Description of Work: Well for starters, they had the audacity to show up 15 minutes EARLY! I was expecting the proverbial "We'll be an hour or so late" call and there they were, the cutter had all his climbing and safety gear on and was IN THE TREE at the scheduled 8AM start time. Amazing. |I can't comment on professionalism since I don't have much experience with tree removal but what I did see - my wife has a bed of maybe 7 roses which have always been shaded by the tree, so nacherly, I was afraid they'd drop branches on the roses and outrage my wife. |But no, the cutter directed his ground crew to pull ropes attached to the limbs with perfect accuracy, so what was cut off landed on clear grass. He even missed taking out the light bar on my cop neighbor's police SUV which was also in the tree's shadow. |When I negotiated the removal, I'd told the estimator I'd want any wood large enough to stoke my wood - stove cut up and stacked and he said OK. But as the ground people were grinding limbs, I saw several branches which would have looked perfect on my woodpile. I told the crew I wanted that wood, but they said, "no, sorry, it'd take too long." But they went and talked to the cutter, (apparently the foreman) and he told them yes, that was part of the contract, cut those logs out and save em. |Towards the end, when they were sawing up the main trunk, I saw a lot of the logs were between 18 & 24 inches. I'd told the estimator I wanted that wood cut between 14 & 16 inches because my wood - stove door is only 16" and I didn't want to have to recut the wood. I told the foreman and he said "Oh," and proceeded to cut all the downed wood to length. |I'd told the estimator to salvage the chips, which I could use for mulch, and one of the ground crew said, "well there's more chips in the truck, from prior jobs, do you want them too?" I said yes and they dumped several yards(and yards and yards) of woodchips on the drive - took a week to get it spread and stowed. Careful what you ask for. |All and all I'd call Evergreen an excellent outfit to hire for tree trimming. I have several more trees in the yard which could use some work, and the estimator offered to take those trees on in this contract, but there's a cash - flow issue to take into consideration, so we just took out this one tree. However those remaining trees still need work, and when I can afford to have them trimmed, I'll certainly consider Evergreen.