The tree is in the backyard. That's fine.
Tracked lifts that fit through a side gate, roll across your grass without tearing it up, and reach the top of a live oak — so the hard-to-get-to trees in Jacksonville stop being a problem, and stop being a premium.
Most of the cost of a tree is getting to it.
Anyone can drop a tree in an open front yard. The quotes get expensive — or get declined — when the tree is behind the house, over the pool, wedged against a fence, or leaning on a roof. That's the work we built the fleet around.
No crane in the street
A crane job means road closure, permits, and a line item that can double the bill. Our lifts drive to the tree instead of reaching over your house at it.
Your lawn survives
Rubber tracks spread the weight instead of concentrating it on four tires. No ruts across the yard, no torn-up sod to re-lay after we leave.
Through the side gate
The lifts fold down narrow enough to walk between a house and a fence, then unfold and go up once they're in the back. Fences stay where they are.
We leave it clean
Chipped, hauled, raked and blown down — driveway, sidewalk and street included. The tree goes away and so does every sign that we were there.
It goes over the fence, not through it.
- Reaches high into the canopyThe tops of mature live oaks and pines come down in controlled pieces, not one uncontrolled drop.
- Sets up on turf, pavers or a slopeOutriggers spread the load, so it can stand where a bucket truck simply can't park.
- Two lifts on one tree when it's warrantedTwo operators working opposite sides is faster and safer than one climber doing it twice.
- Climbers when the lift isn't the answerSome trees still want a rope and a saddle. We do both, and pick whichever suits your yard.
The proof isn't the tree. It's the grass.
Every tree company in Jacksonville will tell you they respect your property. It's the easiest promise in the trade to make and the hardest one to keep, because it isn't really about care — it's about what you drive onto the yard.
Tracked machines, rigging that lowers wood instead of dropping it, and plywood over anything soft. That's why the photo above is a job in progress and not a photo we had to take from an angle.
See more of the workResidential and commercial tree work across the Northside to the beaches.
Tree removal
Whole-tree and sectional removals — including hazardous leaners, trees against structures, and the ones other crews quoted a crane for.
Get a priceTrimming & pruning
Canopy thinning, deadwooding, raising clearance over roofs and driveways, and structural pruning that keeps a tree healthy instead of topping it.
Get a priceStump grinding
Ground well below grade so you can sod, plant or pour over it. Grindings hauled off or raked back in — your call.
Get a pricePalm trimming
Sabal, queen and washingtonia palms cleaned up properly — fronds, boots and seed pods — on a schedule that suits the species.
Get a priceStorm & emergency
Trees on roofs, blocked driveways and hurricane cleanup. Call and we'll tell you honestly where you land in the queue.
Get a priceLot clearing & hauling
Building lots, overgrown parcels and fence lines cleared, plus grapple-truck hauling for wood you've already got on the ground.
Get a priceEvery picture on this site is a Sanford's crew on a Jacksonville property.
No stock photography, no borrowed equipment shots. If it's on this page, we did it.
Tree on the house? Call, don't email.
Storm work moves fast and the queue is first come. A phone call gets you a real answer about when we can be there.
Based on Spring Park Road, out across Duval and St. Johns.
We're a Jacksonville company working Jacksonville trees — the live oaks in San Marco and Ortega, the pines out in Mandarin and Julington Creek, the palms at the beaches.
- San Marco
- Mandarin
- Riverside & Avondale
- Ortega
- Southside
- Arlington
- Julington Creek
- Fruit Cove
- Orange Park
- Fleming Island
- Ponte Vedra
- Nocatee
- Jacksonville Beach
- Atlantic Beach
- Neptune Beach
- St. Johns
A hundred and twenty-five neighbors have already been through this.
We'd rather point you at the reviews than pick our favorite ones and print them here. Read the good and the middling — then call us and ask about whichever one you want to ask about.
Read the reviews on GoogleSend us a photo of the tree.
Nobody can price a tree they haven't seen — and you shouldn't have to wait three days for someone to drive out and look. Send a couple of pictures from your phone and we'll come back with a real number or tell you plainly that we need to see it in person.
Prefer to talk? 904-312-9391.
Get the awkward one off your list.
Free estimates, licensed and insured crews, and the equipment to reach it without wrecking the yard on the way.