Hello,
Hopefully just about on topic.
I came to a stationary queue of traffic yesterday. It looked as though some tree branches had fallen into the road.
A police car arrived but from another direction a tradesman (for want of a better word) got out of his van with a saw. I assume the branches were still partially attached to the tree because this gentleman climbed the bank at the side of the road and disappeared out of sight.
The policeman then dragged the sawn branches to the side of the road and we all moved off again.
I was thinking that had that man not been there, the delay would have been much longer. The police would probably have had to call someone (the council?) to cut the branches, and with the tree being up a steep bank at the side of the road, there would have been a health and safety assessment and people needing to Abel down, etc. and I could have been there all night!
Does anyone here, particularly in rural areas, carry a saw in case of a scenario like this?
I remember one year getting out of my car to move some branches that had blown down in a gale. I remember wondering if I was doing the right thing because I was directly underneath the tree and I was worried that more might have fallen onto me!
Thanks, Stephen.