Sorry...Rant off...
Had another interesting one today, commented on it in another post, where they tipped me $40 on a small backyard rigging job. My initial job for the day had called off, so i was just going to run errands and take my mom to a clinic appointment.
It was kinda fun, my PT called me and asked if I could coem look at a DED tree condemed by the village. Wauwatosa gives 30 days to remove condemned elms, or they remove and assess the property.
It was not much bigger then she described, but it was so multi-stemed that it was more like a 3o foot shrub then a tree. i mentioned that there was prol'y other volunteer elms dieing in the fence-row. Found one skinny 20 ft'er a ways down. Walked to the back and there was another 30 ft'r on the service drop...oh...is that a walnut limb hanging in the hackberries? that was 6 inch dia and 40 ft long. Morning is looking better and better.
I could shoot a line into several of these huge walnuts and rig all the backyard stuff out, and show off the GRCS. No need to bring a crew in, the HO and his Dad stacked brush, and we'll chip on monday after a nearby job. We lowerd them down and cut firewood as we went.
The only tree I had to climb was the initial elm i was called in for, it was too close to the road, But hanging out of the fence-row it stacked up as I cut real nicely.
'Tosa ordnance calls for no bark to be left above ground, so now we have a few stumps to add on what was initially a minimal billing for someone who takes care of me. Oh and we need to bring in 75ft bucket to do tip thinning on the walnuts in the fall...
Most of the muni's allow the storage of elm firewood if you use a plastic tarp for a year. As he re-reads it he sees the line where "no wood may remain on property unless all the bark is paled off", wow we got a good sized pile out of that, now he wants that gone too.
Oh, and the buckthorn in the yard, the purple poop is not really needed...
It was a rather fun 3.5 hours