We needed some serious tree work done. A decent sized dead ash, a Siberian elm that needed…read moretrimming, and a huge sugar maple that we were pretty sure was mostly hollow. Animals went in and out of it, it had lost a huge branch, it was leaking sap, and something had excavated a lot of pulp out of it.
We got a tree guy when we built the house, nice enough, but there was a lot of sloppiness, even some damage. The village of Westmont used Vidito a lot, and we watched them take down the dead trees on our parkway, so we went with them.
The owner came out, gave everything a good look, gave me an estimate that was in line with what I was expecting. We just had to wait for the right day, maybe a little colder, so the frozen lawn wouldn't get too ripped up. Sizable crew, started roughly on time, and everything was done efficiently and perfectly. All nice guys, and the owner personally supervised the whole day. They were careful about my wife's baby pine tree, and even the birch right next to the huge tree barely took a hit. They had to work between that birch, my house, and the neighbor's flock of Rose of Sharon. I was positive something would get crushed, but nothing. They put down lots of plywood to limit the impact on the lawn, which definitely shows some wear, but there was a lot of equipment, and it was a lot less tread than I expected.
Every time they prepared to take down a large chunk (of what turned out to be a half-hollow tree), they calculated what they were doing, where the thing was going to go, how they'd lower it on ropes, stuff you'd think would be expected (but I've seen other guys chainsaw and hope for the best). It all went the way they planned.
They cleaned up the site beautifully, left me a bunch of firewood, and when they saw me carting mulch from the grinded stump to the back of my yard, they helped out with that too.
Overall, this was a cost-effective, great outcome. They know their stuff, and they obviously hire well too. Between this, the parkway, and everything else I've heard about these guys, I highly recommend Vidito.