Tree Removal in Harahan, LA

Harahan runs its own city government, with Jefferson Highway running through town and the Mississippi River along its southern edge, and a tree that has been growing in a yard for a long time can end up reaching over a roof, a carport or a fence line. If you’re weighing tree removal in Harahan, start with a close look at the tree itself and at everything it could land on.

Big Easy Tree Removal takes trees down all over town, from side streets off Jefferson Hwy to lots near the river. This page sticks to removal. To see trimming, planting and our other work in town, visit our tree service in Harahan page.

Harahan’s older yards and the trees in them

Harahan grew up around the Illinois Central railroad. Colonial Club Dr runs through the former Colonial Country Club site, which closed in 2012 and has since been redeveloped as The Blake at Colonial Club. Wherever your property sits in town, the questions about a tree are the same: what species it is, what shape it’s in and what’s underneath it.

Species matters. In an LSU AgCenter article on wind resistance, laurel oak, water oak and pecan are listed among the least wind-resistant trees, while live oak, bald cypress and southern magnolia rank among the most resistant. A tall water oak or pecan leaning toward a bedroom is the kind of tree to look at before hurricane season, when there’s time to plan.

Harahan also sits in the part of Louisiana where major hurricanes have come ashore nearby. Hurricane Katrina came ashore near Buras on Aug 29, 2005, and Hurricane Ida made landfall as a Category 4 storm near Port Fourchon on that same date in 2021. A tree that rode out storms like those can carry cracked unions or loosened roots that are hard to spot from the ground.

Remove it or keep it?

Plenty of trees that worry people can stay. If the trouble is one heavy limb or branches rubbing the shingles, tree trimming may solve it with far less disruption. Removal starts to make sense when you see things like these:

• A crack that runs from a main limb down into the trunk.
• A lean that has grown worse, or soil lifting on the side away from the lean.
• Large bare sections of crown in the middle of summer.
• Soft, crumbling wood or fungus growing at the base.
• A weak-wooded species hanging over the part of the house where people sleep.

Not sure which camp your tree falls into? Our Harahan arborist page explains what a health and risk check looks at.

How a Harahan takedown is handled

Every job starts with a walk-through. We look at the tree, the roof and fence lines below it, any wires overhead, and the path from the street to the yard. If your backyard is fenced, the access route gets planned before anything else.

Next you get a free written estimate that spells out what comes down, what stays and what gets hauled. You’ll have it in hand before any work is scheduled.

On the day of the work, a tree with open ground around it can sometimes be felled in one piece. Most trees near houses come down in sections instead. A climber cuts each piece and lowers it on a rope, so pieces are controlled on the way down instead of dropping onto the roof, the fence or the neighbor’s shed. Brush goes through the chipper, the wood is hauled off, and the yard is raked before we leave.

Some removals need a crane or a bucket truck, and sto