By 11 a.m. Friday, Devin Gonzalez was already taking a chainsaw to his third tree on a house in Wyoming’s capital city, cleaning up the carnage left behind by a record-breaking Thursday windstorm that produced gusts up to 109 mph, left thousands without power and uprooted dozens of mature trees.
“Yeah, we got two other jobs finished before this one, and we have several more after it,” said Gonzalez, who works for The Tree Feller.
This job looked a little more intimidating than others, with a huge, 60-foot pine that had been ripped from the ground and left leaning against a historic brick house. Gonzalez and his coworkers were on the roof, tethered by safety lines, using chainsaws to break it down.
“The main focus is when you cut pieces off is to not get more damage to the house,” he said. “In this case it already hit the house.”
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