What's the deal with the tree branches?

[safetyguy]

quote:Originally posted by tulsa1603

Driving down Riverside today, I noticed that the park at 61st is becoming a MOUNTAIN of debris.  What are they going to do with it all?  Are they hauling it all there, then hauling it all somewhere else?  That would seem inefficient..  It's so big, i can't imagine they'll burn it....and all it would take is one imbalanced person and a pack of matches to cause a HUGE disaster.  Anyone know the details of what's going to happen with it?

I thought another contractor was going to mulch it down... We will have mulch coming out of every orifice!!

[patric]

I cant figure out any rhyme or reason to some of the collection...
The claw crew was here at 7am Sunday and picked up about half a dozen houses on our side of the street.  They made it through half the pile across the street before leaving again, but this time they didnt come back and havent been seen since.
Wonder what that was about?

EDIT:  They returned Friday afternoon, but not where they left off.  Wonder if that counts as the "second pass"?

[jne]

My area has now been lit up as a 'first pass in progress' site for a few days now. I still haven't seen any progress.  You seen any trucks around Cannon?  Its a very small segment, it seems like you would see something immediately if work were actually started in the area.  Does 'work in progress' mean, gassing up cars, outfitting monitors, taking a look at the map, and "fixin' to pick up them sticks"??

[dayzella]

They did a first pass on our house on Wednesday - took a teeny end off the 5 foot high line that went all the way down our curb and then the branch picker-uppers took off again.

I thought that they weren't really going to come back, that I might as well go ahead and rename the house Fort Fairgrounds and work with the Nature Conservancy to turn the front yard into a wildlife retreat ...

On Thursday, the branch picker-uppers came back.  And they must have brought an empty truck bed with them, because all of our branches have been taken.  We are now branch free.  Free of branch!  Woo!

[citizen72]

We live in Chimney Hills. Our branches were picked up this past week. Did a really good job. We are quite pleased.

[RecycleMichael]

My property stretches lengthwise through the whole block. They got half of mine on Friday (the west side), and I hope they get the east side soon. They did a pretty good job and have done 3 or 4 hundred homes in my neighborhood in a week.

I got a bunch of firewood, probably more than I can burn in ten years, but still had plenty of branches too small to do much with. I have a chipper that handles a branch up to an inch and a half, but this much would have taken hundreds of hours to grind.

My props to the guys for doing a "tree"-mendous job. In the words of Elvis, "thank you, thank you very mulch."

[citizen72]

Yes thank you so very much.

[Steve]

I can't complain as my debris was picked up 6 days ago, but there is still a section of my midtown street that they have not touched.

I noticed in my subdivision Lortondale they have gone down most all east/west streets to date with the first pass, but they have not touched any debris left on the north/south running streets.  Friends of mine in Ranch Acres say the opposite is true in their neighborhood.  I have not seen any debris trucks in my neighborhood in about 3 days.  Doesn't seem to be much method in the madness.

[ARGUS]

Vector Vector! Please come here Mr. Tree Limb picker-upper. One truck drove down my street but alas did not stop....ruined my whole day!
Perhaps this 7 day work week should be cut back to 6 days a week so they could have time to spend the money here toooooo!

[AngieB]

Debris removal map updated 01/24
http://cityoftulsa.org/documents/DebrisRemovalMap01-24-2008.pdf

[jne]

My large pile remains...

[joiei]

I still see lots of piles in Upper Midtown, 41st to 11th and Lewis to the river

[patric]

When the claw crew was last here on the 18th, they left a row of about six houses behind and have since moved on to another neighborhood.
They left midway through one neighbors pile.

Thought one of the $15/hr inspectors might have caught that...
Oversight or cutting corners?

[sgrizzle]

According to the CoT map, they haven't really cleared anywhere in midtown yet.
http://cityoftulsa.org/documents/DebrisRemovalMap01-25-2008.pdf

[ARGUS]

They got mine!!!! YeeeHaw! Well almost all of my branches....one of my brushpiles wea too far from the curb....it was a huge pile of HUGE logs.
Here's a question: WHY DID THE CITY VOLUNTEER TO DO THIS ANYWAY? IT SEEMS LIKE WE SHOULD BE RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS ON OUR OWN AS INDIVIDUAL PROPERTY OWNERS.