He quoted me $1000 to take down a maple tree, wrote on the contract that he would mulch about half of it and put the piles of mulch where I wanted them and I would spread it. The other half would be left as firewood. The stump would be left in cut flat to put a flower pot on it. Here is what happened: He refused to chip it to make mulch saying it would break the chipper. There was no chipper in front of my house, he said it was parked around the corner (I did not walk around to see if one was ever there). The rest was not 'firewood', but rather large chunks left. These chunks were too heavy for me to even lift. He refused to cut them smaller saying it would break the chain on his chain saw. I said "try, do as much as you can, if it breaks the chain I will buy you a new chain". He refused. I gave a lot of wood to a neighbor I found on nextdoor who will chop and split it for his wood stove in winter. The rest he was unable to use. I was left searching for someone to haul it away, cost me another $200. No one else would take it, not the village, not the garbage people, not wood chip companies. Crazy Jose wanted to leave a tall jagged stump claiming we never discussed leaving it short and flat. He cut it shorter but not flat. He outwardly said it was hot, he was tired, and he didn't want to finish. I said "do you want to come back another day and finish? He said "no". And I gave these guys pizza and did water runs all day. My advice, "DO NOT HIRE HIM". read more