Daily Archive for January 18th, 2010

Save You From Yourself

When Senior does something mega stupid like tell a neighborhood guy he can cut down a 25 foot tree surrounded by power lines I feel the need to step in and save him from himself and the young man from himself. This soft headed “kid” has been by here 4 times now saying he has insurance and a license to cut down the tree, however, he has no cherry picker, no crew and no sense. The first time he showed up he had nothing at all, no paperwork no insurance, no ID.  Now he claims to have all his paperwork. Senior let him remove branches from a tree over my car which have been on the ground since late last summer. Even then I had to go out there and tell the guy to stop because his saw was sparking while hitting a nail in a branch. He was sawing OVER his head with a gas saw against a nail. Now why would you trust someone like that to work around power lines on a huge tree? Anyone who wants to cut down a tree in those dangerous conditions for $400 obviously doesn’t know what the job is worth or what it entails.

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