So we have a 2001 morbark 2400 that we will be replacing sometime soon, hopefully in the next year. I have a pretty good grasp on the tier 4 stuff in truck applications as we have been running them for a few years. So does anyone have any thoughts or comments on running the new engines in...
I am trying to get specifications together for a replacement chip truck, hopefully to be built early 2015. We are considering adding a Palfinger Epsilon log loader or Loglift loader to the truck. I know I have seen several of these loaders for sale on the site, and I think a few guys might...
I was checking out a work order to raise / crown clean on a mature Sycamore today and I saw something that I was a bit uneasy about before starting the job. The tree has a residential service drop and streetlight service running through the lower part of the crown and one of the wires is...
I had a work request to check some Burr Oaks for possible Oak Wilt symptoms. This area of the City I work for is has a large number of mature Burr Oaks, this cul-de-sac alone had around 25 mostly around 36-60" DBH. Upon investigation almost all of the trees have browning and wilting of the...
looked at a whitespire birch today that is dropping leaves like crazy. Its a smaller two stem tree around 6-8" diameter on both stems, located in a mulched landscape bed.The shedding foliage all has similar intervein brown areas that seem to start as small brown lesions and progress from midvein...
At the end of the day today received a work order for a tree with "raised dirt" by the trunk. Didnt think much of it and I checked it on the way home. Found this 30" or so DBH silver maple with heavy lean over a house and the parkway lifted about 8 inches or so right behind the trunk along the...
Ran across something today that I thought I would get some advice on. Being that I'm a municipal arborist that really only deals with street and park trees I don't work on many cabled trees. I found an EAB Infested ash that I will have to remove here in the next couple months that a Resident had...