Hard Work and Reliability Help Build Tree Service From the Ground Up

What started as a part-time lawn service job in high school for Jake Chmielowski has grown to a $6-million-a-year full-service tree care and landscaping business: Jake’s Tree Service. Now with four tree crews and three landscaping crews, and plans to add a fifth tree crew next year, Jake credits his success to earning and maintaining a reputation for reliability — and his fleet of Bobcat® machines plays a big part in that, particularly on the tree-care side of his business. 

The company specializes in larger, more difficult tree removals but enthusiastically takes on commercial and residential tree-service jobs of all sizes. “We do it all when it comes to tree work, the whole nine,” Jake says. Headquartered in Holmes, Pennsylvania, Jake’s Tree Service serves three counties in southeastern Pennsylvania and northern Delaware. 

Jake reports that demand for tree removals, trimming, pruning and general maintenance is high these days, and recent weather events have also made his crews very busy with emergency cleanup. Jake’s Tree Service advertises and benefits from many referrals, but it is repeat customers and a reputation for reliability that Jake credits the most. “We give quality service at a fair price,” he says. “We’re not the cheapest and not the most expensive, but we found the equal middle and built a name.” 

To reliably offer such a full breadth of services, Jake has an equipment fleet that includes log trucks, cranes, spider lifts and high-reach buckets. Bobcat loaders and attachments, such as industrial grapples, stand ready to move debris to grinding areas onsite, or to the curb so trucks can haul it away.