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    Ponderosa Tree Service

    4.7 (176 reviews)
    Open 8:00 am - 5:00 pm

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    Tree cabling or bracing

    Tree planting

    Tree pruning or trimming

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    This the most expensive company for rich people

    I was I was very clear not to knock the door or bother my tenants and the first thing they do knocked the door wake up my tenants daughter she's a newborn and my tenant complain on me and estimate was five times higher than other company so if you rich and loaded call Ponderosa E

    Maple wood logs
    Ken Z.

    I needed some fresh wood logs to grow mushroom. I contacted a bunch of tree services to see if they would sell me some. I got an email from Mary the very next day to coordinate picking up some maple (nobody else even responded). Within two days I got 7 nice maple wooden logs in my backyard ready to go. I want to thank Mary for responding to me so quickly and coordinating everything so well. Shoutout to the on-site team for being so nice and helpful and cutting the logs to my liking. Just a wonderful company with wonderful people. I didn't get service for a tree but I definitely will if I ever need to. A+

    Just some of the branches that were trimmed.
    Cynthia M.

    A friend recommended Ponderosa and they did an excellent job. We have 2 large and beautiful ash trees in the backyard. Ponderosa said they were in good health and was able to trim or should I say pollard the trees in a timely manner. They explained everything to me, were friendly and left the area exceptionally clean. Sorry I didn't take a before photo but hopefully these give an idea of the amount of work. I recommend and would use again.

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    Great guy, very direct, very knowledgeable. Has been doing this for 40 years and it shows.

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    Fantastic service and communication. Friendly, prompt, I couldn't be happier. I will definitely call them again.

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    They are great and helped me assess the need for work without charging me. Very honest and reliable company.

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    Thanks Liz, for your kind words! Mary @ PTS

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    Really went above and beyond in our free consultation. We look forward to giving these guys our business in the near future.

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    Great work! Appreciate that everyone was mindful of the garden while servicing tree. Thank you

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    I asked if I could pay ion cash, and Michael dropped by my house (how convenient) and accepted my payment.

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    Cal Line Tree Care

    Cal Line Tree Care

    4.8
    (415 reviews)

    They were fast to respond. (Came by within a couple of hours of me requesting a quote and started…read moreand finished the job the next day.) Their pricing was incredibly competitive. The clean up was thorough. All round really good experience with Cal Line Tree Care.

    I've never left a bad review before. I generally don't like negatively impacting a business, and I…read morealways prefer to give someone the opportunity to make things right. Unfortunately, after multiple chances, I feel completely disrespected by my experience with Cal Line Tree Service. We had a stump in front of our house, so I contacted Cal Line and Alejandro sent me an estimate right away. The price was great and the reviews looked good, so I decided to move forward. Before agreeing to the job, I specifically asked whether the work would damage our sidewalks because we had just paid to have them redone. I was told not to worry because they wouldn't damage them. From the beginning, the communication was frustrating. They gave me a time to show up and didn't. Eventually, a worker arrived and began grinding the stump with a large machine. While my girlfriend was home, she repeatedly heard rocks and debris hitting the windows. I immediately contacted Alejandro, but he assured me not to worry and said the job was done. When I got home, I was shocked by the condition of the property. There was roughly a foot of mulch covering the entire area, far beyond where the stump had been. I started cleaning it up myself and filled a green waste bin, with plenty more still left to remove. That's when I discovered the damage. The newly redone sidewalk had chunks missing from it. The EBMUD box and its brand-new lid had also been completely destroyed. I was extremely concerned because, as far as I could tell, there had been no proper utility-location process before the work was done. Had a utility line been hit, the consequences could have been far more serious. I contacted Alejandro and told him this was unacceptable. He said he would send someone out to clean everything up. Once again, they didn't show when they said they would. When someone finally came out and started removing the waste, we discovered that the stump hadn't even been removed below sidewalk level. I had specifically been told it would be taken approximately two feet down so we could eventually plant another tree. Alejandro acknowledged my disappointment and said he would come back and make it right. The same worker eventually returned--again, not at the time promised. Unfortunately even more damage was done to the sidewalk. This time, debris and waste were also spread throughout my lawn, burying plants in the process.Once again, I came home and had to clean up their mess myself. At this point, Alejandro has repeatedly told me he wants to make things right, but despite multiple opportunities, he has not followed through. No meaningful repair, no call, and no appearance. Mistakes can happen in any business. What matters is how you handle them afterward. I gave this company several opportunities to correct the problems, and instead I've been left with property damage, additional cleanup, damaged landscaping, and a job that wasn't completed as promised.

    Willy's Tree Service

    Willy's Tree Service

    4.7
    (338 reviews)

    I used Willy recently and about 7 years ago. Importantly, he has excellent equipment: cherry picker…read moretruck (lift up into the tree), amazing chipper and so on. He also has an excellent crew. The small project was to take a pittosporum down about 5 feet and enhance the canopy shape. They did a very nice job on this. Meanwhile, the bigger project was being done by the rest of the crew. We have a very large Monterey Cypress. It needed to be cleared or dead branches, a good deal of weight, and a large lateral "window" created to allow a clear view from a back deck. With guys on ropes and a guy on the cherry picker truck (bucket truck), they go the job done. All of this was completed in an afternoon and within about a week of my contacting them. Additionally, I enjoyed interacting with the crew and with Willy. Certainly worth getting an estimate!

    I tried to cut down a tall maple tree on the border of a property myself. It was near houses and a…read morepower line ran straight through it, so I couldn't just fell it down. At first, it looked like I could do it. The bottom branches went down easily to a pole saw. Then I had to start climbing ladders, and then onto roofs to reach more branches. Holding a long pole saw overhead while maintaining balance on a roof is dangerous and tiring. On the third day it was time to cut the super high branches. The only way we could do it was with a Arborist sling slot, and alot of rope rigging and a rope saw. It was a headache and the equipment seemed expensive. Thankfully Willy's Tree service drove by and saw us struggling and took pity on us. We negotiated a fair price based on the work we had already done, and what we were quoted from other arborists (which was so high that it lead us to try it on our own originally). He said he would be back in two hours, but actually ended up late. I'm not going to dock any points for this because I knew we were a side job after his main job, and it was spontaneously scheduled. After his other job was over, he came over with his crew, a bucket truck, and a wood chipper that eats 12 inch logs like potato chips. And the entire job was done in the time that it would have taken me to cut 1 branch. At the end of the day, as his crew drove away, I was thankful that they came in and helped at a very fair price. So lesson learned. Save yourself the headache of expensive equipment, dangerous risk to life and limb, and call in a professional like Willy's Tree Service.

    Vega's Tree Service

    Vega's Tree Service

    4.8
    (233 reviews)

    Excellent service! they did a beautiful job cutting back large palms and a gigantic bird of…read moreparadise in my yard. Professional, punctual and skilled. Highly recommend!

    We had Jose from Vega's Tree Service out to look at some dying hedges and chose to have them plant…read morereplacements. Jose and his crew did a good job. Based on that job, we had Jose come back to price planting of sago palms and trimming trees/bushes/hedges. His price sounded good so we scheduled a one-day job for the work. On the scheduled Tuesday, a crew of three arrived (but not Jose to lead the work). We had to explain to the lead what we wanted done (same as we had explained to Jose before). The lead did not appear to understand us completely. The lead even FaceTimed with Jose for clarification. Apparently, that didn't make it any clearer for the lead...as evidenced by the crew's work. During the first three hours, the crew only managed to plant the sago palms...half of them planted too deep in depressions. They ran out of soil. The lead found a bag on my property and asked if they could use it. After I told him no, he used it anyway and said he misunderstood me. One guy also had to leave to buy more soil for the sagos. After I complained to Jose, the crew provided a replacement bag of soil. The crew trimmed the palm trees and hedges ok. They, however, botched the rest of their work. They butchered the bushes, fruit trees and other trees. They only completed about have the work and didn't cleanup at the end of their day...saying they'd be back on Friday. We feel it is unacceptable for them to have left the job site in such a state...even if they planned to return. The crew also broke a yard lantern. Not sure if we can get a replacement. We cancelled their Friday return and only paid them for the work completed. We are not satisfied with either the partial job done or the price charged for that partial job. It's crap. Vega Tree Service clearly had a more important job elsewhere and sent an inexperienced/subpar lead and crew to do our job. Poor customer service. We will not be using Vega's Tree Service again. We also cannot recommend them to other customers.

    Ponderosa Tree Service - treeservices - Updated August 2026

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