They have names aplenty: knuckle booms, grapple booms, grapple saws, grapple cranes, truck-mounted knuckle booms and knuckle-boom grapple saws, among others. We’ll refer to them as “grapple saws” for this article. Whatever you call them, when you conjure an image [...]

The Women in Tree Care pre-conference workshop at TCI EXPO ’22 in Charlotte, North Carolina, in November offered a full day of education, breakout sessions and networking. The annual symposium is an important event for many in the tree care [...]

The Women in Tree Care (WITC) pre-conference symposium continued its momentum at TCI EXPO ’22 in Charlotte, North Carolina. The event included a full day of education, breakout sessions and networking. The symposium has become a regular event at TCI [...]

Nothing makes work go more smoothly and productively than a good, unified team effort. Teamwork is a topic I have always espoused as essential. This is never truer than in our own exceptional line of work – tree work! Beyond [...]

Krista Strating wears many hard hats. She works full time, year-round, as an arborist for the City of Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, just outside Toronto. Strating also works part time as lead instructor for the Humber College Arborist Apprenticeship program. And [...]