Storm Work

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
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(00:23):
six and joining us this morning from hams Arborcare Master
Arborist Kevin Ham. Kevin, how you doing this morning?

Speaker 2 (00:30):
Yeah, it's it's arrived, Sean.

Speaker 1 (00:33):
It has it has and goodness it has been. It
has been. Uh. I think the last twenty four forty
eight hours have been pretty extreme throughout the state. Real
quick before we talk about stormwork and all that that's
going on. When I called, you were just stepping out
a quick trip. What's your go to at quick trip?
What's your go to breakfast item?

Speaker 2 (00:52):
You know, quick trip is very keto friendly, Oh is Yeah,
I don't know if you ever noticed that, but there's
you know, there's eggs. Yeah, there's hard boiled eggs. I
got some of those cheese sticks. I do dairy, so
I got cheese sticks and they have nice little you know,
meat sticks, the Urge brand, So you get four of

(01:12):
them for a couple of bucks. You know, it's it's
a good deal. Yeah. So yeah, I cater towards all that,
and I probably buy way too much full fat cream
there because I'm such as coffee snob. I have to
have real cream.

Speaker 1 (01:27):
I can't have happen. Well, it's it's good that they
have it all for you, and it's good that you
got that in because I know you've got a long,
a long day ahead. You're gonna need that need that energy.
And of course we'll touch of course for folks that
don't know storm work. You guys are are there for folks,
and obviously if you're facing an emergency, you guys can

(01:48):
get things taken care of other issues as well. But
also as we look at at kind of day to
a stuff at hams Arborcare, obviously priority one is anything
that may be an emergency, but they're still the day
to day stuff that goes on, things like spraying and
other things that that Actually, this week's probably a pretty
good week for doing that type of stuff. Let's talk

(02:09):
about that, Kevin.

Speaker 2 (02:10):
Yeah, Well, it's it's been like a Hopscotch kind of
week for it because of the rain. The rain's coming
at night, and so we have sprayed during the days.
And you know, we always get the question, you know, oh,
what what about the efficacy. Well, if if the product
dries on on the you know, the applied area, it's

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killing the inoculant, and then one of our products is
a systemic product. It goes into That's why we don't
spray edible fruit trees, because we utilize something that goes
systemic and so crab apples and different things that so
we we do have efficacy even if it rains later.

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The black spot in in you know, black spot on apple,
that black spot is a rain drop and the fungal
spore was within that rain drop, you know, Well it
was on the leaf surface and then it the rain
drop provided the moisture it needed to do its thing

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and connect itself to the leaf. Well, if we've killed
the inoculum, you know, hours earlier, and then it rains,
there's nothing in that drop to create the spot. And
so that is the rationale behind Well, we don't have
to run right back out and spray that again. We

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spray three times in a season and so we time
these and if it rains shortly after we've been there,
it's not necessarily negative. If it's immediately after, well then yeah,
then washing it right off before perhaps it was effective.
But if it's on there for you know, a half hour,

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you know, forty five minutes, it's dry and it's it's
done its job initially, and then you know, in a
couple of weeks we're going to be back and doing
the second round.

Speaker 1 (04:09):
You know, as I'm looking up at the talking this
morning with Kevin Ham of Ham's Arbacare, I'm looking up
at w KOW channel twenty seven. Of course they are
talking about the storms as well up there, and they
had a story this morning about a tree that got
knocked over in the storm that literally fell right between
two houses. Thank god didn't take out a house or
harm anybody. It's pretty amazing how that works out, and

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it really shows that we think about things like storm
work and some of the damages that damage that storms
can do to trees. Is its trees are a complicated thing.
Is you know, I'll never even come close to grasp
a tenth of what of what you understand when it
comes to taking care of trees but following storms and

(04:53):
that storm clean up, that is something folks really want
to be very very cautious about because there's a lot
of factors to stormwork there.

Speaker 2 (05:00):
Kevin, Oh, yeah, there's there's a ton of tension, would
you know. And you think, oh, it's on the ground, Well,
is it all the way on the ground. You know,
it is something bent in such a way that when
you touch a saw to it, it's going to explode
in your face. And of course I saw a lot
of homeowners out working yesterday, and I didn't see a
single helmet. Oh you know, I don't see chaps, you know,

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And I hear them, I hear the saw. I was
making a video yesterday. I was tying up a tree.
We were doing a bid. Okay, so we don't even
have this job secured, but we're like Taylor had called me.
He says, you can't. We can't leave this tree like this,
you know, And so I stopped by and I tied
the tree together from the ground with throw lines and ropes,

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and I got Sunday's video will be that video. But
we tie it all together. And if we get the job, great, great.
If we don't, well, everybody's slept better at night, and
it didn't take me any time, and she was very
appreciative and flipped me into it. And it's all good.
But in that neighborhood, I'm listening to a saw and

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I'm like, oh, that's a homeowner saw for sure. I
can just see this this defined sawdust and the smoke.
It just sounds dull. And the typical homeowner just does
not know how to sharpen their saw. And you can
just hear in yard and on it and there's nothing
more dangerous than a dull saw because it's certainly sharp

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enough to damage you, but you're forcing it into the
wood and you get a follow through or get or
kicked back because the kickback is a tooth that's catching
wood and then pushing. Well, if that tooth is dull,
the kickback potential is much higher because it's not going

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to cut into the wood. It's going to hit the
wood and then it's going to kick the saw back
and then that's where serious injuries occur. Saw.

Speaker 1 (07:00):
Yeah, yeah, Kevin with that with that too. And I
when I first became a homeowner years ago, one of
the things one of the first purchases I made was
for a chain saw. It just a small little one
to kind of clean up some things here and there.
And something that that I noticed right away was, boy,
oh boy, does it as you talk about having a

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sharp chain, you know, having those the chain sharpened makes
a massive difference obviously the safety aspect, but also the
overall quality of the cut for you, Like when it
comes to servicing your your chain saws, I know, that's
a that's a that's a big thing. You guys spend
a lot of time obviously making sure sharpened and the
chains are sharp anything like that, but even the motors

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and other parts of them regularly, routine routinely doing maintenance
on them to keep them, to keep them not only
functioning well, but keeping them safe.

Speaker 2 (07:53):
Yeah, definitely. You know, our chain break just broke yesterday
on one of our saws, and and that's a cycles
to failure kind of thing. And you know, I mean
we have to decommission that staw until we get change
break fixed because chain break is pretty important part of
the of the process.

Speaker 1 (08:11):
Definitely.

Speaker 2 (08:12):
And yeah, and then just having sharp chains. We got
one guy that's really ambitious about sharpening and and all
the guys are trying to learn, you know, sharpening techniques. Uh,
and it's kind of exciting. We're getting we're getting a
deal with Oregon Chain. They're gonna we're going to be
representing them. And Oregon is a great you know, chain

(08:36):
manufacturer and chainsaw bars, and the bar is what the
chain goes on. It's not a blade, it's a.

Speaker 1 (08:45):
Boss the bar.

Speaker 2 (08:48):
But yeah, keeping a sharp chain, you know, a sharp uh,
you know, a sharp chain just leads to efficiency and
safety and and everything else.

Speaker 1 (08:59):
And it's really forward to when you're hiring somebody to
to be taking care of your trees, you want them,
for obvious reasons, to be to be safe and be knowledgeable,
but also making sure that they're that they're using the
proper tools, having the proper tools available to them, making
sure that they are they are protected when it comes
to not only physical injury, but also if if accidents,
if an accident will occur, properly ensured, those type of

(09:21):
things some of the great stuff, as we talked with
Kevin Ham of Ham's Arborcare, those those things are are
you know, right at the core of what you guys do.
The safety. I remember the hope uh that you what
was Hazard's what was hope again. Obstacles.

Speaker 2 (09:36):
Yeah, yeah, hazard's obstacles, plan and equipment.

Speaker 1 (09:39):
That's it. Yeah, it's been probably a year since we
talked about about that and the importance.

Speaker 2 (09:45):
Yeah, that's tree you got you you were pulling it out,
you would have got it, kept rying given.

Speaker 1 (09:49):
Yeah, but yeah, that is that is something that that
you guys take very very seriously at Ham's Arborcare. It's
an important day as we look at what we've been
through and of course tonight and days to come looks
like we're to have more severe weather. Make sure that
that if you do have three issues concerns, I have
Kevin's number, and of course have the website of al
Hamsarburcare dot com. Tell for number eight six six five

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nine six five three nine six. That's eight sixty six
five nine six five three nine six Kevin. Enjoy that
quick trip, Stay hydrated and we'll talk real soon, my friend.

Speaker 2 (10:19):
Thank you, sir, Take care, take care.

Speaker 1 (10:21):
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