About us
About Fast Tree Removal
We are a tree service based in Tampa, working across fifteen communities in Hillsborough, Pinellas and Pasco County. This page explains what we cover, how a job actually runs, and — more usefully — where we stop.
- Based in Tampa
- 3 counties
- 12 services
What we do
Twelve services, grouped by the problem they solve rather than by the equipment used to solve it. Urgent and hazardous work covers trees that have already failed, are failing, or stand close enough to something valuable that the risk needs assessing now: emergency removal, storm and hurricane damage, fallen trees, dead and declining trees, and crane-assisted removal where there is no usable drop zone.
Routine tree and property care covers planned work, where there is time to weigh the options: removal, trimming and pruning, palm removal, and stump grinding. Commercial and land work is scoped around an operating site, a parcel or a volume of material rather than around one tree in a back garden: commercial removal, land and lot clearing, and debris removal and hauling.
The service pages are written to help you work out which of those your situation is before you call, because the category changes the urgency and the urgency changes everything else.
Where we work
We work from a base in Tampa, on the Hyde Park side of the city, and cover the wider Tampa Bay area from there. Being in the city rather than outside it matters for two practical reasons: reaching urgent jobs on this side of the bay, and knowing how the older street grids actually work when a truck and a chipper have to reach a back garden.
Conditions are not uniform across that footprint, which is why each community has its own page rather than a template. Coastal wind exposure and seawall access on one side of the bay; dense mature canopy over close-set housing in another; larger semi-rural lots with softer ground in a third. The rules are not uniform either — incorporated cities administer their own codes and unincorporated county areas follow county provisions, so a neighbour's experience across a city boundary is an unreliable guide.
- Hillsborough County — Tampa, Brandon, Riverview, Carrollwood, Town ’n’ Country, Valrico, Apollo Beach
- Pinellas County — St. Petersburg, Clearwater, Largo, Dunedin, Palm Harbor
- Pasco County — Wesley Chapel, Land O’ Lakes, New Port Richey
How a job runs
Urgent situations compress the first three stages into a single phone call. Planned work takes them one at a time.
- Describe the situation
What the tree is doing, what sits underneath it, whether a line is involved, and how a truck would reach it.
- Look at the property
Gate width, overhead lines, ground conditions and where equipment can stand. Access decides the method more often than tree size does.
- Agree the scope
What is being done, what happens to the stump, what happens to the debris, and what the site looks like at the end.
- Set the exclusion zone
Drop zone, access route and rigging points before any cutting starts, and the zone stays closed while work is active.
- Do the work and hand back
Method chosen for what is underneath. Hard surfaces cleared, lawn raked to a reasonable finish, and the property walked with you before the crew leaves.
What we will not do
There is a great deal a tree company can claim and very little a customer can check before the truck arrives. So instead of adjectives, here are the limits we hold to. They are the more useful half.
- Give a verdict on whether a tree is dangerous from a photograph. Condition is judged at the tree or not at all.
- Put a firm price on a tree nobody has looked at. You will get a sense of the range on the phone; the figure comes after the site has been seen.
- Tell you a permit will be approved. The authority decides that, not us.
- Promise that pruning will fix a problem that sits in the trunk or the root plate.
- Begin work around a line that has not been confirmed safe by the electric utility.
Why this site reads the way it does
Most people arriving here have one of three problems. Something has already failed and needs clearing. Something is standing but looks wrong, and the question is whether it is dangerous. Or a property is changing and a tree is in the way of it. Those need different responses, and separating them is the first useful thing anyone can do.
So the pages are written to answer that question rather than to sell. If reading one of them tells you that your situation can wait, or that pruning solves it without losing the tree, the page has done its job.
Talk to us about your tree
Describe what the tree is doing and what sits underneath it. Whether the situation is urgent or planned, it is the same number and the same conversation.
- Phone: 877-269-2454
- Serving Tampa Bay, Florida
Information on this page is general guidance for property owners and managers in the Tampa Bay area. It is not an arboricultural assessment, a legal opinion, a permitting determination or an insurance decision. Tree condition and site risk can only be judged in person.