DJ's professional tree service

Description of Work: Tree removed & stump ground out.

Description of Work: Excellent services in the Portage, MI 49024 area.

Description of Work: Cut down ONE, I REPEAT ONE TREE.

Description of Work: Cut down a dead tree too close to my house, ground the stump as requested.

Description of Work: I have used DJ's Tree Service. They took out seven trees.

Description of Work: removed two trees from backyard area

Description of Work: Removed a small dead flowering crab, two dying holly bushes and an overgrown bush. Removed all stumps.

Description of Work: On April 4, 2013, Dan came to give me an estimate to remove an 80 foot Norway pine, a slightly smaller tree and a limb on a choke cherry, all three relatively close to my house. I signed a contract for the work and paid him slightly less than half down. Subsequent contacts with Dan consisted of him alternately promising to come "tomorrow" and alternately saying he could not come. He did not respond to emails and later explained that his system was down. He does not seem to be accredited with the Better Business Bureau even though his website states this.

Description of Work: As manager of a large apartment complex, called DJ's for a quote to trim back trees that are overhanging the parking lot areas and specific trees that are too close to the building, or are in contact with the roof structure. Dan Parker quoted me on the spot a cost of $4,450 for which it would take 2 days to complete the work. I DID agree to the price, although I though it was definitely on the high side. On the plus side, he was the only tree service I called that responded back to me the same day. We setup the two days for the work to be done, having all tenants move their cars out of the areas they would be working to prevent any damage to cars.

Description of Work: 5 large pines and 1 medium sized spruce, removed with stumps ground and wood chips removed.

Description of Work: That big storm that went through Paw Paw on Monday, July 11 at approximately 10:30 am snapped a large oak tree about 25 feet up causing it to fall on my house with the end of broken trunk on my driveway and the rest of the tree resting against the exterior wall of my house. I was in Kalamazoo at the time and arrived back home about 1:30 pm. I called my insurance company and they informed me that as a responsible home owner I needed to get the tree removed immediately and have the hole in my roof covered to prevent further damage and if I fail to do this they will not be responsible for any additional damage. So, I called a lot of tree services and most didn't even have an answering machine due to lack of power, I presume. I was only able to leave messages for four tree services. DJ tree service was the only one to respond that day and after I explained my situation he told me that he would be out there later this afternoon. At about 9:00 pm I figured he wasn't going to make it nor was I going to hear from any other tree service. So, I grabbed my chainsaw and climbed on the roof and started removing limbs to reduce the weight of the tree. When I started, the tree extended completely over the peak of the roof and was laying on my power lines on the opposite side of the house. I kept paring away at it until there was only about four to six feet of limbs extending past the exterior wall that the tree hit and was resting on. I threw the branches off the back of my house making a large pile in my backyard. I continued calling more companies the following day and was able to leave more messages. Dan and his crew arrived early afternoon that day and immediately started instructing his crew to start taking the tree off the roof. When I saw him drive in I put on some shoes to go out and meet him. By that time his crew was in full swing and he started apologizing for not making it yesterday because there were trees down all over. I asked him how much he was going to charge and he told me not to worry about it that he would deal directly with my insurance company as he walked away still shouting to his four man crew. He pulled his truck out on the road where I attempted again to get him to tell me how much he was going to charge. Again, he told me not to worry that he would deal directly with my insurance company as he walked away toward my house and his crew. I stood by as he kept giving orders until I told him that I think I only have a $500 tree service limit. He said don't worry, it's all depends on how you write it up. In the mean time his crew was dropping large logs on my deck. So, I told them to be careful I didn't want them cracking my deck. He told me that if they break anything you can just tell your insurance it broke in the storm. I told him I already took pictures of all the damage so they will know. Meanwhile, his crew continued to just drop it on my deck and bushes. That part of my deck is at ground level so if they did crack any boards I would only be able to see them from underneath which is impossible. Unless they were cracked all the way through. After about forty-five minutes the tree was off and laying in three different piles, including the one I mostly made in the backyard. I asked him again how much he thought this would cost and he said don't worry you're not even close to your $500. His crew then covered the large hole in my roof with two flimsy small plastic tarps. They had the right idea by sliding the tarps under the shingles on top but they broke off two shingles and a couple large pieces off the other shingles they were trying to slide the tarp under. They nailed the two tarps along the top and down the sides with the tarps overlapping about 2" in the middle. They then wrapped it around the broken eaves nailing the tarps on either side of the hole on the bottom of the good part of the eaves. They didn't even bother bending over a sharp corner of drip edge that was sticking out already making a hole. So, I had to get my calk gun with roofing tar in it and tar under the tarp all the places where water could get under the tarps. I even had to tar between the two tarps where they vertically overlapped only two inches and bend that sharp piece of drip edge to prevent the hole from getting any bigger He finally came back the following Monday July 18, 2011 after I had called him a couple of times to make sure he hadn't forgotten about me. He brought two crew members and this heavyduty chipper that ate 10" diameter logs. The chipper made fast work of the piles and I noticed that the two man crew had rakes leaning aganist the truck and that Dan had taken off. Before he left I told him that I had talked to the insurance agent assigned to my claim and she told me that the cost of removing the tree from my house would be applied to the cost of repairing my house and that any debris clean up would be applied to the $500 tree service. He said OK. Then I told him I would like to see his write up of the job before he sends it to my insurance. He just said Yeah, OK, when I get around to it, I'm pretty busy. Well, I never heard from him again even though I've called to remind him about seeing the bill. After his crew left I realized that they raked very little of the small branches and leaves that came off of the tree they removed from the house where the three piles were. I had to get my rake out and finish the job. Today, Thursday, July 21st, I talked to my insurance agent and she informed me that he submitted a bill for $2900.00! $2400.00 for removing the tree from the house that he previously said wasn't even close to my $500 limit and that I had already removed most of the limbs leaving one large limb that had broken off the main trunk and was leaning against the eaves next to the trunk and the trunk with four to six feet of limbs sticking out of the top of the trunk leaning on the exterior wall of the house. Then he charged $400.00 for about an hour of clean up which I had to finish.

Description of Work: Dan Parker, the owner was on site, supervised his crew, and took down 2 cherry trees and 5 sassafras trees. One large cherry tree had to be climbed to protect landscaping below.

Description of Work: Removal and shredding of a wind-damaged tree that had been topped at trunk level.