To Help or Not to Help that is the question

[bowtechmadman]

Looking for some advice on a situation...A guy I work with and play ping pong at his home about once a week asked me about taking three large (about 30"dbh) tamaracks down in his yard. I fell a much more difficult one than these three for him in the early spring. Just a friend helping out another friend...plus a bit of payback for the generosity of opening his home weekly to a small group for ping pong.
Today his wife mentions something about dropping the trees to me and say's "you know I am scared that you could hit my pretty maple or my blue spruce. Hitting the spruce a real possibility (about 8' tall)...I'll steer clear of the large maple easy enough. I reminded her that I'm not a pro just a firewood hack that doesn't mind helping out...you never know what could happen so if she is scared then she might be better off calling a pro.
Sure don't want to lose a friendship over an 8' blue spruce...not sure if she realizes it's probably a 1k removal job if she wants those insurances.

 

[TNTreeHugger]

"Hitting the spruce a real possibility (about 8' tall)..."
Tell her that. Ask her if she'd rather replace the spruce, or pay a pro. Then get that in writing.
If I were her, I would appreciate the honesty.

 

[Del_]

Looking for some advice on a situation...
Sure don't want to lose a friendship over an 8' blue spruce...not sure if she realizes it's probably a 1k removal job if she wants those insurances.

Just get the pro to drop the tree with no clean up. That should be way less than $1K.

 

[bowtechmadman]

All went well...dropped all three without incident.

 

[lknchoppers]

Good job

 

[ArtB]

20 years ago friend had 18" fir, big lean to it about 25 degrees.
Helped him drop it.
Opened the horse pasture fence gate. Sure I says, I can get it to fall thru the open gate - gate about 45 degrees off the direction of lean.
Anyway, we also repaired a fence ...

 

[Deleted member 149229]

20 years ago friend had 18" fir, big lean to it about 25 degrees.
Helped him drop it.
Opened the horse pasture fence gate. Sure I says, I can get it to fall thru the open gate - gate about 45 degrees off the direction of lean.
Anyway, we also repaired a fence ...

Gotta love honesty.