January's Newsletter: Paint a Picture

So, your husband and son head out the door. They go to the garage, grab a chainsaw and ladder they head to the tree near the house to cut a branch because it’s close to the house. Your husband and son place the ladder against the tree, you yell out the window be carefully and don’t get hurt. Now your husband starts up the ladder with a chainsaw to cut the branch while your son hold the ladder to keep it stable and safe. Then sound of a ladder falling, a scream, and the eerie sound of the chainsaw still running; what happened? That moment that you weren't watching, when that branch finally hit the ground, it then sprung back and hit the ladder out from under your husband’s feet and he fell twenty feet to ground. Screaming, your husband’s and son’s name as you run to their aid and you’re getting no response. 

Ambulance rushing your loved ones the hospital; then, arriving at the hospital; sitting in the waiting room thinking about the worst and hoping for the best. What is the worst of it all? Your husband could of broke his neck, maybe that's why he didn't answer you. Then as time passes on you start thinking about of the what ifs, we don’t have health insurance, how you two never got that life insurance policy, how long will he be out of work, he might not be able to work, the bills; car, mortgage, and grocery’s, then I need to get a job, can he get disability and the list goes on and on like the never ending song. This whole time your trying not to think of the worse yet that he might die. What feels like an eternity waiting to hear from the doctor! Finally, the doctor gives you the news they’re both fine your husband only sustained bruised ribs and also a major concussion and your son got a gash on the top of head that needed ten stitches and a minor concussion. The feeling of relief replaces, all the troubled thoughts.

This story is based many true stories that have I have read in article’s on web, in newspaper, and professional magazines about the reality of this simple task of climbing a ladder and cutting a branch. I am writing this to show what does happen and what could happen when cutting a branch from a ladder. This doesn’t just have to about ladders it could also be about falling of a limb, being impaled by a branch, crashed, pinned, put the branch or tree through roof, and cut with a chainsaw; which occur 40,000 plus times a year to homeowners on solid ground. This is very dangerous line of work and in the Northeast it is rated second most dangerous job behind commercial fishing but in New York State it is most dangerous job.

Here at Treeman Tom & Consulting we give you the fairest price that we can give so that such stories don’t have to become reality. I the owner Tom Poczciwinski Jr which is on ever job has over eight professional years in the business removing, pruning, and planting trees. We pride ourselves in providing the highest level of tree care, customer service and fair market prices.