Two cedars cut out of the creek in Corryton

Two cedars had gone down across water. The smaller one lay over a side stream with a load of heavy limbs resting on top of a trailer. The larger one had fallen across the main stream at the far property line and was sitting in the channel.

That second one was the reason for the call. A trunk lying in a creek does not stay a tree problem for long. It catches everything that floats down behind it, the channel packs, and the next hard rain comes out of the bank and into the yard.

Two things had to be worked around here. The stream itself, which is bad footing and worse rigging, and a drainfield on the property. Ground protection mats went down before the tractor moved. The big cedar was rigged rather than pulled — a trunk that size will not come out of a creek bed in one piece without something to hold it, and dragging it blind risked cutting up the bank on the way out. It came out in sections, on the tractor, to a brushpile the owner had already designated on site.

The limbs off the trailer went the same way, cut clear and moved to the pile.

A backyard hedge was on the original scope, to be flush-cut and moved to the same pile. The owner decided to handle that part themselves, so the estimate was revised and the hedge came off the scope and off the price. Work you would rather do yourself is work you should not be paying us for.

One day, and one crew.