Teaching, training and understanding the forces generated while rigging trees can be challenging. Even as experienced arborists and professional trainers, we have had the experience of looking into the eyes of rigging trainees and knowing, “They don’t get it!” This [...]

A couple of years ago, we were contacted to remove a linden tree growing on the side of a cliff at the Elora Gorge, on the Grand River about 70 miles west of Toronto in Ontario, Canada. The [...]

By now, almost every practicing arborist has probably been involved in at least one conversation with a customer regarding their homeowner’s insurance company threatening to cancel their policy unless a tree or branch that is close to their home is [...]