Some years ago, my wife and I had a nasty tree in our front yard, some kind of Locust, I think. When it dropped its leaves, many small compound leaves, they would fill up the wiper gutters on our cars so thick you had to scoop heaping handfuls out before you could drive, and if it were raining, a few always got under your wiper blade.
Just as bad were the stalks the leaves attached to, which tended to bind everything together.
The tree was not bad looking, but it was quite large, so we put out a request for a quote to remove it.
We came home one day, and the tree was on the ground, cut up.
Apparently, one of the companies we sent the request for a quote to took it as a request to cut down the tree.
We were happy to have it down, but refused to pay. We did ASK them to cut it down!
Ha! I might have you beat. Maybe. We had two sick ash trees in a cluster of trees and shrubs. Decided we would keep the two beautiful mature cherry trees which were growing near the ash, and make a sitting area underneath. We were away for the weekend when the work was to be done, but it was supposed to be overseen by a gardening landscape specialist, so we weren’t worried. When we returned home a day later, we found the two healthy cherry trees gone and the two sick ash trees still standing!! Apparently the specialist wasn’t on site when the trees were removed, and signals got crossed.
Needless to say, we were able to work out a deal where we didn’t pay a penny more for the two ash trees to be fallen, and the entire design had to be scrapped and changed because of the error. We even got the tree guy to bring us a cord of cherry wood that we would’ve had from the cherry trees had we wanted those down. They made the money work out, but the landscape was quite changed. You can’t plant a mature tree when you accidentally cut one down.
Tried to make lemons from lemonade. It is a nice sitting area despite the changes from the original plan.
That sounds about right.
I had a company bid on three dead trees in my yard. (I live on acreage next to a National Forest/Apache reservation.) It was far too high, I said “no” (in writing) and I cut them down myself.
They sent me a bill for the trees I cut down.
Got in a real fight with them, lawyers and all.
Fortunately, my daughter happened to video me cutting/pulling down the trees.
Chased off guys trying to rip my roof off once, too.
And another time, people poured a slab and dropped a portable building on the slab. They took back their building (after demanding I pay for it). They were supposed to remove the slab, but didn’t. So I have a random 20X30’ about 100 yards from my house.
“we did ASK them to cut it down”
so you asked them to cut it down, they did, and then you refused to pay? Nice.