Believe it or not, here in our picturesque corner of NJ we are surrounded by trees. I live at the top of a hill and we've never seen a sunrise or sunset from here because of dense, tall trees. There are so many that when Hurricane Sandy gleefully blew down like every other tree (each making it a personal mission to take out electrical wires on the way down), things look hardly any different here.
Recently, our neighbors were having some trees taken down for an addition. These aren't the kid climbing-friendly sort either - we're talking 60 foot oaks. Huge. These tree guys CLIMB TO THE TOP and lower the tree chunk by chunk, chain saw dangling from their belt. Then the final 12-15 feet of trunk is felled all at once; my Sainted wife and I fair bounce out of our comfy couch seats.
$8,000 to take down a tree suddenly doesn't seem like too much, except when I consider how many trees are between me and a good view of sunrise and/or sunset. Way too expensive for curmudgeons.
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