Benjo75
Treehouser
I got a call about 10 years ago to cut some trees at an isolated property. 800 acre ranch. Looked at the job and noticed pretty quick that this person had quite a bit of money. Was dealing with the wife. Turned out to be Jerry Van Dyke. He was on Coach, Yes Dear and several other sit coms. There's not a lot of well known people in this area so it was interesting to work for him. Went back a few more times in the last few years. He passed on about 2 years ago. Got hit head on coming back from LA from filming. Got on the county road headed to his house and got hit head on right at the gate at his driveway. He lived through the accident but was pretty bad for a couple years. Never recovered. Had a 15 acre pond in the middle of the woods people would water ski on. I didn't get to see him very much but he would ride around on that golf cart all over the place. They had a special place along a big creek where there was a couple of benches and some chairs. Very secluded. They took me down there to trim some lower limbs. He was a banjo player. Was on the Andy Griffith episode "The banjo playing deputy ". This is from Yes Dear.