tree trimming 101

don't try this at home...

my shop (which is in a strip center) backs up to a lonnnnnnnnng street of homes... big homes. nice homes... historic homes.

in the backyard of the house RIGHT behind my shop there is a dead tree. a very VERY VERY large dead tree. the home owner said it would cost a couple of thousand for a tree service to take it down.

so... right now he has a big ladder - fully extended - tied as far up the tree as it will go. then, he took some boards and screwed them in to the dead tree so he could go higher...

and he's starting at the top with the whole tree trimming/sawing thing.

well...

there isn't anywhere for the limbs to go. to the right, a house. to the left, a house. forward, his house. backwards, falling towards the shop... and an insane number of power lines.

yet, he's trimming...
i've heard a window break (maybe more than one)
he's ripped the gutter off the back of his house...

and i'm sure there is some roof damage.

a lot more tree to go... and he's wearing dress pants and a dress shirt - tucked in. with an electric chain saw as well as a hand saw. this was all yesterday from mid afternoon on.

this morning i came in to work and the tree is down as far as the top of the extension ladder (which upon picture inspection kind of looks like it's a wooden one!!!)...

but i haven't heard the man yet. which is odd since each morning i hear a "good morning" through the concrete wall...

i'm sending out an S.O.S.

comin' to you LIVE from a single-wide where I'd be kicked out of the red.neck 'hood if I had an electric chainsaw - a gas chainsaw is the only way to wake the red.neck neighbors at 5am... hee-hee