Home owners taking on dangerous removal.

[rborist1]

:Eye:

 

[John Paul Sanborn]

My very first tree removal was as a young teen. My Dad let us take out a big willow in the backyard with hatchets and bowsaws.

At least he was smart enough not to let me touch the chainsaw.

I shudder now to think what we were doing, though nothing untoward happened

 

[Newfie]

survival of the fittest?

weeding out the defects in the gene pool comes to mind when reading these stories. Hopefully they won't take any innocents with them.

 

[xander9727]

There are alot of gene pools out there that need some chlorine......or at least a life guard.

 

[Stumper]

From the other side of the "kids on the job" issue. I started going with my dad when I was 8. I didn't feed chippers or run chainsaws. I watched, fetched water, drug a little brush and raked. At 8 I had sense enough to stay out of the way and I had actually learned to do as I was told (seemingly a foreign concept to many kids(and parents). I didn't run a chainsaw until I was in my late teens. Likewise with climbing (I climbed sooner but not in customer's trees). At 39 it is kind of nice to honestly say"over 30 years of experience" but I don't since people can't believe it. Still I think the early experience was great-for me, maybe not every or even most kids.