Vent: My crew just hit 500 hazard trees removed from that new development site

We started that job six months ago, clearing for a big housing project near the river. The foreman kept a tally on a whiteboard in the truck. Yesterday, we cut down a huge, dead cottonwood that was leaning over the future playground, and that was number 500. It hit me how much raw material, and risk, we've taken off that one piece of land. Most of them were ash trees, just riddled with borer damage and ready to fail. Has anyone else had a single site with a number that high, or did we just get a really bad lot?

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taylor_garcia3mo ago

Five hundred? Did your foreman run out of room on the whiteboard or just give up counting? That's a wild number for one site, but honestly, it sounds about right for anything near a river these days. I swear some of these new plots are just tree graveyards waiting for us to show up.

ward.julia3mo ago

We had a site like that last year. Just bring extra saw blades and plan for the hauling to take twice as long.

evan_harris142mo ago

The "plan for the hauling to take twice as long" part really hit me. I used to think you could power through those nightmare sites with enough adrenaline, but you're absolutely right - better to just accept the slow grind from the start.