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  • Some of DJ’s Tree Service’s equipment at its processing site.
    July 1, 2024

    SO YOU BOUGHT A GRAPPLE SAW, NOW WHAT TO DO WITH ALL THAT WOOD

    By Tamsin Venn

      The influx of knuckle-boom cranes and boom-mounted grapple saws has drastically reduced the time and labor it takes to cut down a tree. In theory, tree care companies employing this equipment have more business, higher profits and safer working [...]

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  • Bio Char startup
    June 7, 2024

    The Business of Biochar

    By Tamsin Venn

      In February 2024, The Davey Tree Expert Company fired up its new biochar facility in East Dundee, Illinois. The facility recycles wood waste from its many client properties in the Chicago area and turns it into an environmentally friendly [...]

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  • Scotty Olson at TCI EXPO ’23 in St. Louis, Missouri. Photo by Pete Senor, Clogger, New Zealand.
    April 1, 2024

    Scotty Olson Values Learning How to Communicate With the Younger Generation

    By Tamsin Venn

    The Legends of the Geezers is an annual tree-climbing competition held in January in Florida for those still agile over the age of 40, and it just celebrated its 21st birthday. Next January, three climbers who were 18 when they [...]

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  • Champion climber Krista Strating instructing at a Women’s Tree Climbing Workshop.
    March 1, 2024

    Breaking Through the Tree Canopy with Nicole Benjamin

    By Tamsin Venn

    One community in tree care work is increasing, and that would be the league of extraordinary women. “It’s definitely growing, we’re not so much an outlier anymore. It doesn’t necessarily have to be a boys’ club, but at the same [...]

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  • PHC safety training
    February 1, 2024

    Tell, Show, Do Is CTSP’s Biggest Takeaway

    By Tamsin Venn

    Bomber at the controls during PHC safety training. What was it like for Nick Bomber, district manager for SavATree in Michigan, to be in the first class of tree professionals to earn TCIA’s new Certified Treecare Safety Professional (CTSP) credential [...]

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