Tree cutter, Tree time Brett
HodgePodge by Charlie Hodge
I grinned and chuckled as I watched him joyfully swing heavily back and forth between the two pine trees.
The lad’s simple straight forward tenacity and fearlessness was rejuvenating. I felt caught up in his lust for life and joy in his work. In fact I felt comfortable and secure on the lawn thoroughly enjoying Brett’s Aerial antics.
Brett was born to climb trees.
At first, I thought he was simply playing but soon it was clear his day of work had actually begun and I was simply learning how his routine unfolded.
I was about to witness the day in the life of a tree cutter. An arborist goes to work.
Brett Cody was doing his warmup exercises, stretches, and routines to avoid tearing any muscles, tendons, ligaments… The boy is fit!
Tez and I had asked friends about who we should hire as tree cutters. We talked to developers, checked out websites, newspaper ads – you named it we asked them. ‘Cody Tree Service’ fluttered out of several lips and so we made the call and booked the wait. And wait you shall. If you are in a hurry call somewhere else, because they are likely booked for several weeks. Rightfully so Codys did a first-class job
When I hire a professional company to do a job I expect quality and that starts with the first person on the crew. Freshly turned 22 Brett explained the game plan as we had laid it out, asked any clarifying Tez and I questions and got to work.
Watching his team go to work was joyful. Brett started off by finding a stick on a tree and using it as his measuring guided for the size of the tree and wear the tree was going to fall. (It landed precisely where he’d measured) Matt and Eric are the co-workers up the dynamic trio clearing the cut site and hauling the nasty branches to the chipper.
Part way through preparing to take down the one main tree, Brett paused and put his attention towards the second tree (mentioned above bouncing). Once he managed to grasp the swing second tree he used it jumped over and tie off. Then he cut himself down. (saved two trips).
When Brett finished trimming our second pine he smugly returned via air to the first tree and continued to kamikaze the big pine before we finally convinced him to take a break.
I particularly enjoyed my crash education course on what Brett was doing throughout the day thanks to some play-by-play explanations from Eric and Matt.
I am sure trees throughout the city and neighbourhood hide when they hear and or see Cody’s Tree Service truck drive by.
While I normally do not mention fees with my columns I feel compelled to say not only was the job well done, but the fee more than reasonable.
