Hit 100 tree removals this year, here's what surprised me

I passed my 100th removal of 2024 last Thursday on a big red oak outside Boulder. The one that got me was how many calls are for trees that only needed a good prune a decade ago, not a takedown. Of those 100, I bet 30 were avoidable if someone had just called an arborist back then. Has anyone else tracked their numbers like this and seen a pattern?

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the_nina1mo ago

I mean, that math feels a little generous, most of the avoidable ones I see are from storm damage or people just ignoring cracks for way too long. Pruning helps, but I dont think it saves a third of the trees that come down.

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