re: This is why going with the cheapest price, isn't always best..

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Vincent Alfano, 83, lives in the house where the tree fell. He said he hired Robert Kimble Tree Service of Vance to take down an oak tree that had died in his front yard.

Alfano said Kimble and his workers had hooked a rope to a branch on the dead tree and attached the rope to a skid-steer loader to pull the tree away from the house when it started falling. But something went wrong and the tree, which was already leaning toward the house, fell on the corner of the house instead.

"It was just poor judgment," Alfano said. "They made too big of a (wedge) cut and didn't trim the tree enough."

Alfano's son, Jack Alfano of Vestavia Hills, was inside the house, taking a nap on the couch when the large tree came crashing into a bedroom on the corner of the house. "It sounded like the house exploded inside," Jack Alfano said.

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Yeah.. I've cut down my share (dozens) of 80' pines with a Kuboto tractor and rope tied with my dad notching and cutting. Based on the tree and where it sat, it doesn't take a "professional" to have seen that cluster coming.