A pair of Altec aerial lifts is deployed during an ice storm. While cold weather can affect hydraulics and other aerial-lift operating systems, basic tasks such as clearing the windows, steps and decks of lift trucks can prevent slips, falls [...]

While different chains have different uses, all chains need to be properly sharpened and adjusted for top performance. “When it’s cutting, a good, sharp chain will produce large chips of wood. You can see the difference,” says Stihl’s John Allen. [...]

TCIA’s Corporate Members and other advertisers and exhibitors usually have the opportunity at the many fall conferences and trade shows to debut and display their products and services for the business owners and managers, arborists and other professionals who make [...]

J.P. Carlton Company, Div. DAF, Inc.121 John Dodd RoadSpartanburg, SC 29303Phone: 864-578-9335Fax: 864-578-0210www.stumpcutters.comJ.P. Carlton manufactures a complete line of professional tree equipment, including disk and drum chippers from 6- to 20-inch capacity and stump cutters from 13 hp to 250 [...]

Ed Hobbs created a sensation at the 1979 Northern California Tree Trimmer’s Jamboree when he gave the first public demonstration of the first commercially feasible, ratcheting lowering device in recorded arboricultural history, aptly named the Hobbs Lowering Device. I was [...]