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Originally Posted by treevet  You refused to climb the tree until new gear came in? This locust appears healthy. Are you deciding on it's removal? What qualifications do you have to do this? Did you notice the bracket fungus on the trunk (decay inside)?
You continue after dropping a pole into the intersection (someone could have been killed and you blame it on the pole), shut peoples power off (hot wire), get the cops involved. You don't follow ansi stds for treework.
You don't know what you are doing and do not have anyone that does on job to advise yet you tackle a moderately difficult removal anyway. You use E Bay gear. You drop limbs into the street. Don't know how to rig anything. You use equipment not designed for tree work and when this is pointed out by qualified arborists you say you will continue to use it anyway. "Why don't we get out of the woods"?
The neighbors are standing out in the street in bewilderment. Come on this makes all of us look bad. He doesn't live in the backwoods, Pittsburg is a major city and this a pretty residential nborhood.
I know this is a kinder/gentler site than AS, but geeze, it is not the sissy tree site is it? |
Sorry for not responding earlier treevet. You make some valid observations but I think some of what you said here deserves a response.
Look, I do take responsibility (
and credit) for causing that pole to drop. It was my fault, I cut the piece that dropped it.
I'm glad it happened the way it did, that pole could have snapped off at any time on it's own, and there is no assurance that there would not have been a group of school children standing at the bus stop when it did.
The tree was dead and there were many branches and limbs that hung right over that support wire, some were 60 feet above it. At any time one of them could have dropped off the tree, taking the pole with it.
If the pole and tree were still standing, the whole neighborhood would be under an extreme risk. All of the people who saw the pole knew just how fragile it was. Before that it was an unseen, unknown, life ender hanging over the spot where their children wait for their bus every morning.
I reiterate my feelings that I believe were shared by everyone who I talked to, and even a wider scope, the whole neighborhood knows now, clued in by the lawyer who grasped the implications as soon as I put the dried out dust that was the center of that pole in his hand.
Also, after the rest of the tree was down, he asked me if I would like a drink. I told him I always carry water, thinking that's what he meant. He was offering to invite me into his house for
drink drink. Do you guys get many offers like that?
You industry experts would be lucky have the same good feelings for your work as tree fellers do in that particular neighborhood.
But I didn't come here to post about what a hero I am to one small neighborhood in Pittsburgh. I came to get some help on how to do it right.
I've opened myself up to you guys for some well deserved criticism over my methods, which could stand a bit of refinement to say the least.
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