When a woman calling herself GoldenLarch logged into the TreeBuzz arborist forum in late 2020, she wasn’t looking for applause – she was looking for honesty. At 28, after leaving a customer-service career and earning a horticulture certificate, she’d fallen [...]

Every industry breeds its own folklore. In tree work, cutting, hinging and rigging theories might make for some of the loudest campfire stories of all. On a TreeBuzz thread dealing with these topics, a post about “rip cuts” lit up [...]

Iron Bull custom hoppers for firewood Iron Bull Manufacturing, maker of standard scrap and waste hoppers, now offers custom hoppers for specific applications such as firewood. These purpose-built hoppers are available in self-dumping, bottom-drop or 180-degree dumping designs, [...]

Jobber Tap to Pay and progress invoicing Jobber recently launched Tap to Pay and progress invoicing, two new solutions designed to simplify how tree care professionals manage payments. The Tap to Pay tool allows service pros to accept [...]

When Urbana, Illinois, arborist Mike Poor first rolled onto a job site with a remote-controlled knuckleboom crane in the late 1990s, the reactions were a mix of awe and head scratching. “That is the oddest-looking crane I’ve ever seen,” one [...]