You would think that going on vacation means getting away from tree work for awhile. Not in my world. My Dad owns a lawn care business here in Florida and he told me before I came down that he'd booked a tree job for me, so I packed my saddle, a rope and a couple Silky saws to bring down.
Last week we did the job he had scheduled, and "Oh, there's one other tree job I came across." which we did. And then, as always happens, a passerby stops and asks if we can give a quote, which turned into a 20" DBH pine takedown for the next day. We were having fun, a Father and son bonding experience with good cashflow.
This week, same deal. Dad says, "We've got two more trim jobs." which, by 2:00 that afternoon we'd finished and another passerby stops and says, "Hey, can you guys give me a quote...." which we bid, sold and did that afternoon. We got home about an hour after dark to my Mom scolding me for keeping Dad out too long and that he's too old to be working this hard. Dad chuckled.
Then TODAY we had another takedown, a 60 foot macrocarpus alongside some 14 kilovolt lines and next to a wall and a screened-in lanai; juicy, juicy stuff. Dad has a Husky 35O, 18" and I put an exceptionally mean sharpening on the chain and did the entire tree with that saw.
I was in the mood today to climb SRT and there were a couple parts, down low, where I sorta wished I'd had spikes, but I got through it. I crowned it out, then cleared the brush in the morning. Took a few hours off to have lunch and be lazy at poolside (I'm on vacation remember.....) and in the afternoon schlaughtered the rest of it. I set up a time-lapse camera for both phases, then combined them into one time-lapse video for you cats.
I'm glad I could share my 'relaxing' vacation day with you guys.
I'm gonna go visit Skwerl in Orlando the day after tomorrow.
