Acorn Tree Care

I wanted to get some trees taken down from my yard. They were in my community’s buffer zone and technically could not be touched. However, they were 80 to 140 feet tall pine and gum.
I got a few quotes to get them taken down. One guy quoted me $ 1600 for just three of the larger trees. Another said $ 4000 for the lot of them, but would just bulldoze them down. ACORN came in at $ 4440, but said that they would take them down with precision. I ended up going with ACORN because they are arborist and their business is located in my county.
ACORN provided a written explanation to my HOA, which was quickly approved.
ACORN scheduled me in and gave me an estimated date, which they told me in advance was based on prior commitments/​workload and weather conditions. They kept in contact with me to let me know how their week was progressing with other jobs.
On the day ACORN came to remove the trees, I have to say that I was pretty impressed. Talk about professionalism. You see, the whole time prior to them coming out, I was expecting about four guys with climbing/​repelling gear and a wood chipper. ACORN showed up with two large trucks (as big as the dump trucks that you see rolling around I85 and Beaver Ruin), a monster wood chipper, a cherry picker (not your typical cherry picker, but a $ 100,000+ one specifically made for tree trimming), a Bobcat and a bunch of guys with climbing/​repelling gear.
They made quick work of the trees. I was amazed at how fast the work progressed. I was amazed at how they would drop limbs in a way that would not damage the fence right beneath it. I was amazed at how their wood chipper would eat trees with trunks that were over a foot and a half. It even ate trees with all their branches still attached. I counted at least three truckloads of wood chips and an estimated total of 88 tons of logs and wood chips.
I was up on the third floor to get a bird’s eye view of the process. When they felled a tree, the ground would shudder and shake the whole house. They were dropping trees and clearing them out of the way so fast that I would miss the action if I stepped away.
Through the entire process, ACORN was very professional, with communication, invoice/​quotes, payment and so on. I offered to give them my credit card early, but they said that was not necessary and would be taken care of the day of service.