the_cutting

The cutting edge

 
"Yeah right Trev. Think you're right ... BONG BONG.
 
Taps again to be sure. 
"Yep. Definitely hollow. 
Reckon it should come down. 
Hazard to kids playing in the park. That sort of thing. "
 
"Better we get on with it.
We don't want those greenies climbing all over it again, 
Post the tree felling notice tomorrow HA HA HA."
 
RUMPH RUMPH dit dit dit
    
   RUMPH RUMPH  WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
 
What did you say?  Can't hear you over the chainsaw.
 
dind dind dind
 
Sure it LOOKS healthy.  Hold on a moment. 
 
WAAA dind dind dind 
 
Been here seventy years, did you say. 
Still standing after the Great Gale in '97.  
And more of the solid trees cracked and fell. 
 
What's ya point this time?  
Is this another one your theories?
Sounds like a fairy story to me.  Yock Yock Yock. 
 
Look I've got a job to do.  
What are you my bleeding conscience or something. 
Stand over there and let me get on with it. 
 
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA WAA WAA
SCREEEECH CRASH CRACK
 
Haven't you got _any_thing better to do than confuse me with facts.
Is that right, is it?  
The centre of the tree is deadwood anyway.
You don't say.  
 
Now you tell me. 
 
And this natural decay in the middle isn't patho...patho...genic.
Next thing you'll be telling me its healthy.
All part of some grand design. 
 
Oh it IS.  
 
It makes the mature trees lighter SO THEY DON'T FALL DOWN. 
 
What would I know about that?!  Look, I'm a council worker. 
And you better forget about it too if you want to keep on being one.
 
Hmmm. Any more fuel in that can by your foot Trev.  
 
 
See that SOLID tree over there... 
 
Just ...