When preparing to remove a diseased or dead tree, you may need to climb into the tree to remove some limbs before cutting the trunk. You can use a pair of tree-climbing spikes to help you move up the ...

Stella Dee, PhD student and tree-climbing champion, demonstrated proper tree-climbing techniques Tuesday morning as part of Founder’s Day, a University of Massachusetts Amherst celebration honoring ...

Chicagoans is a first-person account from off the beaten track, as told to Anne Ford. This week’s Chicagoan is Beau Nagan, arborist and winner of the Illinois Tree Climbing Championship. I climbed ...

The body draped over the upper branches of the red oak does not move. An unseasonably warm November breeze frees leaves from the tree, fallen foliage swirling around the group that has gathered around ...

Which tree climbing spike is best? Whether you climb trees for a living or do backyard maintenance, tree climbing spikes will keep you safe, steady and firm-footed in all your arborist pursuits. Good ...

When it comes to the brass tacks, climbers doing cone collecting typically use a single rope technique. It’s a different method from arborists who climb trees to cut them down or trim them, goal is to ...

This weekend, the City of Trees will host high-flying arborists in a tree climbing competition in William Land Park, where the canopy becomes their playing field. The arborists will show off the ...

On Halloween 2010, West Jefferson resident Duane Hook, 49, had a job to do. He had received a call about a cat stuck in a tree, and for the first time, he would use his amateur climbing skills to help ...

Maybe you climbed trees as a kid in your backyard. But have you ever wondered what it would be like to climb a 300-foot-tall Douglas fir? At Silver Falls State Park, you now have the opportunity to ...