Tree care is a difficult job. It can be physically demanding, require extensive planning, and be incredibly dangerous. Training, learning, and sharing ideas is super important for such a complex career.

Hazen Audel, a local woodworker uses an angle grinder to shave out details as he carves a bust of a logger out of a block of ice on Friday, Jan. 8, 2021, in Spokane, Wash. A collective of local arborists gathered in West Central to carve ice sculptures. (Tyler Tjomsland/THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW)

Murray, Utah-based Wagstaff Crane Service used its 800t (900USt) Liebherr LTM 1750-9.1 to install a sky bridge at the new Kathryn F. Kirk Center for Comprehensive Cancer Care and Women’s Cancers at Huntsman Cancer hospital.

In more than two decades at the helm of tree care and removal company Truetimber Arborists, Scott Turner has seen his share of trees felled with nowhere to go but the landfill. Now, he’s redoubled his effort to find a reuse for such trees with the launch of a spinoff that builds outdoor play equipment.

The 100-ton travel lift is classified as a heavy-duty crane and it comes with a pretty large loading capacity. You're also going so that you can make use of the high efficiency, reliable performance, various safety devices that provide significant amounts of protection as well as the lift is even crafted of anti-corrosive materials. These lifts can also be used for a series of different applications, so continue reading while we dive into the various advantages that come with the 100-ton travel lift.

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.