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Helped to stuff 500+ bikes into a shipping container headed to Tanzania, went out for an open air beer with my wife, and then bought some provisions at the new Gene's Sausage Shop in Lincoln Square. A good day through and through.
Took the Rock Island down to Beverly to help Openlands' TreeKeepers prune and mulch the trees in Ridge Park.
We had a nice-sized crew and there was plenty of work for all...thanks to the butcher job that Streets & San had done to beautiful young parkway trees by ignorantly hacking at the various branches. I don't understand how we can give those crews $2 million worth of manpower and equipment...only to have them insensitively chop away at our trees with a chain saw from a cherry-picker. We spent the morning with $20 handsaws correcting their brutality as best we could...when we finished we had a couple dozen trees that stand a chance to grow magnificently for the next 100 years.
Please folks, read an article on proper pruning techniques, buy a cheap hand-saw, and do a little maintenance of the trees on your nearby parkways, particularly while they are young and unformed:
1. Remove broken branches
2. Remove crossing and conflicting branches to establish a strong central leader
3. Raise the lower "platform" branches to establish 7' clearance over sidewalks and 14' clearance over curb lane
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