S & L Tree Services

S & L Tree Service has worked out of Harwich since the company says it got started in the summer of 1975, when Skip and Larry began cutting and hauling trees around their neighborhood with a ladder and a rope. Fifty years later it's still locally owned and run under the same two names, and it still does the same core work: taking down, pruning, and grinding out trees across Harwich, Orleans, Chatham, Brewster, Eastham, and Sandwich. What holds up across the reviews is follow-through on real removal jobs, even the awkward ones. In a 2024 review, one customer had eight trees taken down and four more trimmed in a single visit -- the crew also flagged a cracked chimney crown they noticed while working nearby, which the homeowner said they wouldn't otherwise have caught. In a 2025 review, another needed trees along two property lines pruned and had the crew feed everything through a chipper and clean up so thoroughly it looked like they'd never been there. A 2022 review describes ten sizable trees taken down and hauled away in three hours. Some of the strongest praise comes from repeat customers. A March 2026 review says the family has used S & L "for many years" and kept referring friends with the same result each time; a 2021 review says the writer had hired the crew for 40 years and found the prices "consistently fair and reasonable." That theme comes up more than once, including in a 2025 review from a customer who called in a drone stuck in a tree after twenty other companies wouldn't bother, and had it down within the hour. The most recent review, from August 2026, calls the service prompt with good value. On Google the business sits at 4.8 stars from 35 ratings, and its BBB file carries an A+ letter grade -- a separate fact from BBB accreditation, which the business does not have. Of the reviews collected, every one is five stars except a 3-star rating from December 2021 that gives no explanation of what happened, so there's nothing specific to weigh against the rest of the record. For a Cape homeowner dealing with a big or awkward tree -- close to the house, tangled with a neighbor's property, or complicated by outdoor equipment -- this is a crew with decades of exactly that kind of job behind it. Worth confirming current pricing and scheduling directly, since the reviews span both recent months and the last several years.