Allen Tree Service

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Our house sits adjacent to an undeveloped, wooded area owned by St. Vincent’s East Hospital (SVE Hospital) in eastern Birmingham. Three trees located on the property of hospital were at risk of causing damage to our house and property, i.e., a very large, completely dead pine tree and two trees with significant soil erosion around their root systems leaning toward our house. About 15-years ago, a tree from the hospital’s property fell on and destroyed our outdoor storage building. Due to this previous occurrence, I contacted Medxcel FM at SVE Hospital requesting the removal of these trees. I did not wish for additional damage to our property to occur for which SVE Hospital would be liable. Medxcel FM contracted Allen Tree Service (ATS) to do the work.

On 12/28/2017, ATS sent a crew to cut down the three trees. No one contacted me regarding the date and time the tree removal would be done. Except for their truck, I never gave permission for any other equipment to be in our yard. The ATS crew cut down all three trees so that they fell away from our house into a wooded area. They made no attempt to remove any part of the three trees. Several nearby living and viable trees were damaged by the ATS crew. A large section of our front yard was significantly damaged with little to no attempt to repair this damage by the ATS crew.

Because all sections, i.e., trunks and branches, of the cut-down three trees were left by the ATS crew, I shall have to pay for the proper removal of the tree trunks and large branches. Someone will have to prune the living, viable trees damaged by the way the dead trees were cut and allowed to fall. I shall have to level the yard where ruts were made and place new sod in the area where the grass was destroyed by the ATS equipment. Due to the manner the trees were cut down and left on the property adjacent to our house as well as the damage done to our front yard, I would never recommend Allen Tree Service to anyone.

Over the coarse of 2 days of triple digits our neighbor's cat was stuck in a large tree. We took shifts staying with Lewis. We called over 20 agencies everyone told us no. Then we called Allen Tree Service, he said he could and would come get the cat down. He showed up and was determined to help us. Within 10 minutes Lewis was back home.