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- Home of the New Jersey Devils
Geeze! That is a mess right there. Any repercussions from the power company like charging him for the damage?
Today....
- Thread starter Mark Chisholm
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I certainly hope so. I'm sure the customer's HO insurance is going to take a hit for sure. The broken water line at the other neighbors was on the customer side of the meter, so they will be charged for the water plus the cost of repair. The hack didn't run as is what happens most of the time so I did issue a citation to him for no Tree Expert license and no Business license. Wish I could also cite for no insurance as well. Spoke with the HO who hired him and informed him of our requirements for future tree work needs. About 8-9 years ago this same hack was doing work for a real estate agent at a house that was under contract and several trees needed removed as part of the offer negotiations. He cut one pine that again went wrong and smashed the neighbors house. That time he ran.
Surprisingly it didn't get hit.
Serf Life
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- Maine Island
Solo morning working around the back of a house without the mini or chipper (cart is a Sean Ruel custom). Thought those days were behind me. Chipper should be fixed middle of August now...
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Man, hauling brush sure is lame when you are used to having a chipper, but sure looks like that cart works well for the logs. I'm impressed.
Since I posted an earlier picture, here are the birds at my shop. They actually look like birds now instead of little aliens.
Climbing some super rotten pines:
And in other 'bird news', attaching a customers owl carving to a snag I made a while back:
Since I posted an earlier picture, here are the birds at my shop. They actually look like birds now instead of little aliens.
Climbing some super rotten pines:
And in other 'bird news', attaching a customers owl carving to a snag I made a while back:
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Serf Life
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- Maine Island
What kind of birds are those? Our friends put a little mirror on the ceiling of their porch over a phoebe nest. The birds use it each year, crazy how fast they grow!
I'm not sure, someone told me they might be song sparrows. But yah, amazing how fast they grow. Seems like once they came out of the eggs they tripled in size over like two days!
AdkEric
Branched out member
- Location
- Adirondacks
Today's removal mess: declining ash, black cherry snag, and a young maple that corkscrewed all the way up the ash. The 2 cherry on the outside stayed.
Gaffed my rope, only about 12 feet from the end fortunately.
Gaffed my rope, only about 12 feet from the end fortunately.
VenasNursery
Been here much more than a while
- Location
- Michigan
Nice picture of the Crew tag teaming a removal and a pruning this morning
Basswood
Carpal tunnel level member
- Location
- Long island
Day one of storm damage. First job was easy peasy lemon squeezy (the saying of the day) just a downed small black cherry and small uprooted mulberry.
second job was a huge mature oak that landed on a garage and blocking a garage (Root plate lifted), a blown out white pine top against a building, blown out maple tops against building and started on a big maple that also failed at the root plate.
It was nice to get off spray work, but Such a long day. So much damage from such a quick intense storm. Noticed lots of trees uprooted. I’m thinking the drought we had created a perfect scenario for this thing to cause so much damage. And I have no idea when I’ll get power back.
only photo I had time for, was one of the less significant ones. Kind of mad I didn’t get some photos of the oak dismantle
second job was a huge mature oak that landed on a garage and blocking a garage (Root plate lifted), a blown out white pine top against a building, blown out maple tops against building and started on a big maple that also failed at the root plate.
It was nice to get off spray work, but Such a long day. So much damage from such a quick intense storm. Noticed lots of trees uprooted. I’m thinking the drought we had created a perfect scenario for this thing to cause so much damage. And I have no idea when I’ll get power back.
only photo I had time for, was one of the less significant ones. Kind of mad I didn’t get some photos of the oak dismantle
ghostice
Been here a while
06-Aug-2020 Hydrovac in Stumpland.
A week ago, removed a couple of big sick spruces that were right over gas lines (one tree has a yellow flag on it!), phone/fiber and electrical (lots have a utility easement - why if nothing is in them?). Up the block from this, somebody cut a fiber line two/ three weeks ago and repair tab was a cool $225K! So, we decided to hydro these tree stumps - went slick - guys were on site not even two hours and the finished work is really quite clean for the upcoming dissecting and haul festival. The tree between the driveways had all manner of utilities under, so discretion was the better part of valour. Never did this before, but I would again. As an FYI, there's also a rumour around that our City is going to want hydrovac for stump removals when this close over utilities in the future. Might not be so bad though. Vac guys even cut some of the roots for us just with their 3000 psi wand. Especially the rotten ones, they cut like a knife thru sausage. Makes me wonder what I could do with my 4000 psi unit.
A week ago, removed a couple of big sick spruces that were right over gas lines (one tree has a yellow flag on it!), phone/fiber and electrical (lots have a utility easement - why if nothing is in them?). Up the block from this, somebody cut a fiber line two/ three weeks ago and repair tab was a cool $225K! So, we decided to hydro these tree stumps - went slick - guys were on site not even two hours and the finished work is really quite clean for the upcoming dissecting and haul festival. The tree between the driveways had all manner of utilities under, so discretion was the better part of valour. Never did this before, but I would again. As an FYI, there's also a rumour around that our City is going to want hydrovac for stump removals when this close over utilities in the future. Might not be so bad though. Vac guys even cut some of the roots for us just with their 3000 psi wand. Especially the rotten ones, they cut like a knife thru sausage. Makes me wonder what I could do with my 4000 psi unit.
Serf Life
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- Maine Island
Neat!
Steve Connally
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- Suffolk, Virginia
Been quite a week 
VenasNursery
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- Location
- Michigan
Quite a GOOD week !!!
I hope
Steve Connally
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- Suffolk, Virginia
Well the money has been good but I really dislike storm work. To many moving parts, onlookers, and the difficulty with access and set up. The danger factor x10 and the stress that comes along with it. Everybody is in a huge rush trying to make as much money as they can and get to the next job before somebody else does it. Luckily I'm just a subcontractor so the guys who bring me in know we aren't in a mad rush to get to the next one because it's gonna take as long as it takes. There's always a overstressed and feverish rush in the air and I prefer to approach my jobs without being pressed to make a ton of money off a disaster and quick do 10 more jobs because if we don't do them somebody else will. When you approach a dangerous situation with $$$ blinding your vision, bad shit happens.
Greg_L
Participating member
- Location
- Bloomington, IN
That's a pretty no-hope-left looking house there, Steve. Must've been quite a storm!
Had three big Ailanthus altissima in a tight backyard this past week with long (20'+ long) partially broken limbs hung up in others we had to rig out. Made for an interesting work day.
Had three big Ailanthus altissima in a tight backyard this past week with long (20'+ long) partially broken limbs hung up in others we had to rig out. Made for an interesting work day.
Steve Connally
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- Location
- Suffolk, Virginia
EF1 tornado
Reach
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- Atglen, PA
Wow, that’s a mess! I thought it was bad around here, but you all got it a lot worse than we did! Keep up the good, careful work!
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