The king is not kind at Kingkiner Tree Service. That is to say, this business provides hostile,…read moreunethical service. Totally dismal.
The precipitaing event? Five super huge tree-cutting machines-a crane, flat bed, Bobcat, and trucks suddenly appeared in our driveway, clawing apart our lawn and creating hundreds of feet of muddy mess. They camped out with chairs. What are these people doing here? Why are these gigantic trucks parked on our lawn? Why are they on our property at all? Who told them to come? Turns out, they were illegally occupying our property to cut down a neighbor's trees.
The Kingkiner company was called. The supervisor with whom we spoke assured us that her foreman on the job understood property lines better than we, the property owners. Really? How does that work? Why would we not know that we own our own driveway? Our own lawn? Why would we not know that we never gave them permission to be on our property?
The foreman and crew stood 30 feet away, taunting and laughing at me, completely ignoring me when I demanded to speak with them. Police were called. An official Commonwealth of Pennsylvania property survey was supplied by us, the property owners. Kingkiner's crew and company management ignored this. They were crass, careless, and, above all, completely unphased by illegally trespassing on someone's property and damaging it.
The crew left after a whole, long day of chopping down trees and breaking the law, without acknowledging any damage or taking any responsibility. The police finally declared they were trespassing, but all damage had been done by then. Kingkiner didn't care. They just kept laughing. By the way, if anyone at Kingkiner is interested in paying attention to this post (probably not), they should know that under Pennsylvania law, 18 Pa.C.S.A.§3503(b), a person commits the crime of defiant trespass if he or she comes onto or stays on your property after being told to stay away.
My advice is to stay away from Kingkiner Tree Service. If I could post this with zero stars, I would. They're unethical, mean spirited, crude, rude, disrespectful, hostile lawbreakers. Why would you give them your business?