glad I supervised the tree work, no one else showed up but me.
When they started to drop larger limbs inside the graveyard wall, I had to stop the job and remind them everything
gets dropped outside of the walls. And that they were standing on folk's graves at the moment. That got some eyes wide open and they were a little
more respectful of making a mess inside the walls. Everything has to be done by ropes, and they can, and promised to finish that way.
Big trunk, and hollow. Next hurricane would take it down and wreck the wall. One more even larger tree behind it was estimated at over 8 grand to take out, with a bucket truck and big crane.
Have to reach into graveyard from outside.
Boy have we learned....no more big trees inside the wall, they go outside. But these trees were planted 200-300 years ago, and their time has come.
That oak smelled wonderful ground up by the
chipper.
I was unimpressed with their equipment maintenance. When they took the tree out of my front yard, their grapple was broken. After they rewelded it and the weld broke.
Makes one wonder. Had issues with
chipper today, constantly fiddling with controls. Sometimes standing safely to the side, sometimes guys with no eye protection in the thick of things.
Only takes a second or two. Rusting truck bodies makes me wonder also. Expensive cab body, ten bucks in white rustoleum and maybe ten bucks in rusty metal primer first.
I don't understand how folks don't fix stuff like this. I bet Buppies takes very good care of his equipment. Constant maintenance struggle.
and if you ignore maintenance you have a truck with one headlight out, broken fenders and a rusty body.
as long as they don't break our wall and our headstones I'm fine.
Noise was terrible on my ears, was sitting in car watching and had to roll up windows.
