Tuesday: May 20th:

Today was another great day at Murphy Brothers Tree Service. It was just Linus and I again today. We started at 7:00 am and ended at 5:30 pm. Today we did four jobs, with two of them taking a good amount of time because either the tree was dead or because we had to lower and hold different sections of the tree. Today, I learned some more new lowering systems and techniques and am becoming very good at it. I also learned different types of knots for different situations. Today I learned a few different types of knots for tying either a lowering line or a throw ball onto the climbing line and even learned how to make a quick figure eight loop so clip a saw onto a climbing line to be pulled up into the tree. The last job of the day we did was taking a few liters off a Norway Maple tree. This job was in Newburyport where the houses are practically right on top of each other. We maneuvered the bucket truck into the driveway first to do all the cutting a lowering and stacked all the brush in the back yard until we were done. We then backed the chip truck into the tight driveway and chewed up the enormous pile of brush in a timely fashion. We stacked the brush ahead of time, which made things much easier when it came time to chip. In this situation, other tree services would just drop all the brush and have it intertwined, which makes it a nightmare to chip. I have experienced this first hand, and it is no fun. By just taking a few liters off the Norway Maple, it was amazing how much of a difference it did for the backyard. The homeowner was extremely pleased with our work like always. Tomorrow, I will be going to pick up the chip truck in the morning to dump all the chips from today then meeting Linus up in Salisbury, Ma. Once again, it was a great day at MBTS Inc.