Hit my 1000th tree removal last week and it was a goat

I was counting removals on a pad for the last 2 years and my 1000th job was a 40 foot dead oak in someone's backyard that kept getting tangled in power lines. Took me 3 extra hours because a goat from the neighbor's property kept eating my rope coils. Has anyone else had a random animal mess up a major milestone job?

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sageburns3mo ago

That goat must have cost you a fair chunk of change in lost time. Did the neighbor offer to pay for the extra hours or at least help keep the thing penned up?

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barbarac672mo ago

Right? That goat cost me more time than the actual fence work did. I told my neighbor straight up they need to chip in for the hours I lost, but they just laughed and said it's a "community goat" now. I swear, @sageburns, if that thing gets out again, I'm putting a tracker on it and sending them the bill for my wasted afternoon. At least they could help me build a proper pen, but no, they just shrug and say goats are escape artists.

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