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<br /> 400 That's everywhere. Carrboro, '90s and 70s,just enormous trees, and even if you didn't clear cut and you just
<br /> 401 had the houses, and you're trying to infill like some of these more historic areas, we're seeing huge problems
<br /> 402 of people killing the old trees from that, from construction and trying to build an accessory dwelling unit. We
<br /> 403 have 19 climbers. This is what you need because a lot of things you can't do. What people associate with tree
<br /> 404 work is these bucket trucks, but that's because you're going down the street and seeing them work on power
<br /> 405 lines. We're working in backyards, and we need to train these guys to climb. We have 19 of them. We're not
<br /> 406 using the big machines that are used for clearing site development that people see when they get upset. We
<br /> 407 have to get into people's backyards. We're using compact machinery like this. These are the wood chippers.
<br /> 408 They make a ton of racket and people's noises, and because we can't bring it, this wood anywhere, we have to
<br /> 409 process it all on site, and that is horrendous. You go down any neighborhood, you can just listen. "Well,
<br /> 410 there's some tree work going on." Our dump trucks are not huge. This is our dump truck because, again,
<br /> 411 we're getting into neighborhoods. All our work has to be compact. That as some of the concern of the
<br /> 412 neighbors. Like, "you're driving giant machines." We're not. Our biggest machines are really specialized like
<br /> 413 this type of crane that reaches out 112 feet and then grapples and cuts, and then a bucket truck, but they don't
<br /> 414 go out with every crew. You can learn more about us on the websites: Instagram, 12,000 posts plus; YouTube
<br /> 415 videos, David's putting a lot of drone footage; online reviews, great places. Every one of these places. If it's a
<br /> 416 star rating, we have five stars, never a negative review. Ask your neighbors. Ask the local tree savvy places,
<br /> 417 "who's tree savvy around here?" North Carolina Botanical Garden, New Hope Audubon Society. Ask anybody
<br /> 418 there, ask about us. Noise concerns, what we've done here is, we're really far away from people. But
<br /> 419 occasionally, let's say we're doing training for our new employees with chainsaws. We're gonna fire off these
<br /> 420 gas chainsaws. Chainsaws are loud. The neighbors might be rightfully concerned "is that gonna wake me
<br /> 421 up." I know they're concerned about the dogs that are already up there, so is this gonna cause them another
<br /> 422 problem? I didn't know at the Neighborhood Information Meeting whether that would be a concern, so we
<br /> 423 actually went out and tested it. One person at the location near the cell tower, where we would fire up the
<br /> 424 chainsaw and then another of us went to the listening places. We shot video of it. You can see it. You can
<br /> 425 compare it and listen in. You cannot hear. You cannot hear a chainsaw, even the loudest chainsaw that we
<br /> 426 have, 170 decibels, they say. Cannot be heard and we have, we put together a video on this. Town of Chapel
<br /> 427 Hill Public Works, what are we doing? We're staging stuff, so there's gonna be some loading and unloading of
<br /> 428 logs and stuff like that. Not as loud as unloading gravel or dumping gravel into a metal bed, but we are far
<br /> 429 away. You're not gonna be able to hear that. This is the Town of Chapel Hill Public Works, that Rural Buffer
<br /> 430 site. They are 350 feet. They're doing that and you can see from aerial photos, they have big diesel loaders
<br /> 431 out there. We are 5.7 times that distance away from the nearest residence that might complain. So, here's
<br /> 432 that video. The link is there. The proof is there. We, he's great at editing videos. I am pretty proud of this
<br /> 433 little video because it shows not only the chainsaw, but the Marine air horn and the woodchipper going at full
<br /> 434 blast. But let's, we, we can get back to that. Traffic concerns, again, there's a little misrepresentation in the
<br /> 435 packet that you got. It overcounts by a factor of two of how many trucks we'll have. Even in our biggest
<br /> 436 aspirations, we're probably at 140 trips per day. Trips per day is kind of misleading and I think it alarmed
<br /> 437 people because a trip to the grocery store is going to be two trips, not one, because it's the trip up to and the
<br /> 438 trip back. So, our crew, if they come in the morning with their personal vehicles, leave with company vehicle,
<br /> 439 come back with company, that's four trips per crew member. So, it adds up quickly. But what is helpful is
<br /> 440 comparing it to other usages. Emerson Waldorf School, you're looking at like over a 1,000 trips per day.
<br /> 441 Chapel Hill Public Works, if they have as many employee vehicles as it looks like in that aerial photo, from just
<br /> 442 that parking lot, you're looking at 500 trips a day. The Soccer Complex, you're looking at like a 1,000 trips per
<br /> 443 day on a game day. We are a drop in the bucket. And what's better is our peak traffic times are totally
<br /> 444 harmonious. We start at 7:00, which means our employees are getting between 6:30 and 7:30. That's when
<br /> 445 the traffic is coming. That's before Town of Public Works. That's before Emerson Waldorf. We are out, and
<br /> 446 even if on that far edge of our guys leaving at the latest and the earliest arrivers, we're going in different
<br /> 447 directions. This is awesome. And then later in the day, we're ending earlier because an 8-hour day for us
<br /> 448 ends at 3:00. And it's staggered at the end of the day. Our guys finish when the job gets done, not when the
<br /> 449 clock runs out, so it's staggered. Vehicle routes are harmonious. We're probably going south. When we turn
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