“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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Let’s take a look at old-school, natural-union rigging and what it created – friction! This same principle is in play with the new rigging rings that are becoming more and more prevalent in the industry. A rigging ring creates consistent [...]

A sampling of the author’s rigging tools include: 1. Samson Tenex-Tec 1/2-inch rigging dead-eye sling; 2. Teufelberger tRex 1/2-inch rigging ring-eye sling; 3. large port-a-wrap; 4. Teufelberger tRex 3/4-inch rigging-ring multi-sling; 5. Teufelberger tRex 7/8-inch rigging-ring redirect dead-eye sling; 6. [...]