No such thing as a dumb question,right?

[hobby climber]

Anyone ever been asked odd questions by passers by while you were UP a tree working? The ones I get often are: "Do you climb trees ?", or "Aren't you affraid of heights?" or "Hows the weather up their?" etc. What are some of the questions people ask you?

 

[Newfie]

The idiot who wanders into the drop zone as netree is making the back-cut and says to me "are ya gonna cut down that tree?"

 

[hobby climber]

...thats the kinda thing I'm talking about!

 

[rbtree]

7 times out of 10, the onlooker's question will be, "Are you going to cut it down?" If they have been watching us prune for a while, I'll retort sarcasticly, "Not after spending all that time pruning it!" But if they just showed up, I'll hold my tongue.

 

[Dadatwins]

Doing a lot of municipal work on city trees, my favorite dopey comment is from the passerby that stops and asks, "Why are you cutting down that 'live' tree", when it is July and a 70' oak tree with a full crown of branches but only has a total of 7 green leaves on entire tree.

 

[Crofter]

Do you know which way it is going to fall?

Frank

 

[MasterBlaster]

"I bet you sleep good at night" is about number one with me.

 

[SteveBullman]

one of our classics was an old lady who walked past our truck with MB TREES

 

[SteveBullman]

ooops hit submit early.
anyway old lady walked past our MB TREES truck and asked "is that your surname or is it just a coincidence?"

before the days of our woodchipper we were once asked if we were taking a tree down. bearing in mind there was about 4ft of trunk left and a truck full of brush parking next to it. my brothers reply as he pointed to the truck of brush was "no we've bought those branches with us, we're making one"

 

[OutOnaLimb]

When I was doing storm work in La. I had an ole Cajun guy yell up to me and say, "Just cuz your breath smell like ape $hit, dont mean you Tarzan!"

Gotta love those crazy old Coona$$s

Kenn

 

[Guy Meilleur]

When many people see me about to climb a tree they ask me where my hooks are. When I ask them if a doctor should put holes in their patients, it starts to sink in. 'Then they ask how I can climb the tree without them and I just say "Watch".

It's amazing how incapable some humans think all humans are.

 

[hobby climber]

....how about: "What would happen if you fall ?" I told this one woman that it would only hurt at ground level !

 

[arboromega]

my regular... what do you do for a living?
im a tree climber.
why would you do that?

 

[jamie]

which one

we get a lot of how do you know which one to take down.....

pulling line rigged, someone at the base of the tree starting the backcut, and a passer by asks (as the tree begins to fall) are you cutting that one down.

big ol beech dropping large lower limbs, i was asked why we took it down (it was in a fenced off parkland) and some woman stated trees dont drop limbs.....well what the feck are those jumbo branches with large ripped ends doing on the ground

jamie

 

[Treeman14]

While pruning the mistletoe out of a huge water oak in the middle of January(they're deciduous, BTW), the owner's son came over and started yelling at us for removing all of the live limbs and leaving just the dead ones in the tree. All I said was, "You're joking, right?" Unfortunately, he was serious. I didn't even try to explain it to him, just kept on working.

One of my favorites: "What can I do to keep all those leaves off my roof?" Ummm, buy a blower?

Or, after watching you prune the entire tree, telling you how great it looks, then watching while you clean up all the gear, rake up, blow off, and load up the truck, they ask, "Aren't you gonna get that limb over the roof?" ARRRRRRRRGGG.

 

[MasterBlaster]

I like when they offer coffee. I don't usually take em up on it, but it's nice of them to offer.

uhh, did i go off topic?

 

[John Paul Sanborn]

Could you just round the top out a little?

I want you to cut this one and that one and that one over there!

You don't know what your doing! Your just taking an old mans money. See my trees, that's the way it's supposed to be done! I had a young man from the power company do them for me last summer.

Could you get a few more for me while your here?...What do you mean YOU'LL CHARGE ME MORE!

 

[rahtreelimbs]

What size blade do ya have on that there saw???

 

[NeTree]

Originally posted by Newfie
The idiot who wanders into the drop zone as netree is making the back-cut and says to me "are ya gonna cut down that tree?"

...after stepping over/around not one, not two, but FOUR bright orange cones...

 

[Dadatwins]

Originally posted by netree
...after stepping over/around not one, not two, but FOUR bright orange cones...

Had a lady drive her car OVER the bright orange cones past the ROAD CLOSED sign to the middle of the block where we were removing a tree to ask,"Why was the road closed?"