What do you do when your 100-year-old, 100-foot-tall tulip tree needs a trim? You call the professionals, of course! And by professionals I mean 25-year-old boys who like to swing from ropes and cut branches while upside down.
They didn't use a bucket truck because they said bucket trucks spray diesel fuel everywhere and that's not good for anybody. They didn't use a wood chipper for the same reason and instead loaded the branches onto a trailer, then fed the branches to goats at a local farm. Love that.
Tree trimming is dangerous business. They said it's second only to underwater welding. When the boys dropped the branches or sent big limbs down to the ground, they'd yell "Headache!" to everyone below. When the branches would fall, the boys on the ground would quickly retrieve them and load them onto the trailer.
I was fascinated by all of this but they made me stay on the porch. I guess I was a liability…
Careful, guy!
Aw, look how pretty the tree looks with its new haircut. Now it won't need another trim for ten years. I wish the same could be said for me…
