Kind of embarrassing to post after marquis, then again I have no shame. We knocked out two quick jobs with the KB crane, the big bird of paradise, was in an enclosed area next to the house, the boss wanted to keep it to plant in the yard.
We then shot over and pulled out this King palm that was growing in a breeze way. The ground crew dug out around it before we got there, I then took out the top 20 feet with the first pick, then we rocked it back and forth, pushing it with the boom tell it broke loose and lifted it out. I cut the root ball off and we laid it in the chipper. Not big money jobs, but it sure is nice having your own little crane at your disposal.
Then we went to the botanical gardens and removed a hazardous pine that was falling over. It looks like the trunk was collapsing. It was just sagging in the middle. We're going to drop off a piece of it to Varmeer for a class they're having there next week, so I couldn't cut it up. I am curious to what was going on inside that tree to make it sag like that and can't wait to dissect it.
Then I rode the boom up to the top of a big sycamore. I ran a zip line from the boom and sent down some monster clomps of mistletoe. We finish the day at the botanical gardens taking out a huge limb that was broken. The botanical gardens have their own challenges, they don't want one plant, twig or leaf hurt. That's a hard concept for our new ground people to grasp. An interesting day if not a glamorous day.
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