About Us
Our Story
Our first truck
1955 Red Studebaker Pickup.
Dale Chapman original owner,
started in the early
1950’s as a Tree Care Professional Climber
and worked for South Carolina Tree Service
then Davey Expert Tree Company.
In 1964 Dale opened his own tree company
Chapman’s Expert Tree Service.
Dale’s son Michael Chapman Sr. started
helping and training in 1964.
Michael’s son Michael Jr.
Started working around 1996
learning about Professional Tree Care also.
Welcome to Specialty Tree Care and Landscaping LLC.
We have been providing tree care services to the Daytona Beach Area since 1964. Dale Chapman started working in the tree industry when he was a teenager for a line clearing company in Virginia and in North Carolina for Carolina Tree Service Inc. He did line clearing along right of ways and in wooded back country areas for power lines. He also did private residential work with the same company.
Tree work in the 1950’s was more particular back then when Dale Chapman started his training to be a tree surgeon. Back then or as many in the tree industry say (at the old School ) tree climbers had to do it right or they found themselves going back up the tree to do it over again. Every cut had to be flushed or cut back to the proper lateral – no stubs were allowed.
Trees were cleaned of all dead wood and all moss from the branches. Climbers did not wear spikes when climbing the live trees so not to spread diseases from one tree to another.
Instead, a climber had to use a ladder or throw his rope over the highest branch he could get and pull himself up into the canopy of the treetop. After the climber made it to the top of the tree, he would tie in with his rope to a forked branch that could support his weight. Now that the climber was tied in with a rope to his saddle, he could work on the tree branches with some safety from falling. The primary tool back then was the climbers hand saw or speed saw, ( not a chain saw, models back then weighed a hundred pounds ) they used it to do all the cutting in the tree and this caused tree men to have big muscular arms.
Dale Chapman worked until 1963 with the same company
which had transferred him to Florida by then.
At the age of 26 he started Chapman’s Expert Tree Service, Expert because of his professional Training with Davey Expert Tree Co.®
Back then Dale was known by his nickname “Red” because of his red hair , today he goes by the name Dale and his hair is mostly a shade of gray.
He advertised in the phone book and a paper back then called the Green Sheet to get customers. But most of his work has always come from word of mouth and people that saw him working in there neighborhood.
Over the years He has seen many other tree services come and go in this area and Chapman’s is still here today because of so many repeat customers.
Many former employee’s of Chapman’s Expert Tree Service make up most of the small tree services in town today, and others have come from working the Hurricanes.
Michael Sr started his training in the art of tree care at the age of seven years old ” that’s when he wasn’t at school learning his ABC’s.”
Michael Sr watched his father Dale and was eager to be just like him as he made climbing look easy and fun.
After many years working as a ground man Dale finally let Michael Sr start climbing trees at the age of seventeen spotting ropes and removing moss, not the fun stuff like removals.
Michael Sr spent years cleaning trees while Dale did all the tree removals and it has made Michael Sr very good at tree trimming. Michael Sr has taken his skills learned from his father a step further by incorporating all of the latest advancements in tree care like advanced rigging and high tech equipment from around the world into his everyday work.
Today Michael Jr runs the company providing the same specialized tree care services as his Dad and his grandfather did also taking great pride in the work that he does.
We have stayed in business in this area for so long because of fair prices and high quality work.
Your trees are vary well taken care of by our crew and so is all of your plants, yard, house, driveway, walks, sprinklers, etc.
After we do your trees your yard will be the envy of the neighborhood and you will receive many complements on how good your home looks. Just tell all of the admirers to call Michael Chapman Jr at Specialty Tree Care.
A Friendly Family Owned Business
Since 1964.
Just because we are Experts
doesn’t mean our prices are High.
We have been serving this area
for 60 years.
Over 22,000 Tree Jobs completed.
Trimmed, pruned, dead wooded,
de-mossed, cleaned,
or removed over 48,000 trees.
Why? – Because of all our
satisfied customers that
call us back over and over again !
Contact us at 386-672-0219 Today.