I did a job way back when I was just a little stupider than I am now for a friends ex girlfriend. It was on Conastoga RD. Anyway it was when I only had a pick-up and a Craftsman and barley charged her for cleaning out the dead on a small spruce, chopping down a dead dogwood and a sasassafras that came out of the steep hill and up over the pretty flowers right over the peak of her roof. I still think there was no way to get it down besides climbing to the very top and slicing toothpicks to let them slide down the roof. I think the trunk went horizontal and was about 9 inches dbh and only about 30 feet tall. So I did it. It went great cause I took my time and didn't do anything stupid, maybe a few echineatia stems were bent. She got all bent up, she really did.
Now her ex boyfriend, my friend, bought this house up by Bala Middle School with a huge Sliver Maple in back. You know it was allready split pretty bad, half dead from the girdle root, no acsses and big power running through. He wants to save it so I chop out the girdler and next year it is looking better and better. I mean healthier not better. Now this tree is really growing all over the place, it a squirrel highway and he is always calling me to see what he should do. Finally I say for 500 i can lighten it up on your side and he agreed to do it. Now I told him all the options and ran throught all the senerios.
So we are going to trim this hazzard puppy up and now his new chick tells me to be careful because they just planted a shade garden under it. I was there about a day jerking around with these people and this tree and in the end they seemed like they didn't want to pay. We are no longer friends and I wonder if that tree still stands and if he still does that stock market day trading bullcrap. He is just a Philly Trashpicker Type, I have some in me to.