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...

Success Chainsaw Train the Trainer Event!

Last week near Caroline, AB - a successful week of Chainsaw Train the Trainer.  Here is a re-cap! https://vimeo.com/110079520

Arboriculture Canada is a National Awarding Body (NAB) with the ABA (Awarding Body Association) International.

We are proud to announce that we have been accepted as members of the ABA International body.  Arboriculture Canada is now a National Awarding Body (NAB).  We would like to introduce the ABA to our customers in Canada, and especially...

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...

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...