GN Brothers Tree Service, Inc

Most of the trees GN Brothers gets called about are in the wrong place — leaning on a neighbor's fence, hanging over a roof, or standing in ground a truck can't easily get to. The Lynn, Massachusetts company describes itself as a local, family-owned business and says it has been at this 15 years. Half a dozen reviewers write about Gerber by name; by their accounts, he runs the crew. Google sits at 4.5 stars across 35 ratings, and the written accounts run back to 2019. In June 2026, a customer had a big tree taken down in a tight space against the fence bordering the neighbor's property, and described a crew that was responsive from the first outreach, showed up on time and worked efficiently once onsite. In a 2025 review, a homeowner needed a dead tree out of the middle of a construction project on short notice and got it. In a 2022 review, a customer counted eleven pines — three of them very big — down in around three hours, from ground beside wetland they called difficult to approach. A dozen reviews across Google, Angi and Houzz end on the same detail: the yard or site was clean when the crew left. Price is the other thing customers keep bringing up — "very competitive" in July 2026, "very reasonable" in that 2022 review, "fair" in a 2021 Angi review. A few things to settle before you book. The July 2026 review that stopped at four stars says why: the heavy crane driven onto the lawn left a rut, and the customer wrote that Gerber kept missing appointments to come back and fix it. A one-star review in September 2022 complained about a wood chipper running at 6 a.m. on a Saturday in a populated residential neighborhood. And a 2021 Angi review is a single line — never showed up. If your job is a removal that needs a crane, or a tree wedged between a fence and a house, that's the work customers describe them doing again and again. Crane service, stump grinding, trimming and 24-hour emergency work are listed on the company's own site and on both Angi and HomeAdvisor, which also list a Massachusetts Arborist Association certification and Spanish-speaking service. Its Better Business Bureau page is an A+; the BBB lists the company as non-accredited and notes it claims to be fully bonded and insured. Before the truck rolls, settle who protects the lawn if the crane comes onto it, put a date on any repair that follows, and ask for the insurance certificate.