DRAVE'S TREE SERVICE

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Drave and his crew removed a tree that was threatening a neighbor's fence. They came when they said they would, did exactly what they promised, for a price that matched the estimate, and cleaned everything up right down to the soil surface. Mr. Drave is an arborist, so was also able to give me advice on my ash trees and how to protect them from the emerald ash borer. I will be hiring him again for future jobs.

The two guys that did all the work were true professionals. They knew exactly what they were doing and did no damage to my garage, house, or yard. They cleaned up at the end of the day, including raking the lawn, cleaning off the driveway and street. They were very nice and polite. Tom Draves is a very knowledgeable arborist, who tells it to you like it is. No BS..

I called and left a message requesting an estimate on getting a tree and several large bushes trimmed. No call back. After a 2nd call a man showed up one day and looked at the tree and shrubs, gave me a verbal estimate, which I accepted. I never heard from him again.

We have used Tom Draves in the past for tree resurrection, tree demolition and tree renewal. Tom is an arborist and has saved many of our trees from destruction. He is knowledgeable and dedicated to preserving customer's trees. Prior to this, Draves had to remove four ornamental pear trees because of a borer. He replaced them with trees of our choice. Work was performed in a professional manner with minimal impact to the environment. With regards to the Colorado Blue Spruces that were knocked down in a March windstorm some 5 years earlier, these were uprighted and are surviving today because of Tom's efforts. Surrounding neighbors who opted to destroy their fallen trees came by and asked who did the work and wished they would have known sooner about Draves. By the way, Draves prices are quite reasonable with the whole job of uprighting two trees and cabling them were done for much less than the competing tree services price for one without cabling. Draves also worked to save our Autumn Flame maple in our backyard saving it from a firewood fate. In summary, if you ever need someone to save, restore, cut down or replenish trees, contact Tom Draves before anyone else.

excellent job

The job went well. Anything that was not to our satisfaction was corrected immediately and without hassle. Additionally, Draves cabled together our backyard Norway Maple to minimize any further damage. They also removed any girdling roots that were choking the trees on our property. In short, a job well done! Draves is a good company to work with and provides excellent and reasonable tree services. They are highly recommended.

Overall, I would have to say that yes the trees are gone but they gave us an estimate at the end of August 2006, then this area had a snow storm in October and many trees were damaged. They finally came here this April, three times they were rainy days and had to come here four different times to finish. They left a mess each time; mud, sticks, saw chips and on one occasion used our driveway to cut up the wood leaving behind a lot of saw chips and dust. I asked them if they could prune our one remaining Maple tree. I figured maybe $100 would do that service while they were here, and the fact that they made us wait six months to have these trees taken care of; they added $225 to my bill for pruning one Maple tree that took approximately 15 minutes to complete. Needless to say, I would not have them again nor would I recommend them.