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Took a call from a guy in Boise who insisted his 80 foot white oak was perfectly healthy
I get there and the whole crown is thinning, there's mushrooms growing at the base, and he's telling me it just needs a 'good trim'. I told him it was a hazard and he got mad, said I was trying to upsell him. Six months later he calls back after a branch took out his neighbor's shed. Now I always take photos of the whole tree and the ground around it before even talking estimates. Has anyone else had clients argue with you about a tree being dangerous when it's clearly not?
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parker_webb22d ago
Lol sounds like that tree was just biding its time until it could make a point. The mushrooms at the base are basically the tree waving a white flag and saying "I'm done here." But nah, the homeowner knows better because he read something on the internet once. The audacity of telling a guy who literally works with trees for a living that a healthy oak just needs a good haircut is peak Boise energy. At least the neighbor's shed was the sacrifice that finally got through to him, bet he felt real smart after that insurance claim went through.
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