Elm Landscaping & Construction

Elm Landscaping & Construction is a Lynn crew known mainly for tree removal, run by Elmer, with a written history stretching back to 2018 that is largely — though not uniformly — positive. The clearest, most repeated theme in recent years is speed and safety on big tree jobs: an August 2025 review described 17 trees safely removed and 8 pruned over two and a half days, and a June 2025 review described a fallen tree being cleared and the yard cleaned up within about 17 hours of a Friday-evening text. Several reviews describe multiple trees dropped in a matter of hours with thorough cleanup and reasonable pricing, and one reviewer, this past November, even credited the crew with rescuing a cat from a tree on short notice. Two accounts from 2022 stand well apart from that pattern and describe real property damage during tree-removal jobs: in a May 2022 review, a customer said the crew arrived ill-equipped, the first tree cut fell on and demolished a section of a neighbor's fence, limbs snapped branches off other plantings including a mature maple, and equipment sank into and rutted the yard; in a September 2022 review, another customer described branches and trunks dragged through and destroying a rock garden, plus damage to two neighboring trees that then had to be taken down. A separate December 2021 review described the crew failing to show up for a scheduled cleanup, twice, with no call. Nothing similar shows up in the reviews from 2023 onward, which return to the earlier pattern of careful, efficient, well-cleaned-up work. For tree removal in the Lynn area, the recent track record is strong, but the property-damage accounts from 2022 are worth asking about directly — specifically how the crew protects a neighbor's property and plantings during a big removal.