murphy4trees
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It was a wet day here, not pouring, but rained all night, and on and off all day, from drizzle to light rain, so I ran errands. Left my neighborhood at around 9:15... by that time this kinda new name in the tree biz around here had a crane and a bucket truck set up in a neighbor's front yard, next to a pretty big silver maple, (maybe 44-48" DBH... Thing was not that tall though) plywood everywhere and cribbing set up for the crane... So I figure they are all set up and the tree will be down by the time I get back for a 10:30 appointment at my house. Now they have a chip truck and chipper in the street, skid steer with grapple bucket, large 16'+ bed dump truck to haul the wood, and the crane and bucket truck, and 7 men on the job.
So I roll the window down and jokingly yell out, "what are you fooling around with all that equipment and plywood for: just notch it and drop her across the street".. At least one groundie laughed... I was in a hurry for my appointment so I didn't look up on my way back at 10:40. But when I left again at 2:30 pm, they had only taken out 2 of the four main leads out and none of the really big wood. Then at 4:35 pm, I drive by again and see they are working on the butt log, taking it in two cuts, with one man on the saw, cutting through 4' wood at about 6' high, and then come home again at 7:30 and they have the big wood in the back of the crane and are jockying plywood to get the crane out of the yard. I stopped and talked to one of the groundies at 4:45, who told me they had 7 men on the job.
Now if it was me, I'd have taken off a few side limbs, and dropped that thing across the street after pulling the neighbor's mailbox. Tree would have been on the ground by 9-9:30 AM.. and chipped up by 11 am or 12 noon, depending on how many loads of chips it was. And the log loader would have picked all that wood up for $300 in about 30 minutes. The tree would have been fine, no wires, and fairly wide LZ in the front yard and street. It would have been an early day.
And even if it had to be climbed and roped, Big John or Pat would have had that entire tree roped down, including the wood,and ready to drop the stick before noon. Tree would have been ready for the log loader no later than 1-2 pm, with 1 climber and 3 ground men and the 1590 chipper with winch.
Now maybe the wet weather slowed them down a bit... But how can you make payments on all that equipment, pay 7 men a 12 hour day, haul and dump all the wood and chips, and still make any money on what was probably a $2500 tree? There are hungry lowballers around here that might have done a tree like that for $1800-2000. Makes me wonder if these kind of companies aren't washing drug money through a tree business. That is not a joke, I really wonder that!.
I might be able to get a picture of the stump later this week.
So I roll the window down and jokingly yell out, "what are you fooling around with all that equipment and plywood for: just notch it and drop her across the street".. At least one groundie laughed... I was in a hurry for my appointment so I didn't look up on my way back at 10:40. But when I left again at 2:30 pm, they had only taken out 2 of the four main leads out and none of the really big wood. Then at 4:35 pm, I drive by again and see they are working on the butt log, taking it in two cuts, with one man on the saw, cutting through 4' wood at about 6' high, and then come home again at 7:30 and they have the big wood in the back of the crane and are jockying plywood to get the crane out of the yard. I stopped and talked to one of the groundies at 4:45, who told me they had 7 men on the job.
Now if it was me, I'd have taken off a few side limbs, and dropped that thing across the street after pulling the neighbor's mailbox. Tree would have been on the ground by 9-9:30 AM.. and chipped up by 11 am or 12 noon, depending on how many loads of chips it was. And the log loader would have picked all that wood up for $300 in about 30 minutes. The tree would have been fine, no wires, and fairly wide LZ in the front yard and street. It would have been an early day.
And even if it had to be climbed and roped, Big John or Pat would have had that entire tree roped down, including the wood,and ready to drop the stick before noon. Tree would have been ready for the log loader no later than 1-2 pm, with 1 climber and 3 ground men and the 1590 chipper with winch.
Now maybe the wet weather slowed them down a bit... But how can you make payments on all that equipment, pay 7 men a 12 hour day, haul and dump all the wood and chips, and still make any money on what was probably a $2500 tree? There are hungry lowballers around here that might have done a tree like that for $1800-2000. Makes me wonder if these kind of companies aren't washing drug money through a tree business. That is not a joke, I really wonder that!.
I might be able to get a picture of the stump later this week.
