Woodsmith Tree Service

It took a couple of days for the owner to contact me but following that, everything was excellent. The team came two days later and did exactly what I asked of them.

If this is the same business I have used multiple times in the past 10 years, something has gone drastically wrong. The phone recording identifies as Woodsmith, but none of my five calls over two weeks were ever answered. I wanted to Craig or his staff do the work since they are familiar with my property and tree issues, but if this is his business it is not being run well as in the past.

At the start, Woodsmith provided excellent service with with good correspondence and a quickly scheduled estimate. I was happy with our interaction during the evaluation, confident that the plants would be professionally handled and satisfied with the price. Unfortunately, I couldn't get anyone to actually do the work. Although I contacted Woodsmith 2 or 3 times to schedule this, on each occasion I was told that they were already booked for the next couple weeks but that I would be contacted soon to make arrangements. This never happened and I did not find it to be worthwhile to invest any further time.

First of all I want to apologize to Jonathan Smith the owner of Woodsmith Tree Service for not posting this review quite some time ago. I was on Angies List today and remembered that I had forgotten to do this review. Last August (2012) I called Woodsmith to get a quote on removing a giant (90' wide, 80' tall with a 5+ foot diameter trunk) Silver Maple from my backyard. Jonathan worked hard to give me a very competitive quote. He spoke extensively about how he would go about the project and what would need to be done in preparation (Asplundh the tree trimmers for PGE had to remove branches hanging over the energized power lines which ran next to and under the tree) and I removed a small section of chainlink fence so he could get his excavator to the work area. I appreciated his professionalism and knowledge and after considering all the quotes I had gotten, I decided to use his tree service on this very large project. I wanted to save some money so I helped out by cutting up limbs and stacking the cut pieces on one side of my lot. The project took several days and he even used his excavator to help pull the main trunk section over once it had been trimmed down to a manageable 40' high. The trunk lying on the ground was as tall as the guys working on the project. It took over a day to cut up the trunk and grind the stump. The excavator was used to scoop and move massive quantities of wood chips created by the stump grinder and to pickup and move the foot thick by 5 foot diameter slabs of trunk to the side of my lot (I was grateful to him for moving those slabs since it hadn't been part of the original deal). If I could upload a photo I would submit a picture of Jonathan standing on top of a cut-off fork of a branch 60' in the air while he cut the neighboring branch off (owns the company and does his own tree work). If your looking for someone who is knowledge, professional, a hard worker and competitive bidder. I whole heartedly recommend Woodsmith Tree Service.

Was quick to come and give me a bid. Scheduled the job for the following week and never showed or called. I left a message but got to return call. Two months later they contacted me to schedule the job. I hired another firm from Angies list and it was done on time and for the same cost.

Another company started the job, but they never finished. Jonathan was able to finish removing the stump, branches, and tree limbs. He cleaned up very well after himself. He did a very nice job. I will use them again in the future.