A tree company that knows which town your tree is in
We started because the Grand Strand has the best live oaks in South Carolina, the strictest tree rules, and too many crews that know neither — topping landmark oaks for cash and leaving the homeowner with the fine, while the dead pines over the bedrooms stayed up.
The Grand Strand is sixty miles of beach from Little River to Pawleys Island, two counties, seven towns, and the fastest-growing metro in the Carolinas — 427,000 people in Horry County now, up more than 20 percent since 2020, most of them living under pines the builders left and oaks that were here before the builders. The towns protect those trees differently and seriously: Myrtle Beach fines $10,000 for a landmark oak, Horry County blocks building permits for two years, Georgetown County charges $500 an inch, Conway sends you to a Tree Board. A tree company that works the whole Strand has to know all of it, and we do.
Myrtle Beach Tree Co. is a locally operated tree company — not a franchise, not a lead-gen call center — that books and manages tree work across Myrtle Beach, North Myrtle Beach, Conway, Surfside, Murrells Inlet, Pawleys Island and the rest of the Strand. The crews that work through us carry general liability and workers' compensation insurance — the Forestry Commission's own hiring guide says to ask for both, and you should — and the certificate is available before anyone climbs. We have an ISA Certified Arborist on staff who looks at the tree before anyone sells you a removal, measures it at breast height because the town's threshold turns on it, and writes the hazard-tree reports the ordinances ask for only when a tree has earned one. Our affidavit is on file in Conway. And we've cleared this coast after Matthew, Florence, Isaias, Ian and Chantal.
What we stand on
Look first, then quote
An arborist walks the property, reads the species, the lean, the root flare and the decay, checks which rule applies, and tells you honestly whether the tree needs to come down. Most of the live oaks we're called to remove can stay with pruning. We'd rather tell you that than take the job — and on the Strand, taking the job without the permit is how homeowners get fined.
Rig it, don't drop it
Trees over houses come down in sections on ropes. Palms are hauled, not chipped. Stumps are ground after 811 has marked the yard. Mats go down on the sand. The lawn is raked. And because the city and North Myrtle Beach both refuse contractor-generated debris, we haul every load to the county landfill ourselves.
Prune to the standard
ANSI A300 cuts at the collar, under a quarter of the live crown, never topping, never lion-tailing, never a hurricane cut on a palmetto. Myrtle Beach writes that standard into its ordinance and counts topping as a removal; Conway, Surfside and Georgetown County ban it outright. A tree pruned wrong is a tree that fails in the next storm, and we won't do it even when it's what you were told you needed.
Answer the phone — 24/7
Hurricanes and thunderstorms don't keep office hours. Call at 2 AM with a pine through the roof and someone answers, a crew is dispatched by priority, and the paperwork happens after the tree is off the house. Crews work Monday through Saturday; estimates are usually scheduled within a day or two.