Video: a bid gone bad, cop and all

20 years or so ago I did a job on a golf course adjacent to an Air Force landing strip. The job was to top every tree starting at 25' and going up 5' every 100'. This went on up to 60'.

Huge pecans and oaks. It sure looked like crap, and still does. A large majority of those trees are dead, now.

Back then, I didn't know I was supposed to tell my boss and Uncle Sam "that I refuse to top trees! I quit!"

Yep, I didn't know that.
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Well hopefully today you have a better grasp of the situation now that you are a certified arborist and all!
 
Perhaps you could have suggested that safety cones be put out and the chipper shut down until necessary. Who would be responsible if someone (nosy kids) would have got into the chipper? We have OSHA guys all around over here that come to the job sites-I appreciate that as it keeps our company legal, and puts the "hacks" on their toes. That is why we have only had one warning, and that was from an older safety harness in the bucket- it wasn't full body fall arrest.
 
Ekka,

Back to the original thread, it seems that you have two separate things going here. First, there is the homeowners discourtesy in forgetting he called you for a bid....or wanting to forget. Being straight about it and informing how your time has been wasted, I think is a deserving education. I'm wondering, is the homeowner in any way responsible for the work practices?......probably not, except in selecting a bid that is so low that it likely denotes the work being done by someone who isn't a professional, and therefore the possible consequences. It seems that the safety issue is one that would have been better pressed with the person doing the work, though getting in someone's face about it while they are working is a can of worms, and then you'd need to be wearing some kind of badge too, so to speak. Keeping someone from getting injured is the act of a good samaritan, but not everyone sees it that way. I guess that simply reporting it will save an altercation at the job site, probably the best way to go, even if there are no results beyond that. Personally, I thought the homeowner was a wuss, going to get his neighbor the cop. People respond to an aggressive attitude in kind, so it's good to keep your cool. I thought that you handled it pretty well, as long as it didn't bum your day. Just my two cents about it....hope you don't have too many episodes like that.
 
Ok, back in action with yet another new PC. I was in limbo for a few days.

Isn't it funny how you have a "run" of things all at the same time. Since that period I haven't had one .... but a few months ago there was heaps of it. (lunar phase perhaps?)

It was a good time to test out the videoing law too, and just as researched ... no worries.

Regardless of whether individuals think it was good/bad, right/wrong I bet that person wont do it again. They consider tree workers somewhere between garabage collectors and gardeners at times, and the way so many companies carry on around here I'm not surprised.

I have worked with another crew for a few days, cant beat them join them hey, I was the only one with a helmet, muffs, glasses, capped boots and gloves for lowering.
 
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