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  • BIK Boom Trucks
    October 1, 2025

    BIK Boom Trucks: Lifting Up the Tree Care Industry

    By TIM BARTELT

    Sponsored Content With its strong focus on the customer, safety and training, BIK Boom Trucks has become a household name for trucks and knuckle-boom cranes in the tree care industry. Two BIK Tree Care Series grapple-saw trucks cutting and [...]

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  • Ropes With TCI EXPO ’25 Training Partners
    October 1, 2025

    Learn More Than the Ropes With TCI EXPO ’25 Training Partners

    By TIM BARTELT

    Sponsored Content   TCI EXPO is a great opportunity to peruse exhibitors’ booths and check out their latest equipment innovations or earn CEUs in educational seminars. It also is a great opportunity to demo equipment, get hands-on experience or learn [...]

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  • Care of Trees Is Taking Care of Veterans
    September 1, 2025

    For Ricky Folse, Taking Care of Trees Is Taking Care of Veterans

    By TIM BARTELT

    Ricky Folse, founder of Veteran Tree Care, a second-year TCIA member company based in Houma, Louisiana, is a man on a mission, and that mission is to help both men and women. Military veteran men and women, to be more [...]

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  • Casey and Bartlett Tree
    June 1, 2025

    Casey Trees and Bartlett Tree Experts, A Crowning Partnership Made in the Shade (of Urban Trees)

    By TIM BARTELT

    There are symbiotic relationships across the natural world, with organisms counting on other organisms for success and survival. Symbiotic relationships also exist in the corporate environment, with one organization working with another organization for success and, in this case, tree [...]

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  • Turning Wood Waste
    March 3, 2025

    Turning Wood Waste Into a Community Resource

    By TIM BARTELT

    Human nature tells us to give of ourselves and to give back to our community. Your company vehicles probably drive by a dozen places every day where people could benefit from your giving. And chances are, your kids or [...]

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