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Central Indiana (and a lot more of IN too) got pretty hard last night, so I imagine that there are several here who are doing some work because of the storms.

I saw a piece on the 11 o'clock news the other night that had Tree Machine on it, then they cut to some idiot who recommended reducing storm damage by topping.:angry: The TV station got a email from me before the news was over.... Kinda funny, I've never met TM, but as soon as I saw that mobile arch, I knew who it was!:)

Hope everyone came through it all right.


Dan
 
Yep, that's the one.

That wunderful green color makes it very distinguishable, especially when it's being towed by a 4Runner.;) Or whatever Toyota TM drives....


Dan
 
To storm chasing/tornado

You don't need to chase storms this year, they come to your neighborhood or house. There is damage from the winds here and this freaks folks into calling to have trees they are now worried about removed needlessly when a trim would do.
The power line guys are out doing their thing and I did see a homeowner out there with a Sawsall, limbing an uprooted tree in his yard. He stopped and called when the he got to the trunk, too big for the Sawsall to handle. I guess he didn't have the Green Blade for the Sawsall. :D :D When will these homeowners learn they are not treeguys? Running an electric saw in the rain. What a nut.:eek:
 
Here's a pic of the tail end of a Tornado that hit just north of me. I pulled into town just 5 minutes after it lifted and helped some homeowners move some large limbs. I wasn't even there to sell work, I just wanted to check on my father's house and help anyone I could.
 
There's a place up here called Todd, NC a little country town. It got a bunch a small Tornadoes. Lots of tree dammage. Especially for the mountains. BB
 
We've got a little damage here in Fonddulac on Sunday night. I am almost to busy this year.
 
We had a few a couple days back, but all north of where we work. However, i have had to take a handful of bradfords of of houses this week so far; they love that wind.. as do i just finished two today 2,000 for the two bradford removals...fun stuff w/ the GRCS. no other way to go about it. That piece rocks! Anybody else in town i know of would have had to get a crane in there. Thats giving your money away. Don't do it unless you have to.
 
I guess the media made it out to be more than it was. Or, maybe the work is still being done, and no AS member has had the time to post.

Hmmmmmmm...

Treeguys outta be working their butts off around those areas.

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Yes, the tornadoes here were pretty wicked. We had 11 confirmed twisters, all ocurring right aftrer the Indianapolis 500 race let out.

I have been too swamped to get in here at AS and share.

Dan, you're the first person I know who saw the news piece of me arching up a big, fat maple log. Flirt with the newscaster girl, and you make the 11:00 news.

A client of mine took Elizabeth and I up in his helicopter to check out the twister damage. What an eye opener. I brought my video camera up there with me, I'll try to pump you out some footage.
 
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Perfectly healthy crown, barely any roots

Here's another blowdown, and a low-impact, clean extraction. Really, really impressively powerful storms, full of horizontal rain, hail, big, punchy downdrafts, ground-strike lightning, and now they're saying Indiana had 17 confirmed twisters.
 
Getting the tree off the house

Here's the tree the log came from. I was able to rig the tree up off the roof slightly through a sling and pully up into the trunk from which thhe top came.

Once secured, I climbed up in it and took off all the brush, hoisted it higher, and as a real cool trick, swung it around toward the direction of the street and laid it back down.

I wish my ground guy woulda shown up that day. It was a pretty involved solo job. Glad to have the right tools, though.
 
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