quote of the week

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since youve got your chainsaw out...

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whilst you'r here could you just....

you might as well...

i've just noticed....

do you think you could just...

i forgot to mention....

(add your own endings)
 
When I was still working up north, I used to work for a good old boy. We had just finished doing several dead Sumac & Silver maple removals in the Pimlico section of East Baltimore (real high crime, ever see the HBO show The Wire?). We couldn't fit all the wood in the truck. Big Daddy Joe, stacks the pieces real nice and puts a firewood for sale sign next to it.
Next day, all the wood was gone, must have been 1/2 cord. Honest story.
 
"Doood? Did you ask that tree permission to cut it down?"

"Actually yes, we did. You see where the porch and it are fighting for space? The tree told me it was tired of fighting and wanted to die with dignity, so it begged me to cut it down and use some of its wood to benefit someone else as fuel and furniture..."

"Doood, that is soooo cooool......"
 
"How much to cut down an average-sized tree"

Well it depends. There are a lot of variables....

"like that tree over there..." (points at a 12" green ash street tree)

We don't do street trees, that's the city's job.
 
My favorite, "but its getting so big" which leads into my why not to top trees speech. I always want to say "so are you" :)

Or

From some neighbor or passerby trying to act savy, "don't mind if you cuttem all down". Always amazes me at the depth of thought on that one.
 
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Gave a lady a price and she says "u know christmas is coming..." ha

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My answer = "No, you don't need to give me a present."
 
I like:
"How can I kill my neighbors tree?"

One that made me laugh is when a woman we were working for said (as one climber was walking up the drive with helmet on) ,"What, are you guys going bike riding?"
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I heard one a couple weeks ago, now understand that this came from another worker.

They were transplanting some shrubs, and the foreman asked "will you back fill those for me?"-

The response he got was "do want me to front fill them also?"
 
We did a removal on a big pin oak that was growing up against the neighbor's 6 ft. picket fence and dropping trash and leaves in his in ground pool. The neighbor came out just as a I got up in the tree and yelled "I don't want it to fall on my property".. It was such a stupid statement that thought he was kidding and I laughed and said I don't want that either. He got mad and started yelling the same thing very loudly. I fired up the saw and ignored him. Later in the day his wife came out and started yelling about the leaves and twigs we'd dropped on her side of the fence. I told her that yes, of course we we're going to clean that up but I couldn't get in the back yard because the gates were locked. She told me I'd have to come and knock on the door like everyone else but she was leaving for a couple of hours and I'd have to wait. While she was gone I rappelled from a different tree , raked the yard and climbed back out. She's probably still wondering. Idiots!
Phil
 

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