Emerald Ash Borer in Eagleville Woodlots

The emerald ash borer reached Rutherford County in the mid-2010s and the agricultural acreage around Eagleville is in the worst phase of die-off right now. Standing dead green ash and white ash on pasture edges, fence lines, and farm-pond banks become brittle quickly: a tree that died two summers ago is already shedding bark and dropping limbs, and the trunk itself is structurally unsound for any climbing work. Standard practice on confirmed ash mortality is bucket or crane removal from outside the canopy, never a climbing pick.

Pasture and Fence-Line Clearing

Equestrian and cattle properties west of Highway 99 typically need recurring fence-line work: hackberry and honey locust volunteers that have grown into the woven wire, eastern red cedar leaning across the top strand of barbed wire, and Osage orange (hedge apple) hedges that need to be cut back so a bush hog can run the field margin. This is forestry-mulcher and chainsaw work rather than climbing.

Mature Hardwoods Around Old Farmhouses

The pre-war and mid-century farmhouses scattered along Allisona Road and Rocky Glade Road were typically planted with shade trees that are now well past 80 years old. Common scopes around these homes:

• Deadwood removal from white oak and post oak crowns over the roof
• Cabling or removal of split-leader sycamores by the spring or branch
• Pecan limb reduction where one side has grown out over the porch
• Removal of a hollow black walnut after carpenter ant or bee activity is found

Tornado and Straight-Line Wind Cleanup

Eagleville sits in a flatter section of the southwest county where supercells running northeast off the Highland Rim can drop tornadoes or extended damaging-wind paths through pasture and woodlot. Post-storm response usually starts with driveway and farm-road clearance so the property is reachable, then moves to structure-threat trees, then to hung limbs in the canopy that can drop on people or livestock weeks after the event.