Asplundh Tree Service has been trimming and cutting down trees in my Northeast Greensboro neighborhood for the last several weeks now on behalf of Duke Energy. My neighbors are all happy that our electricity won't be going out this winter. We would have had them here long ago had Nancy Vaughan and those pesky folks across town in neighborhoods like Westerwood not held them at bay with bogus court orders and city ordinances that ultimately won't stand up in court.
Yes, Asplundh left some wood for others to clean up but it wasn't a problem as lots of men with pick-up trucks and trailers have been scouring my neighborhood picking up every piece of wood they can find as fast as they can load and haul it away. Some of them will heat their own homes but most of that wood is sold to local convenience store operators who sell it in bundles to people across town in neighborhoods like Westerwood who are too lazy to cut and split their own firewood.
I wish I had a wood stove in my home.
The guys from Asplundh were really great. They pruned a tree for me for free that wasn't on their list and chipped up piles of broken limbs for several of my neighbors so that they wouldn't have to cut them up and bundle them for pick up by the City of Greensboro.
It's funny how Nancy Vaughan and those pesky folks across town in neighborhoods like Westerwood have become so self absorbed that they never stop to consider that Greensboro's real working class counts on their trees being cut for their very existence. And if those trees don't get cut and the electricity goes out then Nancy Vaughan and those pesky folks across town in neighborhoods like Westerwood won't be able to buy firewood to heat their homes.
Myself, like several of my neighbors, got several tons of free wood chips out of the deal. Every day there are listings in the free section of Craigslist Greensboro for free mulch and free firewood delivered to within 3 miles of where they are working or you can do like I did and walk right up and ask. To get rid of the stuff, Asplundh has to pay the City of Greensboro something around $35 a ton with each load containing 2 tons or more, plus fuel and labor so they are quite happy to dump it anywhere they can safely and legally dump it.
Some time next week I should be able to get the old Mercury back in the driveway, but hey, the yard and gardens are beginning to look great and this year should be a great year for Northeast Greensboro vegetable gardens where people don't grow tomatoes as a hobby but because we need to eat.
