A Yorktown company, 20 years in
Cut ‘Em Down Tree Service was founded in 2006. The principle is simple: the company that looks at your tree and gives you a price is the same company that shows up to do the work — 100% of jobs done by our own crews. Yorktown, VA is home, and the work radiates out from there — through York County, down the Peninsula to Newport News, Hampton and Poquoson, across the Coleman Bridge to Gloucester Point and Bena, and across Hampton Roads to Norfolk. It is a residential tree company, which means the customer is usually a homeowner standing in a driveway asking one of three questions: is this tree going to fall, can it be saved, and what will it cost. Answering those honestly is the whole job.
What the trees here ask of a crew
The Virginia Peninsula is a hard place to be a tree and a demanding place to work on one. Loblolly pine is the most common yard tree from Historic Yorktown to the Tabb subdivisions, and it grows tall and fast on Coastal Plain soils that hold a seasonal water table inches below the surface. That combination gives a 50-foot pine a shallow, plate-like root system, and when a nor'easter or a tropical system arrives on ground that is already saturated, whole trees tip over onto roofs and power lines. Hurricane Isabel proved it in September 2003, three years before this company existed, and every storm season since has repeated the lesson on a smaller scale — most recently the August 2026 storms that left more than 4,000 York County customers without power.
Wind is not the only pressure. Emerald ash borer was confirmed in York County in 2024, after reaching Newport News in 2020, and the white ash in the wet bottoms behind the creekside subdivisions will move to brittle, standing-dead removals over the next several years. Dry summers send Ips and black turpentine beetles into stressed pines. The subdivisions built in the 1980s and '90s — where most of York County actually lives — are full of builder-planted sweetgum, red maple and Bradford pear reaching the end of their lives at the same time. And the rules are real: York County has 91 homeowner associations with architectural review, and tidal-waterfront lots sit in Chesapeake Bay buffers where a removal can need county approval. A crew that works here has to know all of that before it quotes a job.
Our own crews, on every job
The number we are proudest of is not the biggest one. It is 100% — the share of our jobs done by our own crews. Plenty of tree companies quote the work and broker it out to whoever is available that week. We do not. The crew rigging sections of a pine over your roof is ours, working under our insurance, accountable to the owner who gave you the price. The company is bonded and insured, and we would rather show you the certificate than ask you to take our word for it — in a trade where the cheapest bid is usually the uninsured one, that piece of paper is the difference.
Answered 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
Storms do not keep business hours, and neither does the phone. Emergency calls are answered 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, because a tree on a house gets worse with every hour of wind and rain. The order of operations never changes: if a power line is involved, Dominion Energy gets the first call; if the house is breached or someone is hurt, 911; then us. We make the situation safe first and price the rest in writing. We do not promise an arrival time we cannot control — we promise that someone picks up.
How an estimate works
Every job starts with a free estimate, in writing, after someone has actually looked at the tree. We walk the property with you, look at what is under the tree and how the equipment will reach it, and tell you plainly what we would do — including when the answer is a trim instead of a removal, or a re-check next season instead of anything at all. The price you get is the price for the work described, and the crew that shows up is the one that quoted it.
If you have a tree question anywhere on the Peninsula, the number is (757) 771-8309.
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