee Electric lists a Cannon County vegetation contact, reachable through its tree program at (877) 414-7685, for limbs near its lines. If you plan to burn brush rather than haul it, check BurnSafeTN, where the state Division of Forestry posts whether a burn permit is currently required, and check local restrictions as well.

Common requests around Auburntown

1. Removing a tall tree that now reaches the house or a barn 2. Clearing dead limbs out of big shade trees over a drive or yard 3. Cutting up and clearing storm-downed trees off fences 4. Grinding stumps so a field edge or yard can be mowed 5. Thinning volunteer trees out of fence rows

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