Made passably safe and pulled over. I love working for this guy, because he's got a sweet tractor and does all cleanup. Go back and grind the stump some quiet evening next week.
Hope everyone is having a good weekend.
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Appreciate the Gr?nsfors axe...fine tool.
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. If it isn't...what axe is that?? A beauty either way.
We get maybe a dozen of those per year. We LOVE them. Nothing like being paid to make a big mess and walk awaySure can't beat a HO clean up.
We get maybe a dozen of those per year. We LOVE them. Nothing like being paid to make a big mess and walk away
Funny how they don't take us up on the offer to chip up the brush for a couple/few hundred more $$$. They're committed to saving that bit of money and don't mind the hours of work to haul it off, burn it, buck it, etc. One couple has had us come out 2x now, gives us a wad of cash and we give them 1/2 to 2/3 of a day to fell, limb, and 6' section up as many trees as we can -- no moving or stacking anything, leave it where it lies. She ultimately wants 90% of the trees out of her yard. They'll have us back out when he gets back from a tour of duty for at least one more round of fun!
Usually the deck comes much later than the tree. But I don't understand the thinking of building a deck around a tree -- are they not anticipating some kind of tree work needing to be done as the years go by? We do maybe a dozen a year -- our last one was a mature Bradford pear in the middle of the 2nd story deck. Hmmm... what other outcome would they expect other than that type of tree needing to be removed at some point, sooner than later?
Just to be clear, we don't leave anything potentially hazardous to the homeowner. We will always limb the trees, particularly the ones that "leg" the tree up above ground level when it's horizontal -- we want it on the ground, so there's no liability in it rolling and hurting someone inexperienced. We like to leave it at least laying down on the ground, and even cut the main trunk down to 6' lengths so it can be dealt with more readily. But bucking wood to firewood length and brush stacking is additional, almost to the point of being the same cost as chipping. The more processing time, the more we charge. One recent customer had us take out a small cherry and paid for it to be bucked, split, and stacked for their smoker. I guess in suburbia they aren't so equipped with a chainsaw and ax. The more rural folks def. keep a chainsaw on hand and have burn piles and woods and are more apt to drag away brush and keep firewood.
