Today I was working in a trailer park. Several removals but I chose to do the climbing first before the already high temps reached the 99-104 variously reported as the high. ......So, I'm working my way up this moderate sized Catalpa removal when a tenant in the adjoining lot comes out and begins talking.
"Are ya'll clearing the lines"
Me: "Not all of the lines from all the trees but we are taking this tree out."
Larry the lamebrain: " Why would anyone want to take that tree out?"
Me: "Because it is all wrapped up in the utility lines." (The tree had 2 electric service bundles (3 actual drops) and 6 cablevision lines running through it, the trunk was three feet from a pole with a meter and was growing into the fence between his yard and his neighbor's.)
Larry:" Ya'll should have put caution tape all around down here."
Me: "I kinda figured you'd have sense enough to stay out of the way."
Larry: "But I got dogs."
Me: "Your dogs respect caution tape?"
Larry: "No but my dogs respect me. If you guys are gonna work around residences you should be more respectful."
Me: "Well maybe I expect too much but like I said, I figured you'd have sense enough to stay out of the way."
A half hour later when I had the tree down to a spar with 3 low limbs extending out over his yard and the rest of it on the ground in the yard the tree was growing in he came out and complimented us on being so fast and told me about his blind diabetic dog that nobody would help buy meds for and said it was okay to drop anything in his yard that I needed to..........
"Are ya'll clearing the lines"
Me: "Not all of the lines from all the trees but we are taking this tree out."
Larry the lamebrain: " Why would anyone want to take that tree out?"
Me: "Because it is all wrapped up in the utility lines." (The tree had 2 electric service bundles (3 actual drops) and 6 cablevision lines running through it, the trunk was three feet from a pole with a meter and was growing into the fence between his yard and his neighbor's.)
Larry:" Ya'll should have put caution tape all around down here."
Me: "I kinda figured you'd have sense enough to stay out of the way."
Larry: "But I got dogs."
Me: "Your dogs respect caution tape?"
Larry: "No but my dogs respect me. If you guys are gonna work around residences you should be more respectful."
Me: "Well maybe I expect too much but like I said, I figured you'd have sense enough to stay out of the way."
A half hour later when I had the tree down to a spar with 3 low limbs extending out over his yard and the rest of it on the ground in the yard the tree was growing in he came out and complimented us on being so fast and told me about his blind diabetic dog that nobody would help buy meds for and said it was okay to drop anything in his yard that I needed to..........
