DIY Tree removal done to perfection.

[treemandan]

Once again we come to the ole' ladder and Granpappy's cantankerous old saw. This tree has been dead like this for a few years now. It belongs to a guy down the way from me, I pass it every day. I have met him before, he is no way cut for this, when I saw him start in on the tree I got nervous. Its not like I don't have clients with broken backs.

Anyway, he started on Memorial day, got a few limbs crashed in the driveway then it sat with the ladder up just like that for a week. Then the ladder was taken down and it sat for another week. I was working right across the street before the guy started with the tree. He is a jackass for not calling me. I finally saw him the other day on my way home. i stopped and watched him run this up his leg with the Homey. Of course he wasn't getting anywhere.

T'was an old Homey rear handle with no chain brake in the hands of a man who wears penny loafers with no socks. Chain droopin low and dull as #### trying helplessly to grind through a log , the saw was in even worse shape.

 

[treemandan]

He had done all of what you see in these pics. The ladder was set up to cut these two nasty bits under the hangers....

And over the well head.

 

[treemandan]

He even tried to impress me when he told me he got the one over the car out. There where two loose hangers he was cutting under.

I asked if he was trying to kill himself and I probably shouldn't have done the job for 200 but I was only there about an hour total. I dropped it in the street, pushed it back in his yard, cut the trunk up and ground the stump leaving everything where it lay. I had a stump job next across the street so I didn't take to much of a beatin trying to help this broke ass schmuck out. I was getting sick of seeing the dead tree everytime I went by anyway, Hell, we all were. I pushed it far enough back into his yard will it won't bother us again though I did tell him I would send the kid by to split the logs for 50 bucks.

 

[ForTheArborist]

Sucker :look_down:

 

[treemandan]

Sucker :look_down:

Yeah, i know but you still don't have the right to call me that so stuff it . The bid was right for the job.

 

[ForTheArborist]

:boss: Thats what im sayin'.

 

[beastmaster]

You probably saved the old suckers life. Nothen wrong with having a little compassion for the stupid every once in a while.

 

[imagineero]

The rare quadruple notched blind face cut! I'd heard about it from old timers, but never believed that it existed. How wrong I was :hmm3grin2orange:

 

[Rookie1]

Nice job Dan. :msp_smile:

 

[Grace Tree]

You probably saved the old suckers life. Nothen wrong with having a little compassion for the stupid every once in a while.

+1

 

[zopi]

ya know, ya done good...every so often we do something dumb business wise to help someone...call it a deposit in the bank of karma..maybe you were the tree angel sent to help....naaaahhhhhh!

Got one like like this...poor old guy all busted up, pensioner, ain't got a pot to piss in...two cedars hangin' over the house...gonna do em dirt cheap, particulalrly after the local treehole quoted him seven grand to take them out...stupid. two hours max work time here..gimme a break. My groundie's grandpa. we take care of our peeps.

A little cedar lumber makes it kind o sweet tho':cool2:

 

[tree md]

Ben Dandy to the rescue, Ben Dandy to the rescue!!! :hmm3grin2orange:

 

[treeclimber101]

200.00 an hour is a fair price ya did the right thing .... I bet ya that 200 had dust and cobwebs on it though probably has been in his pocket since the 70's

 

[tree md]

Ya shoulda made him give ya the pennies out of his loafers... :msp_wink:

 

[treeclimber101]

Ya shoulda made him give ya the pennies out of his loafers... :msp_wink:

200.02 dollars upon completion

 

[Jeffsaw]

We have them here too.

Recently one of our ambulance crews went to a cottage to pick up two (yes two) victims with head injuries who had tried to take down a tree themselves. I don't know any other particulars. It makes me wonder why people think this type of work is not dangerous.

 

[pdqdl]

I cut down an austrian pine for a couple of guys once. They were climbing a ladder and cutting it with a carpenter's hand saw. I did it for free, but the wife was so happy her husband didn't kill himself that she insisted that I take $20. Whooeee!

I was polite, and thanked her graciously though. No point in taking folks pride when you help them out.

You haven't commented on whether your customer appreciated your efforts.

 

[TreeAce]

U did the right thing treedan. Some years ago I was driven down the road and saw an old man near the top of a six foot step ladder with his old wife holden the ladder. He was up there with a cheap O pruner tryn to snag a dead hanger. I almost hurt my neck looking back when I realized what I had seen. I slowed down..thought a moment..then turned around to help em. If that old man fell off that ladder it was a broken hip for sure...maybe worse. After they made DAMN sure i wasnt gonna charge em they let me help em. I think they appreciated it.

 

[Slvrmple72]

The desperate acts people will resort to save money in regards to trees are almost as bad as the desperate acts people will resort to make money doing trees... HEY! Wait a minute!?

 

[treemandan]

The desperate acts people will resort to save money in regards to trees are almost as bad as the desperate acts people will resort to make money doing trees... HEY! Wait a minute!?

I got ya buddy! And how! :msp_razz: