ShoreCan Home Repair

Rainbow today at Eldridge Lumber. Not sure which is prettier, the rainbow or the lumber??

Arborists are not like the rest of us.
So we were out at one of our favorite clients last week replacing some cedar shakes and door trim. There was a team of arborists that had arrived just before us. Not sure what you call a group of arborists? A heard, a swarm, a pack, maybe a scrum? Anyway, we were out numbered. I walked over to one of them who was tossing a string up into a tree, like way up into the tree. I asked: “whatsya doin?”, he says “tossing a string up into this tree.” After a moment of silence I say: “why?”. He says: “so I can climb safely.” I said: “way up there?”, with a puzzled look and he says: “yup”. I said, looking up at the string; “I’d be scared of getting stuck up there, I’d grab onto the tree and never let go!” He looks at me and says with a smirk: “don’t worry, you’ll come down one way or the other.” So I say: “sorry got to go I hear Ron calling me, gotta get to work.” And make my retreat. So the cutting begins, and the swarm kicks into gear. There’s branches falling over here trees falling over there, guys running skid-steers with grapples and guys feeding the shredder. No one saying a word, everyone with hearing protection, they all just knew what to do where, how and when. Definitely a swarm. As I’m cutting a shingle on the table saw I see a tree come walking by heading over towards and flinging itself into the shredder. Once all the leaves disappear, I see Mr N standing there. It was at that moment I realized there’s people like me and then there’s people like him. He’s my dad’s age and can work me under the table. I needed to take a break after watching him tossIng around trees like jugglers toss around bowling pins. I was going to head over and say hi but I didn’t want to be mistaken for a small pine tree so I watched from a safe distance. Was a great day out and super cool to watch these guys work. Have a great weekend and be well.