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Arbor Care Tree Service arborist working from a towable lift basket in a large live oak above a barn in North Central Florida

Where we work

Eleven towns across Alachua, Marion and Levy counties. Crews leave our Gainesville yard every morning, and we take emergency calls anywhere in that range at any hour of any day.

3 counties 11 towns Emergency calls answered 24 hours a day

The short version

Same crews, same standards, three counties

We are based in Gainesville and we work out from there. North to High Springs and Alachua, west to Newberry and Williston, south through Micanopy and McIntosh to Ocala and Reddick, east to Hawthorne and the lakes.

The trees change quite a bit across that range, and so does the work. Sand in High Springs, limestone close to the surface at Williston, soft wet ground around Lochloosa, and a closed eighty year old canopy over half of Gainesville. A crew that treats all of that the same way is going to get something wrong eventually, usually on your property.

So each town below has its own page: the trees that actually grow there, how they fail, what the permit situation is, and what we get called out for most. Start with yours.

What does not change, wherever you are

  • A certified arborist looks at the tree before anyone cuts
  • The price is in writing before work starts
  • Ground protection wherever equipment has to drive
  • Every limb, log and chip hauled off the same day
  • General liability and workers comp, certificate on request
  • The phone answered at any hour, any day of the year

Alachua County

7 towns in Alachua County

Our home county, and where most of our work is. Sandy soil, a heavy oak and pine canopy, and a lot of eighty year old laurel oaks that are all reaching the end at the same time. Permit rules here are the strictest of the three counties, and they change again every time you cross a city line.

Gainesville, FL

This is home. Crews leave from here.

Removals, pruning, stump grinding and storm work across Gainesville, from the historic districts east of downtown to the newer subdivisions west of I-75.

Tree service in Gainesville

Alachua, FL

About 15 minutes from our Gainesville yard

Tree service in the City of Alachua, Turkey Creek and the acreage along the 441 corridor, fifteen minutes up the road from our yard.

Tree service in Alachua

Newberry, FL

About 20 minutes west on Newberry Road

Tree work in Newberry, Jonesville and the farm country west of Gainesville, including pasture clearing, fence lines and the pines left standing next to new houses.

Tree service in Newberry

High Springs, FL

About 25 minutes northwest of Gainesville

Tree service in High Springs and along the Santa Fe River, from town lots and river frontage to the wooded parcels out toward the springs.

Tree service in High Springs

Archer, FL

About 20 minutes southwest of Gainesville

Tree removal, pruning and land clearing in Archer and the rural southwest corner of Alachua County.

Tree service in Archer

Micanopy, FL

About 20 minutes south of Gainesville

Careful tree work in Micanopy, where the live oaks along Cholokka Boulevard are the reason people drive out here in the first place.

Tree service in Micanopy

Hawthorne, FL

About 25 minutes east of Gainesville

Tree service in Hawthorne and the lakes country east of Gainesville, including Lochloosa, Little Orange Lake and the properties along State Road 20.

Tree service in Hawthorne

Levy County

1 town in Levy County

Farmland over shallow limestone, which is why trees fail differently out here than they do thirty miles east. Mostly acreage work, mostly good access, and the best prices we quote on big removals.

Straight answer

Does living further out cost you more?

Usually the opposite, and here is why. Distance is a scheduling problem for us. Access is the thing that actually drives the price, and out of town properties tend to have better access than in town ones.

What makes a job cheaper

  • We can drive equipment right up to the tree
  • Open ground with nothing underneath to protect
  • Somewhere on the property to drop wood instead of rigging every piece
  • Several trees booked on the same visit
  • You are flexible on timing

What makes it more expensive

  • Everything comes out by hand through a side gate
  • A house, pool, deck or power line directly underneath
  • A crane is the only safe way to do it
  • Soft or wet ground that needs mats before anything moves
  • After hours, weekends, or the week after a hurricane

Which is how a very large oak on open pasture in Reddick can cost less than a medium one in a fenced Gainesville back yard. It is not about the miles. It is about what we have to do to get to it and what is underneath it when it comes down.

Certified arborist on staff

Someone who actually studied trees looks at yours before a saw comes out. You get a real opinion, not a sales pitch.

Fully insured

General liability and workers comp. Ask and we email you the certificate before we start work.

We follow the standards

ANSI Z133 for safety and A300 for pruning, on every single job. Plenty of crews do not.

We answer 24 hours a day

Storms do not wait for business hours. Call or text any time, day or night, any day of the year.

Questions

About where we work

Do you charge more to come out to my town?

Not as a travel fee, no. Distance shows up in scheduling rather than in a line item. What does change the price is access. A tree we can drive equipment to costs much less than the same tree behind a six foot fence in a back yard, which is why open acreage in Levy or Marion County often prices better than a small lot in Gainesville.

What if I am just outside one of these towns?

Call us. The eleven pages are where we work most, not a fence around the service area. We go further for a full day of work, and several trees on one property makes a longer trip worth it for both of us.

How fast can you get to an emergency?

Depends where you are and what else is happening. Right after a storm, everybody in three counties calls at once and we work through it by severity, with trees on houses first. Call or text at any hour and we will tell you honestly where you sit in the line rather than promising you a time we cannot keep.

Do you do work for property managers across several towns?

Yes. We handle multi site maintenance for HOAs, management companies and commercial owners across all three counties, with certificates sent to your office and a written record of every visit. More on commercial work.

Are you licensed and insured everywhere you work?

We carry general liability and workers compensation that cover every county we operate in, and we will email you the certificate before we start. Worth knowing that Florida does not license tree services at all, and Marion County stopped requiring a local license in 2006. Insurance paperwork is the only real proof there is, so ask everybody for it.

Do not see your town?

Call us anyway. These eleven are where we work most, not a boundary we refuse to cross. We travel for a full day of work, and several trees on one property makes a longer trip worth it for everybody.

Free estimate

Get a free estimate today.

Tell us what is going on. We will come look at the tree, tell you honestly whether it needs to come down, and give you a price in writing before anyone starts cutting.

Faster than filling out a form 352-770-TREE (352) 770-8733, call or text, 24 hours a day
  • Free estimate, and you are not obligated to book
  • A certified arborist looks at your tree, not a salesman
  • You get the price in writing before any work starts
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