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David Rattigan

  • overhead shot of six people and many white trucks with green backs
    September 1, 2023

    You, Too, Can Get a Million-Dollar Loan

    By David Rattigan

    The people I’ve worked with throughout the years, today I’m doing a deal for them for a million dollars, but I started out with a $20,000 deal, and it gradually went up,” says JoAnn Cucciarre, making a point echoed by [...]

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  • September 1, 2023

    Getting Paid for Storm Work

    By David Rattigan

    This is the first article in a planned series on pricing and getting paid for storm-related tree work.Dustin Meyers owns and operates Timber Ridge Tree Care, a 21-year TCIA member company based in Comstock Park, Michigan, near Grand Rapids. When [...]

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  • Man in orange shirt and green helment watching another man in orange shirt lift himself on a pully on a tree with a green rope.
    July 1, 2023

    TCIA Offers a Portal to a Better Career

    By David Rattigan

    TCIA Career Pathways, a new online education and training program, offers tree care workers new opportunities to advance their careers. At the same time, it provides individual companies an opportunity to provide structured training and create career pathways that can [...]

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  • Red Grapple on back of a white truck lifting a large tree trunk. example of mechanization.
    June 1, 2023

    The Economics of Mechanization: Rise of the Machines

    By David Rattigan

    Michael Euliano knew he wanted to mechanize when he founded Technical Tree Service in Goffstown, New Hampshire, in April 2018. But he lacked both the funding and the business expertise. Euliano, now 32 years old, was a certified tree climber [...]

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  • March 1, 2023

    PowerCorps Boston Provides Training in Arboriculture and Urban Forestry

    By David Rattigan

    In what appears to be a perfect merger of needs, a program in Boston is training people in search of a vocation to work in an industry historically in need of people. PowerCorpsBOS (Power Corps Boston) is currently in its [...]

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