A family-run tree service with the licence on the truck door

Live Oak Tree Service is family-operated and locally owned, working out of Oakland, NJ for over 20 years. The crew is led by Derek Biernacki, an ISA Certified Arborist (#1040A), and every job, from a single ornamental prune to a full storm cleanup, runs under his eye. That is not a marketing line: it is why the credentials on the side of the truck belong to the same person answering the phone at (201) 337-3616.

Pruning work follows the ANSI A300 Pruning Standards, and the crew does not use climbing spurs on a tree they are keeping alive. Spurs only come out for a removal, where the tree is coming down anyway and the wound no longer matters. That distinction, small as it sounds, is a good proxy for how the whole business operates: the method fits the tree, not the other way around.

Removals go to whichever crew fits the job: a bucket truck for most yard and roadside trees, roped climbers where the truck cannot reach, or a knuckleboom crane for the largest or most exposed picks over a roofline or a tight driveway. Every service Live Oak offers, from removals and pruning to plant health care, planting and organic feeding programs, is built around Northern Bergen County properties Derek and his crew already know.

Se habla español: the office is used to fielding calls in both languages, and every estimate starts with a walk of the property before any work gets scheduled. If you want to talk through what is happening in your own trees first, the contact page is the fastest way to reach the crew.