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Anyone got a smart yet polite answer to throw back at people who object to removals? Or generally stick their nose in your matters when they have no right to?
I dislike removing healthy trees (unless they are pines-hate em) and fortunately most of the jobs we have done are dead, dying or damaged from the ice storm. But if the customer wants an oak instead of a maple for eg that is his business, and good for ours!
At least four times now people in the street or client's neighbours have come up to me and objected to the tree being removed if it was still alive. I am tempted at times to say none of your affairs as it is not your tree, and you are not paying for the service!
One witch thought I was from the Hydro Company and started to give me hell about a large Manitoba Maple that was filled with concrete on our customers property, why was she not consulted blah, blah, blah. Her tone changed pretty quick when I asked her if she would like the tree to drop on her garage in the next high wind, given the condition of the lower trunk. Note this was in the granola muncher section of town, "The Glebe"
Another example was on the home page of my ISP last week-someone was whining about their newer neighbour having removed 7 trees going nuts like Freddie Kruger-the featured post/comment of the day no less. No mention of the condition of the trees, type, size of the lot. I did tell her to MYOB unless she wants to purchase the whole property. The someone else piped in she could complain about the noise, or go after them with a bylaw protecting trees over 12 " dia. I mentioned that while it might be difficult to get removal permission in some nazi towns it generally is not that difficult to kill or damage a tree if you really want to, then it has to be removed. (I have seen that done that to a neighbour's willow that the goofs planted right on the lot line-funny it died one winter)
I dislike removing healthy trees (unless they are pines-hate em) and fortunately most of the jobs we have done are dead, dying or damaged from the ice storm. But if the customer wants an oak instead of a maple for eg that is his business, and good for ours!
At least four times now people in the street or client's neighbours have come up to me and objected to the tree being removed if it was still alive. I am tempted at times to say none of your affairs as it is not your tree, and you are not paying for the service!
One witch thought I was from the Hydro Company and started to give me hell about a large Manitoba Maple that was filled with concrete on our customers property, why was she not consulted blah, blah, blah. Her tone changed pretty quick when I asked her if she would like the tree to drop on her garage in the next high wind, given the condition of the lower trunk. Note this was in the granola muncher section of town, "The Glebe"
Another example was on the home page of my ISP last week-someone was whining about their newer neighbour having removed 7 trees going nuts like Freddie Kruger-the featured post/comment of the day no less. No mention of the condition of the trees, type, size of the lot. I did tell her to MYOB unless she wants to purchase the whole property. The someone else piped in she could complain about the noise, or go after them with a bylaw protecting trees over 12 " dia. I mentioned that while it might be difficult to get removal permission in some nazi towns it generally is not that difficult to kill or damage a tree if you really want to, then it has to be removed. (I have seen that done that to a neighbour's willow that the goofs planted right on the lot line-funny it died one winter)