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Storm Damage, Workers Clearing Tree 7/17/25

Storm Damage, Workers Clearing Tree 7/17/25

         After yesterday's storm, today was a cleaning up day.  Not for us necessarily, but for our neighbor.  The sad thing is, our neighbor is moving to the St. Louis area soon, he was down there when the storm hit yesterday.  Today Four Seasons Tree and Landscaping Service showed up (after lunch), and proceeded to remove the tree!  There were a couple of things that I was impressed by right away.

         First, I was impressed by their approach to safety.  Seriously, everything they did was safe, at least in my somewhat inexperienced eye.  One of the men was a little crazy too, he had no fear of heights it seemed.  He was in a lift bucket, and up about 25-30 feet above the ground.  I will say that he didn't have a lanyard on that would save him should he fall, however there was no place for him to tie off either.  He also left the lift bucket to get on the roof at times, and never had a safety harness on.  Again, no place to tie off.  Still, their work was quick and safe (it still took over 3 hours to get that branch cleared off the roof).

         Secondly, their teamwork was something else.  These men knew what their job was, as a team they were efficient.  Being as old as I am, I was impressed by their strength and workmanship.  I got tired watching them too! 

         Four Seasons Lawn & Tree Service didn't have a crane to use in the tree removal, so one was leased for the afternoon from Litwiler Tree Service.  Of course Litwiler provided their own crane crew, no surprise there.  As I was typing this, they started working on the part of the tree that was still upright.  We watched for a couple of minutes,  then an accident occurred.  At least no one injured, but we lost about 10 feet of our fence.  The crane lost its grip on the tree trunk it was lifting and it crashed to the ground, taking out part of our fence, and part of the neighbors fence.  There's a large area (about 8 feet long) where the wooden fence was just removed by the falling tree.  We'll see where we go from here!  I will be uploading my photos to Google Drive should anyone want to view them.




Jim Dorrell