I am very particular about my yard and my trees. I used to prune all my trees myself and, well… I got older and my trees got bigger. I have hired a handful of different tree pruners and they might do OK one year then butcher my trees the next year. It is hard for me to have butchered trees. I have had Gerald Purviance prune my trees and remove some trees for the last 3 years. He truly knows trees and knows how to prune them so they are beautiful. He isn’t cheap but I’ve found out the hard way that you get what you pay for. He has all kinds of equipment that grind up branches. Not only do my trees look good after he is done, but he cleans up extremely well and takes all the prunings away! He is a wizard at tree removal and stump grinding. You will never know the tree was there.