When i go out to someone's home to give them a free estimate which is pretty standard in my business, I am a Certified Arborist and i pretty much know what is wrong with the tree or tree's after inspecting them. I have spent 20 yrs of my life studying them and know how to treat them and how to trim them to make them strong and healthy. So its no wonder when i go out to the customers home that they come out and start telling me how to trim the tree. Or how long it will take me to do it, that i am taken aback at some of their arrogance and disrespect they show me when i go there not charging them anything and try to give them advice for the health and safety of their trees. I have had people ask me to Hurricane cut their palm trees which means that they only want 2 to 3 palm fronds left on the palm after i am threw trimming it. When i ask them why they want it cut that way and i tell them that it is not good for the tree to be trimmed like that, all they ever say is i don't care that's the way I want them trimmed. Can you imagine an electrician or a plumber coming to your home to do some work and you start telling them how to do their job. I recently had one lady tell me over the phone that it would only take me one half hour to do what she wanted done. When i got over to look at the job she wanted to know where my equipment was? I told her that i have to look at the job to see what i need to do it. Well she didn't like that and started telling me that she wanted it trimmed right because the last guy that trimmed it hacked it up. Well it certainly didn't looked hacked up to me but i kept listening to her complain about that and that she was going to stand out there and watch every cut i made. When i asked her about the dead branches that were up in the tree she said no. Then she started talking about trimming over her roof and i advised her that i would cost more if i had to trim over the roof and she lost it and said " Well i guess you just don't want the Job" and walking back in her house leaving me standing there. This kind of thing makes me want to charge for the estimates i give. Had another HOA group wanted estimates on 90 palms that they wanted trimmed on their property's after spending 5 hrs. looking at trees and giving advice on how to trim them and giving them an estimate was told by one of the gentleman that would i consider lowering my price to get the job. Here at Beechnut tree service we do the best for your trees at the lowest possible price. We are not going to lower our prices to get the job and we are not going to do bad things to tree's or palms just so the owners can save a few bucks. If that means that we don't get the job then that's fine. We want to be known as the professional tree company that actually helped the tree's and not the company that other company's make fun of the work that looks like crap and is not good for the tree's health and life of the tree. So if you would like your tree's pruned correctly and for a reasonable price by a Certified arborist call us today .
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