After getting April 16th off due to a late season 6-inch snowstorm, we headed down to Rutland, Vermont (about 1.5 hours south of Burlington). The drive, massive. Aram, Jordan, Mike, and I hopped in a couple of vehicles and off we went. The mission: to save Rutland and as many trees as we could. We heard rumors of over 1,000 downed trees. There were at least 100 trees down on city property. The same storm that dumped 6 inches of snow on Burlington produced 80 mile per hour winds that swept out of the mountains to the east of Rutland.
When we arrived at our first job site, this is what we found:
At this particular job, the client lost 6 massive silver maples. One tree went over, and like dominoes, the rest followed. Our task was to clean it up and get trees that were hung up in other trees, unhung-up. Get it? Some of the logs we were dealing with were about 3 feet across. Luckily we have a log loader, so we let mechanics do the brutal work. The miracle about this particular job was that none of the trees hit the client's house! For a quick movie of this job, click here. For another movie of Mike, owner, trying to deal with a huge hung up tree, click here and here.
1 comment:
Dude,
I can't believe the wind uprooted those massive trunks. More power to you tree guys.
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