treesquirrel
ArboristSite Guru
If this singing dingbat showed up at my job site I'd have to throw some brush at her....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3CzyBFLfkI&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3CzyBFLfkI&NR=1
Singing tree hippy
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treemandan
Tree Freak
Yup , Dingbat. What was that a topped and re-topped willow? I wonder what song she would sing if it fell on her car? " It was a beautiful car"?
oldirty
Addicted to ArboristSite
oh ya dude. thats my area so to speak. done plenty of tree work round them parts. pleeeentty of fruits around somerville. gotta have yourself a look around cambridge too if you want to see some real idiots in action. lol.
i recognize the company who took that tree down too. nice equipment at that place, i'll give em that.
i recognize the company who took that tree down too. nice equipment at that place, i'll give em that.
dingeryote
Blueberry Baron
My Hat's off to you guys that gotta live and work around these dipsticks.
But there's just gotta be something goin on in the water or something.
That much stupid in one area just ain't natural.
Wear your gloves and use the sanitizer....
Stay safe!
Dingeryote
But there's just gotta be something goin on in the water or something.
That much stupid in one area just ain't natural.
Wear your gloves and use the sanitizer....
Stay safe!
Dingeryote
Rookie1
Addicted to ArboristSite
Wow That was a big deal. I cant believe those nuts were out there like that. How many cops were there for crowd control.
BlueRidgeMark
Addicted to ArboristSite
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That much stupid in one area just ain't natural.
That's what happens when you:
- Crowd poeple together for too long.
- Dumb down the educational system so that people have no understanding of REAL human rights, like the right to private property.
outofmytree
Addicted to ArboristSite
Lol. I wonder how many of those kids would have jumped at the chance to ride in the bucket if their green-as-grass parents weren't there....
I would have handed her a bill for slowing my production and distracting the crew. All those people that close to the worksite could have been another story if something went wrong.$100.00 bucks an hour and that song would have been a short poem.
polingspig
Certified Arborist
At the end of the video you can hear some nut claiming he is going to "talk to the arborist society" about the guys doing the work. I wonder what ever came of that. I also wonder where those educated people were when that tree was topped.
Grace Tree
Impossible Access
I wanted to see her head explode. Where's a sniper when you really need one?
Phil
Phil
Imagine how hard it would be to get that hair out of the cutterwheel bearings.
moss
ArboristSite Guru
She has balls to get out and stand up for what she believes in public, even if she is irritating.
Obviously the tree had already been hacked, a topped willow that large is a disaster waiting to happen in that location.
None of the people there had any idea that in Somerville, Mass. the property owner has the right to cut anything down on their property they want to.
They have the right to protest if they want to, freedom is wonderful thing.
Cops looked like they were having a good time, think of the overtime pay potential!
I'm seeing both sides, everything worked out fine. More education is needed to the general public to inform them of the subtleties around tree hazard conditions etc.
People in the Boston area are super reactive to trees being taken down on private property because during the last round of real estate boom condo developers bought triple decker apartment buildings all over the place and then cut down all the trees on the properties so they could put parking in for each floor. Used to be people parked their cars on the street but a developer can a get lot more for a condo if there is off street parking included. People are pissed off that so many fine trees went down just so a developer could flip a property for quick profit.
The guy ranting about certified arborists is obviously clueless.
-mossyHippy (even though I have no hair, haha)
Obviously the tree had already been hacked, a topped willow that large is a disaster waiting to happen in that location.
None of the people there had any idea that in Somerville, Mass. the property owner has the right to cut anything down on their property they want to.
They have the right to protest if they want to, freedom is wonderful thing.
Cops looked like they were having a good time, think of the overtime pay potential!
I'm seeing both sides, everything worked out fine. More education is needed to the general public to inform them of the subtleties around tree hazard conditions etc.
People in the Boston area are super reactive to trees being taken down on private property because during the last round of real estate boom condo developers bought triple decker apartment buildings all over the place and then cut down all the trees on the properties so they could put parking in for each floor. Used to be people parked their cars on the street but a developer can a get lot more for a condo if there is off street parking included. People are pissed off that so many fine trees went down just so a developer could flip a property for quick profit.
The guy ranting about certified arborists is obviously clueless.
-mossyHippy (even though I have no hair, haha)
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The best part is when old debby there finishes her first corny verse, and then the highranger moves in and gets busy, lol.
ROOTSXROCKS
Addicted to ArboristSite
Might as well, since its considered child abuse to use those willow switches these days.
It is a pretty Tree, and her morning the tree loss with song is not such a bad way to express her protest. In comparison to the actual endangering of the climbers in this Video, hers is benign.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zj0dMnSInKk
coments from http://www.protestshooter.com/20080905OaksCutDown/
It is a pretty Tree, and her morning the tree loss with song is not such a bad way to express her protest. In comparison to the actual endangering of the climbers in this Video, hers is benign.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zj0dMnSInKk
coments from http://www.protestshooter.com/20080905OaksCutDown/
arbor pro
Addicted to ArboristSite
I was involved with the removal of SD's largest silver maple on the University of SD campus back in '97 and there were plenty of tree and squirrel huggers around to protest the ordeal - albeit, they did so peacefully and listened to the security personnel.
The tree was about 130 years old and had been cabled extensively several years prior by me and a few other arboriculture students back in my college days. It's not like we hadn't tried to save the tree; yet, some folks were not happy that the decision was made to remove it after one of the cables had broken and a huge 3' dia branch had split off from the main stem. No one was hurt by the 80' long branch when it fell but, it caused enough concern that university heads decided the liability was too great to keep the rest of the tree around.
Things got off to a slow start on the day of the removal when a couple of hippie wannabees noticed a squirrel way up in the tree and insisted that we wait for it to come out before proceeding. Yeh, right. 250 people standing around the police tape watching this squirrel and he's just going to run down out of the tree so we can get started. I think not. Well, not until the chainsaws fired up a few feet from him...
Then, he found a new home lickety split and the branches starting falling.
Poor squirrel huggers weren't too happy about that.
good thing they weren't around the time I cut down a dead cottonwood tree and mommy raccoon and her 5 babies came bouncing out of the hollow top when it smacked the ground! Ohhhhh, the wailing and gnashing of teeth...
...I'm talking about the hippies...had they been there.
The tree was about 130 years old and had been cabled extensively several years prior by me and a few other arboriculture students back in my college days. It's not like we hadn't tried to save the tree; yet, some folks were not happy that the decision was made to remove it after one of the cables had broken and a huge 3' dia branch had split off from the main stem. No one was hurt by the 80' long branch when it fell but, it caused enough concern that university heads decided the liability was too great to keep the rest of the tree around.
Things got off to a slow start on the day of the removal when a couple of hippie wannabees noticed a squirrel way up in the tree and insisted that we wait for it to come out before proceeding. Yeh, right. 250 people standing around the police tape watching this squirrel and he's just going to run down out of the tree so we can get started. I think not. Well, not until the chainsaws fired up a few feet from him...
Then, he found a new home lickety split and the branches starting falling.Poor squirrel huggers weren't too happy about that.
good thing they weren't around the time I cut down a dead cottonwood tree and mommy raccoon and her 5 babies came bouncing out of the hollow top when it smacked the ground! Ohhhhh, the wailing and gnashing of teeth...
...I'm talking about the hippies...had they been there.
Blakesmaster
Addicted to ArboristSite
That's what I was thinking. Thought I mighta been the only one pumping my fist and saying "Hell YEAH" at that part.
JohnH
ArboristSite Operative
Old Paul H must have loved listening to her whine the whole time.
PinkFloydEffect
ArboristSite Guru
opcorn: Was a nice tree, lady was kinda annoying. But hey if the guy wants to be a :censored: then lettem be a :censored: karma will get him
