Photo: Unsplash/Getty-Images. A lot has certainly changed in the tree care industry since I embarked on my climbing career in the early 1970s. Tools, equipment and techniques have all evolved. Back then, manila ropes were in common use for climbing [...]

Metasequoia glyptostroboides at the Chinese Temple in Oroville, California. Photos courtesy of the author. The deciduous redwood tree, Metasequoia, was thought to be extinct when a fossil of it was first “discovered” in China by Shigeru Miki in 1941 or [...]

In the tree care industry, we have the tree people – those who get the job done – and the businesspeople – those who line up the job and run the business. Which are you? Photo credits: Sven Brandsma, Max [...]

If you’re going to be a tree climber, you’ll have to decide how far you want to progress down that road, and whether or not you have what it takes to do the tough jobs. And if you decide you [...]

I answered our business phone one day several years back. The woman on the other end of the line was not happy! She asked me if I knew who she was, and said we had worked for them before. “Your [...]