Posted by Steve@Advance on October 16, 2016 at 19:49:03 from (107.203.134.67):
Last week I went to a city park to have my lunch.
There was a maintenance crew there, probably about 10 men total, 3 dump trucks with brush grapples, 2 pickups, supervisors I assume, and a Gradall boom type excavator.
Their mission was to take down a fairly large pecan tree that had split, was mostly dead but still alive enough to support mistletoe.
Seems they had everything they needed... Except a chain saw!
They proceeded to try to push the tree down with the excavator! Had the bucket extended about half way up the tree, tried pushing, ramming, backing up, getting a run at it... This went on for 45 minutes of horrible equipment abuse!
Finally ended up basically using the bucket as an axe, hacking away at the upper limbs until they were thin enough to break them off. They finally got most of it pushed down, don't know what they did next, everything was too long to put in the trucks. About 15 feet of the trunk was still standing.
I had to leave, but I'll bet the mess is still laying there this week! Guess they can't trust the crew with a chain saw!
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