Weird work!

[Mark Bolam]

What's the weirdest work request you've received?

 

Company I sub for in Thanet had an old lady call and asked if they buried cats?!!! Same guys also had to cut the (rotten) vanes off a windmill.

[Stephen Blair]

i helped out in "silver leafing" a 120 foot black pine for the bbc.

oh and i transplanted a cherry tree and a box of ashes for someone when they moved house. creepy creepy

[old snake]

Once a year our company is asked by a LA to absail down the side of a via duct to remove all the vegetation from the joints. Not really weired but a bit different to wot i usually do.

[Mick Stockbridge]

I had to retrieve a radio controlled plane a long time ago for £50. Probably £100 in todays money.

[Graham]

First one was being paid not to work by the BBC. They were filming a drama series on location and we were felling some trees hanging out from the edge of a wood. Evidently their time was precious and the saws were being picked up on the sound equipment. Little did they know that when the producer turned up with the cash we'd finished:001_smile:

 

Second one was a phone call asking if I could take a look at a tree in the garden of a large house. I was told there'd been an 'accident' two days prior and they wanted to save this tree.

 

I turned up to find a semi-mature cedar with a large, gouged out hole in its base surrounded by bits of blood and bone. I found out shortly after that the ladys husband had blown his head off with a .357 playing russian roulette with his mates after an all night drinking session....weird.

 

Last one...promise:001_smile: Did some tree work at Epsom Downs in a private garden and a few months later received a phone call asking if I could bury the old ladys golden retriever.

 

I went down, dug a beautiful square sided hole then went to the vet's to pick up the dog. Geez....frozen solid with its legs outstretched!

 

That Epsom chalk's hard digging so poor old Rover had to be modified slightly. Hope none of the family read this:001_smile:

[John Shutler]

felled an oak for a farmer whos son had hung himself in the tree.

very weird and extremely sad

[skyhuck]

I pruned some rail side trees at Shap, where that fighter jet had come down.

 

The pilot had stayed in the plane to stop it hitting the village, very brave man.

 

They had removed most of the remains, but there some remains on the tips of some branches, looked like sausage skins.

 

Not a pleasant job.

[Paul Barton]

felled an oak for a farmer whos son had hung himself in the tree.

very weird and extremely sad

 

That is horrible. You must have been glad to leave site at the end of that day.

[Stephen Blair]

Worked with the mog and winch helping recovery vehicle and police remove a car from an abandoned sand quarry, linked to the Bible John murders. Had nightmares for days after.

[John Shutler]

That is horrible. You must have been glad to leave site at the end of that day.

 

yeah it was a strange climb