R.W. Emmott Arborist, Inc.

R.W. Emmott Arborist, Inc. works out of 33 Elmwood Street in Millbury and is led by Jay Emmott, who the company's site says holds Massachusetts Certified Arborist licence #2638. The company says it has been doing tree and horticultural care in central Massachusetts since 1988, and its work is split between hands-on tree work — pruning, removals, stump grinding, cabling, large hedge shaping, tree and shrub planting — and plant health care: insect and disease treatment, fertilisation and preventative programmes. It names Grafton, Hopkinton, Millbury, Shrewsbury, Sutton, Upton, Westborough and Worcester as the towns it serves. Customers keep describing the same three things: the arborist's judgment, the price, and the clean-up. On Google the business holds 4.9 stars from 35 ratings, and the 24 review bodies on file run from 2022 to 2026. A homeowner in a 2024 review described a full scope — assessing tree health, pruning some and removing several large trees that had to come out with a crane — and said Jay was on time and on budget and explained the choices. A 2023 reviewer detailed a very large red maple pruned with one man in a bucket truck and two more climbing on ropes, followed by a thorough clean-up. Another in 2024 described roughly 40 badly overgrown arborvitae cut down and ground up in a single day. Clean-up recurs almost every time — one 2022 reviewer wrote there "wasn't a limp or leaf that wasn't picked up." Price comes up as often as the work. Reviewers in 2025 and 2026 call the pricing fair and the service prompt; a 2022 customer said Jay's estimate came in less expensive than other arborists and the estimate was the final price, and a 2024 customer noted the written estimate was detailed and included photos. A 2023 storm-damage customer who called several arborists said Jay was the most responsive and gave both the best quote and the most comprehensive assessment of limbs hanging over a neighbour's yard and the power lines. On Reddit in 2023, a resident who had hired them three times called them "quick, cheap and professional" and a good father-and-son company. One long-standing customer says they have used the company since 1994. What is worth confirming is credentials and paperwork rather than workmanship. The arborist certification number is the company's own statement and is not verified against the state register here, so ask to see the certificate and the current insurance — the site says a certificate is available on request. There is no readable critical review anywhere in this record, so ask directly about lead times and about how storm and emergency calls are handled, which no reviewer describes. They suit a homeowner who wants a certified arborist's opinion before cutting — health assessments, structural pruning, cabling — as much as someone who simply needs a large tree taken down.