What obstacles have homeowners left out to make your job more interesting.

Homeowner was upset that, from working my way up a removal tree, I didn't tell him where to stack his small about of firewood. He moved it out of his way, from the middle of the driveway to the side, exactly where i had told him we would be driving trucks, 24 hours earlier. He got to move it sensibly, after wasting his own effort moving it to first time without a good plan.
 
craneguy1 said:
One that really sticks out...A large glass hookah... on a patio set in the backyward of a prominent neighborhood...about 1/8 mile from the police station...i mean really?
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Had a workmates pool party once when the cops arrive to advise of a noise complaint and to turn music down and arrive to a 4' shishah pipe right next to us and all of us smirking at them. They paused for about 20 seconds and decided to tell us to turn down noise and then left - I don't think they knew what to do with the apparently brazen act... :)
 
Thought I'd check in here. Homeowner sold the swing set that I've been rigging limbs over all morning bringing my work to a halt while the buyer tries to break down the swing set small enough to haul in the back of an SUV.
 
Had to fell a 12m trunk over a planted and rockwall terraced landscape that had been installed between days. Had to build cradles with heavy branch sections and had to land over landscaping as no room left in quote to piece down. Got away with it but had to land top within inches of desired spot...
 
Big, nylon 3-strand ropes. Must use enough rope to avoid impact with the vehicle, though. That one traveled more than 30 feet. The previous stem cleared the tank by about 5 feet, and was 28 feet long. You can see it lying on the ground. The second one in the vid landed with the butt end about two feet past the first one.
 
I once spent the morning rigging down two big Ash with a large buckthorn between them. The homeowner was aware it was buckthorn, but wanted something left for privacy, so we worked around it adding some good time to the job between the two large trees. When both trees were down, the homeowner came out, said they didn’t like how the buckthorn looked, and asked us to cut it down.
Several times I have bid a removal with a nice drop zone , only to return to find the tree’s “replacement” preemptively planted beneath.
I have an account with a beautifully wooded Llama farm, and last week we were removing a dead oak in one of the animal runs to the pasture. We topped out the oak this winter for the animals’ safety, but before there was access for the material. When we returned last week it became evident that this oak was basically a llama shitting post, and below the snow there was a solid blanket of droppings that the oak crispies had now settled into. Upon returning home after the experience, I promptly ordered a grapple bucket.
 
Mitch Hoy said:
I once spent the morning rigging down two big Ash with a large buckthorn between them. The homeowner was aware it was buckthorn, but wanted something left for privacy, so we worked around it adding some good time to the job between the two large trees. When both trees were down, the homeowner came out, said they didn’t like how the buckthorn looked, and asked us to cut it down.
Several times I have bid a removal with a nice drop zone , only to return to find the tree’s “replacement” preemptively planted beneath.
I have an account with a beautifully wooded Llama farm, and last week we were removing a dead oak in one of the animal runs to the pasture. We topped out the oak this winter for the animals’ safety, but before there was access for the material. When we returned last week it became evident that this oak was basically a llama shitting post, and below the snow there was a solid blanket of droppings that the oak crispies had now settled into. Upon returning home after the experience, I promptly ordered a grapple bucket.
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I had a similar experience. Took out two of every three hornbeams in a hedge row of about 30 trees. A year later the decided they didn’t like the remainder.. bastards gave me tendinitis due to everything needing to be cut and thrown into a trail for a drop zone. The remainder took so little time because once the first few were gone I just had to slim them up and fell them.
 
evo said:
I had a similar experience. Took out two of every three hornbeams in a hedge row of about 30 trees. A year later the decided they didn’t like the remainder.. bastards gave me tendinitis due to everything needing to be cut and thrown into a trail for a drop zone. The remainder took so little time because once the first few were gone I just had to slim them up and fell them.
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I forgot to mention that it was single digits on that Ash job, big gloves and hand ascender cold.
It would make me sad to take out that many hornbeams! We seem to have less and less of a species that was already precious few. That means Blue Beech/ironwood in our territory, Same tree?
 
European hornbeam is more commonly used as a hedge but is quite susceptible to our native Agrilus hornbeam borer when stressed. American hornbeam is usually found in the understory but sometimes are planted.as ornamentals.
 
They seem to do well here. I have no idea if they are Americans or Europeans.

Port Townsend used them as street trees, about 20-24” diameter now. I had a poor opinion of their use but that has changed. Their little 3x3 cut outs in the side walks are nothing but a mass of grafted roots, and they take powerline clearance hacking well!
 
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