[PRCo] Re: Oak Tree Moved (not gone)

[Derrick Brashear]

South 27th St still had a tree down blocking it yesterday. I forgot to
look when I walked by today.

On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 10:04 AM, Edward H. Lybarger <trams2 at comcast.net> wrote:
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> For those who have been amused by the saga of the oak in the middle of the
> road...about 8:40 this morning a contractor appeared with three vehicles - a
> bucket truck, a chipper in back of a dump, a hi-lift/backhoe and eight men.
> The township brought four salt trucks, three of them with plows, and a huge
> fork lift.  As they began to saw and chip up the limbs, the neighbor across
> the street (from whose yard the tree fell, and the nice guy who cleared my
> driveway) appeared and advised that he wanted the tree for firewood.  So the
> crews pushed the trunk onto his lawn, piled up the cut logs around it, and
> were gone in less than hour.
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> I wonder how many tax dollars went into this example of overkill?
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> The photo is what it looked like from Friday night until this morning.
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> Ed
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Derrick