I had dealings with Local Boys before I read their Yelp reviews. The first time I used them, they…read morewere reasonably priced, fast, and professional. The second time i was looking for a tree company, I almost passed them up based on reviews. My wife said, that they were the crew I used before and we had good results so what happened? I did a bit of research on their yelp reviews and found this out: there are some miserable people out there. If you are one of those folks that can only write bad reviews and have nothing constructive to say than quit posting. I swear, Yelp should cull the herd on folks that only review negatively. One person has had such horrible luck with damages caused by a variety of contractors that she should be homeless by now, based on that destructiveness of all the people she hired. Get a life, be constructive and quit trying to get something for nothing.
I will say this about the Local Boys, they are the best in this area, period. I found far better reviews of their company on another website. So we called Jason and he remembered us. He came over, gave us a fair quote, told us what we could reasonably expect to happen to our property (we had 4 HUGE trees right next to the house) and that he could do it tomorrow if we want. He didn't use some " this price is only good for the next 24 hours" pressure tactic to try to get our business. He is an honest, local, polite, man that looks out for his customers and his crew. His crew is also professional, skilled labor, not day laborers picked up from the front of some convenient store.
The team showed up early, brought a ton of gear and started working right away. Now I should mention that if you have never had 100+ foot poplars removed from your property there is quite a bit of residual "damage" that occurs. By damage, I mean some divots when branch's and tree chunks hit the ground, the inevitable snow fall of sawdust from the chainsaw, the tracks left from tractors that are carrying 500 lb pieces of wood across your wet, freshly rained on yard, and the huge pile of sawdust from a PROPERLY ground stump.
Jason and the crew did their best to limit the above problems. They laid plywood down on the ground for the tractor to drive on and to reduce the track damage to my yard. They raked the tracks that were not covered ny plywood and reseeded the lawn when they were done. When the tree removal was done, they steel raked all the divots and tractor marks and used a leaf blower to get the majority of sawdust off of everything in my yard. They did everything they possibly could to mitigate damage and repair damage after it occurred.
Would I recommend them? Hell yes. In fact, three of my neighbors came to see what the hell I was doing and immediately got quotes for work they wanted to do. Two neighbors will be getting work done tomorrow. The third will probably not be far behind because you won't find a better price for the quality of work done.
So for all you negative nellies out there, get a life. I believe in this company so much I let them leave their tractors in my driveway and gear at my house so they can help my neighbors. I don't do that for everybody.
Next year, I will have more work done and I know who I'm going to call. Those Local Boys are welcome at my house anytime.
Check out my photos to see the proof of professionalism and expertise these guys have.