So for context, we just moved in. My wife is an ISA certified arborist. She speaks at conferences, also has a degree in environmental science and wildlife management. She’s brilliant. And she loves her trees.
Fast forward to dinner tonight, we step outside to eat on the back porch and notice someone trimming a tree behind us. A tree she eagle eyed as a butternut when she first walked through this house. A tree that is endangered in Ontario and requires special certification. So she politely asks, not wanting to be “those neighbours “ but also out of curiosity if they have their butternut certificates. She’s told it’s a walnut and he’s a professional climber that works for hydro.
So we go for a meet the new neighbour walk. not complain, or threaten to call bylaw but to inform and give them the option to postpone until it can be done properly.. And she finds him spike pruning ,with his helper like such.
He did come out of the tree and quit after receiving the information. And has said he will speak to the home owners.
by GrndfthrYarvisWrdHnd
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Dumbasses.
I love butternuts! Super tasty. I have three mature trees I harvest from in town every fall and I have seedlings I’ve planted from them!
Butternuts are endangered? Or is this a local Ontario thing from being on the fringe of their range?
Normally hydro when working in proximity of primary power lines has some leeway using spikes as it becomes similar to their PPE as in helps keep them safe. And if used imo should ONLY be used in proximity.
However these photos scream anything but official hydro workers. Buddy on the ground in a basic white t shirt with no PPE/Hard hat and I’m sure they didn’t have a hydro one/city equivalent branded truck outfront either.
I hope you got the name of the company and talk to your neighbour about never hiring these clowns again.
An absolute junk show of gear and ropes on the ground too
Wait until the spotted lantern fly makes it up there.
Blighted and the majority of survivors in the native range are thus hybrids.
Out west we have some great healthy pure trees.
Beautiful tree !!
The first thing that got my attention was spikes being used to prune and a tree that mature, I’m a tree worker and follow A300 standards, if Ive studied correctly with ISA materials Spurs/ spikes should not be used to climb, or prune, only in cases of removals? Does that sound correct?