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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Eight, nineteen thirteen ten wy B and ask the experts.
Brought to you by Hamsarborcare online Hamsarburcare dot com. That's
h A m MS Arborcare dot com. You can also
find them Facebook social media, as well as their fantastic
YouTube channel Game of Trees also Instagram. Kevin Ham Game
(00:32):
of Trees. The telephone number eight sixty six five nine
six five three nine six. That's eight six six five
nine six five three nine six. And joining us this
morning from Ham's Barborcare is Master Arborist Kevin Ham. Kevin,
how you doing this morning?
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Yeah? Great, I'm kind of midway in my long commute
out to Tally Acid. We're a little and you'll clean
up out there.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
We're going to talk a little bit some trees, that's uh.
And you guys have been out there for a number
of yours now, and I want to ask you a
little bit about what that's like working on such a
historic piece of property. And I know you guys do
work on a number of really really important sites here
in southern Wisconsin. But first and foremost, I was watching
a video you recently posted last night, and and you're
(01:18):
climbing trees and you're finding stuff in the tree. Let's
talk about what you found. And is that uncommon to
find things up in trees when you're climbing.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Yeah, well, it's not common to find things in trees.
Usually down in that that you know, three to five
foot range, you know, right where somebody is hammering and
nail threw in a big wag bolt or something, or
you know, maybe the stepths going up to a tree
(01:49):
stand or you know, some always in the trunk. Usually
while this was up fairly high in a union and
it was all grown in. It was like an old
school bellow and it's just you know, a cast iron
school bell and you know, so it's pretty you know,
it's twenty plus inches across on the base of the
(02:12):
bell and it rings loud. But it wasn't ringing. It
was all trapped in the wood. And you know, we
felled that part of the trunk and you know, it
didn't break out of there or anything. And the mount
had been broken by the growth of the tree kind
of over the years, and it cracked it. And so
(02:34):
we got that welded, which was not inexpensive. Well, I
guess those nickel welding rods are really Yeah, we got
it back, and we're gonna get it lightly stand blasted
and painted flat black. Though it'll be really nice. We'll
(02:54):
get we'll get her, We'll get her ringing again.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Oh that is great to hear and great to see.
And yes, some of the some of the things Kevin
finds while at least up in a tree of school Bell.
Who knew you'd find something like that. Let's talk about
the telly us And and obviously I think anybody that
went to school in this area is probably made a
visitor to a field trip out that way. And really, uh,
historic landmark obviously, great architecture and other things.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
And you guys, Kevin at Cam's at Ham's Arborcare, you
guys have been involved in taking care of the trees
on the property for a while now, haven't you.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Yeah. Everyone, My first foreman, Joel, Joel Hooks, he probably
won't be afraid of me mentioning his name here. Yeah,
he he is now working. He worked for me for
a number of years, then went to the city of
Madison for a long time, and then he got a
position of grounds out there. So it's it's over eight
(03:52):
hundred acres that they manage, you know, there's walking trails,
and they're going to start giving tours I believe even
a week, oh really or so, so you know, pull
them up and check it out. It's a great place
to tour, I kind of. I've done the tour and
and and there's a lot, a lot of neat, neat
(04:13):
history there.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
It's spring Green. It's such a cool area too, is
is Obviously you mentioned the acreage that the studio is
on and that, but also this the neighboring areas also
are are important with that too, Kevin, With with some
of these you know, when you're when you're brought into
to look at these, you know, some of these areas
I look at like like trail maintenance and and you know,
(04:35):
areas you're going to be inviting the public. Is There's
obviously a couple of reasons. One, it's a it's a
very historical site. But also since you've got visitors and
other things, they want to be I'm guessing very very
cautious and very very aware of the condition of all
their trees, don't they.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Yeah, sure, And and you know, I mean it's a
forested area and a lot of places and then they've
got open prairie and and different things as they manage
and Joel takes care of a lot of that. The
things I've been called in for are usually, you know,
stuff that requires maybe a lift, or it's over the
building or the last thing I got called out to
(05:14):
was a crack tree that was over a parking area
and so I was able to get out there and
get that piece down for them, and then they usually
take care of the ground stuff. So we've got me
and one other crew member out here today just because
there's a lot of rigging and different things we're doing
(05:35):
over the top of the building.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
No, will you be able to get to use a
Dino lift on that one?
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Yes, yes, we've got the new lift and that that
fifty two foot side reach is going to be very handy.
I bet it is this big wide silver maple that
we have to maintain.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Oh goodness. And with Kevin as we talked about some
of the different equipment as well that you guys have
available at Ham's Arborcare, and I know you guys get
called in a lot for these very very special, very
important projects, things that require that specialized equipment. I know
we've kind of touched on it a bit last week,
but I think it's important. As you know, folks are
getting ready with spring and summer and looking towards tree
(06:16):
care and getting on that schedule. At Ham's Arborcare. One
of the great things about working with you and the
team at Ham's Arborcare is you've got great people and
you've got the right tools as well for the job.
As I was hanging blinds yesterday, thinking about how I
hung blinds when I was in my first apartment versus
now that you own your own home, how differently you
approach things a little bit more. You're a little more
(06:39):
measured when it comes to your own property, your own things,
and as you get better tools and better equipment as
you get older, you tend to use those more same
thing for what you guys that do at Ham's Arborcares.
When it comes to being a very established tree care service,
you've got all the tools and access to all the
tools to make sure that all this stuff is done
absolutely perfectly.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Yeah, and you know, we've got very strong conventional rigging skills,
you know, so for the trees that are out of
the reach of say a crane or something like that,
we really have the specialized techniques and we demonstrate that.
Those are a lot of the YouTube videos where we're
showing conventional rigging the Denal Lift. Now especially we've upgraded
(07:23):
to the ninety two footer, which has a fifty two
foot side reach versus a thirty side reach. That side
reach is really the magic bullet, and so we've been
enjoying that. I recently went out east and observed some
other mechanized machines. You can see on YouTube some postings
(07:43):
that I did of a Cenobogan, which is an articulated
It looks like an excavator, but it's kind of the
rams are set up a little backwards from an excavator,
but it articulates like that and reaches up and can
grab a very large top and bring it to the
(08:04):
ground under control. And you know, as we as I
age uh looking at mechanization, I mean, the options are
out there, and so it's definitely a direction that we're
we'll be going uh for for the right applications. You know,
you can't get those big machines in everywhere, Yeah, but
(08:26):
there's an application.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Talking this morning with Kevin ham Hams Barborcaremaster Arbus at
Hams Arborcare Online Hamsarburcare dot com. That's Hams h A
M M Sarborcare dot com. And speaking of there's an
application for tools and also for treatments. And as we
look towards spring and summer as well, Kevin, a good
time to be thinking about about taking care of those trees,
(08:48):
whether it's an ash tree that that you've got that
you've kept up and maintained. Definitely the time to be
thinking about that and other things too when it comes
to springtime and summertime tree care, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Yeah, we have all of our playing health here that's
gonna be coming on. We'll be lighting up the soil
injections real soon. I think our frost is getting pretty
much gone. I noticed Tom under the woodpile I was
moving some wood around. I'm like, oh, they're still frost
in various places. But yeah, so the soil injections are
(09:19):
the first thing that we we do, and then you know,
fung just sidle sprays pick up in early April as
the buds start. I mean, we're gonna be seeing bud
break real soon. That's that's pretty especially with sixty degree days.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
And Kevin on those on those along those lines, how
are we doing to green day wise? Are we kind
of right on schedule for a pretty typical spring summer.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
We Yeah, we're gonna. We're gonna be, you know, March
thirty first, kind of closing up the old prim We
just pruned an American alum yesterday. We I'll be doing
some oak work today. But yeah, we're we're closing in
on that. We're up or you know in two hundred
and thirty five is the threshold, so we're we're in
(10:07):
the upper hundreds, approaching two hundreds.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Perfect.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
One final thing I wanted to ask you about before
we before we wrapped this morning is obviously springtime also
storm season. You guys do a lot of storm work
for that type of thing, and for folks that may
experience some issues, definitely make sure to give you guys
a call. But just in general, Kevin, it helps to
be an established client when it comes to when it
(10:33):
comes to that type of work. Is obviously you guys
can work with anybody at any time, but they're already
an established client and you know and are familiar with
the trees. It really helps you when it comes to
kind of working on those storm damaged trees. Doesn't it.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Yeah, definitely. I mean we you know, when the storm hits,
the main priority ends up being you know, how drastic
is the need. Yeah, the trees on structures on houses
take first priority. Uh. But then you know it is
mostly our established clients that are are calling us. We're
(11:10):
you know obviously we're on the radio here. Well, we're
well advertised and we get new clients all the time.
But yeah, storms, storms are kind of like, what what's
the worst scenario. You know, somebody's got a tree down
in their backyard. It's like, okay, it's on the list,
we got there. But somebody's got one on their house,
it's poked through the roof, it's on their dining room table.
(11:32):
That's a priority. Yes, and we're going to get in
there and and and get that off so they can
cover the roof and you know, protect from the next
rain or whatever. So yeah, it's it's a logistics you
know juggle. Yes, of once that event.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Occurs, it's for sure, and it's a great day to
start that relationship at hams Arborcare. Of course, learn more
online Hamsarborcare dot com. That's h A M. M s
Arborcare dot com. Tell for number eight sixty six five
nine six five three nine six. That's eight six six
five nine six five three nine six Kevin, enjoy this
beautiful Dan and we'll talk real soon.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Thank you, Sean.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
Take care news comes your way next year on thirteen ten.
Double You IB eight
Eight, nineteen thirteen ten wy B and ask the experts.
Brought to you by Hamsarborcare online Hamsarburcare dot com. That's
h A m MS Arborcare dot com. You can also
find them Facebook social media, as well as their fantastic
YouTube channel Game of Trees also Instagram. Kevin Ham Game
(00:32):
of Trees. The telephone number eight sixty six five nine
six five three nine six. That's eight six six five
nine six five three nine six. And joining us this
morning from Ham's Barborcare is Master Arborist Kevin Ham. Kevin,
how you doing this morning?
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Yeah? Great, I'm kind of midway in my long commute
out to Tally Acid. We're a little and you'll clean
up out there.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
We're going to talk a little bit some trees, that's uh.
And you guys have been out there for a number
of yours now, and I want to ask you a
little bit about what that's like working on such a
historic piece of property. And I know you guys do
work on a number of really really important sites here
in southern Wisconsin. But first and foremost, I was watching
a video you recently posted last night, and and you're
(01:18):
climbing trees and you're finding stuff in the tree. Let's
talk about what you found. And is that uncommon to
find things up in trees when you're climbing.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Yeah, well, it's not common to find things in trees.
Usually down in that that you know, three to five
foot range, you know, right where somebody is hammering and
nail threw in a big wag bolt or something, or
you know, maybe the stepths going up to a tree
(01:49):
stand or you know, some always in the trunk. Usually
while this was up fairly high in a union and
it was all grown in. It was like an old
school bellow and it's just you know, a cast iron
school bell and you know, so it's pretty you know,
it's twenty plus inches across on the base of the
(02:12):
bell and it rings loud. But it wasn't ringing. It
was all trapped in the wood. And you know, we
felled that part of the trunk and you know, it
didn't break out of there or anything. And the mount
had been broken by the growth of the tree kind
of over the years, and it cracked it. And so
(02:34):
we got that welded, which was not inexpensive. Well, I
guess those nickel welding rods are really Yeah, we got
it back, and we're gonna get it lightly stand blasted
and painted flat black. Though it'll be really nice. We'll
(02:54):
get we'll get her, We'll get her ringing again.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Oh that is great to hear and great to see.
And yes, some of the some of the things Kevin
finds while at least up in a tree of school Bell.
Who knew you'd find something like that. Let's talk about
the telly us And and obviously I think anybody that
went to school in this area is probably made a
visitor to a field trip out that way. And really, uh,
historic landmark obviously, great architecture and other things.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
And you guys, Kevin at Cam's at Ham's Arborcare, you
guys have been involved in taking care of the trees
on the property for a while now, haven't you.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Yeah. Everyone, My first foreman, Joel, Joel Hooks, he probably
won't be afraid of me mentioning his name here. Yeah,
he he is now working. He worked for me for
a number of years, then went to the city of
Madison for a long time, and then he got a
position of grounds out there. So it's it's over eight
(03:52):
hundred acres that they manage, you know, there's walking trails,
and they're going to start giving tours I believe even
a week, oh really or so, so you know, pull
them up and check it out. It's a great place
to tour, I kind of. I've done the tour and
and and there's a lot, a lot of neat, neat
(04:13):
history there.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
It's spring Green. It's such a cool area too, is
is Obviously you mentioned the acreage that the studio is
on and that, but also this the neighboring areas also
are are important with that too, Kevin, With with some
of these you know, when you're when you're brought into
to look at these, you know, some of these areas
I look at like like trail maintenance and and you know,
(04:35):
areas you're going to be inviting the public. Is There's
obviously a couple of reasons. One, it's a it's a
very historical site. But also since you've got visitors and
other things, they want to be I'm guessing very very
cautious and very very aware of the condition of all
their trees, don't they.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Yeah, sure, And and you know, I mean it's a
forested area and a lot of places and then they've
got open prairie and and different things as they manage
and Joel takes care of a lot of that. The
things I've been called in for are usually, you know,
stuff that requires maybe a lift, or it's over the
building or the last thing I got called out to
(05:14):
was a crack tree that was over a parking area
and so I was able to get out there and
get that piece down for them, and then they usually
take care of the ground stuff. So we've got me
and one other crew member out here today just because
there's a lot of rigging and different things we're doing
(05:35):
over the top of the building.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
No, will you be able to get to use a
Dino lift on that one?
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Yes, yes, we've got the new lift and that that
fifty two foot side reach is going to be very handy.
I bet it is this big wide silver maple that
we have to maintain.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Oh goodness. And with Kevin as we talked about some
of the different equipment as well that you guys have
available at Ham's Arborcare, and I know you guys get
called in a lot for these very very special, very
important projects, things that require that specialized equipment. I know
we've kind of touched on it a bit last week,
but I think it's important. As you know, folks are
getting ready with spring and summer and looking towards tree
(06:16):
care and getting on that schedule. At Ham's Arborcare. One
of the great things about working with you and the
team at Ham's Arborcare is you've got great people and
you've got the right tools as well for the job.
As I was hanging blinds yesterday, thinking about how I
hung blinds when I was in my first apartment versus
now that you own your own home, how differently you
approach things a little bit more. You're a little more
(06:39):
measured when it comes to your own property, your own things,
and as you get better tools and better equipment as
you get older, you tend to use those more same
thing for what you guys that do at Ham's Arborcares.
When it comes to being a very established tree care service,
you've got all the tools and access to all the
tools to make sure that all this stuff is done
absolutely perfectly.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Yeah, and you know, we've got very strong conventional rigging skills,
you know, so for the trees that are out of
the reach of say a crane or something like that,
we really have the specialized techniques and we demonstrate that.
Those are a lot of the YouTube videos where we're
showing conventional rigging the Denal Lift. Now especially we've upgraded
(07:23):
to the ninety two footer, which has a fifty two
foot side reach versus a thirty side reach. That side
reach is really the magic bullet, and so we've been
enjoying that. I recently went out east and observed some
other mechanized machines. You can see on YouTube some postings
(07:43):
that I did of a Cenobogan, which is an articulated
It looks like an excavator, but it's kind of the
rams are set up a little backwards from an excavator,
but it articulates like that and reaches up and can
grab a very large top and bring it to the
(08:04):
ground under control. And you know, as we as I
age uh looking at mechanization, I mean, the options are
out there, and so it's definitely a direction that we're
we'll be going uh for for the right applications. You know,
you can't get those big machines in everywhere, Yeah, but
(08:26):
there's an application.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Talking this morning with Kevin ham Hams Barborcaremaster Arbus at
Hams Arborcare Online Hamsarburcare dot com. That's Hams h A
M M Sarborcare dot com. And speaking of there's an
application for tools and also for treatments. And as we
look towards spring and summer as well, Kevin, a good
time to be thinking about about taking care of those trees,
(08:48):
whether it's an ash tree that that you've got that
you've kept up and maintained. Definitely the time to be
thinking about that and other things too when it comes
to springtime and summertime tree care, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Yeah, we have all of our playing health here that's
gonna be coming on. We'll be lighting up the soil
injections real soon. I think our frost is getting pretty
much gone. I noticed Tom under the woodpile I was
moving some wood around. I'm like, oh, they're still frost
in various places. But yeah, so the soil injections are
(09:19):
the first thing that we we do, and then you know,
fung just sidle sprays pick up in early April as
the buds start. I mean, we're gonna be seeing bud
break real soon. That's that's pretty especially with sixty degree days.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
And Kevin on those on those along those lines, how
are we doing to green day wise? Are we kind
of right on schedule for a pretty typical spring summer.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
We Yeah, we're gonna. We're gonna be, you know, March
thirty first, kind of closing up the old prim We
just pruned an American alum yesterday. We I'll be doing
some oak work today. But yeah, we're we're closing in
on that. We're up or you know in two hundred
and thirty five is the threshold, so we're we're in
(10:07):
the upper hundreds, approaching two hundreds.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Perfect.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
One final thing I wanted to ask you about before
we before we wrapped this morning is obviously springtime also
storm season. You guys do a lot of storm work
for that type of thing, and for folks that may
experience some issues, definitely make sure to give you guys
a call. But just in general, Kevin, it helps to
be an established client when it comes to when it
(10:33):
comes to that type of work. Is obviously you guys
can work with anybody at any time, but they're already
an established client and you know and are familiar with
the trees. It really helps you when it comes to
kind of working on those storm damaged trees. Doesn't it.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Yeah, definitely. I mean we you know, when the storm hits,
the main priority ends up being you know, how drastic
is the need. Yeah, the trees on structures on houses
take first priority. Uh. But then you know it is
mostly our established clients that are are calling us. We're
(11:10):
you know obviously we're on the radio here. Well, we're
well advertised and we get new clients all the time.
But yeah, storms, storms are kind of like, what what's
the worst scenario. You know, somebody's got a tree down
in their backyard. It's like, okay, it's on the list,
we got there. But somebody's got one on their house,
it's poked through the roof, it's on their dining room table.
(11:32):
That's a priority. Yes, and we're going to get in
there and and and get that off so they can
cover the roof and you know, protect from the next
rain or whatever. So yeah, it's it's a logistics you
know juggle. Yes, of once that event.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Occurs, it's for sure, and it's a great day to
start that relationship at hams Arborcare. Of course, learn more
online Hamsarborcare dot com. That's h A M. M s
Arborcare dot com. Tell for number eight sixty six five
nine six five three nine six. That's eight six six
five nine six five three nine six Kevin, enjoy this
beautiful Dan and we'll talk real soon.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Thank you, Sean.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
Take care news comes your way next year on thirteen ten.
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