1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:02,759 Speaker 1: Had a tree or a rather large branch come crashing 2 00:00:02,800 --> 00:00:05,400 Speaker 1: back to earth when it shouldn't. Maybe it went the 3 00:00:05,400 --> 00:00:05,880 Speaker 1: wrong way. 4 00:00:06,280 --> 00:00:08,840 Speaker 2: I had a beautiful tree in the backyard of a 5 00:00:08,840 --> 00:00:11,520 Speaker 2: house I rented once in Subiaco. It was the reason 6 00:00:11,680 --> 00:00:15,520 Speaker 2: I moved into this house. Yeah, about eight months after 7 00:00:15,560 --> 00:00:18,040 Speaker 2: I moved in, it started to get lower and lower 8 00:00:18,040 --> 00:00:20,840 Speaker 2: and lower, and it was dead, you know, the branches were. 9 00:00:21,360 --> 00:00:24,080 Speaker 2: It was dying, so you know, the real estate agent 10 00:00:24,120 --> 00:00:28,639 Speaker 2: said it has to come down. Well, mine neighbor was like, 11 00:00:29,360 --> 00:00:32,159 Speaker 2: said to me, what kind of person cuts down a 12 00:00:32,200 --> 00:00:34,160 Speaker 2: beautiful tree like that? And I said, a person who 13 00:00:34,200 --> 00:00:36,360 Speaker 2: has no choice because it's dead. Mate, do you want 14 00:00:36,360 --> 00:00:38,960 Speaker 2: it on your roof? He wouldn't talk to me for 15 00:00:39,120 --> 00:00:40,720 Speaker 2: the rest of the time I lived there. He thought 16 00:00:40,760 --> 00:00:43,239 Speaker 2: I owned the joint and I was cutting down this 17 00:00:43,320 --> 00:00:45,520 Speaker 2: tree because I didn't like it. 18 00:00:45,120 --> 00:00:49,440 Speaker 1: It can cause real arguments. I had the tree loppers 19 00:00:49,479 --> 00:00:52,400 Speaker 1: at my place tidying things up over the last couple 20 00:00:52,400 --> 00:00:56,040 Speaker 1: of days. Thankfully, so far nothing has gone wrong. But 21 00:00:56,360 --> 00:00:58,960 Speaker 1: so often things do go wrong, And that's what we 22 00:00:59,040 --> 00:01:00,279 Speaker 1: want to hear about. This small well. 23 00:01:00,320 --> 00:01:05,360 Speaker 2: Alex in Mount Pleasant is a tree contractor. Hello Alex, Yeah, 24 00:01:05,440 --> 00:01:07,360 Speaker 2: good morning, There you go, you've been witnessed to. 25 00:01:08,319 --> 00:01:10,560 Speaker 3: Now let's just get things straight here as well. It's 26 00:01:10,600 --> 00:01:13,560 Speaker 3: not a tree loper. It's a tree surgeon. Yes, and 27 00:01:13,600 --> 00:01:16,600 Speaker 3: we specialized in the amputation of lega. 28 00:01:17,440 --> 00:01:21,000 Speaker 2: Oh God, put that two or two together. 29 00:01:20,840 --> 00:01:25,200 Speaker 1: You know what. You're absolutely right, Alex, and I will 30 00:01:25,240 --> 00:01:28,199 Speaker 1: be I stand corrected, because it actually did have tree 31 00:01:28,280 --> 00:01:29,679 Speaker 1: surgeon on the side of the truck. 32 00:01:29,840 --> 00:01:33,440 Speaker 3: Yeah, there we go, beautiful. 33 00:01:33,480 --> 00:01:35,800 Speaker 4: But now I had a bit of an incident earlier 34 00:01:35,840 --> 00:01:38,520 Speaker 4: this year really sort of shook me a bit and 35 00:01:38,560 --> 00:01:40,120 Speaker 4: has me sort of questioning what's going on. 36 00:01:40,120 --> 00:01:41,560 Speaker 3: What's the universe trying to tell me. 37 00:01:42,800 --> 00:01:45,480 Speaker 4: I went and did a job in Brentwood. We were 38 00:01:45,520 --> 00:01:48,200 Speaker 4: cutting down some trees out the back and you know, 39 00:01:48,360 --> 00:01:51,560 Speaker 4: some pruning as well. I left the undumped the truck 40 00:01:51,760 --> 00:01:56,360 Speaker 4: came back and I heard a massive crash anyway, so 41 00:01:56,400 --> 00:01:58,960 Speaker 4: I sort of scratching my head. A tree had fallen over. 42 00:01:59,360 --> 00:02:01,960 Speaker 4: A tree had fallen over. Not a tree we were 43 00:02:02,000 --> 00:02:04,360 Speaker 4: working on the same property, but a tree at the 44 00:02:04,400 --> 00:02:07,000 Speaker 4: front had crashed down on the top of my chip 45 00:02:07,000 --> 00:02:08,160 Speaker 4: back in the neighbor's house. 46 00:02:09,080 --> 00:02:10,760 Speaker 3: So of course it's not a very good look when 47 00:02:10,800 --> 00:02:13,080 Speaker 3: there's a tree on the ground. The tree, all the 48 00:02:13,120 --> 00:02:15,960 Speaker 3: equipments out in the front, and it's all smashed on 49 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:21,040 Speaker 3: the next door neighbor's house. Luckily, they had CCTV footage 50 00:02:21,040 --> 00:02:27,000 Speaker 3: of it, so we were nowhere near it when it happened. No, 51 00:02:27,440 --> 00:02:30,800 Speaker 3: the plot thickens a bit. That was actually the first 52 00:02:30,880 --> 00:02:34,080 Speaker 3: house I lived in as a baby, and my mother 53 00:02:34,600 --> 00:02:38,000 Speaker 3: and grandmother planted that tree fifty years ago. 54 00:02:38,520 --> 00:02:41,240 Speaker 1: So now this is why you're questioning the universe. I 55 00:02:41,280 --> 00:02:41,680 Speaker 1: get it. 56 00:02:42,200 --> 00:02:46,560 Speaker 3: Weird, absolutely so. Anyway, it hasn't been really a great 57 00:02:46,680 --> 00:02:51,720 Speaker 3: year since that, so maybe I'm looking forward to twenty 58 00:02:51,760 --> 00:02:52,320 Speaker 3: twenty six. 59 00:02:53,160 --> 00:02:55,960 Speaker 1: So as a tree surgeon, you now park well away 60 00:02:56,000 --> 00:02:56,560 Speaker 1: from trees. 61 00:02:57,800 --> 00:02:59,200 Speaker 3: Yeah, well, it's one of those things. 62 00:02:59,200 --> 00:03:01,640 Speaker 4: It was a perfectly healthy tree, and it was just 63 00:03:01,680 --> 00:03:04,520 Speaker 4: a fairly strong easterly and it came over. I never 64 00:03:04,560 --> 00:03:07,600 Speaker 4: would have picked it, it would have gone over. Yeah, it's 65 00:03:07,600 --> 00:03:09,480 Speaker 4: not always possible to do that yet, but we keep 66 00:03:09,480 --> 00:03:10,400 Speaker 4: it in mind for sure. 67 00:03:10,560 --> 00:03:13,240 Speaker 2: It's the history of the tree that gets me. That's 68 00:03:13,880 --> 00:03:15,440 Speaker 2: so bizarre. 69 00:03:15,639 --> 00:03:18,600 Speaker 1: Wow, Okay, that's that's a weird one. Alex. 70 00:03:19,120 --> 00:03:22,920 Speaker 2: Well, Alex, good luck. Yes with the rest of twenty five. 71 00:03:24,720 --> 00:03:28,079 Speaker 1: Careful where you passed the chipper and the truck, Alex. Yes, 72 00:03:28,200 --> 00:03:31,120 Speaker 1: oh boy, how bizarre. That is very bizarre. Can you 73 00:03:31,200 --> 00:03:31,519 Speaker 1: top that? 74 00:03:31,840 --> 00:03:32,760 Speaker 2: Dean in Elinborough? 75 00:03:32,760 --> 00:03:36,480 Speaker 1: Hello, how to going, Dean? What happened? What went wrong? 76 00:03:36,800 --> 00:03:39,280 Speaker 5: No trees falling over? Except for my dad a back 77 00:03:39,400 --> 00:03:42,320 Speaker 5: fifty odd years ago when you could actually give punish 78 00:03:42,400 --> 00:03:45,400 Speaker 5: your kids. We used to have a willow tree at 79 00:03:45,440 --> 00:03:48,880 Speaker 5: the back, and I hate trees. So he used to 80 00:03:49,040 --> 00:03:51,720 Speaker 5: rip the willow trees branches off, and he chased me 81 00:03:51,760 --> 00:03:54,560 Speaker 5: down South Road in Adelaide, and all I could eat 82 00:03:54,560 --> 00:03:57,000 Speaker 5: of this washing of these willow tree going through the 83 00:03:57,040 --> 00:03:59,280 Speaker 5: air and saying, come back here, you little bugger. 84 00:04:01,440 --> 00:04:03,280 Speaker 2: That's do you hate trees? 85 00:04:04,080 --> 00:04:05,840 Speaker 1: That's an arborous story with the difference. 86 00:04:07,360 --> 00:04:08,560 Speaker 5: Wow, yeah, that's a tree. 87 00:04:08,560 --> 00:04:09,720 Speaker 3: Sorry, So I thought that. 88 00:04:09,680 --> 00:04:14,680 Speaker 1: Was story, Dean. When you've looked at when you've looked 89 00:04:14,680 --> 00:04:17,440 Speaker 1: at properties over the years as to whether or to 90 00:04:17,520 --> 00:04:20,719 Speaker 1: buy or not, is a willow tree in the yard 91 00:04:20,960 --> 00:04:22,039 Speaker 1: a deal breaker for you? 92 00:04:23,080 --> 00:04:23,240 Speaker 6: Well? 93 00:04:23,240 --> 00:04:25,400 Speaker 5: I hate leaves as well. So yeah, look at my 94 00:04:25,400 --> 00:04:27,200 Speaker 5: backyard now, I have no trees whatsoever. 95 00:04:28,200 --> 00:04:30,960 Speaker 1: He's got a he's got a concrete backyard and fruit 96 00:04:33,480 --> 00:04:33,839 Speaker 1: the lawn. 97 00:04:34,520 --> 00:04:37,880 Speaker 2: The lawn's amazing, Yeah, yeah, it is nice and green 98 00:04:38,040 --> 00:04:39,160 Speaker 2: all right, thank you, Jean. 99 00:04:39,279 --> 00:04:40,880 Speaker 1: But no leaves, thank you, Jane. 100 00:04:40,680 --> 00:04:46,520 Speaker 2: Brook A nice leaf, that's right. Make it difficult for yourself. Hey, 101 00:04:46,560 --> 00:04:48,600 Speaker 2: did you see that guy on the news last week. 102 00:04:48,920 --> 00:04:53,279 Speaker 2: He's an arborist. Yes, and he saved that ospray that 103 00:04:53,360 --> 00:04:54,800 Speaker 2: was tangled up in a tree. We're going to try 104 00:04:54,800 --> 00:04:55,599 Speaker 2: to get hold of him. 105 00:04:55,720 --> 00:04:57,360 Speaker 1: Oh yes, and I read about it actually in the 106 00:04:57,400 --> 00:04:59,000 Speaker 1: local paper in the post too, They did a bit 107 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:01,200 Speaker 1: of a story, so he was he was quite the 108 00:05:01,240 --> 00:05:04,760 Speaker 1: celebrity with the great rescue. Yeah, we'll get him on 109 00:05:04,800 --> 00:05:10,760 Speaker 1: the line soon. We've been talking about arbor accidents, you know, 110 00:05:11,200 --> 00:05:18,799 Speaker 1: tree surgery gone wrongez crashing onto tree search and houses 111 00:05:20,000 --> 00:05:21,479 Speaker 1: and vehicles. 112 00:05:21,000 --> 00:05:22,440 Speaker 2: But it hasn't been the case. 113 00:05:22,480 --> 00:05:23,080 Speaker 3: Did you know. 114 00:05:23,360 --> 00:05:26,280 Speaker 1: I've had trees coming down, well, one tree and some 115 00:05:26,360 --> 00:05:29,279 Speaker 1: lopping going on tree surgery. Sorry for the last couple 116 00:05:29,320 --> 00:05:31,760 Speaker 1: of days, but we have a good news story. 117 00:05:31,440 --> 00:05:34,520 Speaker 2: Here Titus Grays and Arborus from Trees West and Titus 118 00:05:34,520 --> 00:05:37,320 Speaker 2: found fame last week when he rescued an osprey that 119 00:05:37,400 --> 00:05:39,880 Speaker 2: was tangled in fishing line with a fishing hook and 120 00:05:40,000 --> 00:05:42,479 Speaker 2: was stuck hanging from a tree near the Swan River. 121 00:05:42,520 --> 00:05:44,600 Speaker 2: You can catch up on this story on nine News 122 00:05:44,640 --> 00:05:50,480 Speaker 2: per facebook page from last Tuesday, Titus, not all heroes 123 00:05:50,520 --> 00:05:54,799 Speaker 2: wear capes, as they say, what an amazing thing you did? 124 00:05:56,320 --> 00:05:59,200 Speaker 7: Yes, yeah, thank you, thank you for having me. 125 00:06:00,320 --> 00:06:01,400 Speaker 8: Yeah, crazy story. 126 00:06:01,600 --> 00:06:04,040 Speaker 2: Well we've been taking calls and text on tree tails. 127 00:06:04,360 --> 00:06:07,720 Speaker 2: You're an arborist, what is them? Was this tale? You know? 128 00:06:07,760 --> 00:06:09,760 Speaker 2: You're most bizarre? Or have there been others? 129 00:06:12,080 --> 00:06:15,359 Speaker 6: This will definitely be one of my topmost three moments 130 00:06:15,600 --> 00:06:16,039 Speaker 6: for sure. 131 00:06:16,680 --> 00:06:18,599 Speaker 8: I guess the other time I've. 132 00:06:18,440 --> 00:06:22,200 Speaker 6: Saved an animal was a black cat about eighteen months ago, 133 00:06:22,360 --> 00:06:26,479 Speaker 6: and yeah, that was a lot more dangerous and saving 134 00:06:26,520 --> 00:06:28,480 Speaker 6: this osprey, that's for sure. We've got a lot more 135 00:06:28,520 --> 00:06:29,120 Speaker 6: scratched up. 136 00:06:29,480 --> 00:06:32,880 Speaker 1: Yeah, of course, of course that's why you guys wear gloves. 137 00:06:33,120 --> 00:06:36,360 Speaker 2: I've always wondered when when you rescue an animal that's 138 00:06:36,400 --> 00:06:39,200 Speaker 2: tangled in something, do you get the vibe that they 139 00:06:39,360 --> 00:06:42,040 Speaker 2: know they're being helped or they just want to get 140 00:06:42,040 --> 00:06:43,080 Speaker 2: the hell out of dodge? 141 00:06:44,560 --> 00:06:48,240 Speaker 6: And I'd like to think that yeah, they kind of know. 142 00:06:48,800 --> 00:06:51,360 Speaker 6: With the osprey, I like to think, yeah, he knew 143 00:06:51,400 --> 00:06:54,000 Speaker 6: what was going on, but also he just would have 144 00:06:54,040 --> 00:06:58,280 Speaker 6: been exhausted from amount of time it would have been 145 00:06:58,320 --> 00:06:58,960 Speaker 6: up in the tree. 146 00:07:00,200 --> 00:07:04,440 Speaker 1: Yeah, and then along came his hero, not in a cape, 147 00:07:04,480 --> 00:07:06,600 Speaker 1: but in a you know, in a cherry pick. 148 00:07:09,360 --> 00:07:12,000 Speaker 2: Have you have you had any update on the condition 149 00:07:12,080 --> 00:07:12,720 Speaker 2: of Ossie. 150 00:07:14,520 --> 00:07:17,240 Speaker 8: Yes, unfortunately there has passed away. 151 00:07:17,800 --> 00:07:24,600 Speaker 7: On the seventeenth Despy w a wild last best efforts, 152 00:07:25,360 --> 00:07:28,560 Speaker 7: but it just suffered a severe trauma and died most 153 00:07:28,680 --> 00:07:29,800 Speaker 7: likely dudistress. 154 00:07:30,040 --> 00:07:34,640 Speaker 2: Yeah, well at least you tried, did Yeah, that's it. 155 00:07:35,760 --> 00:07:39,080 Speaker 8: Yes, that gave it as much hope, as much chance 156 00:07:39,120 --> 00:07:40,040 Speaker 8: as we could give it. 157 00:07:40,160 --> 00:07:52,240 Speaker 1: Yeah, well you should laugh about for demise radio. I 158 00:07:52,320 --> 00:07:56,080 Speaker 1: know I shouldn't have asked, but this is a good 159 00:07:56,120 --> 00:07:58,600 Speaker 1: warning because apparently it was fishing line right. 160 00:07:58,640 --> 00:08:05,960 Speaker 2: Yeah, wrecked. Be careful with what you're throwing because it 161 00:08:06,000 --> 00:08:10,520 Speaker 2: would lead to and Titus can't be everywhere, so you know. 162 00:08:10,960 --> 00:08:13,320 Speaker 2: But still we thank you for your service. Titus, have 163 00:08:13,400 --> 00:08:14,280 Speaker 2: a great day. 164 00:08:15,040 --> 00:08:19,760 Speaker 8: Thank you. Can I just say just my generous boss, 165 00:08:19,840 --> 00:08:24,760 Speaker 8: Richard Landers, has mentioned that if anybody calls up Trees 166 00:08:24,840 --> 00:08:29,080 Speaker 8: Less Australia ye mentioned my name, they will get ten 167 00:08:29,120 --> 00:08:30,560 Speaker 8: percent off all tree work. 168 00:08:31,040 --> 00:08:39,040 Speaker 2: Well, Titus, great, there you go do that. Thank you 169 00:08:39,320 --> 00:08:40,240 Speaker 2: got him nice. 170 00:08:40,640 --> 00:08:44,120 Speaker 1: That was very generous. R for you, you do exactly. 171 00:08:44,280 --> 00:08:45,480 Speaker 1: Mine's Mine's finished.