Saturday, March 27, 2010

Triming the 80 foot tree....

Before we could start on the shop , we needed to trim the tree on the south side of it. We had considered renting a "cherry picker" machine that would left us up 60 feet or so in the air, but we found out they are expensive ($400.00 a day), only reach 40 ft and most of them need to be pulled with a truck to the tree that needs trimming.
Our wonderful recycling guy told us about Angel. He works for a tree company and on the weekends does this on the side. He charged us $125.00 and lunch, to trim two trees.
He brought all the ropes and harnesses and two other guys for back-up help.
They threw the rope up over the first limb and pulled himself up into the tree. He started at the top and worked his way down. He was so agile and very talented with his craft! It took him about an hour to trim both trees, and it was well worth it!!!


No comments: