DJ Snyder Company

The DJ Snyder Company is a Newton tree-care outfit that says it has been serving the city since 1981 and is one of the oldest tree companies working there. It is deliberately narrow: the company states plainly that it is not a landscape business and that trees are its specialty. The work covered is the full arborist range rather than just felling — removals and stump grinding, but also structural and aesthetic pruning, cabling and bracing to save mature trees, fertilization and pest and disease prevention. It states membership of the Massachusetts Arborists Association and the Tree Care Industry Association, and it runs its own crane and hoisting service, which is unusual for a company this size and matters on tight urban lots. The customers on record are few but consistent. A 2023 reviewer said that after the tree came out the crew cleaned the whole yard so thoroughly it looked like the tree had never fallen; another that year named Dave and his crew as professional and hard-working; a 2025 reviewer who has used them for several years praised consistent crews, good communication and punctuality. The honest caveat is volume: only four reviews exist across every source, spanning 2023 to 2025, so the public record is far too thin to say much about consistency. A Reddit commenter in 2024 put the company's rate at around $2,900 a day for a two-man crew with a chipper, which is a bystander's figure rather than a quote, and one of the four reviews describes a delivery rather than tree work. The stated service area is Newton and its villages plus Waltham, Brookline, Weston and Wellesley, so this is a close-in Boston-suburb operator, not a regional one. For pruning or a removal on a constrained Newton lot — especially one needing a crane — the credentials and longevity are real; ask for recent local references, because the published record is small.