Emergency Tree Removal Services

24/7Emergency Tree Service When Every Minute Matters

When a tree falls unexpectedly, time is critical. Whether caused by severe storms, high winds, lightning, heavy snow, or a weakened tree, emergency tree removal requires experienced professionals with the right equipment to safely protect your family, home, and property.

Atlas Tree Service provides fast, professional emergency tree removal services for homeowners, businesses, municipalities, and property managers. Our trained crews respond quickly to remove hazardous trees, clear blocked driveways and roads, and help prevent further damage after storms.

Removing trees safely is a complex process that requires patience, skill and experience. At Glendale, we take the time to evaluate each tree before any work begins. This helps us to identify the best machinery, tools and techniques to best remove the tree in question.

Why Atlas?

✅ We use the best available felling and safety equipment to achieve excellent results.

✅ Our equipment includes 3.5 tonne arboricultural trucks, 4×4 pickups, trailed 6” brushwood chippers, chainsaws, climbing kits and rigging.

✅ We have performed tree removals at professional institutions for many years

✅Our teams are fully insured and adhere to strict operational safety guidelines

✅All our team members have experience working in many different industrial sectors.

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Tree Cabling & Bracing Services

Strengthen Weak Trees. Reduce Risk. Preserve the Trees You Value.

A mature tree can add beauty, shade, privacy, and value to your property—but structural weaknesses can make an otherwise healthy tree vulnerable to storm damage or failure.

Professional tree cabling and bracing can provide additional structural support for trees with weak branch unions, multiple trunks, heavy limbs, splits, or other structural concerns. When appropriate, a properly designed support system can help reduce excessive movement and lower the risk of major limbs or stems breaking.

Our tree care professionals evaluate the tree, identify structural concerns, and determine whether cabling, bracing, pruning, removal, or a combination of treatments is the best solution.

What Is Tree Cabling?

Tree cabling uses specially designed cables installed between major limbs or stems to provide supplemental support.

Cabling is commonly considered for trees with:

✅ Large, heavy limbs
✅ Multiple trunks or co-dominant stems
✅ Weak branch unions
✅ Excessive limb movement
✅ Structural defects
✅ Valuable limbs that may otherwise require removal
✅ Increased exposure to wind and storms

The goal isn't to make a tree rigid. A properly designed cable system provides supplemental support while allowing the tree to respond naturally to wind and normal movement.

What Is Tree Bracing?

Tree bracing typically uses rods or other specialized hardware to reinforce weak or splitting sections of a tree.

Bracing may be recommended when a tree has a structural weakness that requires more direct support than cabling alone can provide. In some situations, cabling and bracing are used together to help stabilize a vulnerable tree.

Because every tree is different, the support system should be based on the tree's species, size, condition, structure, location, and potential targets below it.

Does Your Tree Need Cabling or Bracing?

Some structural problems are obvious. Others can be difficult to recognize from the ground.

Warning signs can include cracks between major trunks, unusually heavy horizontal limbs, multiple stems originating from the same area, weak V-shaped unions, visible separation between trunks, previous storm damage, or large branches extending over a house, driveway, sidewalk, patio, or other frequently used area.

Don't wait for the next storm to discover a weak point in your tree.

A professional tree assessment can help identify structural concerns and determine whether supplemental support is appropriate.

Cabling & Bracing Can Help Preserve Valuable Trees

Tree removal isn't always the only solution.

When the tree is otherwise healthy and the structural problem can be appropriately managed, cabling or bracing may allow you to retain a mature tree while reducing the likelihood of certain types of structural failure.

This can be particularly valuable for:

Mature shade trees
Historic or specimen trees
Trees near homes and buildings
Trees providing important privacy or landscaping
Trees with large limbs extending over high-use areas

However, cabling and bracing cannot make a hazardous or severely compromised tree safe in every situation. If the tree has extensive decay, severe root problems, major structural failure, or other serious defects, pruning or removal may be the safer recommendation.

Our Tree Cabling & Bracing Process

We begin by evaluating the entire tree—not just the branch or trunk that appears to be the problem.

We examine the tree's structure, branch unions, trunk condition, canopy, previous damage, visible decay, and surrounding property. We then determine whether supplemental support is appropriate and where that support should be installed.

Depending on the tree, the recommended solution may include tree cabling, bracing, selective pruning, weight reduction, or a combination of methods.

Once installed, support systems should be periodically inspected. Trees continue to grow and change, and storms or other conditions can affect both the tree and its support system.

Tree Cabling vs. Tree Removal

The right choice depends on the condition of the individual tree.

Cabling and bracing may be appropriate when: the tree is worth preserving, its overall condition is acceptable, and supplemental support can meaningfully address the structural concern.

Tree removal may be appropriate when: decay, root failure, extensive damage, severe structural defects, or the tree's location creates an unacceptable risk that supplemental support cannot adequately address.

Our objective is to recommend the solution that makes sense for the tree, your property, and the surrounding area—not simply remove a tree that may be capable of being preserved.

Protect Your Trees Before the Next Storm

A large limb or splitting trunk can cause substantial damage when it fails. If you have a mature tree with a questionable branch union, multiple trunks, visible cracking, or unusually heavy limbs, have it evaluated before severe weather exposes the weakness.

Schedule a Tree Cabling & Bracing Assessment

Concerned about a tree on your property?

Contact us for a professional evaluation. We'll inspect the tree, explain what we find, and recommend whether cabling, bracing, pruning, or tree removal is the most appropriate course of action.

Strengthen the tree. Reduce the risk. Preserve what can be saved.

Frequently Asked Questions
Does cabling guarantee that a tree won't fail?

No. Cabling and bracing provide supplemental structural support, but no system can guarantee that a tree or limb will never fail, particularly during severe weather.

Can cabling save a split tree?

Sometimes. It depends on the location and severity of the split, the condition of the wood, the tree species, and the overall structure of the tree. The tree should be evaluated before deciding whether cabling or bracing is appropriate.

Will cables hurt my tree?

Professional tree-support systems are designed specifically for use in trees. Proper selection, placement, and installation are important to avoid unnecessary damage and provide effective support.

How long does tree cabling last?

Support systems can remain useful for years, but they shouldn't simply be installed and forgotten. Trees continue to grow, and the tree and support hardware should be periodically inspected.

Should I cable a tree or remove the weak limb?

That depends on the tree. Selective pruning may be sufficient in some situations, while other trees benefit from a combination of pruning and supplemental support. Severely compromised trees may require removal.

When should I have a tree inspected?

Have a tree evaluated if you notice cracking, splitting, unusual movement, storm damage, weak branch unions, large overextended limbs, or other changes in its structure. Trees near houses, driveways, play areas, and other high-use areas deserve particular attention.

Professional Tree Cabling & Bracing

Have a tree you're worried about? Don't guess about its condition.

Schedule an evaluation to determine whether professional cabling and bracing can help protect your tree and property.

Call today for a tree cabling and bracing assessment.