We have this dead tree.
It was messy when it was alive,
and is messier now that it’s dead.
(And, I won’t mention how it died… We don’t speak of such things…)
Anyway, we’ve tried and tried to get someone to come take it down.
Problems being, it’s surrounded by high voltage power lines, phone lines, cable lines, etc.
And, it’s dead.
Nobody wants to tackle a dead tree, because it’s more dangerous.
The bark sluffs off, so no one can climb it to remove branches.
(It sure would have been handy if it would have thought of that before it died… :) )
Well, we could have gotten someone to take it down,
but they wanted $1200 to do it.
I guess you can say that we don’t have that much pocket change.
Go figure.
So, about a month ago, I was looking out our kitchen window,
which faces the side of the yard that this tree is on.
I noticed a CITY truck pull up, with “Trees, Inc.” written on the side,
and the driver looking at our beautiful eyesore.
(I was thinking, “Ahhh!”)
He got out of his truck and took a closer look.
(I was then thinking, “AHHH!”)
THEN HE STARTED TOWARD THE FRONT DOOR!
(By this time, I was calmly panicking. I was SO worried that they’d make us take it down.)
So, I answered the door, against my better judgement.
What he said surprised me.
“So, you have a dead tree in your yard.”
(uh huh)
“It probably wasn’t you guys that killed it…”
(I didn’t respond to that.)
“It’s now become a hazard.”
(It’s been a hazard for 4 years now, but I kept that to myself.)
“When we come to trim the Maple trees, we need to cut this one down.”
(*GASP*)
I told him that we’ve tried getting people to take it down, but no one wanted the job.
He said that they need the ground to either freeze, or completely dry out.
I told him, “Good luck with that. :)”
But, anyway, the city will be taking our tree down! YAY!
Well, at least the top part of the tree.
They will chop it down to just below the power lines, which is the hardest part!
We can take the rest of it down, no problem.
We are SO excited.
They came two weeks ago to start on it.
Then it started to get really windy, which doesn’t work too well with a cherry picker.
So, they left. Leaving a huge pile of sticks.
And haven’t been back yet.
Still waiting for the ground to dry or freeze.
But, they have to finish before they can say that this block’s trees have been trimmed.
I will post a picture of when it is done.
Can’t wait!
:)
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