Several months ago I contacted 5 tree service companies in the Greenville, NC area. Three never replied and two companies said they would come out and give me an estimate, but never did. So I contacted a 6th tree service company that has some good reviews. They came out, gave me a quote and said they would start in "about 2-3 weeks". Three, four and five weeks went by. In the meantime, I had Matthews Septic Tank Service come out to check my septic system and he recommended Billy's Tree Service to me.
After the 6th week of waiting went by with no news from the sixth tree company, I left a message for Billy's Tree Service. Billy returned my call within minutes, even though he was away on vacation. He said he would come out the next Monday and I told him that would be great. When he returned home, Billy actually called me the day before and asked if he could come over and he was here in fifteen minutes (he lives close by). Billy gave me a quote after thoroughly checking the trees, the backyard security light that had to have its power line taken down as it ran between the main branches of one of the trees, the location of my septic system and underground water supply line. Billy said he would try to have his guys begin that Friday and they did indeed start that Friday.
My 8 trees were very large (approximately 100 feet tall each): A few had multiple main tree trunks as though someone had topped the trees when they were very young, which would have been at least 50 years ago. Everything went extremely well and Billy and his crew were very professional. The difference between having those 8 trees each within about 25 feet of my house and now not having them, is like night and day. No more constantly falling pine cones, dead fallen branches and pine needles on the driveway and all over the lawn. Not to mention the dead branches (and so on) falling constantly on the roof of the house. You should have seen when Billy felled the one huge tree between my house and a neighbor's house: my neighbor has a deck and Billy landed the tree perfectly between my house and the neighbor's deck = a really narrow space which was the only place the tree could have been brought down at, because of power lines and our houses locations. The entire job couldn't have went any better.
Billy's Tree Service came through for me big time. The other 6 tree companies didn't. read more