Pruning is the keep-the-tree service
Most calls here aren't about removing a tree — they're about living with one. The water oak that shades the whole west side of the house but keeps dropping deadwood on the walk. The pecan that hasn't been thinned since it was planted and now drops whole limbs in a wet July wind — pecans are famous for it. The maples in a Capshaw subdivision planted six feet from the drive, or a Bradford pear entering the splitting-apart years every Bradford pear eventually reaches. Timely pruning is what keeps all of them off this site's removal page.
Done right, pruning means selective cuts — deadwood out, crossing and rubbing limbs resolved, weight eased off long horizontal runs, clearance opened over roofs, drives, and walks. Done wrong, it means topping, and you can see the results around the county: hat-racked crape myrtles and butchered maples pushing weak, fast regrowth that breaks worse in the next storm. The pros we connect you with don't top trees, and they'll say so.
One boundary that matters
Limbs in the power lines are the utility's territory. Anything growing into the primary lines along the road belongs to Athens Utilities or your co-op — call them, not a private crew. The service drop to your own house is a judgment call a pro will make on sight, and the careful ones coordinate a disconnect rather than gamble around it.