Manitoba Treemagedon

[Andries]

I don't think I'll ever see an explosion of trees like this again YH.
It'll take months to straighten this mess up, and we're getting a lot of help:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/toronto-urban-forestry-staff-winnipeg-help-cleanup-snowstorm-1.5328243 
There's crews in our town from the Dakotas, Saskatchewan and Ontario.
It's like an Arborist's Swarm.
The cost is estimated at over $100 million.

[Andries]

I see a lot of milling and firewood processing in my future, and that's good thing!

[slider]

Andrais how tall is your lift.

[Andries]

Slider, it has a sixty foot reach.
It's a rental unit, self driving and HEAVY.
My son operates his tree service on a part time basis, and specializing in climbing trees in hard to reach places. Places where the bucket trucks and big lifts don't fit or can't go.
That particular unit was really good. We shared costs with the electrician who was reconnecting the power mains to the house. Smooth controls in the bucket, even tho it was electric over hydraulic.
Better than the usual Genie lift rental units, but that could be because of the abuse of rental use.

[Andries]

 
Bucket on its way up to do the branch drops.
Note the thin mid-section, still holding up the weight of what's left of the canopy.
Most Def not a climbing tree!