Treeslaying Illinois style

[outofmytree]

Kleenex anyone?

 

[John Paul Sanborn]

Somebody must have a group hug smiley for this budding bromance

 

[treeslayer]

Somebody must have a group hug smiley for this budding bromance

Well, I ain't hugging you Sasquatch. :monkey:

the 2 foot height difference would put me at an unpleasant point of view.

bromance, huh? thats some funny ****.

 

[treemandan]

true genius.

Pay me.

I try to keep it simple, laymans terms. To much of the back and forth

 

[treevet]

Kleenex anyone?

:hmm3grin2orange:

 

[treeslayer]

pouring down rain, we did 2 big cottonwoods over a house yesterday and the homeowner wanted the wood. I gave him a $300 discount if he kept the wood, and he was supposed to provide a dump truck & driver and my groundies would be loading as I lowered all the wood.
so he shows up with a :censored:car trailer.

well obviously the wood did not get all loaded out, and our takedown and chip and cut was done, but it started raining at 5:00 and hasn't stopped. I was able to get half the money, but.............:censored:

he called just now and wanted to know when we would be there.

"dude, think what the skid steer will do to your yard in this."
the house is on the fox river, we are talking rotten ground.

a fricken car trailer. he moved a dump truck out of the way for our chip truck.

 

[treevet]

Homeowners.....you can't live with 'em and you can't live without 'em.

We gettin drenched here too but just finished a job and got the check.

 

[outofmytree]

Go on, take the money and run. Oooohh yeah!

The immortal words of Steve Miller.

 

[treevet]

pouring down rain, we did 2 big cottonwoods over a house yesterday and the homeowner wanted the wood. I gave him a $300 discount if he kept the wood, and he was supposed to provide a dump truck & driver and my groundies would be loading as I lowered all the wood.
so he shows up with a :censored:car trailer.

Speaking of homeowners.....rim shot and cymbals ....

About 4 years ago I get a call from a HO. She is hysterical, her purple plum fell over. I go right over as it is after work and she lives half way around the block from me. I get there and because she is so upset I work for hours at too cheap a rate and get it up, stake it with wire and hose and prune to lighten it.

Everything is fine until a year later we are buried in work and she is on the voice mail and, again, hysterical. I want to know if I can remove the wires now as mowing is a pain and they have been on so long and I hate the way it looks. I fall asleep and do not call back. Next morning I drive by on way to storm damage work and see she went ahead and pulled the supports.

That night it storms and in the morning I notice the tree is on its belly again in the morning. I go to work and on the way home notice "moron" tree service is on the "job" with 5 guys and their BC 2000.

I get home and on the machine is her hysterical voice cursing me out and going ballistic.

I choose to ignore it and not respond.....Couple of months later I am working at the neighbors house and first thing in the morning she is in my face cursing me out and threatening to tell the town what "happened".

I was not even wide awake and told her to get her deranged a$$ of my job, shut her pie hole and if I was her I would have opted to wait for a phone call rather than taking the supports off without an answer.

Well as expected she went ballistic and was screaming hysterically and told me she would bad mouth me to whoever would listen and I would never work on her property until the day she died.

I looked her square in the purple face and with a half smile on my face told her....

"Well you better never move then".

Couple of weeks ago I noticed a "For Sale" sign on her property. I drive by that property 20 times or more every day and a few times we made eye contact. I had heard around she had been bad mouthing me and I couldn't help but give her a slight smile when we made eye contact.

Few days ago the new owners, a delightful couple, called me and today we spent the whole day changing her property drastically.

She is still in town and couldn't help noticing the big production and bright orange color all over "her" property. I know it is trivial to take joy in such a thing but sometimes justice just bumps right into you.

 

[treevet]

 

[treevet]

 

[ropensaddle]

Speaking of homeowners.....rim shot and cymbals ....

About 4 years ago I get a call from a HO. She is hysterical, her purple plum fell over. I go right over as it is after work and she lives half way around the block from me. I get there and because she is so upset I work for hours at too cheap a rate and get it up, stake it with wire and hose and prune to lighten it.

Everything is fine until a year later we are buried in work and she is on the voice mail and, again, hysterical. I want to know if I can remove the wires now as mowing is a pain and they have been on so long and I hate the way it looks. I fall asleep and do not call back. Next morning I drive by on way to storm damage work and see she went ahead and pulled the supports.

That night it storms and in the morning I notice the tree is on its belly again in the morning. I go to work and on the way home notice "moron" tree service is on the "job" with 5 guys and their BC 2000.

I get home and on the machine is her hysterical voice cursing me out and going ballistic.

I choose to ignore it and not respond.....Couple of months later I am working at the neighbors house and first thing in the morning she is in my face cursing me out and threatening to tell the town what "happened".

I was not even wide awake and told her to get her deranged a$$ of my job, shut her pie hole and if I was her I would have opted to wait for a phone call rather than taking the supports off without an answer.

Well as expected she went ballistic and was screaming hysterically and told me she would bad mouth me to whoever would listen and I would never work on her property until the day she died.

I looked her square in the purple face and with a half smile on my face told her....

"Well you better never move then".

Couple of weeks ago I noticed a "For Sale" sign on her property. I drive by that property 20 times or more every day and a few times we made eye contact. I had heard around she had been bad mouthing me and I couldn't help but give her a slight smile when we made eye contact.

Few days ago the new owners, a delightful couple, called me and today we spent the whole day changing her property drastically.

She is still in town and couldn't help noticing the big production and bright orange color all over "her" property. I know it is trivial to take joy in such a thing but sometimes justice just bumps right into you.

I have had some of those experiences too it is funny they plainly disregard advise. I saved a weeping willow up-rooted it was a low profit job just done for the practice. Anyway I informed them I would need cabled for two years and I would have to come back and re-tension and actually slack the cables some. Everytime I adjusted them they would re tighten or call and say they,re loose I informed them they need to gradually be loosened so the tree puts down roots or the tree may fail when we take the cables off. I know they keep tightening them I have to take them off this year and hope enough root support exists to top that off she would not let me prune enough off at the start.

 

[treevet]

Yeah, is it just me...seems whenever you do something on the cheap or even free you take a pounding?

I sold that dead elm craner takedown in the background today too so it was a good day all around.

 

[ropensaddle]

Yeah, is it just me...seems whenever you do something on the cheap or even free you take a pounding?

I sold that dead elm craner takedown in the background today too so it was a good day all around.

Yes sir it does, I see your using that new dump looks good too

 

[Brimmstone]

Everyone is going to have to wait for another day or so to hear from Treeslayer or Fireman. They are on a run to Oklahoma and back to get a piece of equipment.

 

[Toddppm]

Makes a huge diference having that tree in front gone, I was going to ask if you got the job to take down the neighbors dead tree too

 

[treevet]

Yes sir it does, I see your using that new dump looks good too

Look awfully good on that one ton of yours. After I ran that thread I got an email from Truckcraft thanking me for my input and they took out an ad on the top of AS.

 

[treevet]

Makes a huge diference having that tree in front gone, I was going to ask if you got the job to take down the neighbors dead tree too

That was my idea too Todd. But as usual we had a few "why ya takin that tree downs?"

We reduced that Bracken Brown Beauty Mag too (in front) with 1/3 off this year and another 1/3 next yr to come off.

 

[John Paul Sanborn]

...'Bracken Brown Beauty' Mag...

A columnar cvs of Magnolia grandifolia...

The tend to frost back every 4-5 years around here, it is supposed to be a zone 5b, but marginally so.

 

[treevet]

A columnar cvs of Magnolia grandifolia...

The tend to frost back every 4-5 years around here, it is supposed to be a zone 5b, but marginally so.

I have planted way over a hundred and have yet to have one freeze here. I was reluctant at first and now I have been planting them even facing north. I have 5 I planted in my own yard. They are great screen material as well. Too bad you cannot rely on them.

I have found you just have to put up with June discoloration where they look terrible but that is a small price to pay. Big white flowers are fragrant and showy. I have some clients prune them back themselves after established that way they do not have to take a hard prune all at once when I can get to them.

Just a clip here and there when they see a need to contain.