CLARK'S TREE & LANDSCAPE INC

Chad & his guys were amazing! The elm had been butchered many times before, so it had huge limbs over 2 areas of the roof, and it stretched over toward the neighbor's garage also. But Chad & the crew managed to get the whole tree down without ANY damage to ANY property, mine or neighbors. And it's close back there . Anyone familiar with the process will know that it took hours of cutting back huge sections of limb, lowering them carefully, dragging them away, while the next limb was carefully selected and cut. They then cut up the trunk wood and stacked exactly where I'd asked them to, and I was able to sell it! Worth special mention was the process of stump grinding, which Chad had contracted out. Part of the problem for this tree was that it had been covered in ivy for ??years, which meant that the stump was surrounded by lots of ivy dreck. The first person who ground down the stump did a miserable job; it's tough to tell as it's happening, because there's a lot of debris when the grinding is done. After he'd left and I dragged the sawdust & stuff away (not the guy's job to do, I admit), there was a hole in the stump but much of it was still there! Really poor work. I got in touch with Chad and told him, and as soon as he saw it Chad agreed and called a different grinder, who came out and did the job properly. This second fellow also gave me his card and said if I wasn't happy to call him directly & he'd come back -- a very professional attitude! It was also nice when people who saw the birch tree out front after it had its "haircut" were so impressed with how good it looked! And that includes a friend of mine who is a retired professional arborist with many years experience in city/community landscape work. My late husband & I had used Clark's Tree service in 2006 when we had our other house, and were very happy both with Chad's professionalism and his care and concern for trees. He isn't a "tree butcher", just going in & ripping out trees to make a living, and we really appreciated that then and now. I knew that if I asked him if a tree was worth saving, he'd give me a true answer, and not just tell me to take it out so he could make more money. That's worth a lot to me.