Arborist stoning in Sydney!

Eric Frei · 20th June 2007, 08:53 PM

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=daa_1182079833

Now there's a must see flash video embedded in that article, I cannot lift it so hopefully the link stays live.

For the people who haven't believed my stories in the past, this is no BS and there'd be few arborists who haven't copped this (perhaps not the stones though).

The arborist was polite, I'd have told the guy to go get well ******!

Sean Freeman · 20th June 2007, 10:45 PM

That is quite extraordinary footage, makes you wonder about the sanity of some people...yes I'll throw stones at that fella up the tree next door who has a chainsaw in his hands, there'll be no repercussions!

Eric Frei · 20th June 2007, 10:55 PM

When you're revving a chainsaw up at 7am in a block of units you get to hear a few nice words.

JayD · 21st June 2007, 01:20 AM

Hi All,
Where this happened and surrounding suburbs are where some of the richest folk in Sydney live,It does not liscence them to pelt stones at Arborists though,although some, not all, think so!
Anything you do down there you carry all relevent paperwork,council permits to carry out work,and work to the utmost professional standard you can.Because as you know every ones an expert in our field were just monkey's that should be fed bananas..rock's thrown at us and ofcourse my pet hate spat on!.
You deal with them as best you can,it's usally best to let your customer liase with them,as they generally have house keeper and grounds people,They allways challenge you to see if you have permission to under take the work you are doing,I've been asked by all 3 niebs on one job!above all keep your cool,if it's to bad ring the police and let them sort this out.any lost time adjust your invoice at the end the job.That bloke throwing the stones I've seen his worker's waveing car wash signs at you as you drive past,and I thought it was keen,and wrote it off as typical curries,but once I read about his signage drama with council it explained it all.
He needs the 99TH monkey treatment,you know the one that loads his hand full of shyte and throws it rite in the face!

newguy18 · 27th June 2007, 02:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ekka

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=daa_1182079833

Now there's a must see flash video embedded in that article, I cannot lift it so hopefully the link stays live.

For the people who haven't believed my stories in the past, this is no BS and there'd be few arborists who haven't copped this (perhaps not the stones though).

The arborist was polite, I'd have told the guy to go get well ******!

I'm sorry i would have to come down and kick his butt.

mrrecurve · 27th June 2007, 08:54 PM

Id cut some pojectiles of my own.

newguy18 · 29th June 2007, 11:01 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mrrecurve

Id cut some pojectiles of my own.

To knock some sense into him?Man i hate tree huggers my mom worked with on and when the county took out all the trees along the roadway no matter the size she claimed she felt like she was getting punched in the stomach all the time and on monday she saw that the trees were gone.

arbdog · 11th January 2008, 08:19 AM

Ive had it happen happen! We had a Lombady Poplar to take down, it was fully mature as it goes (big weed, but thats my view). The reason for the tree to be removed was it was causing damage to a council houses foundations that the "posh" estate backed on to. I was probably about 50ft up it throwing dead branches out as is i ascended upwards to get anchored, then there was a big commotion down below. Some crazy pensionor from next door had come into the property going mad about the tree having to be removed and tried standing under the tree. After 20 mins of trying to reason with the silly sod he started trying to swing/pull on my lines, the ground staff had to in restrain him (reluctantly cause of his age)! Had to call the old bill on him and after 3 hours with the police, planning department, insurance company the problem was resolved and if the bloke ever set foot on the property again he would get arrested. close to that video but he pi88ed me off that much he was lucky he didnt get "some dead wood on the head".

Eric Frei · 11th January 2008, 09:42 AM

Silly ole coot!

Therrin · 11th January 2008, 11:17 AM

Who was the other guy on the ground, down below the nut who was chucking the rocks? That wasn't the groundie was it? Standing there, not saying shyte... not interfering... ?

bigshea13 · 11th January 2008, 11:22 AM

I'm sorry i would have to come down and kick his butt.
__________________

this time i agree with you. i wonder if hes ever had a chainsaw rammed up his arse. that video made me wanna jump threw the screen and just kick his

his

ing

ing face in.

newguy18 · 11th January 2008, 11:29 AM

you could just use the quote button.

JohN Dee · 11th January 2008, 12:35 PM

That story reminds me of another silly old bugger that I know of.

While I was working for my old boss w/my brother inlaw (when I was 13), they were taking down some tree in the back corner of the yard where the neighbours house was hard up against the fence.

The old bloke was out there on the roof with his pool cleaner scoop the (20ft pole) trying "support" (they were tied) the branches away from his roof as they were being cut. My boss told him to piss off inside and we'll handle it. Dropped out his badge (He was a copper) to the old cracker and the guy went in and we got no more trouble from him.

bigshea13 · 11th January 2008, 02:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by newguy18

you could just use the quote button.

look at all the useless space it takes up by doing that. plus its much more specific when you select the exact text your refering to. it helps the reader desipher exactly what portion your remarks refer to instead of them having to guess.

Therrin · 11th January 2008, 02:43 PM

Shea, as much as I hate to agree with newguy bugging you about the quote thing... you *can* delete whatever you don't want from inside the "quotes" tags so that it only quotes whatcha want... gives ya your specificity.

newguy18 · 11th January 2008, 02:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bigshea13

it helps the reader desipher exactly what portion your remarks refer to instead of them having to guess.

like this.

mdvaden · 12th January 2008, 04:46 PM

If I linked this right, I liked this one there better...

LiveLeak.com - How not to cut branches

Smooth one.

azrael · 12th January 2008, 05:13 PM

LOL

Eric Frei · 12th January 2008, 07:19 PM

Check out this idiot.

LiveLeak.com - Palm tree smashes the crap out of a passing car

newguy18 · 13th January 2008, 01:09 AM

The branch one was funny but I hope hes alright but that palm needed climbed and toppoed before getting dropped anyone could relize that.

Done it · 14th January 2008, 09:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bigshea13

I'm sorry i would have to come down and kick his butt.
__________________

this time i agree with you. i wonder if hes ever had a chainsaw rammed up his arse. that video made me wanna jump threw the screen and just kick his

his

ing

ing face in.

This happened to me once in Darlinghurst, I couldn't figure out what kept flying past my head, [ saw going, ear muffs on ] until I looked down and this guy in his pyjamas was throwing rocks at me, I said I'm gonna shove this thing up your a---. by the time I got down he was long gone but the owner was

I didn't know she was home! It's funny now.

Eric Frei · 14th January 2008, 09:36 PM

Bloody tree huggers!

Always sticking their nose over the fence.

arbdog · 15th January 2008, 09:29 PM

My mate had some weirdo tie herself to a horse chestnut. But at least she wasnt throwing stuff!

Eric Frei · 18th January 2008, 05:25 PM

On a job yesterday the tree hugger neighbour (no fences yet) let her chooks out to roam our workplace then buggered off inside and wouldn't answer the door.

Did it just to piss us off, and the chooks were the sociable type regardless of chainsaws hanging around our tree felling area.

There was a cute little baby one so we looked after them, we killed them prior to boiling.

Just kidding.

Quintrex · 18th January 2008, 07:25 PM

Quote:

There was a cute little baby one so we looked after them, we killed them prior to boiling.

Just kidding.

And don't they chip nice too.

arbdog · 18th January 2008, 08:49 PM

Done that to a load of rotten partridges someone had hung up in the trees on a site we was clearing. Big mistake, the smell was unbearable we was nearly packing up and 10 mins later one of the lads i was working with put more through. He must of had a cold or likes the smell of decomposing flesh!

Eric Frei · 27th May 2008, 08:29 PM

The trial is on ....

Quote:

The owner of the Crystal Car Wash chain, Anthony Sahade, is on trial for assaulting the eastern suburbs arborist George Palmer as he hung from a tree on Wolseley Road, Point Piper, last year.

Carwash king said he would break our necks - National - smh.com.au

newguy18 · 28th May 2008, 12:36 AM

The friggin tree was dead?What a jackass people get rich and think they can do whatever they want.

Brad Goyen · 28th May 2008, 09:26 PM

Ahhh the rich, I was trimming a tree away from a lamp post in Darling Point (just as snooty as Point Piper) when i got a tap on the back from a brolly wielding old tart. She wanted it left because "they didn't need any more light they already had plenty" then with the next breath asked if I could top the tall shrubs in the council park to improve her view>

She didn't appreciate the excessive quote (about the same amount that the extra view was worth).
I've also had blokes sprayed with a hose in a cherry picker bucket whilst adjacent to powerlines.

Standard response is now " listen lady/mate I didn't choose to have the tree cut down, I'm just real good at doing it

And also I have become a deft shot from heights with sawdust balls, funny stuff.......With all that money and still don't realize shyte hurts a lot more when it comes down from above

Cheers Brad

Eric Frei · 29th May 2008, 11:25 PM

Bugger me, the guy got off!

Tree fracas: magistrate throws out assault charges against Sahade - National

Quote:

Tree fracas: magistrate throws out assault charges against Sahade

Paul Bibby
May 29, 2008
Other related coverage

ASSAULT charges against the millionaire car wash king Anthony Sahade were dismissed yesterday after a magistrate found that a key witness had given contradictory evidence.

In Sydney's Central Local Court, the magistrate, John McIntosh, found George Palmer had given differing accounts in the witness box.

Mr Sahade was accused of assaulting Mr Palmer, an arborist, who was trying to chop down a tree on a property neighbouring Mr Sahade's in Wolseley Road, Point Piper, last year.

The court heard that Mr Sahade threatened to break Mr Palmer's neck and threw handfuls of rocks at him while Mr Palmer was hanging from the tree.

The magistrate dismissed the charge, saying there was reasonable doubt that the stones had struck Mr Palmer or that he had felt threatened by Mr Sahade.

A second charge, that Mr Sahade had assaulted Mr Palmer's part-time assistant, Andrew Bouchier, by grabbing him at the base of the throat and pushing him repeatedly, was also thrown out.

The magistrate found that Mr Bouchier had given evidence that he was grabbed on the upper chest and not around the throat.

A defence application claiming that the prosecution's case had not been made out was accepted by the magistrate.

Mr Sahade and his team of three lawyers refused to comment to waiting media.

Earlier, a mobile-phone video of part of the incident that was played in court showed Mr Sahade standing on a platform outside his $11.25 million home, throwing handfuls of small rocks from his garden.

The video showed Mr Sahade screaming at Mr Palmer to "get down from the f---ing" tree and warning him: "you keep doing that and you see where the next one is going to land". The video also showed an altercation between Mr Sahade and Mr Bouchier beside Mr Bouchier's vehicle.

Mr McIntosh expressed concern about Mr Palmer's evidence on the final day of the trial, indicating that it had "at times appeared contradictory".

After the hearing Mr Palmer said he was extremely disappointed by the magistrate's decision.

"The fact that I didn't feel threatened shouldn't make any difference," he said.

On questions over the consistency of his evidence, Mr Palmer said that he had been under cross examination by the defence for five hours.

20th June 2007, 08:53 PM	#1
Eric Frei Admin - Australia's most prominant Arborist - prev Ekka Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Brisbane Posts: 10,775	Arborist stoning in Sydney! http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=daa_1182079833 Now there's a must see flash video embedded in that article, I cannot lift it so hopefully the link stays live. For the people who haven't believed my stories in the past, this is no BS and there'd be few arborists who haven't copped this (perhaps not the stones though). The arborist was polite, I'd have told the guy to go get well ****! __________________ Free Online Tree Value Calculator by TreeWorld Free Online TPZ and SRZ AS4970-2009 Calculator by TreeWorld Free Online Tree Surface Area and Tree Volume Calculator by TreeWorld My businesses:- Qualified Brisbane Tree Lopping \| Stump Grinding Brisbane \| Brisbane - Gold Coast Consulting Arborist \| Project Arborist**

20th June 2007, 10:55 PM	#3
Eric Frei Admin - Australia's most prominant Arborist - prev Ekka Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Brisbane Posts: 10,775	When you're revving a chainsaw up at 7am in a block of units you get to hear a few nice words. __________________ Free Online Tree Value Calculator by TreeWorld Free Online TPZ and SRZ AS4970-2009 Calculator by TreeWorld Free Online Tree Surface Area and Tree Volume Calculator by TreeWorld My businesses:- Qualified Brisbane Tree Lopping \| Stump Grinding Brisbane \| Brisbane - Gold Coast Consulting Arborist \| Project Arborist

21st June 2007, 01:20 AM	#4
JayD Moderator Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: TreeWorld, Sydney Australia Posts: 1,643	Hi All, Where this happened and surrounding suburbs are where some of the richest folk in Sydney live,It does not liscence them to pelt stones at Arborists though,although some, not all, think so! Anything you do down there you carry all relevent paperwork,council permits to carry out work,and work to the utmost professional standard you can.Because as you know every ones an expert in our field were just monkey's that should be fed bananas..rock's thrown at us and ofcourse my pet hate spat on!. You deal with them as best you can,it's usally best to let your customer liase with them,as they generally have house keeper and grounds people,They allways challenge you to see if you have permission to under take the work you are doing,I've been asked by all 3 niebs on one job!above all keep your cool,if it's to bad ring the police and let them sort this out.any lost time adjust your invoice at the end the job.That bloke throwing the stones I've seen his worker's waveing car wash signs at you as you drive past,and I thought it was keen,and wrote it off as typical curries,but once I read about his signage drama with council it explained it all. He needs the 99TH monkey treatment,you know the one that loads his hand full of shyte and throws it rite in the face! __________________ Level 4 Arborist/ FPIFGM 3204A: Fall trees manually (intermediate) Arboriculture, A life long study for some, a passing phase for others

11th January 2008, 08:19 AM	#8
arbdog Semi-mature vigorous tree Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: england Posts: 111	Re: Arborist stoning in Sydney! Ive had it happen happen! We had a Lombady Poplar to take down, it was fully mature as it goes (big weed, but thats my view). The reason for the tree to be removed was it was causing damage to a council houses foundations that the "posh" estate backed on to. I was probably about 50ft up it throwing dead branches out as is i ascended upwards to get anchored, then there was a big commotion down below. Some crazy pensionor from next door had come into the property going mad about the tree having to be removed and tried standing under the tree. After 20 mins of trying to reason with the silly sod he started trying to swing/pull on my lines, the ground staff had to in restrain him (reluctantly cause of his age)! Had to call the old bill on him and after 3 hours with the police, planning department, insurance company the problem was resolved and if the bloke ever set foot on the property again he would get arrested. close to that video but he pi88ed me off that much he was lucky he didnt get "some dead wood on the head".

11th January 2008, 09:42 AM	#9
Eric Frei Admin - Australia's most prominant Arborist - prev Ekka Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Brisbane Posts: 10,775	Re: Arborist stoning in Sydney! Silly ole coot! __________________ Free Online Tree Value Calculator by TreeWorld Free Online TPZ and SRZ AS4970-2009 Calculator by TreeWorld Free Online Tree Surface Area and Tree Volume Calculator by TreeWorld My businesses:- Qualified Brisbane Tree Lopping \| Stump Grinding Brisbane \| Brisbane - Gold Coast Consulting Arborist \| Project Arborist

20th June 2007, 10:45 PM	#2
Sean Freeman PDF King & Arborist Extrodinaire Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Townsville Nth Queensland & Gold Coast Sth Queensland Posts: 2,129	That is quite extraordinary footage, makes you wonder about the sanity of some people...yes I'll throw stones at that fella up the tree next door who has a chainsaw in his hands, there'll be no repercussions!

27th June 2007, 08:54 PM	#6
mrrecurve Former Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 4	Id cut some pojectiles of my own.

11th January 2008, 11:17 AM	#10
Therrin Former Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Bakersfield, Ca Posts: 2,732	Re: Arborist stoning in Sydney! Who was the other guy on the ground, down below the nut who was chucking the rocks? That wasn't the groundie was it? Standing there, not saying shyte... not interfering... ?

11th January 2008, 11:22 AM	#11
bigshea13 Former Member Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: super 8 motels Posts: 387	Re: Arborist stoning in Sydney! I'm sorry i would have to come down and kick his butt. __________________ this time i agree with you. i wonder if hes ever had a chainsaw rammed up his arse. that video made me wanna jump threw the screen and just kick his hising ing face in.

11th January 2008, 11:29 AM	#12
newguy18 Part of the Furniture Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: orlando,fl Posts: 5,206	Re: Arborist stoning in Sydney! you could just use the quote button. __________________ Have your say join us today. I ship USA saws out of the USA old schooler

11th January 2008, 12:35 PM	#13
JohN Dee Moderator Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Sydney, Australia Posts: 941	Re: Arborist stoning in Sydney! That story reminds me of another silly old bugger that I know of. While I was working for my old boss w/my brother inlaw (when I was 13), they were taking down some tree in the back corner of the yard where the neighbours house was hard up against the fence. The old bloke was out there on the roof with his pool cleaner scoop the (20ft pole) trying "support" (they were tied) the branches away from his roof as they were being cut. My boss told him to piss off inside and we'll handle it. Dropped out his badge (He was a copper) to the old cracker and the guy went in and we got no more trouble from him. __________________ We are what we repeatedly do... Excellence then, is not an act, but HABIT... Red : Green : Blue

11th January 2008, 02:43 PM	#15
Therrin Former Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Bakersfield, Ca Posts: 2,732	Re: Arborist stoning in Sydney! Shea, as much as I hate to agree with newguy bugging you about the quote thing... you can delete whatever you don't want from inside the "quotes" tags so that it only quotes whatcha want... gives ya your specificity.

12th January 2008, 04:46 PM	#17
mdvaden Former Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Oregon Posts: 410	Re: Arborist stoning in Sydney! If I linked this right, I liked this one there better... LiveLeak.com - How not to cut branches Smooth one.

12th January 2008, 05:13 PM	#18
azrael Former Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Earth Australia Posts: 242	Re: Arborist stoning in Sydney! LOL

12th January 2008, 07:19 PM	#19
Eric Frei Admin - Australia's most prominant Arborist - prev Ekka Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Brisbane Posts: 10,775	Re: Arborist stoning in Sydney! Check out this idiot. LiveLeak.com - Palm tree smashes the crap out of a passing car __________________ Free Online Tree Value Calculator by TreeWorld Free Online TPZ and SRZ AS4970-2009 Calculator by TreeWorld Free Online Tree Surface Area and Tree Volume Calculator by TreeWorld My businesses:- Qualified Brisbane Tree Lopping \| Stump Grinding Brisbane \| Brisbane - Gold Coast Consulting Arborist \| Project Arborist

13th January 2008, 01:09 AM	#20
newguy18 Part of the Furniture Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: orlando,fl Posts: 5,206	Re: Arborist stoning in Sydney! The branch one was funny but I hope hes alright but that palm needed climbed and toppoed before getting dropped anyone could relize that. __________________ Have your say join us today. I ship USA saws out of the USA old schooler

14th January 2008, 09:36 PM	#22
Eric Frei Admin - Australia's most prominant Arborist - prev Ekka Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Brisbane Posts: 10,775	Re: Arborist stoning in Sydney! Bloody tree huggers! Always sticking their nose over the fence. __________________ Free Online Tree Value Calculator by TreeWorld Free Online TPZ and SRZ AS4970-2009 Calculator by TreeWorld Free Online Tree Surface Area and Tree Volume Calculator by TreeWorld My businesses:- Qualified Brisbane Tree Lopping \| Stump Grinding Brisbane \| Brisbane - Gold Coast Consulting Arborist \| Project Arborist

15th January 2008, 09:29 PM	#23
arbdog Semi-mature vigorous tree Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: england Posts: 111	Re: Arborist stoning in Sydney! My mate had some weirdo tie herself to a horse chestnut. But at least she wasnt throwing stuff!

18th January 2008, 05:25 PM	#24
Eric Frei Admin - Australia's most prominant Arborist - prev Ekka Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Brisbane Posts: 10,775	Re: Arborist stoning in Sydney! On a job yesterday the tree hugger neighbour (no fences yet) let her chooks out to roam our workplace then buggered off inside and wouldn't answer the door. Did it just to piss us off, and the chooks were the sociable type regardless of chainsaws hanging around our tree felling area. There was a cute little baby one so we looked after them, we killed them prior to boiling. Just kidding. __________________ Free Online Tree Value Calculator by TreeWorld Free Online TPZ and SRZ AS4970-2009 Calculator by TreeWorld Free Online Tree Surface Area and Tree Volume Calculator by TreeWorld My businesses:- Qualified Brisbane Tree Lopping \| Stump Grinding Brisbane \| Brisbane - Gold Coast Consulting Arborist \| Project Arborist

18th January 2008, 08:49 PM	#26
arbdog Semi-mature vigorous tree Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: england Posts: 111	Re: Arborist stoning in Sydney! Done that to a load of rotten partridges someone had hung up in the trees on a site we was clearing. Big mistake, the smell was unbearable we was nearly packing up and 10 mins later one of the lads i was working with put more through. He must of had a cold or likes the smell of decomposing flesh!

28th May 2008, 12:36 AM	#28
newguy18 Part of the Furniture Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: orlando,fl Posts: 5,206	Re: Arborist stoning in Sydney! The friggin tree was dead?What a jackass people get rich and think they can do whatever they want. __________________ Have your say join us today. I ship USA saws out of the USA old schooler

28th May 2008, 09:26 PM	#29
Brad Goyen Sappling Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Sydney Australia Posts: 13	Re: Arborist stoning in Sydney! Ahhh the rich, I was trimming a tree away from a lamp post in Darling Point (just as snooty as Point Piper) when i got a tap on the back from a brolly wielding old tart. She wanted it left because "they didn't need any more light they already had plenty" then with the next breath asked if I could top the tall shrubs in the council park to improve her view> She didn't appreciate the excessive quote (about the same amount that the extra view was worth). I've also had blokes sprayed with a hose in a cherry picker bucket whilst adjacent to powerlines. Standard response is now " listen lady/mate I didn't choose to have the tree cut down, I'm just real good at doing it And also I have become a deft shot from heights with sawdust balls, funny stuff.......With all that money and still don't realize shyte hurts a lot more when it comes down from above Cheers Brad

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