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Wed. Jun 02, 2004

Household Collateral Damage

Getting dead trees cut down and removed can be very expensive. Even when things go well. But sometimes they’ll tell you they can’t even get their equipment into your backyard, so you’ll have the added cost of a crane to remove the tree trunk sections. They’ll just lift them over your house.

That’s when it can get really expensive. You may have seen on CNN or somewhere else, this exact scenario happened in the Atlanta suburbs, except the crane tipped over on the house (and there’s photos, but both links require registration). Sliced it in half like a wedding cake, quite neatly.

Luckily, homeowner Beverly Wolfe was unharmed, even though the crane arm fell about ten feet in front of her. She’s taking the whole thing amazingly well. Except for one little thing.

What got to her, though, is what the tree-cutter told her after the accident. “The guy said to me, ‘I am done with two-thirds of the job’ and wanted me to pay him for that,” Wolfe said. “I laughed.”

She laughed. I would have chased him through my yard with his own chainsaw, shouting, “c’mere, I just wanna cut a slot to insert your check…”