Water is vital for all forms of life, even though it provides no calories or organic nutrients. TCIA staff file photo by Don Staruk. I pride myself on being a knowledgeable arborist, always a student, staying current and being as [...]

A balanced load is delivered to a ground worker in the drop zone during the removal of a Torrey pine. All photos by Jim Klinger, courtesy of David’s Tree Service, Inc. While no crane operation should be considered “run of [...]

Crawford Tree's PHC van has four tanks and a system of valves, flow meters and hoses, plus a remote fueling system and pull-out hose reel that are all accessed from the rear while standing on the ground. Van photo courtesy [...]

Pruning trees should not be a common practice used to force them into aesthetic constraints or spaces. Each cut has the potential to change the tree considerably. Image courtesy of the author. This is the first of a two-part series [...]

The goal here was to close a split between the two halves of this tree. The three trunks or leaders were not in alignment, so the double-crotch leader is supported with its own bolt and an amon-eye nut. An amon [...]