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2018 Fall Home & Garden Lincoln Daily News Sept. 26, 2018 Page 25 and vehicles. Felling trees is ranked among the top 10 most deadly jobs in the United States. [This compilation of “Tree cutting failures” is convincing that it may be best to leave it to the professionals. Warning: this video contains graphic scenes of amateur tree cutting failures. Viewer discretion advised. From early spring thru late fall, professional tree companies rush from job to job trying to keep up with the deluge of work. These companies have specialized equipment for taking down trees and limbs, and also for carting the refuse away when they are done. Using expensive high-powered chain saws which are leagues above home-owner saws in both power and bar size, tree professionals know how to make cuts to take down trees and branches safely, avoiding personal injury and damage to property. Home owners attempting to reach high branches often resort to flimsy ladders, balanced precariously, in danger of falling over or being struck by falling limbs and often causing personal injury (and giving concerned wives great anxiety). Using bucket trucks capable of safely reaching 70 feet high, tree professionals can reach the whole tree, trim out the high branches first before felling the main trunk, making the whole job much quicker and safer than if done by unskilled, unequipped amateurs. Using a bucket truck for tree removal Using large machines to grab heavy logs, tree professionals quickly clean up a job site after taking down the tree. These machines, with heavy duty grabbers on the front, pick up the debris and load it on trucks to be taken away from the site, leaving your yard not only free of the offending tree, but also of every stick of the debris from bringing it down. Continued nn