As a former employee of Mike Nevil, I worked with him on several local jobs in LC before he employed me on a week long, out of town job in NOLA. The first day we were working, after berating me and his only other employee about safety, Mike forgot to tie his end of the rope attached to the tree, once he pushed the tree to be released the roughly 500lb log fell to the ground less than 5 feet from the other employee, it would have killed him had it landed on him. Thank God for the guardian angel that day, as no one was injured.
This man only preaches and cares about safety on the surface level, he is insistant that he will not get in a tree without smoking MJ first. I did not work on one job with him where he did not smoke or mention smoking before climbing the trees and starting the chainsaw.
Before hiring him, know that when he is doing work on your trees, he is without a doubt high on MJ. He has a medical license, however this is not the sort of work you do intoxicated on any substances prescription or otherwise. The risk of injury or death is to high. Due to this incident, I no longer work for Mike Nevil as I have a family that I need to get home to at the end of the day, and I can't risk my life because the owner of the company is negligent of his and others safety. read more