Viking Tree Service Canoga Park California

Viking says they deliver "free wood chips," so as the final step of our lawn to garden conversion, we made the huge mistake of ordering what should be a great symbiotic service. We learned about "free wood chips" from the class we took at DWP, which emphasized the companies providing chips take care to provide only chips from clean healthy trees, no junk. Three days before Christmas, VIKING delivered 5 times the amount of chips we expected. As we began digging into the huge pile that took up our entire driveway, we realized more than half was junk - actual trash, bags of trash, empty cans of beer and other garbage, mixed in with huge branches, large stumps, and worst of the worst - rotted, molded branches! We called immediately - left 3 messages - no response from Viking. So that was Christmas. Had to cancel our family visiting to try to dig out from under this huges, stinking, smoking - really, neighbors came to ask if something was burning in our yard, then were horrified to see the gigantic mess. My dear husband who placed the order for the "free wood chips," felt so bad! He spent all daylight hours in the cold and wind, shoveling all usable chips onto the yard. We paid two helpers to spend two days shoveling and hauling all that was salvalgeable, and ended up with a giant stack of branches, stumps, and rocks, plus the giant pile - down to 10 feet long by 6 feet wide by 5 feet high of just horrible crud. So as I am writing, a very nice man and his helper are shoveling the mess into their truck to haul to the dump, for a reasonable cost to them of $200.00. We did reach Viking on the phone this morning, and they refused to pick up the mess. We asked them about their hauling service - their website says, "we haul everything," but they refused to pick it up even if we paid them! If you are looking for decent, clean wood chips, avoid this place. I will certainly avoid them for any work ever!