Anyone Busy in Buffalo

[Jumper]

Quite the storm that ripped through there for so early in the year...gotta love those lake effect storms off Lake Erie. Here in TO we had snow and wind, but just squalls. At one point the snow was flying horizontal to the ground along with a lot of leaves, not pleasant to be outside.

http://channels.aolsvc.aol.ca/news/article.adp?id=20061013171709990007

Apparenly someone died in western NY when part of a tree fell on him while he was clearing snow.

 

[jonseredbred]

just the scabs going door to door charging $300.00 per lawn to drag brush to the front.

 

[beowulf343]

just the scabs going door to door charging $300.00 per lawn to drag brush to the front.

HaHa, you hit the nail on the head. Just got back home after spending yesterday and this morning in Buffalo working. Personally, I thought there wasn't alot of big stuff on the ground. When I get called out on storm work I want to see all the trees on both sides of the road laying on the ground-not just a smattering of branches. Talked to a couple of Asplundh guys I know up there this afternoon and they were telling me they are about done with their part of the work-just waiting for national grid to get the lines back in the air. Fortunately the weather has been good aside from a hard rain shower this morning. Jon-bred is right, alot of work for chipper crews but not much for climbers or bucket operators. Buffalo just got a pretty good little trim job.

 

[clearance]

I saw this storm stuff on tv last night, why the hell are people chipping anything? When I have done storm work we leave the chipper behind and buck the trees off the powerlines, roads, houses, whatever and move on to do something, the chipping can wait. Like WTF?

 

[BostonBull]

I saw this storm stuff on tv last night, why the hell are people chipping anything? When I have done storm work we leave the chipper behind and buck the trees off the powerlines, roads, houses, whatever and move on to do something, the chipping can wait. Like WTF?

This is going to be hard for you to comprehend but ill try...............not everyone does line clearance work :bang: !!!!! Some companies focus on Arboriculture and others are just there to make a buck by chipping small stuff in peoples yards.

 

[clearance]

One of the times after a storm we cut some trees of the road for a municipality, bucked a tree off a house for a private customer, cut down some uprooted trees beside a school, and on the way home in the dark, did a buzz job for cash cutting another tree of someones house. Nothing to do with powerlines that day, my point is that treeguys should be clearing roads, getting trees off of or away from things that matter. In other words doing what is important and needs to be done to help everyone out, not chipping, that can wait. Furthermore storm damage and arboriculture don't really go together, and arboriculture is not capitalized, it aint that big of a deal.

 

[jonseredbred]

no there is not alot of big stuff on the ground for the most part small limbs. We dont even try to go out and do work, the lawn mower gangs are out screwin everyone.

the real tree work is gonna be down the road when all the town and villages have to start removing tree's.

as some of you might know, buffalo already had a mess on its hands with its city tree's due to 20+ yrs. of eliminating its tree budget.

 

[beowulf343]

I saw this storm stuff on tv last night, why the hell are people chipping anything? When I have done storm work we leave the chipper behind and buck the trees off the powerlines, roads, houses, whatever and move on to do something, the chipping can wait. Like WTF?

True, when I was with Asplundh, we never took our chippers on storm work. But I took a chipper thursday night. The problem was moving snow-where do you push the snow when you already have the side of the streets piled with branches. Just as easy to back down the street with a three man crew and just go to town chipping everything in the road-gets the debris out of the way for the snowplows.

 

[SWAMPY036]

I went to Amherst today planning on making some money. First stop was some place called smallwood. Trees both sides of road just wrecked. Needless to say with travel time I had about 14 hrs. total and came home with a whopping $110. We mostly just cleared driveways for people so they could go to the store. This place is a mess. Classic case went down seeing $$$$$ signs then seen what they were up against and pretty much donated the day, although some woman gave me a bottle of scotch. Just what I would give people running saws and climbing trees. Oh well

 

[BranchWalker74]

I live 15 minutes north of Buffalo. I spent the last 2 days chasing all the phone calls. I am treating all the estimates like I am an emergency sergen, all people that can't get out of there house or get there car out I did first. Next I need to go out tomarrow and start removing trees and limbs from the houses. I have a small tree business. I normally work with one good helper. I have recieved over thirty calls, booked around 22 jobs. They range between removing branches off gutters 2" diameter to 20", to booking large removals. The most popular part is climbing the trees to remove the broken branches safely before they fall. I am trying not to price gouge I think that is why I am booking too much work. I was thinking about rasing my rates higher, but most are repeat customers and or referels. I don't want a bad name, it's a small town.

The way the lake snows work only 2/3 of my town, (Grand Island) was effected. For that part we were fortunate. Buffalo and east of the city. Look like a battle field. There are still large trees blocking roads. I read someone saying it is all small work, I would tell you to go east toward Williamsville, Amherst area. They have alot of damage, and alot of money there. The only tree service I have seen working in the area is Asplundh. I did see 100s of landscapers draging brush, and on ladders. Most likly with out of control prices. I will post pics and a video in a couple days if I have a chance.

Please have a moment of silence for the hurting trees..... Ok now start that saws again. Nearly every tree in the area has damage.

 

[treesurgeon]

i worked in Amherst today. what a mess. it seems that the villages got hit the worst from hamburg to Amherst. with old trees lining all the streets, they are a perfect example of how the towns take care of trees or should i say how they don't take care of their trees. but with a storm like this, just about every tree has suffered.
its like, revenge of the hacks out there. every street has a hacker trimming something that they have no clue on what to trim.
its going to take years to fix all those trees.

 

[Freakingstang]

I got called to Buffalo on friday night after i already worked a 12 hour day. Me and three other coworkers cruised through towns hooking up large generators for differant businesses. One was Roadway trucking company, one was a refinery that need to keep their gases at temperature before they combusted, another was Upstate Dairy. There were more, but that was mainly the sites I was at.

We had a ton of big generators go to the area. I didn't leave the area until about noon on saturday. Made for a long work day.... i slept for about an hour on my 4 hour drive back to Ohio.

Two guys are still up there. They were needed for standby support. This next week will be rough when the power comes back on, as eveyone will want there rental units removed so they aren't paying extra for more days.

Now, off to bed to do it al over again. lol.

 

[treesurgeon]

I got called to Buffalo on friday night after i already worked a 12 hour day. Me and three other coworkers cruised through towns hooking up large generators for differant businesses. One was Roadway trucking company, one was a refinery that need to keep their gases at temperature before they combusted, another was Upstate Dairy. There were more, but that was mainly the sites I was at.

We had a ton of big generators go to the area. I didn't leave the area until about noon on saturday. Made for a long work day.... i slept for about an hour on my 4 hour drive back to Ohio.

Two guys are still up there. They were needed for standby support. This next week will be rough when the power comes back on, as eveyone will want there rental units removed so they aren't paying extra for more days.

Now, off to bed to do it al over again. lol.

power will be out for many places till at least next weekend.

 

[Freakingstang]

They told us a firm 3-5 days on friday night/saturday morning. Any time there is a guarentee that it is that long, it is normally longer.

 

[jmcguiretree]

Anyone looking for help in Buffalo?

If anyone is looking for extra help, I do have a 01' vermeer chipper and a 1 ton with a dump.I'm not looking to jump in front of you local guys but if anyone needs a hand let me know, I'm only around 3 hours away ..

 

[jbw]

thank you

Thanks for the info on buffalo. my mom still lives in kenmore and i haven't been able to contact her at all. only saw kenmore on the weather channel on sun.

rest of my family has questioned my living in chas. and our hurricane issues. now they can appreciate (?) our potential problems.

after storms here, we have a certain unstated grace period for chipping debris (usually one week). tree companies are obligated to remove any debris that they have touched/altered.

please chastise anyone spiking trees that aren't removals. i have seen a lot of spike damaged trees and their consequences years after the incident. hackers just chasing the almighty dollar!

climb safe.

-in between evolution-