On a scale of 1 to 5, Butterworth Tree Angels is about a 10. Maybe a 20. How high can I go? If anybody asked me, I would tell them all about them. They were perfect.
I've dealt with Jim Butterworth before, but nothing as major as this. I remembered from that conversation that we had several years ago that he had a crane and was able to use his imagination and skill to get trees down without doing the most damage, and that was the reason I called him. I had these two big oak trees, not more than ten feet from the road, that were leaning towards some shrubbery and a thirty-foot magnolia, and I was worried about the damage they would cause. I spoke to Jim Wednesday evening I guess, and early yesterday morning he came out here and took one look and basically initially he didn't think he would be able to come until mid next week. I told him I was concerned about the one tree coming down and doing some damage, then, slick as a whistle, he got a rope on the upper limbs, tied it off through the crotch of a second tree, then tied it off on a third tree. I've never seen anything like it!
Jim got to checking his schedule and decided that he could come right then, which he did, but I had to leave at about 10:00 yesterday morning and I got back before 12:00. Low and behold, they got them both down in a couple of hours. One of the trees was already laying on the street, and the other one was already cut across the base and they were just trying to figure out how to lay it down and cut it up. It was a remarkable sight! We had the traffic blocked off, and this one lady had to stop and comment on what an amazing operation it was. It couldn't have gone more smoothly, or more quickly. Those guys are a delight to work with, so I don't know what I can say other than it was a job extremely well done, as well done as it could have been.
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