Well, tree guys finally got here late this morning, were here all of 20 minutes, picked up the huge limb on the roof just had a small amount in the grapple bucket and lifted it right off, it was several feet longer than the Bobcat that the bucket was attached to, if it were alongside of it. He had as much of it in the bucket as possible with the rest sticking out length wise with the Bobcat, and dropped it in the ditch on top of the smaller limbs that already filled it. i'm surprised that the Bobcat didn't do a nosedive holding the load like that.
Then he had his wife all 120 lbs of her, in the Bobcat raise him up while standing on the grapple bucket, in the tree that lost the limb. He wrapped a rope from the winch on the chipper/ shredder around the other busted limb that was still being cradled by limbs below, and used that to drag the limb out of the tree, parallel to my power line.
Said that he woke up this morning with 92 tree calls still to go so he was off and running. Before mine he had a couple of others in the neighborhood, I went over where they were and helped them feed the chipper and clean up the street while they worked on those jobs.
A not so well liked neighbor of mine came over and asked his help if they could cut this one limb of hers that is split lengthwise and points towards the house and is somewhat over it.
Mike put the bobcat back on the trailer, and was telling his guys which jobs to head to next, I mentioned the neighbor that came over and was asking his help to come cut that limb for her....
2 weeks ago she had somebody else take out 2 trees in her backyard.
That's when I found out about the 92 customers stacked up, which is about a month worth of work, Mike told me that he had bid that job and that she can call whoever took out the trees in her back yard to take care of her/ or else call HIM and get in line.
I was getting a little aggravated with him myself just not knowing when he would get over here as he told my wife it would be yesterday, so I stayed home from work for nothing. I stayed home again today just hoping.
I figured he would have climbed on the roof and cut it up in sections from up there.
I guess that the village has hired some guys with pickup trucks and trailers to haul whatever people put at the ditch, they were in and outta here probably 25x each yesterday. Mike the tree guy said they were coming around, just to cut up what I have a bit smaller for them to haul, so I went to farm and fleet and bought me a new stihl.
I have an old remington in the garage that I haven't tried to start since I got it, and needed something "now". They had 2 on a rack yesterday that had been bought and returned, today they only had 1. So I bought that one. Paint wasn't worn off the bar at all but I could tell it had been used a little. Still warranty as if I'd gotten a brand new one but a little bit cheaper. New ones there were slim pickens. All cut up now, just gotta pull the nice burnable stuff out and separate, and do a little restacking of the pile in the ditch
