Why are you felling that tree.

[Matthew Arnold]

We had a homeowner ask us why we were felling the trees both immeadiately behind and across the trailway from her home. We explained her husband wanted the trees gone and the trees were old coppice stools which in their very nature are very weak. At the end of the first day she was very happy we had felled the trees. Their neighbours were horrified we had felled about 10 Ivy clad Sycamore stems and two largish but heavily leaning ash as they were "perfectly healthy trees". After the neighbours 45 minute rant we showed them the stumps and very quickly then asked us to fell the trees on the back of their property.

 

We also have the classic "Don't you care about the trees do you? All you care about is the logs. By the way can you drop a trailer load of logs at my house in exchange for a case of beer?" You can pretty much tell what our response is.

Edited December 18, 2012 by Matthew Arnold

[yorkshire pudding]

I'm always fond of telling them it has Stihl disease.

Sometimes i even get a knowing "ah" before they head off to tell their friends in the pub later. Bless.

[redmoosefaction]

'TRAINING DAY' with crossed eyes!

 

[Bearded Munch]

I'm always fond of telling them it has Stihl disease.

Sometimes i even get a knowing "ah" before they head off to tell their friends in the pub later. Bless.

 

Our tree inspector was called Rob so the odd occasion when asked we told them it had Rob rot as you say they went away happy.

[felixthelogchopper]

Our tree inspector was called Rob so the odd occasion when asked we told them it had Rob rot as you say they went away happy.

 

Might have thought you said it had Nob rot and they wanted to get away in case it was catching.

[jamiep]

Love that one!!

[Treegeek]

I have had a fair amount of this over the years but the one that sticks in my head was feeling a big plain in odiham about two years ago it was riddled with gamoderma (think ?) Had had the big reduction treat long time ago we had a very hard day getting other all on the ground.

We had packed up and I'd sent my team on home I stayed to tidy and collect signs when an old couple looking innocent pulled up a started f'ING and jeffing at me took me completely by surprise

[kieran connell]

telling them its to make way for another tesco is a gudun aswell!

[Brian Anderson]

I work for the council and get this on a daily basis. It is just typical public!

we were once taking a tree down when this guy came out and gave us abuse because the tree we were taking down had his bird feeders in it and we should leave the tree for that purpose.

Most commonly though we have the public out saying why are you taking that tree down instead of that one that blocks the light to my garden. It usually goes when we moved here that tree was only 6foot tall but now look at it. I dont think these people realise trees grow but i also beleive it more ignorance and arrogance than anything.

I do think somtimes that dealing with the public is harder than the job itself sometimes.

[Gray git]

Because my children need feeding and clothing and im getting payed to take it down!

 

Because it looked at me funny...

 

I like the one about cctv might use that

The one that almost got me in bother was on a site clearance when I told some1 that they were going to build a illegal imagrant detention centre on the site, oops..