On Tue, 14 Jan 2003 14:21:56 -0600, "Victor M. Martinez"
wrote:

The city tree butchers, er... trimmers are active in north-central Austin,
near Park Place nursery.

Victor M. Martinez

http://www.che.utexas.edu/~martiv


FWIW, the guys who clear wires are on contract to the city. One side
of town gets Asplundh, the other gets Davey. No doubt there are some
good pruners working for both, but since they make less money than
everyone else in the iindustry (for the most risk), they tend to move
on quickly, so you get inexperienced workers and/or the dregs that
nobody else wants.

The City has crews that work in parks and along right-of-ways. These
guys generally stay in their jobs for years, and probably most of them
know how to prune trees properly. You might not notice this much,
though, since they tend to spend their time cleaning up messes when
trees break or die more than they prune nice trees.

k
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