Monday: May 19th: Windy Day

Today was a long day at Murphy Brothers Tree Service. It was only Linus and I. We started at 7:30am and ended at 5:30 pm. I drove the chip truck and chipper, and Linus drove the bucket truck. For the most part we motored through the jobs we had to get done. It was a nice day out weather wise, but it was an extremely windy day, which made things very difficult for climbing and lowering. The first job of the day we did in no time. It was just a brush pile. We have been getting a lot of these jobs lately because of spring-cleaning. The second job we did was the removal of two Pine tree, a small Maple tree, and a Cherry tree. This job went fairly quick because all of the brush was staying. At this job, I work on my saw skills on the ground and cut up all of the big wood for firewood for the homeowner. The next job we had was the biggest job of the day. We had to climb and remove a large Hickory tree behind a pool. At this point, the wind was really whipping and it was a bit shaky being up in the tree as the tree rocked back and forth. This job did not have good access so we had to drag all the brush to the side of the house to be chipped. For only two guys, this job was a lot of work. The last job of the day was an average size job, but took us the longest. At this job, we had to cut the dead wood out of a few Maple trees and then do a hazardous removal on a dead Elm tree hanging into the yard from the woods. This time Linus got up in the tree because the tree was dead and he had to rig up a lowering system from up in the tree to keep the tree off the fence. From the ground, I was feeding Linus up several different lowering lines and throw balls to tie off the tree. I also watched closely from the ground the different ways he was tying himself into the tree so I can learn different ways. We successfully got this dead hazardous tree down to the ground without any damage done to the yard or fence. When we were all done and had the yard and driveway all cleaned up, I went and dumped the truck for the day, then headed back to the shop. I successfully back the truck into the parking space all on my own when I returned to the shop. Hopefully, the wind will die down for tomorrow, but it does not sound promising, which is no big deal. Hopefully, a lot of trees will fall with the wind over night and we will get the call to remove them. Tomorrow, Linus and I are back at it, and look forward to completing another successful at MBTS.