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Safety

  • Workers in yellow shirts and white hard hats standing in a circle outside with equipment.
    July 1, 2023

    Training Tree Crews on Wildland Fire Prevention and Suppression

    By Geoffrey Taylor, MA

    Rancho Tree Service safety personnel provide their annual training using bilingual instruction on the proper usage of a "water buffalo" mobile water tank and pump trailer for use on high-fire-risk job sites. Unless otherwise noted, photos courtesy of the author. [...]

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  • Open land with electricity transmission lines
    June 1, 2023

    Incidental Line Clearance: What Arborists Need to Know About Working Around Electric Utilities

    By Geoff Kempter and Stephen Hilbert

    Electricity is the only product that is consumed the moment it is created, from the point of generation to end users, through a complex grid of towers, poles, wires and various types of hardware. The vast majority of the grid [...]

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  • Tan house with a woman standing by a white fence with electrical wires in front.
    June 1, 2023

    Tree-Related Electrical Incidents: Us vs. Them

    By John Ball, Ph.D., CTSP

    This article is a continuation of the series “Us Versus Them” (see sidebar), contrasting the nonfatal injuries of arborists and the public that occurred while using common arboricultural tools. Past articles have focused on chain saws, chippers/shredders, hand saws/pole saws [...]

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  • Mechanization worker in grey shirt inside cab of a crane pulling the levers.
    June 1, 2023

    Grapple Booms and Mechanization: Revisiting the Industrial Revolution

    By Joseph B. Pipitone

    For most of us, middle school is a good number of years in the rear-view mirror. But if we recall our lessons from those years, no doubt a few weeks of history class focused on the Industrial Revolution. It might [...]

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  • Red Grapple on back of a white truck lifting a large tree trunk. example of mechanization.
    June 1, 2023

    The Economics of Mechanization: Rise of the Machines

    By David Rattigan

    Michael Euliano knew he wanted to mechanize when he founded Technical Tree Service in Goffstown, New Hampshire, in April 2018. But he lacked both the funding and the business expertise. Euliano, now 32 years old, was a certified tree climber [...]

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