Rich Mountain catches the weather first, and by the time a midsummer storm reaches the Coosawattee it has already been through the timber up top. Hall's Tree Services Inc handles what those storms leave behind — a trunk across a driveway, a split oak hanging over a carport, a fence lost under brush. The steadier work is trimming and pruning in the quiet weeks, plus removal of the trees that went hollow where nobody could see it. Around Ellijay the ground goes up and down far more than it goes flat, so every job is planned around the fall line and whatever sits beneath it. When the trucks pull out and the grass is clear again, the day has done what it was meant to do.