Doug Sharp

yeah.

Yeah.

You know, the, when you, you know, Australia is a, you know, a totally another place.

I'm far away and, and a lot of different, things you know people often think of poisonous things and dangerous things what like I remember having a friend that had done work in Australia and he we were checking a cavity on a on a on a tree and we were cleaning it out just pulling leaves and debris out of it and checking it out and he was shocked at how nonchalantly I was reaching into the cavity of a tree because he had you know recently returned from Australia and he said in Australia you would never you wouldn't just you know haphazardly stick your hand in a hole of a tree because you never know what's living in there so what if you got any good uh what's living in your tree stories from Australia

yeah well I mean there's always big There's usually, you know, anything that's got flaky sort of bark where spiders can get in underneath, there's usually, you know, huntsman tarantula type of spiders in there, but they're all pretty cool.

But cavities, it's, you know, birds, but mostly possums I think is, I think everyone's got, I've been peed on by a possum story, you know, because.

Really? Yeah.

So when you, they live in these cavities, when you start working on them, particularly if you're removing one or whatever, they'll come out of there the hole and they'll bolt to the top of the tree and then just you know out of nervousness and i guess they're all scared and they just urinate all over you know like they just you're just raining this that this possum pee raining down you know but they they usually sort of you know jump to another tree or whatever but And I think everyone's probably, you know, cut one in half because they often get in cavities and you don't even know they're there and the next minute you've cut one in half.

Sounds sort

of like raccoons, the way raccoons are around here.

Yeah, I guess so.

I mean, down in Queensland and Northern Territory, Not so much in Victoria.

We don't usually get snakes and things like that in trees, but ants, ants is the big problem, um, up in Northern Territory.

I know, um, I know Richie Kenyon, he's a good friend of mine.

He, they, he runs a pretty good business up there and, and ants are the, they're the, one of the horrible, those stinging, bitey things and they wrap up leaves and they're like a size of a, you know, basketball and there's millions of them in there and, And, yeah, they're not fun.

Huh.

Ants.

Hmm.

And, yeah, spiders, ants, they say, yeah.

And you guys have koalas too, though.

Yeah.

But, you know, like unless you're doing, I've never seen, I've never worked in a tree with a koala in it.

But I know that.

They're always, it's a lot more rural.

You know, you don't see koalas in the possums, yeah, but koalas don't live in urban areas