Dead Tree Removal in South Apopka, FL

• Location: South Apopka — Apopka, FL 32703, Orange County
• Date: September 16, 2026
• Job type: Dead tree removal — three extremely dead trees, plus a piece that had already fallen into the bushes
• Site: Dead hardwoods standing over the house, with a sidewalk and a street corner below
• Method: Worked from bucket trucks rather than climbed — wood cut in sections and lowered on rigging lines
• Equipment on site: two bucket trucks, chipper, skid steer, dump trailer, chainsaws
• Debris: one load already hauled out while the job was still running

Three trees on this South Apopka lot were done. On camera Nathan counts them off one by one — “we have three of them that are extremely dead” — standing bare over the house with a sidewalk and a street corner right below them.

A fourth piece had already let go on its own. As he puts it, the crew was “also going to be taking this piece down right here that fell and laying in the bushes.”

On a lot with room, a removal like this can be climbed. Not these. Nathan says it plainly while the first trunk is still standing:

So the crew changed tools instead of changing the plan: “there’s no tree that we can’t handle. We’ve got to bring different tools in to get it taken care of safely.” That meant working the trees from bucket trucks, with the operator up in the street rather than a climber up in dead wood.

“These trees are just way too hazardous to climb.”

The first trunk came off in pieces from the bucket — “all right, well, we got that first one down,” with the bucket truck operator working from the street. Section after section was cut, caught on a rigging line, and lowered instead of dropped.

A second bucket truck went to work on the remaining dead trunks while the ground crew kept the wood moving. The skid steer carried cut logs out to the dump trailer, with the chipper parked at the curb for the brush. Mid-job Nathan notes they had “already took one load of debris out of here, so we can keep on moving along.”

By the last clip two of the three are down and the third is nearly there: “all right, we’ve got both of those down. We almost got this one down.” The corner is open sky where the dead trunks stood.

Everything below is visible in the video above — this is what a bucket truck tree removal in Orange County, FL actually rolls up with.

• Two bucket trucks, working the dead trunks from the street side
• Skid steer, carrying cut logs out of the work area
• Chipper, towed in behind the crew truck
• Dump trailer for the wood and debris
• Chainsaws and rigging lines for cutting and lowering sections
• Ground crew in hi-vis shirts and hard hats, working the wood on the ground

Kirby's Tree Service works Apopka and the rest of Orange County, and dead tree removal in Apopka is a large share of what we do — trees that died standing and now lean over a roof, a sidewalk, or a street.

If you are looking at a dead tree near your house and want someone to come look at it, call 407-253-6291 or send the details through the contact page. We also take emergency tree service calls in Apopka around the clock.