In tree care, safety is often treated like overhead. Necessary. Required. Important, sure – but expensive. Harnesses, helmets, training days, downtime for tailboards, safety managers, documentation. When you’re running multiple crews and watching fuel, labor and equipment costs climb, it [...]

Illustration by Jerry King “How much does it cost to cut down a tree?” Well, that is a “million-dollar question.” To help answer the question, let’s go through a hypothetical scenario. You have a neighbor, Mr. Beaver, who [...]

Most of us have pretty good memories. Like taking the driver’s-license test, first dates with our significant other, a sibling’s birth date, etc. I don’t remember any of those things as time is slowly eroding my mind. I do, however, [...]

As I peer into the rearview mirror, I envision the people who were instrumental in shaping my career. One such person was George Wahl, a foreman for the Bartlett Tree Expert Co. in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania. I was hired for [...]

The catalpa tree in bloom. It had limbs stretching over the roof of the garage and the house before it was cut. Photos courtesy of the author. This column was written in response to the article “Insurance Pruning: [...]