In this video, we take a look at some popular rigging blocks. Find out what makes them different and which ones best suit your needs.

Though wood still plays an important role in the construction of our homes — think two-by-four stud supports and plywood in walls, flooring and roofing — our eye most often falls on exteriors covered in synthetic materials like vinyl siding. Some playgrounds that once featured lots of wood now have our kids screaming atop molded plastic play sets. And thousands of readers will take in this review on a digital device, not on a sheet of paper made from dried wood pulp. In a world where wood is, if not absent, increasingly out of sight, British biologist Roland Ennos suggests we may not be paying enough attention to its importance. He contends that wood is not merely useful but central to human history. “It is the one material,” Ennos writes in “The Age of Wood,” “that has provided continuity in our long evolutionary and cultural story, from apes moving about the forest, through spear-throwing hunter-gatherers and ax-wielding farmers to roof-building carpenters and paper-reading scholars.”

WALES, U.K. - British artist Simon O'Rourke has used a chainsaw to carve trees into just about everything - lions, angels, dragons, knights, dogs, Batman, gigantic human hands... he's done all of them.

His recent sculpture, titled the Giant Hand of Vyrnwy, measures 50 feet tall and was carved from what was formerly the tallest tree in Wales.

Recent years have seen new and exciting lifting technology come to the forefront with the completion of record-breaking and increasingly impressive heavy lift operations, both shoreside and at sea, expanding operator capabilities and improving efficiency.

By allowing the crane chassis to be driven from outside the cab, the new system offers the operator greater flexibility and improved visibility on job sites with limited space, such as the inside of an industrial facility. It also means the operator has a full view of the situation eliminating the need for a banksman.

ISC Athlete Jeff Inman uses TreeStuff's Micro Rigging Lab to demonstrate how span rigging can be used to solve difficult rigging problems.

Sam James spent Friday dangling from ropes high above Timaru as a 22-metre high blue gum tree was removed piece by piece.

Edmonton-based Serious Labs and Grande Prairie Regional College (GPRC), located in Alberta, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to bring VR training technology to GPRC’s students.

Spierings has shipped the first units of its new zero emission ‘e-Lift’ four axle seven tonne SK597-AT4 and six axle 10 tonne SK1265-AT6 self-erecting mobile tower cranes with the first units going to Dutch rental companies Schot Verticaal Transport and T Pater Kraanverhuur.

Trees aren’t sexy for video viewers, but the guys who climb them on a regular basis might be.

“My goal is to get our guys on Netflix,” said Patrick Siminerio, the Minister of Propaganda for Baumann Tree Service in Powell.

US construction employment in November remained below pre-pandemic levels in 35 states and the District of Columbia even though 31 states and D.C. added construction jobs from October to November, according to an analysis by the Associated General Contractors of America of government employment data.

Call them the “tree whisperers”.

Brothers Brittain and Ethan Flowers and their cousin, Jerrin Flowers, are with True Cut Saw Works, LLC, and they’ve been working at an old home on Main Street, located between Dogwood Memories and Blackshear Presbyterian Church.

It’s not often that you can watch a 14,000-pound bridge gently nudged into place by crane and human hands

There’s more to decking the halls with just the right Christmas tree than many people realize.

Here are seven things to keep in mind from Mark Chisholm, a third-generation certified arborist who, with his family, owns Aspen Tree Expert Company.

It's one of the most dangerous jobs in the world, but men and women climb trees for a living. SkyFOX Drone takes a look at why tree trimming is not for the faint of heart, in this week's edition of Drone Zone.

Mark Bridge, one of the TreeMagineers and co-inventor of the TreeMotion harness, uses the TreeStuff Micro Rigging Lab to show how to balance a limb using spider legs for better, safer rigging.

PANAMA CITY — Panama City Fire Department took its rescue efforts to a new level Wednesday.

In a partnership with Gulf Coast Regional Medical Center and J.E. Dunn Construction, the PCFD's 16-member Light Technical Rescue Team conducted a simulation at the hospital, which involved the rescue of a patient who had a medical emergency atop a tower crane at 140 feet in the air.

A group of well-meaning tree surgeons have decided to bare all in their comical semi-nude charity calendar for 2021.

Whether you call them friction savers, a false crotch, or a cambium saver, they all do the same thing - protect trees from potential wounds created by your climbing line, which also greatly extends the life of your rope. There are many different types, but there is no question about their increasing popularity in both professional and recreational tree climbing. In this video, Nick looks at friction savers, discusses the differences and specialist models available, and shows us what he calls the "Mack Daddy" of all friction savers.

The Liebherr LR 1200.1 unplugged and the LR 1250.1 unplugged are the world’s first battery-powered crawler cranes.

Both crawler cranes are powered by electric engines with a system performance of 255 kW.

According to Liebherr, there is no compromise in terms of performance or availability when compared with the conventional crawler crane versions.