Rhoades Family Tree Services

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Rhoades Family Tree Services

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938-0530 (325 area code)
Calculated rigging and high-risk technical tree removals. Insured and engineer owned AND operated.

11/04/2026

Yer sawdust tells the tale of your chainsaw chain! Here's a bit about how to read it

10/30/2026

Very cool trunk - two stems growing so near each other they grew into one. See the two growth ring centers, then, towards the outside, growth rings run continuously around the whole thing!

And the line of old bark is still there in the middle of the tree!

These are codominant stems and that line of bark makes them a bit dangerous. The two trunks tend to grow away from each other for more light, and that encourages the tree to split down the middle. If there's risk of damage beneath the tree, the pair of trunks often needs addressed. So in young trees we try to pick one and sacrifice the other so the truck stays balanced. On older trees, sometimes we hold the two trunks together with a cable installed through them both. Best thing is to prune it young through, and encourage wide branching.

Insured, engineer qualified, and we stick to our estimates.

938-0530. area code 325.

10/22/2026

Haircuts at 40 feet! Another post oak getting daper'd up, right over the garage. Relatively healthy tree, it just needed a handful of dead branches brought down gently.

This was in Stephenville, and you can really see that we're into the Cross Timbers area of Texas with these dense thickets of Post Oak trees.

This is the oak timber that early settlers milled for houses, ag implements and tools.... and, of course, posts. I lived in a house built of post oaks milled in Lampasas County for a year as a kid. The picket fence was still original - oak's high tannins give it rot resistance, and the ability to tan hides, hence the name.

Give me a call if you need a hand with your trees. 325-938-0530

10/21/2026

These giants are coming down, head first. The lefthand one is topped out and fully clear of the roof now.

We have a pretty small "landing zone" between buildings, so each section of branch is lowered by rope ("rigged down"), methodically. No crashing down on roofs, no springing back into walls after landing hard, and no wild swings as cuts are made. The rigging gives us control over each piece all the way to the ground.

This is the kind of treework we specialize in. Engineer owned and operated. We do it right.

10/08/2026

Nice views of Comanche County today!
Two engineered post oak removals, both over buildings. Glad to have the tops and branches all down.

09/30/2026

We're doing some major limb removals today over S HOUSTON St in COMANCHE. City will be closing S HOUSTON St between PECAN and WALNUT, from 9-12. Have a great day!

09/28/2026

Dropping oak

09/21/2026

Making that man glitter, baby!
Nasty old oak carcass coming down and the saw is throwing nice chips for dry live oak!

09/11/2026

Dropping another hackberry!

09/06/2026

Red oak removals - on target

Address

PO Box 986
Goldthwaite, TX
76844

Telephone

+13259380530

Website

http://www.rhoadesregeneration.com/treeservices

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