THE TREE TENDER

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I operate a tree service in Austin, Texas and am an Arborist. My service is known as The Tree Tender. Austin tree care is my focus, though I provide tree care for the surrounding area. I was a "certified" Arborist for over 15 years and then decided to stop paying the fee to keep my certification." I went to classes every year to maintain my certification for so many years I exhausted the curriculum and got tired of studying the same stuff again. I have by now learned a few things and I incorporate my knowledge into my service to the trees and my clients.

I started working in the tree industry in 1973 working for the "other guy." Over the years I got as far up in the hierarchy of that first company as I was going to go due to the fact that the owner's Sons-In-Law had all of the top positions and the owner had no intentions of putting his daughters husbands out. That owner helped me start a business of my own which didn't last long and I went to work for another guy until 1992 when I started getting jobs for myself and by 1994 I had established The Tree Tender formally. I have been working the the trees now for decades.

I take care of trees and I am in this business because I love trees and I feel much the same as a people doctor feels; satisfied by the wonderful thing I do to make a living. I like to be considered a tree doctor and I am by all rights a "tree hugger". Please, do not ask me to kill a living tree. I do not have the heart for it; even if it truly does need to be done. There are plenty of people who would love the job and they are welcome to it. However, if you want someone to care for your trees in the best possible way, I am the man for the job.

My company provides pruning, thinning, shaping, cabling, bracing, cavity treatment, ball moss removal, dead limb removal, mistletoe removal, diagnostics, consultations, and more. I studied Botany in college and my tree care is done with the latest scientific methods. In a nutshell, we climb trees to do what is necessary to help the trees.

Our work is governed by the fact that the only thing you take with you when you go is your honor. I seek to manifest the virtues and strive for perfection. I believe all things must be done right to the smallest detail, especially when they are done to a sacred living being as venerable as a tree.

I possess the necessary skill to climb the highest trees and work on any limb all the way to the end, even at my age, born in 1950, right in the heart of Texas. Sometimes people gather from the neighborhood to watch me climb trees. Other tree companies have hired me to climb a tree no one else had the courage to climb. It is thrilling to climb more challenging trees. I know you are wondering, so I'll just say it here; I have never had a serious fall, just one minor fall that didn't injure me. (I am knocking on wood as I write this.)

Since I started The Tree Tender, I have acquired so many tree patients that I am unable to even guess at the number. I do know I have over twelve thousand copies of the proposals I have done for people. I have thousands of satisfied customers and my business now perpetuates itself. I have only this website as advertising and get as much work as I can handle, which is not to say I do not want more clients.

The work I do for trees sometimes does not require follow up work for many years. Oaks that I have pruned have needed no further work for fifteen years. Some species require more frequent pruning but they are also the species that do not live long enough. So, I am always eager to meet new trees and their owners.

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