90 degrees in the shade
With a "cool" breeze blowing...
In the full sun, it was hitting 99-100 today.
4 Jobs today, all in the hometown:
1). Remove a cedar growing against the house and a siberian elm in the back yard, growing against the fence. Done by 10 am.
2). Remove a dying ash tree in a back yard near power lines. Climbed, pieced it out, rigged the branches above the power lines. Also reduced a box shrub, then the homeowner added removing a small mulberry, removing 2 bushes, and pruning another mulberry. Will be back to grind the stumps.
3). A fancy event center on the golf course had a dead, crispy ash tree that I dropped-n-chipped. No issues, except for the brittle ash gave off many, many twigs and this was the sort of place where you didn't want to leave a single twig. (The manager had hired us because although we were slightly higher on the estimate over another local company, "Forest Keepers -- that name says
care. Care or Price? I'm going with
care.") Also, we offered some de-vine intervention on a pine that had vines growing up it. Climbed, de-vined it, and deadwooded it.
4). Back to a repeat customer, this time also with the grapple truck to crane out some silver maple leaders going out over a garage and one whole tree. Like clockwork, climbed, attached the sling to the grapple, cut, lift & remove, swing it over to the chipper.
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(I thought it looked a tad awkward also.) He had started to cut lower, but given the crook & lean of the tree, as well as the roofline pitch, we changed the plan in case the tree dropped when it was released; we didn't want any roof damage. He cut about shoulder level. Oh, and the 372 is leaning out, mid-cut sometimes (needs an idle adjustment), so he didn't want it cutting out in mid-cut.
