Wright Tree Service

We received a notice that the city needed to come prune our tree because of power lines. I finally was able to get home to look at how Wright did and not only did they leave two big branches halfway cut and dangling down above our trampoline, but they also broke part of our brick edging and just left the pieces and didn't say anything to me about it. They did such a poor job and my tree looks awful!

I was parked in a LARGE, EMPTY state park parking lot in Park City, Utah (Wasatch state Park on Pine Canyon Road). Two of Wright’s trucks entered shortly after I did and parked next to me. It looked like they were going to be doing tree removal right next to my truck, and there was a shady spot on the other side of the lot, so I moved my truck to the other end of the lot, about 50 yards away. There was no other vehicle in the lot when I left for my bike ride save a motorcycle parked near the restrooms about 30 yards away. When I returned to my truck after my ride, there was a large dent on the rear fender with white paint that rubbed off. Luckily, because the driver of one of the vehicles was continuously vaping some sort of substance while I was getting ready for my ride, I snapped a picture of the vehicle. My gut instinct said anyone needing to smoke that much stuff and operate heavy machinery probably isn’t doing a very good job. Lo and behold, I come back to a damaged vehicle. The Wright vehicles were gone, no note left, and the only way a vehicle could have dented my lifted truck bumper was to be taller than it, which Wright’s trucks were. It still makes no sense as it was a parking lot that could fit 30+ cars, but based on other Google reviews about damaged cars and property, it sounds like this is familiar territory for this company. I submitted a complaint but doubt I will hear anything back.

Have caught the Wright tree crews pruning my oaks (by the power lines) twice now, during summer months when pruning risks infection of Oak Wilt. Once in late April, (said the crew leader: "What? Is this an oak?" then: "Hey, stop. Come down from there. This is an oak") and again this week, on August 20th when it had been pruned during the most recent dormant season (twice) to the standard 15$0027 for high voltage lines. The chief arborist for DTE in this area is Andrew Wallick and he visited my property in 2022 after the first incident and assured me that the oaks would be put on (and later assured me they HAD been put on) the map that DTE shares with the Wright tree crews as "owner-pruned" and circled in yellow. So my question to Wright Tree Service is, if a tree is marked as "owner-pruned", is already 15$0027 away from the lines, and is not even as tall as the utility pole it sits near, why prune it? (October 2023 photo of Oak after owner-pruned.). (thanks to Andrew at Wright$0027s who returned my call same day and reassured me that Wright crew$0027s sterilize their tools and apply wound dressing to oaks.)