In sawdust we trust
Pittsburgh tree removal that gets it right the first time
Triple T Tree Care takes down, prunes, and clears trees across Pittsburgh and the North Hills with real climbers, real rigging, and a cleanup so thorough the yard looks better than we found it. One and done.
Fully insured · PA HIC #163598 · Military discount · 24/7 storm response
Twenty five years in the trade. Professional equipment on every job. Zero shortcuts.
The work we hang our ropes on
Every job gets the same treatment: a real assessment, an up-front number, the right equipment, and a crew that doesn’t leave until the yard is clean. Here’s where we spend most of our days.
Large Tree Removal
The eighty-footer leaning over your roof. The dead oak the last guy wouldn’t touch. We climb it, rig it, and bring it down in controlled pieces, with cranes and grapple equipment when the job calls for muscle. Tight backyards and over-house takedowns are the specialty, not the exception.
Tree Pruning
Pruning is where the arborist side of the crew shows up. Deadwood out, structure corrected, crowns thinned so light and air move through the way they should. Late winter is prime time for most Pennsylvania hardwoods, and we’ll tell you straight if your tree should wait a season.
Emergency Tree Service
Storm drops a tree on the house at 2am, you call, we roll. Snapped leaders, split trunks, limbs on lines, trees resting on roofs. We stabilize the scene, work with the utility when wires are involved, and get the weight off your home before it does more damage.
Every service on the truck, all eighty-six
Removal
Emergency
Care
Health
Groundwork
Debris
Commercial
Safety
The whole lineup, with the full write-up on each, lives on the services page. One crew, professional equipment, all of it insured.
And it is one crew. The person who answers the phone is the person who climbs the tree, which means the plan you’re given on the porch is the plan that happens in the yard. No sales layer, no subcontracted mystery crew showing up in an unmarked truck. Orange shirts, the three-tree logo, and the same faces from the first walk-around to the last rake pass.
How this started
A dirt bike, a chainsaw, and a quarter century of sawdust
The name on the truck is newer than the hands running it. Before Triple T was a company it was one guy cutting trees for pocket money, and the trade never let go. Read more about the crew, or see the work for yourself in the gallery.
“I used to cut grass for a woman at her summer home. I started cutting trees to buy a dirt bike, and I fell in love with the game.”
That was twenty five years ago. The dirt bike is long gone. The love for the work stuck, and it turned into a Pittsburgh crew with a climber’s respect for the tree, professional equipment in the trailer, and a flat refusal to leave a yard worse than we found it.
Chris, owner
One tree, one afternoon
This weeping ornamental had swallowed its own silhouette. One visit later the structure is back, the deadwood is gone, and the tree gets to be the front-yard centerpiece again instead of a hedge with ambitions.
Pruning like this is scalpel work, not chainsaw-everything work. If a tree just needs shaping, that’s what we’ll tell you. If it’s past saving, we’ll tell you that too, with a number up front before the first cut either way.
That honesty costs us some removals. It also means when we do say a tree has to come down, homeowners believe us, because we’ve talked plenty of them out of cutting trees that only needed care.
Same tree, same yard. Shot by the crew, not a stock library.
Word around the North Hills
We don’t write our own reviews. Pittsburgh homeowners handle that part.
“Came through did an excellent job removing a huge pine tree that was damaged in the recent storm.”
Allyson W.“Christopher and his crew arrived on time, worked safely and efficiently, and handled the entire process with real professionalism.”
Felicia Provenzano“Chris and his team removed a very tall, old poplar tree from my yard in just a few hours. The cleanup was excellent, they left it spotless.”
Moldir I.“Triple T came and fell a broken pine tree in my front yard. They were in and out in about an hour and left my yard looking better than ever.”
A Google reviewerMore of the work lives in the gallery, and the rest of the reviews live on Google.
Where the truck goes
Home base is Pittsburgh, 15223, and the truck runs about twenty miles in every direction from there. Most weeks that means Ross Township, Shaler, McCandless, West View, Glenshaw, Fox Chapel, Hampton, and Wexford, plus every borough in between.
If you’re anywhere in Allegheny County and a tree is worrying you, odds are good we’ve already worked your street. The full rundown is on the service areas page, or just call and ask.
This part of Pennsylvania is hard on trees and harder on the people who cut them. Steep hillside lots, clay soil that lets roots heave in a wet spring, silver maples planted sixty years ago that are now three times the size anyone planned for, and pin oaks quietly dying from the top down. The crew has climbed all of it. When we look at a tree on a Pittsburgh hillside we’re reading the lean, the soil, the deadwood, and the drop zone before we ever quote the work, because on these slopes the difference between a clean takedown and a wrecked retaining wall is the plan.
Straight answers
The questions Pittsburgh homeowners actually ask, answered the way we’d answer them on your porch.
When is the best time to prune trees in Pennsylvania?
Late winter into early spring for most hardwoods. The tree is dormant, the cuts seal cleanly, and you can actually see the structure without leaves in the way. Some species and some problems break that rule, so we look at the specific tree before picking a date.
How long does a tree removal take?
Most residential removals run two to eight hours depending on size, location, and how much rigging the drop zone demands. We show up with the equipment to finish in one visit. That’s the whole one-and-done thing.
Can you take down a tree that’s right against the house or power lines?
Yes. That’s most of what we do. Tight-quarters removals come down in controlled pieces on ropes, cranes handle the heavy over-house sections, and when wires are involved we coordinate with the utility so nothing gets energized or flattened that shouldn’t.
What happens to the stump?
If you want it gone, we grind it below grade so you can reseed or replant right over it. Chips can stay as mulch or leave on the truck. Either way you’re not mowing around a monument to the old tree for the next decade.
A storm just put a tree on my house. What do I do?
Stay out from under it and call (412) 526-2028. We run 24/7 storm response across Pittsburgh and the North Hills. We’ll stabilize the scene, get the weight off the structure, and document the damage as we go for your insurance.
How do I find out what my tree job will cost?
Reach out or call and Chris will come size up the tree in person. You get an up-front number before the first cut, and the number doesn’t grow once the saws start.
One and done. That’s the whole pitch.
You call. Chris walks the property and gives you an up-front number. The crew shows up with professional equipment and finishes the job in one visit, cleanup included. No return trips, no half-cleared yards, no surprises when the work is done.
