SavATree – The Tree and Shrub Care Company

Had an estimate from good olé Brian and his magic hammer. He came around one day and thumped on some trees in my backyard. He showed me some rot and fungus damage and recommended some other trimming. A few keystrokes on his magic Ipad and the work came to 4300.00 I dug deep into my pockets but all I had was lint, so I asked for an itemized listing. Two months later NOTHING. SO I emailed the company and FINALLY got a breakdown of each tree. I Submitted a counterproposal, for a modified job and leave the wood not chip it up, to save 200. I never heard back from them. Another email produced nothing as well. I have moved on and the trees are still standing strong. Well I guess they are either too busy or don’t need my money. It is common courtesy to respond to a customer, but not in this case. And I use them for my lawn. Go Figure!

RUN! DON’T WALK! IF YOU ARE CONSIDERING SAVE A TREE, SAVE YOUR MONEY! CHOP IT DOWN YOUR SELF BUT DON’T HIRE THEM! THEY WILL KILL EVERYTHING ON YOUR PROPERTY.
We had recently purchased a property and Save a Tree claimed they had serviced this property for the previous owner for 18 years yet they could never figure out what trees were on our property that they were charging us almost 2k to service.
In terms of the tree removal and trimming, after we paid the deposit & had the company come out with all of their staff equipment we realized that they will only trim the trees according to how they feel they should be cut NOT how we wanted it cut, but that is only a part of their terrible performance.
The entire summer we spent calling them up and telling them that one tree or another was turning brown. After doing a 2^nd walk thru on my property, I realized they were spraying my neighbors trees. After doing a 3^nd walk thru there were trees still dying on my property because they thought the trees belonged to my our neighbors. What? Both of my neighbors have fenced in properties and they still could not figure out what trees were on my property. (Sad, that People that are in this line of work can not figure out what trees belong to whom when properties are fenced in.)
Once the weather cooled, I saw trees loose all of their leaves at the first frost and knew they were dead. When I had other arborists survey the property, I realized it was even worse then all of numerous dead trees and shrubs. Everything was diseased or on the verge of being attacked by bugs or dead.
The kicker is a Blue Atlas tree that has been attacked by a wood pecker for 2 years. Save a tree trimmed that tree and never said there was a problem with it. Never treated it but certainly charged for it. Even now they don’t take responsibility for not treating it. Claiming that the damage is from a Sap sucker not a wood pecker and they don’t kill birds. Well, a Sap sucker is part of the wood pecker family and the tree can certainly be treated and not allowed to die especially when they were hired to save trees (Brian, you are in the wrong business if this is the lie you tell clients after sending untrained staff out). And if a Sap sucker is killing the tree, why not recommend taking it down. Why trim it in the first place?
After speaking to Brian from Save a Tree, he and his «boss» decided to take no responsibility. The trees either died because there was very little rain during the summer months (we have a sprinkler system that watered them 30min every other day. Or because the winter was to cold (the neighbors trees didn’t die and they should have been sprayed with a winter guard.) Or because they didn’t service the property for 6months (well, trees are dormant during the winter). And they don’t kill birds (really good one, how about spraying a replant?). Or that the trees were diseased already (why not state that the trees are diseased and would not survive with treatment?)
We paid almost 2k for this service only to then have to spend thousands more on tree removal.