TORRINGTON — Paul-Robert Blackman is an arborist and an artist, felling trees for customers and then taking them home to create furniture and art.

He’s poised to open his gallery and studio, Artist’s Tree Inc., in the Still River Plaza on Winsted Road by the middle of March. The opening is a step forward in Blackman’s quest to bring people together in any way possible, using art and music.

When it comes to moving heavy objects in warehouses and on worksites, having safe reliable cranes is of prime importance.

A tall mobile crane was used to remove the wooden forms from recently completed steel-reinforced concrete piers for the new Spalding Bridge being built across the Clearwater River in Idaho in this Lewiston Tribune photo taken in July 1961.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Feb. 1, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Don Dowd, owner of tree lead marketing company Tree Leads Today, announced his new partnership with Justin Hartmann of Canary Tree. As soon as Don Dowd saw Justin Hartmann's short-term grapplesaw crane leasing model, he knew it was the perfect solution for his clients who struggle to keep pace with their backlog of work.

World-Class champion arborist, Krista Strating demonstrates a controlled rigging simulation in an urban environment. Watch this pro in action as she explains the process step by step.

BigRentz Director of Digital Audience Lior Zitzman provides 11 crane safety tips, including guidelines for crane travel, crane set up, crane rigging and safe lifting.

As technology continues to evolve, researchers find more uses for activity recognition, most recently in the industrial sector.

WASHINGTON — Pres­i­dent Joe Biden has tapped James S. Fred­er­ick, a Pitts­burgh-area work­place safety ad­vo­cate who worked for the United Steelworkers for more than two de­cades, to lead the Oc­cu­pa­tional Safety and Health Ad­min­is­tra­tion, sig­nal­ing tougher fed­eral en­force­ment on em­ploy­ers amid the COVID-19 pan­demic.

Liebherr now offers a shorter boom featuring rope extension technology as an alternative option to the Telematik fast cycle technology system for its LTC 1050-3.1 compact crane.

DMM Technical Representative Taylor Hamel demonstrates how to set up a double whip tackle for tensioning and lowering a tree limb in TreeStuff's Micro Rigging Lab. The mini trees make it easy to see how using two blocks can provide a huge benefit when rigging out limbs.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM) president Dennis Slater congratulated President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris on their inauguration and pledged that equipment manufacturers will actively support the efforts of the new Administration to confront our nation’s many challenges, chief among them, ending the pandemic and ensuring a safe and rapid economic recovery:

The winter season is often the best time to prune trees because it’s easier for tree care professionals to spot diseases and dead wood due to a lack of foliage and insects, according to Manny Nassar, technical adviser for the Davey Institute, a division of The Davey Tree Expert Co.

“I tell my guys to look for anything that looks dead or diseased, anything that’s crossing or rubbing,” says Nassar, who has been with Davey for 15 years. “From there, they can start working on structure. Also, you never want to move more than a quarter of growth on a tree at one time.”

The wind turbines are getting bigger, leading to the deployment of higher capacity cranes for their installation. Are we reaching the limit as to the way the crane industry can serve this market? Sotiris Kanaris reports

Washington — OSHA is reminding employers to submit their 2020 Form 300A data by March 2.

According to an agency press release, the time frame to submit the data has begun. Electronic submission of Form 300A, a yearly summary of injury and illnesses data, is required for establishments with 250 or more employees and those with 20 to 249 employees in certain high-hazard industries.

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.