Welcome to Spring 2020!
You’ve seen a lot of messages lately, telling you how businesses are reinforcing good habits like keeping surfaces germ-free or ramping up new practices, like marking lines so people stay more than six feet apart while waiting for service.
Have you ever tried to wipe down a tree with a disinfectant cloth?
Seriously, arborists have always made safety a priority. Tree work is in any list of top 10 most dangerous professions. Social distancing is just something we’re adding to the many ways we keep ourselves, our clients, and their property safe. We’re also adding our families to this list; we don’t want to spread the coronavirus to them.
Six Feet Apart
As tree climbers, we move vertically as well as horizontally. We can easily keep at least six feet of space between our team members as we work. That means, you can call us to prune your trees, remove unhealthy specimens, or chip some of the bigger limbs that have fallen as a result of winter winds. Recently, we’ve used cell phones during our free consults, walking around the yard to evaluate trees while the homeowner remains safe inside the house. Our clients trust us to work when they’re not at home but it’s been a bit of a boon to have them on site and available to share their input on the work or just admire what we do. (One client was so in awe of our ability to climb well past the second-floor window of her home office that she missed a virtual meeting!)
Keeping Plants Safe Too
Some people worry that the ground becomes too soft during spring thaws to allow for heavy equipment on site. Not so. We use thick plywood to distribute loads and ensure that your lawn will not have any marks on it when we leave. Arborists love all plants, not just trees, and we want to protect your landscaping. Limbs don’t just fall randomly when we cut. We can place material where it needs to go and chip anything to either haul it away or rake it to your specifications.
The sight of us working to clean up your yard this spring might be just the sign of hope you need now. No one can say for sure how long our new reality will last as we try to avoid the coronavirus and the disease it causes, COVID-19. But we are doing the right thing and you should be prepared to welcome friends and family to your home for a really good time together, hopefully sooner than later.
Stay safe everyone.