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  • July 1, 2021

    Wireless Headsets: What’s All the Yelling About?

    By David Rattigan

    The Sena Tufftalk M headset uses the mesh protocol, a self-healing, self-optimizing network always looking for the best connection, and seeking a new one when a device disconnects. Photo courtesy of Sena. Alex Kundrat has been in tree care for [...]

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  • July 1, 2021

    Exploring the Principles of Rigging

    By Jeremy Mccombs, CTSP, and Jack O’shea, BCMA

    Imagine the amount of information shared with young, and often inexperienced, arborists each day in the field. These newest members of the tree care industry are exposed to numerous training tactics and safety techniques – some good and some that [...]

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  • July 1, 2021

    Limb Control: When Uncool Rigging Pays

    By Mike Tilford, CTSP

    “Sorry about your fence.” Have you ever uttered these words to a client? Yeah, me too. It could have been a fence, birdbath, gutter, roof or solar panel. The list of what is under trees and also breakable is quite [...]

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  • February 1, 2021

    Knuckleboom Best Practices, Part 2: Grapple Saws

    By Ben Heller

    This is the second part of a two-part series. Part 1, “Knuckleboom Crane Best Practices in Tree Care,” also by Ben Heller, ran in the February 2020 issue of TCI. Click here to read Part 1. Over the past half [...]

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  • December 1, 2020

    Bend-and-Swing Rigging

    By Chris Girard, CTSP

    OK, here’s what we had to do: Remove two bent birch trees (leaders) that were overhanging a beach. We couldn’t just drop them into the lake, because we had no way to fish them out of the water. They [...]

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