Pannell Co., primarily a line-clearance contractor, recently earned its TCIA Utility Contractor Accreditation credential. Photos courtesy of Pannell Co. When Jeff Pannell and his father were clearing land and building fences in the Texas Hill Country, little did Jeff know [...]

This article started out looking at safety leadership and fairly quickly evolved into a message that applies to leadership in general. As such, I will often flip back and forth discussing “safety” and “leadership,” as they are similar from this [...]

"We have learned from past storms to value our regular customers and not go from house to house, but from customer to customer. The relationship matters when it comes to storm work," says George Bofinger. Photos courtesy of Bofinger's Tree [...]

If we approach every job site with a laser focus to do it as efficiently as possible, then we also will be doing it as safely as possible. Photo courtesy of the author. The job site is a unique beast [...]

True Tree's services include thinning, structural pruning, storm-related hazard removals and mangrove trimming. Here a climber is working in a banyan tree. All photos courtesy of True Tree Service. Hearing him speak, no one would doubt Drake Kurlander’s passion for [...]