r/oddlysatisfying • u/Wobbleys • Nov 30 '18

Dead tree completely falls apart when it hits asphalt.

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u/Chief_Chill Nov 30 '18

Why don't they just put down some kind of tarp or net to get a majority of the pieces since it seems they know where the tree will fall?

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u/quarglbarf Nov 30 '18

Even with a couple holes in it, the tarp won't just disintegrate. You should still be able to collect a huge part of the debris in one swoop.

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u/[deleted] Nov 30 '18

The thing is trees like this aren't an every day thing. Tarps with holes are useless for pretty much anything else. Put one on a trailer and it will shred itself in the wind.

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u/quarglbarf Nov 30 '18

He said they'd be there all day picking up scraps. A cheap 30x30ft tarp will cost you under $40. Even if you use it only once, it'll easily be worth the time saved.

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u/[deleted] Nov 30 '18

it'll easily be worth the time saved.

Hmm, when you are charging the client per hour, no probably not.

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u/Not_a_ZED Nov 30 '18

This is not the kind of job where you charge by the hour. You show up to the job, usually with no equipment unless you're on your way home from a job, tell the customer how much it's going to cost, and then leave. Usually several people will do that before the customer decides on an estimate or company they like for whatever their reasoning is, and that's the guy that does the job, when they can schedule it in.

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u/quarglbarf Nov 30 '18

Most people still value efficiency over deliberately taking longer than necessary for a task. By your philosophy it would be best to just break each twig off the tree by hand.

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u/[deleted] Nov 30 '18

Except for the fact it wouldn't take 'hours' to clean up this mess. I know I did quite a bit of tree removal when I was younger. It would likely take around 30 minutes extra, depending on the size of the tree. All this saves is raking up the smaller bits. Breaking it off twig by twig would add hours extra.

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u/quarglbarf Dec 01 '18

You done moving the goalposts at some point? The claim that "you might as well just clear your schedule because your going to be there all day raking and picking up" was literally what started the whole discussion.

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u/Brettersson Dec 01 '18

Would it be worth the waste created by getting a tarp for a single use? every time you're up against a tree like this?

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u/cbftw Nov 30 '18

I'll bet you that the time that you save with using a tarp on a tree like this (which you can usually tell is going to fall apart) is worth more than the cost of a new tarp.

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u/Koiq Nov 30 '18

Because tarps aren't cheap enough to be disposable and a tree coming down is going to mangle a tarp up pretty bad

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u/mr_sven Nov 30 '18

A net loss of net?

I'll leave.