Great work, great care, and great price!
Garcia Professional Tree service removed a large live oak tree between our house and garage, plus two large branches off each of two more live oaks in our front yard so that nothing would be hanging over our house, blocking light from our street light, or in... Read More
Great work, great care, and great price!
Garcia Professional Tree service removed a large live oak tree between our house and garage, plus two large branches off each of two more live oaks in our front yard so that nothing would be hanging over our house, blocking light from our street light, or interfering with trash pickup. They also trimmed branches overhanging our house from a neighbor's tree at the point where they crossed into our yard, and hauled away a log remaining from another live oak I had felled myself so that it wouldn't endanger power lines.
The company owner, Fidel Garcia himself, came out to give our estimate the day after I called. He listened attentively to everything my father and I wanted done and our concerns about the safety of our power line and especially the thin, delicate fiber optic Internet cable running below the neighbor's branches that his men were to trim. We appreciated his warning about the effect the large branch removals would have on the appearance of our front yard trees, but we nonetheless wanted it done. He quoted us a very fair price for all the work—quite a relief after our previous experience with an expensive, highfalutin tree service that boasted on its website about how its licensed arborists would nurture our trees. The tree-hugger who THAT service sent out had rejected removing the tree or branches, and ended up just doing superficial trimming that didn't last us two years.
Work started in the morning the very next day. Two well equipped four-man teams came out, one from Garcia Professional Tree Service and the other from its sister company, Five Star Tree Pros, owned by another Garcia family member. Fidel's men tackled the large oak tree removal while the Five Star men took down the branches in the front yard. They stopped in the late afternoon, both their trucks filled to capacity with grindings and logs. The front yard branch removals were complete, but the live oak removal was unfinished, and the trimming of the neighbor's tree was not yet started. Garcia's team returned the next day and finished everything, cleaning up to our satisfaction afterward.
Especially praiseworthy is the great care the Garcia team took in trimming the branches overhanging our house from the neighbor's tree, with no access from the neighbor's yard (since he's away from home most of the time). The team leader, Anastacio, himself climbed up into the branches, expertly perching among them with multiple safety tethers. While I watched in trepidation, the team cooperated like precision clockwork to bring down each branch with guide lines to control the speed and direction of its descent, avoiding the aforementioned fiber optic cable. Their successful completion of the job left me deeply impressed with Anastacio's courage and the skill and conscientiousness of his entire team. Bravo!
I have included photographs of the two teams (with their permission), their trucks, the tree removal progress at the end of the first day, and the completed trimming work above the fiber optic cable.
Next time I need tree work, I will certainly call Garcia Professional Tree Service. Read Less