Davey Tree Expert Co

I’m super impressed with this particular Davey branch. I’m especially amazed by Nicholas Crawford for his professionalism and commitment to his field. The work his team does exceptional, and always in line with professional tree pruning standards. Nicholas knows the SF tree regulations like the back of his hand, unlike some of these other supposed pruners out there who hack up trees that SF fines homeowners over. You won’t go wrong if you go with Davey!

Contacted them twice about consultation on the trees in our yard; they must be doing extremely well and have bigger fish to fry, because after getting my request and my info, they never called back after two attempts.

These jokers trimmed the tree in front of our house and did a horrible job. They cut the tree without regard to overall shape of the tree or branches. Some of the cuts were improperly made into the branch collar. These guys are hacks. I would seriously avoid these guys if you care about the overall appearance or health of your tree.

So impressed! Mark helped me out on a rush inspection of a tree on a property I was purchasing. I received an honest evaluation and so happy that there are people out there that aren’t just trying to sell you something you don’t need. He made recommendations that will help to keep my tree healthy but with absolutely no pressure to have the work done. Thank you Mark.

I’ve seen first hand the hard work, expertise, and quality service put into each aspect of their services. Perhaps Unilocal should take into consideration that poor reviews are more of a smear campaign, based off of an experience that occurred to those who don’t know the industry, or how simply speaking with management to remedy the problem would be a better solution.

Milked it! One and a half crummy trees fell over in the last rain storm. That day and three times after that, they showed up and a crew with chain saws and a massive wood chipper and a crane tortured every person living at my apartment complex. The crew looked like I was watching it in slow motion. They take their time and don’t care about the horrendous noise they make or for how many days they milk a job. Paid by the hour much?

My neighbor and I hired Davey to do a hard prune on a tree that lies on our shared property line. My neighbor chose Davey and we are in agreement that this will be the last time.
First, on the arranged day at the scheduled time, nobody showed up. After an hour of waiting, we called. We were told the crew would be at our homes at 4pm. 3 hours after the scheduled time. When the crew showed up, they said they only got the call to come to our house that afternoon. Clearly, Nick, the sales person, forgot to put the appointment in the company system.
Second, when Nick came out to bid on the job he saw how narrow our street is. We told him they would have to send on of the smaller trucks. The truck that showed up was ENORMOUS and barely fit on the street. The driver made it extremely difficult for anyone to get through. Since the crew did not know anything about the job until the very last minute, it was not their fault. Nick, who had bid the job and had seen the street, is at fault. If he had communicated properly to his office and the crew, this would not have been an issue.
Third, the crew was extremely careless about other plants. I asked them not to stack pieces of tree on my bedding plants (I have a double driveway that is plenty big, so space was not the issue). The completely ignored my requests and crushed several of my plants. When I pointed this out to the crew, they just shrugged like there was nothing they could do.
Fourth, when we received the bill, it was padded. They had given us an estimate of $ 95/​hour plus travel. They billed us for $ 665. The crew was here for only one and a half hours. They billed us for travel and time to and from their offices when their own crew said they had come directly from a site in the city. We challenged this and it took Nick over SIX weeks to get back to us. We kept getting emails asking if we had questions about our bill. We sent him THREE emails without getting a proper answer to any of our questions. Finally, we got a response and Davey agreed to a small adjustment ($ 70) but the bill is still extremely padded.
It is clear from this experience that Nick is severely challenged when it comes to organization and follow-​through. He should not be in the job he has. It is also clear that anyone who hires Davey should get a VERY CLEAR AND DETAILED BID before hiring them. I would recommend stearing very clear of these guys and going with one of the companies that has better reviews here.

If you have a big job to do, Davey will show up with the right equipment to get the job done quickly and easly. I have worked with them on 3 such projects, at different locations, and have had great results each time.

i’m so disappointed.
Davey has gotten too big, and no longer cares about doing a good job.
in this incident, a complaining and uninformed worker (about the job) shows up to remove a stump. he didn’t remove a large section of the stump, chewed up the fence with the blades of the machine and damaged the concrete edge of our driveway.
if that’s not bad enough, he covered it all with a huge pile of wood chips, and left.
the worst part is, the damage couldn’t be fixed and had to be cut out, which dramatically changes the look, and planned brickwork, which was in remembrance of a 60 ft, 150 ish year old tree. whatever, what’s done is done.
at no time did the job manager nor the regional manager show any evidence they could care less.
this was handled so poorly.
i had expectations of professionalism, my mistake.
later conversation with corporate made things a little better.

We are very saddened by what transpired today.
We are home owners who live next to a school We value our relationship and take pride in being good neighbors. We are having our yard redone and have been working with the school to minimize noise and disruption. So far so good. Unfortunately, our landscaper hired Davey Tree to remove a tree. He also got permission from the school to walk a few branches over their property to the truck. He explained everything to Davey. Here is what happened:
1. Davey Tree workers put up ILLEGAL parking violation signs in front of the school the night before, upsetting all the neighbors and students. The signs were designed to scare people into moving their cars.
2. Davey Tree rocks up at 7AM in a huge monster truck. The guys decide it would be a good idea to park its huge truck in the private school parking lot. They park in the PRESIDENT’S parking spot (really Davey Tree, you couldn’t just parked in a regular space?). The President pulls in at 8AM and is livid.
3. Davey Tree workers leave a huge pile of wood in front of the school on the street. They decide that the front entrance to the school would be a great place to use extremely loud machinery to chop up the wood, disturbing all of the classes.
4. Our contact at the school told us we can never utilize their property again, due to the behavior of these jerks from Davey Tree.
Davey Tree are a bunch of brutes who could care less about their clients. Don’t use them if you care about your neighbors or your community.

These guys contract out through PG&E and it’s a shame that there’s no rating LOWER than 1 star, because that’s what I’d rate them. They have systematically killed off all but one of the trees in the front of my house. Their butchering of my trees using infected equipment has cost us literally thousands of dollars in arborists bills, in an attempt to keep the trees alive, and prevent their butchered carcasses from falling on neighboring homes and buildings. We were unsuccessful in doing so with one that recently fell on our barn and power drop. It caused the barn to catch on fire. In addition, the workers regularly drop limbs on our trailers, and leave a huge mess when they leave. These guys are the worst and just seeing their green trucks raises my blood pressure!

A big thank you to arborist Matt Perry for having a super crew who
performed a super tree trimming job on two of my trees. And the
knowledge and even the names of the two trees which any tree
owner should know for sure I do now. The crew was exceptional
fast and when they left it was clean and spotless. I hope with these
hard times davey tree experts company having such professionals
will make it worth there while soon monetarily.
Best Regards
Artist Marty Martinez
and wife Donna Martinez

I had spent over a week trying to get an estimate for two matching trees outside the house, I got in touch with Matt Perry from Davey tree and he was at the house, very professional and gave me a price that blew the others away. I told Matt that I was hesitant to call Davey because they looked soooo expensive with all their good tools, trucks, extensions but come to find out, they did the job at the best price too!

This review is only for the bid process, as we ended up going with another tree service.
Based on the great Unilocal reviews, gave Davey a call to see about getting stump grinding and a tree removed. Davey is a national company with branches across the country. John came out to see the property to give us a quote. John was friendly and professional. The quote was good, but unfortunately we decided to go with another tree service because Davey’s hourly rates were a bit higher.
The others I contacted included Banning Tree Service, Mitchell Tree Service, Waller Tree Care, and Peninsula Tree Care.

There’s was the most reasonable among 4 quotes that I got to plant a single tree in front of my house. They were professional, very flexible with schedules and extremely responsive; voicemails were returned within 2 hrs which is excellent.

This company was contracted by PG&E to trim the tree bordering our property… They through the branches in our backyard.
What the hell? Calling PG&E does nothing, calling Davey tree gets me nowhere.
I’ve now paid to haul the 10′ x 8′ x 6′ pile of branches away.

Well, as all the other reviews I can not suggest strong enough «USE DAVEY TREE» and don’t waste your time with other wanna be arborist. Eric is a professional as it gets. I’ve been involved in SF realestate for over 30 years and have seen and used them to great success. They agreed to trim up a 4 STORY Canary Date Palm that had not been trimmed for over 30 years. The equipment they have at their disposal got them up 4 stories and then over 25 feef and down the other side. I now can sit in my penthouse and see the most beautifully sculpted tree and the pacific ocean. Their price was in line with other bids but the superior service makes Davey Tree Service the ABSOLUTE best deal in the entire bay area. Eric, I thank you for all your efforts!

Davey Tree was recommended to us by our property manager and they did an excellent job. The crew was very friendly and they even re-​staked another tree that wasn’t part of the original bid — for free.

We had a dying 60 foot coastal pine removed from our back garden recently and Davey by far gave us the best estimate. I couldn’t believe it could be removed in a day, but the team that came out was incredible. They worked fast and were friendly throughout.
We also had a team from Davey trim the lollypop shaped ficus in front… it looks like a real tree now and again, they gave us the best price. I’d definitely recommend them.