Category: Cutting Hazardous Trees – Storm Damage, Hung or Snagged or Uprooted Trees

Arborwood Tree Service Inc. provides comprehensive safety and skills training to staff.

Arborwood Tree Service Inc. is investing in comprehensive safety and skills training for their staff in 2015 and 2016 by hosting three weeks of training that will cover the topics of: - Tree Dynamics & Integrated Risk Assessment - Tree Biology...

The Key Notch

In some cases, trees are hung or snagged because they have been uprooted.  In these situations determining where the loads are concentrated can be difficult, and often the root plate is a stronger force to be considered than the hung...

Controlled Hinge Release – releasing lodged or hung up trees.

In my last article I shared a technique for safely releasing lodged or hung up trees.  I am going to expand on this concept in this article. One disadvantage of the mis-match cut is that in some cases, the vertical...

Vegetation Management – Using the Mis-Match Cut to Free Hung or Snagged Trees on Power lines.

During and following severe storm events there is often a need to cut trees, remove large limbs and other debris off the power lines in order to begin the power restoration process. This work is often performed during the storm...