Champions of Technology – ArborCanada Featured!

Arboriculture Canada was recently selected to be interviewed as a Champion of Technology in our community of Olds, AB.  Thank you to the Olds Institute for Community and Regional Development for this honor and for making the video about our...

What Makes a Good Instructor?

Recently printed in the Continental Connection newsletter. What sets one instructor apart from the majority?  Arboriculture Canada Training & Education Ltd. has developed a process for training and mentoring instructors that serves to do exactly that. As owner and lead...

Standard Operating Procedures or Guidelines

This presentation was given by Dwayne Neustaeter at both the Western Chapter and the ISA Annual Conferences, and he would be happy to visit other chapters to present his findings on Standard Operating Procedures in the future.  Printed by SCA...

Instructor Stranded in Paradise

On September 7th, a phone call came through to our office from one of the ArborCanada Trainers – Danny LeBlanc.  Danny was in Kincolith, BC (or Gingolx) which is a Nisga’a Village in the Nass River valley in the far...

CUT STRAIGHT!

  Arboriculture Canada chainsaw instructors and associates gathered together for Chainsaw Instructor Intensive Training Camp 2011, in the Peterborough, ON region at Elmhirst’s Resorts from Jan. 30 – Feb. 4th.  The purpose:  to review, develop and collaborate together on improving our...

Arboriculture Canada – THE FUTURE!

Arboriculture Canada Message to our Customers . . . When we started this training company in 1999, one of our foremost goals was to increase safety for those who work with trees and help to reduce accidents and the loss...

Back-Cuts, Hinges & Control (Article 6)

  This is the last in a series where I have been discussing a sequenced planning method to tree felling.  When read in sequence, the articles combine to describe an effective tree felling planning process. It has been my intention...

Tree Felling Notches (Article 5)

Many times when workers discuss tree felling notches, the conversation ends up being about what kind of notches are used and what they are called.  Typically your hear about a common notch, a Humboldt notch, an open notch, and less...

Technical Tree Falling – Faller Escape Routes, Understanding the 5-15-90 Rule (Article 4)

By Dwayne Neustaeter Having a clearly identified and prepared escape route is one of the most important parts of any felling plan. Statistics show that a well-planned and utilized escape plan has a significant impact on your personal safety. Accident...

Technical Tree Felling – Assessing Lean (Article 3)

   By Dwayne Neustaeter An important step of any falling plan (and one I believe that is often the most overlooked) is assessing the lean. In almost all cases whenever possible it is best to fell a tree in the...