McDonald Tree Service

McDonald Tree Service is a family-owned outfit out of Billerica that Keith McDonald has run since 1995 — the company says he personally oversees every job with his own crew, no subcontractors, across Middlesex County towns from Lowell to Lexington. Across more than 60 Google, Angi, and HomeAdvisor reviews going back to 2014, the same story repeats: fast turnaround, careful cleanup, and complex tree work handled safely near houses and power lines. The specifics back it up. Homeowners describe crews taking down giant, hazardous trees — a 100-foot pine that fell in a storm, two 60-foot maples wedged between a house and the street with power lines in the way, ten trees removed in a single visit with a crane, six pines and three oaks pulled from beside a house with electric and cable lines running through the work area — all, reviewers say, without damage to fences, gardens, or lawns. Several customers mention using the company repeatedly over years — one says three jobs in five years, another describes hiring them "over the years" and trusting Keith's word on timelines. Cleanup gets called out again and again: debris hauled away the same day, "not even a leaf" left on a manicured lawn. The record isn't spotless. A 2018 Angi review said the crew left large cut tree pieces behind after a job that ran more than quoted. A 2022 review described the owners setting an estimate and a job date, then not showing up twice and not returning calls. And a May 2025 review said a job arranged with a crew member named Carlos left the customer's woods "ruined." Each is a real, dated account rather than a recent pattern — the eight reviews filed in the last six months are all positive, and nothing else in the record echoes those specific complaints. For tree removal, pruning, or stump grinding anywhere near the house, power lines, or landscaping you want protected, McDonald's reviewers describe exactly that kind of careful work done consistently for over a decade — it's still worth confirming the quote and start date in writing given the handful of no-show and debris complaints on record.