Nice to get up in a tall tree Doug-fir today, after a bunch of fruit tree pruning, then landscraper topped tree restoration pruning in a commercial parking lot. Did a site plan for another of the commercial properties owned by the same company (neighbor's father-in-law) who owns a lot of property around town, I think. After getting half of the trees pruned, the property manager told me he'd like to get us back on a quarterly or annual basis, and asked how often did I think? Site plan if for the city permitting. Got paid to ID easy trees, measure DBH, and draw a map. Not bad.
Doug-fir today had wood pecker holes from carpenter ants from a 30 year old swing crossbeam that the spanned between two trees. Only was decayed around the bolt/ beam area, but had 60' of tree above it.
'nother DF take down tomorrow with no hand pruners involved, again, woohoo. I mean that I like caring for trees, but some days its hard when the tree still looks crappy at the end. Multiple pruning cycles and it will look good again. Cha-ching. Shouldn't have let the landscapers top them in the first place. That whole commercial area is topped practically. Luckily, most residential trees in my area aren't.
