Podcast
This 'Climbing Arborist podcast' is hosted by Dan Holliday who is joined by various guests to talk about all things arboriculture. In this time of social media, comments and sentences can be misconstrued, along with peoples opinions and thought process, this podcast is a way to have an in depth conversation with people on important and relevant subject, and go into detail on subjects we feel strongly about, as well as hearing stories and experiences. Topics we will often discuss in some form or another are equipment, techniques, safety and training and much more...
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Episode 43 - Sketchy Cottonwoods, Conor's biggest removal, Tom's evolution
In this episode of the Climbing Arborist Podcast, Dan is joined by his tree crew members Tom and Conor. They discuss the most notable jobs over the last few months which include a very nerve racking Cottonwood job, a huge Douglas Fir removal in which all the branches were speed lined over a house, and the development and progress Tom has made with his climbing over the past few months.
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Episode 41 - SRS tree climbing a fundamental skill in 2021
Dan talks about basic tree climbing skills in 2021. Do you view SRS / SRT as an advanced form of climbing? Do you climb using these techniques? Do you train crew members and staff these techniques? What are the benefits of 'stationary rope systems/ and 'moving rope systems' .
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Episode 40 - New to tree climbing? Listen to this
Dan gives some tips for new tree climbers about equipment selection, where to focus and spend their money on arborist gear, what will and will not make you a better climber in the early stages, and not getting caught up in the hype. BUT, don’t cheap out on the necessary equipment like harness, rope, hitch cord, helmet, boots, chainsaw pants otherwise you’ll regret it.
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Episode 39 - Frustration in treework
Coffee break is a where we will discuss one topic per episode and it could be anything from a technique, a piece of equipment, an experience, a goal, a mistake, an injury etc… In this video Dan talks about frustrations in tree work, the different ways frustration can manifest from various events depending on experience level among many other things.
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Episode 38 - Reg Coates
Reg Coates is an extremely well known arborist worldwide. To most, he is known for his many years of treework videos on YouTube, with his straight talking, no bullshit persona and dry sense of humour.
In this podcast Reg takes us on a journey that winds its way through his career giving us just a taster of what he has experienced as his time in the industry, as well as giving his honest opinions on some great topics.
We talk about how he got started, his time in Australia, needing 37 Stitches in his leg, Removing hazardous old growth trees, and so much more.
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This was Reg’s first time using Zoom and in his own words “I used Skype once when it first popped up about 15 years ago, but not used it since”.
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Episode 37 - Arborist confessions of 2020
Conor, Tom, George and Dan talk about all the things that went sideways in 2020 during their days at work. The guys answer a couple of questions that were sent in about starting up a tree company and if and when they get scared while climbing.
Episode 36 - The Grizzly tree crew
Dan, Conor and Tom sit down to chat about the past few week. Tom goes in depth about his first ever tree removal, the struggles, mistakes, and lessons learnt. Conor discusses a tricky Willow tree removal that required a bit of problem solving to bring it down safely. If you enjoy the podcast then please tell a colleague who might also enjoy it. You can listen on all podcast platforms. See how much time Jobber can save you doing admin tasks, use https://getjobber.com/climbingarborist for a free trial.
Episode 35 - Ryan Senechal
Ryan Joins Dan to chat about recent injuries and fatalities in the industry. How can companies begin to make change? Who does change need to start with? How can we look out for our colleagues? How can you swallow your pride and ask for help?
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Episode 34 - Jeff Facto discusses his rigging injury
Jeff Facto is an experienced climbing arborist from Ontario, Canada who now lives in Stockholm, Sweden working for Nordic treecare. In October of 2019 Jeff suffered a severe injury to his leg from a major rigging failure. Jeff discusses the lead up to the incident, his recollection of events, how his crew dealt with the situation, and then the recovery and coming to terms with his injury. Not to mention Jeff had become a father just 3 weeks prior to his injury.
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Episode 33 - with the Grizzly tree crew
Dan and his tree crew Conor and Tom chat about their week of tree work. They discuss removing a huge amount of deadwood from a Cypress and if it was a good idea in hindsight, Conor talks about feeling a little nervous while removing an Alder tree that had some defects.
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Episode 32 - with the Grizzly tree crew
In this podcast Dan is joined by Conor Quaile and Tom Wilson who make up the crew for Dan’s company, Grizzly Tree Experts. This podcast is an introduction to Conor and Tom and their experience levels in the industry. The three of them are all coming with various levels of experience which makes a great dynamic for the tree crew and for the podcast. They guys talk about a recent and notable job which was Conor’s largest and most technical tree removal to date. They talk about Tom’s first few weeks on a tree crew and thinking about teaching him to climb.
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Episode 31 - with Drew Bristow
Drew Bristow is an arborist from the U.K. Drew studied at Myersough college before making the trip to New Zealand which is where he learnt his craft, and was lucky enough to be surrounded by some of the worlds best tree climbers.
Drew has had such an interesting career and done some incredible things on rope. He discusses many of his expeditions in the podcast, talks about many of the amazing climbers he’s worked with, how he carved out a niche business living and working in Fiji and so much more…..
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Episode 30 - with Ryan Murphy
Ryan Murphy is an exceptionally talented arborist in both the work and competition arenas. Ryan is probably the most efficient, safest and most calculated arborist I have ever met and had the pleasure to work with.
Ryan gives us his background of how he was introduced to the industry and getting his start in Buchart gardens. He talks about his mentor Rupert Evans and the training and instruction he was given as a rookie.
Ryan recaps the various moves he made throughout his career and what led him to where he is now in his contract climbing role. Ryan has been part of some fascinating jobs including work at Cathedral grove on Vancouver Island which meant climbing huge, hazardous old growth tree for safe removal. Ryan also discusses a recent close call and what lead up to the incident happening.
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Episode 29 - with Jaime Merritt, inventor of the Akimbo
Jaime Merritt is the inventor, designer and creator of the Akimbo mechanical climbing device. Jaime gives us his background on what steered him in the direction of arboriculture. He talks about his early years in the industry, finding tree buzz and the treehouse forums where he spent a lot of time learning about techniques. Jaime then gives us a very in-depth look back at how the Akimbo idea began, evolved, changed, and picked up huge momentum, then being picked up for commercial manufacturing by Rock Exotica. Jaime is a fascinating guy, enjoy listening to his journey.
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Episode 28 - with Keith Stoner
Keith is a certified arborist, wilderness first responder, and currently works for performance clothing workwear company TrueWerk. The topic for the discussion of this podcast starts with stress injuries, self awareness, best way to work as a team in high stress and potentially high risk environments and the power of a positive attitude. Keith discusses experiences of close calls early in his career, how he dealt with it, and incidents later in his career and how he handled it differently. Keith discusses great and effective ways of how companies can address incidents with their team, not to point fingers but to learn from and create an environment where staff aren't afraid to discuss incidents.
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Episode 27 - with Zane Wedding
Zane Wedding is an arborist from New Zealand. We start off our chat talking about the current situation of COVID-19. Zane talks about his entry into the industry and the amazing and talented arborists he was lucky enough to be surrounded by very early on and throughout his career (including Andy Neverman, Dale Thomas, Scott Forrest, and many more) . Zane talks about helicopter jobs in N.Z. and in particular the first time he was given the opportunity to be a climber on a heli job at just 19 yrs old. Zane is big into the climbing competition scene and he talks a lot about how it has developed him as a climber, and how he encourages so many new people into competitions. Zane has now taken his career in the direction of a teaching role where he teaches young people the practical portion of arboriculture and draws upon his own experiences from being a young person coming out of school that needed a little direction and to be challenged.
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Episode 26 - with Joel Spooner of InTree Media
Joel is a professional photographer, videographer and also an arborist. Joel is from the UK which is where he started his arborist journey, this has taken him to Australia and most recently Canada.
A couple of years ago Joel made the decision to take his real love, skill and passion for photography and create a niche business, ‘InTree Media’ offering tree companies the opportunity to get amazing quality pictures and video content shot from up in the canopy for a greater perspective of the climber. As well as the content creation side, Joel and InTree Media also create amazing websites for tree companies. Check out the InTree Links below;
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Episode 25 - with Phil Kelley
Phil Kelley joins Dan on this podcast at the TCI Expo to talk about his career and experiences in the arboriculture industry.
Phil has long been in a training role with various companies throughout his career. You will often find Phil presenting at various different conferences around North America on many different topics. Presenting to large and small audiences is a skill that Phil has worked really hard to master and his talk are always very entertaining, informative and insightful.
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Episode 24 - with Chris Coates
Chris Coates joins Dan at the TCI Expo to chat about the journey through his tree career, creating the tree comp NAOM and how he got there and much more.....
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Episode 23 - with Petzl, Rudy and Maurice
Rudy and Maurice join Dan on the podcast in which they discuss their roles in the company, Petzl's response to the Chicane being a copy of the rope wrench, answering questions about info in their product user manuals, and the new Flow and Control ropes
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Episode 22 - Melissa LaVangie
Melissa is a wonderful, kind, warm person and great arborist. Melissa works for Shelter tree in Massachusetts, and she also runs the 'Women's tree climbing workshop' .
Melissa talks about what inspired her to get into the industry around 1998, and shares the different jobs and stages of her career since then, including, climbing to inspect for Asian Longhorn beetle.
Melissa, alongside her sister Bear, run a tree climbing workshop for women, Melissa explains how and why these workshops work so well for women, how they are able to absorb more information and share experiences than the can in co-ed situations, why she thinks the dynamic changes so much with a male presence in these kind of workshops.
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Episode 21 - with Jeff Inman
Jeff Inman is a climbing arborist, competition tree climber, an ISC sponsored industrial athlete, and an advocate of climbing on 2 separate tree climbing systems (double stationary rope systems).
Jeff climbs in a class 3, full body harness and utilizes 2 seperate stationary rope systems to work the tree. In the podcast he explains how this came about, the motivation and determination behind it, the benefits he has realized since climbing this way and how long it has taken him to feel comfortable and proficient in this style of climbing.
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Episode 20 - with Jonas & Anadi from TreeCare India
Jonas and Anadi joined me for this podcast in Australia the day after the 2019 RedBull Branched Out competition. We discussed our experiences from competition, exceeding expectations, Anadi's nerves as he progressed through the competition and the overall atmosphere.
We then went on to finding out about Treecare India and how it started, how the guys are trying to single handedly educate the entire country, why they chose to persue a career in an industry that doesnt really exist in theri country and much more...
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Episode 19 - with Dave Stice (A.K.A. Nice guy Dave)
Nice guy Dave joins me on this podcast to talk about the recent 'Aerial Rescue Challenge' competition/event that was the brainchild of Dave with the backing from Wesspur.
This was an idea Dave had for about 20 years, and it was heavily focused on determining injuries, what the best course of action is, what is paramount to be done in the tree and what injuries can be dealt with once on the ground.
Dan shares his experiences from a competitior, and Dave shares his thought about the organization and what he saw througout the weekend.
We also talk about the systems we had to use during the competition, always being on two indepentent climbing systems (or using a backup), and when and how this might become the standard in arboriculture.
Thanks to all of those who but time, effort and money into making the aerial rescue competition the huge success that it was.
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Episode 18 - with Rachel Brudzinski
Rachel Brudzinski joins us for this podcast. Rachel tells the horrific, scary, unbelievable, sad but also motivational story of the terrible incident she suffered while working in a tree. Words can not describe what Rachel has been through, all I can say is, listening to her story is a must. Every single person will take a lot away from listening to her story and how she tackled and dealt with her recovery, and how she will always be battling the physical and mental stresses of what she went through.
All I can say is, Rachel is an inspiration!!!!!
Episode 17 - with Derrick Martin
Derrick Martin is a tree climber from Pennsylvania, Derrick talks about how he started in the industry, and he recaps his first few climbs and his first removal. He talks about the various companies he has worked for upto the current day and now taking on training and safety roles in his current position.
Derrick is also a huge fan of competition climbing and will be competing for the third time at the ITCC this August. He talks about being heavily influenced by watching Mark Chisholm in the New Jersey Chapter, and since his first comp has really refined his climbing skills to enable himself to win the PennDel chapter 3 times.
Derek shares a story of how complacency crept in on what was viewed as a simple job which lead to an incident and a few days off work.
Episode 16 - with Mark Przekurat (Fids & fibres rope splicing)
Mark Przekurat is most well know for running the rope splicing workshops 'Fids and Fibres', Mark also runs his own tree service and is currently working on a great project he calls 'The growth ring' all of which we talk about in this episode
Episode 15 - with David Anderson of Canopy watch international
David is an Ornithologist, biologist and tree climber. David explains how the thought of some tropical birds never being visible from the forest floor gave him the passion to learn to climb trees. David talks about how he was first introduced to tree climbing and the mehtods he used, setting lines with a crossbow and using ascenders to access the canopy of tropical trees in the 90's. He talks about meeting the guys from 'Ascending the giants' in Portland, Oregon, and how they taught him many modern day tree climbing techniques. David now teaches other biologists and scientisits the art of safely and efficiently accessing the canopy of tropical trees in the hope this will be huge for the study of plants and animals in the canopies of the tropical rainforest.
Episode 14 - with Sam Smith (@sam_treesmith)
Sam Smith joins Dan for this episode of the podcast. Sam is an English arborist that lives and works in New Zealand as a contract climber. In 2018 Sam competed in the Red Bull branched out tree climbing competition where he finished 2nd out of 100 climbers. We chat about getting into the industry, his choice to take a position in New Zealand, life as a contract climber and of course competitions and Red Bull branched out.
Episode 13 - With Kevin Bingham, inventor of the rope wrench
Kevin Bingham is most well known in the industry for the invention of the rope wrench and then the rope runner that followed. It can be argued that Kevin single handedly evolved tree climbing as arborists know it today with the invention of the rope wench. Before the wrench arborists would use SRT for accessing the tree only (with the exception of a few using the Unicender for SRT). The rope wrench has certainly changed climbing for the masses, and many products & techniques have come about because single rope work positioning is now possible.
In this episode Kevin talks about how the idea of climbing on a stationary rope came about, and seemed more efficient for a specific job, and how this got him thinking about how to create a device to solve the problem (7:10), Treemagineers giving Kevin the idea for the stiff tether attempting to use it in competition climbing (41:50), inventing the rope runner and using the local makerspace (54:50), climbing on 2 separate climbing lines simultaneously (1:14:45), using a lanyard for good work positioning and not being lazy by using 1 hand on the chainsaw (1:28:55), climbing at the 2019 ITCC in Knoxville (1:35:25).
Episode 12 - With Mark Bridge of Treemagineers
Mark Bridge is an arborist from Switzerland that is most well known for his product development of industry equipment for his company Treemagineers who designed the Treemotion harness, hitch climber pulley, the captain hook and much more... Mark makes up one third of the company ‘Treemagineers’ who ventured into product development because they could see improvements were possible. With joint objectives of improving safety and efficiency in professional tree care, the products they create are the result of close innovative cooperation with hardware manufacturer DMM and fibre specialist Teufelberger. Treemagineers have designed the Treemotion harness, hitch climber pulley, the captain hook, multisling and much more... Mark is also the founding member of the tree care co-op 'Baumpartner' and the training company 'Baumklettern Schweiz'. Member of BSB and ISA work safety committees. Previous ITCC Competitor and two time ETCC Champion. In this podcast Mark talks about how he was introduced to the arb industry, his mentors, climbing on 3 strand rope and getting his first 16-strand rope (5:45), the evolution of climbers and how climbers today may miss out on a lot of valuable ‘older’ techniques (22:30), starting his tree care co-op company ‘Baumpartner’ and as a co-op they have made it work over the long term (34:40), time pressures in tree work coming from the top down (45:00), how Tremagineers began, and it’s journey over the last 15-20 years (59:00), rigging research and rigging to points of failure (1:25:00), ETCC (1:55:00), A funny experience in Finland (2:06:00).
Episode 11 - With Dan Holliday
Dan goes solo on this podcast after giving a couple of presentation on the topic of safe use of chainsaws in the canopy and good work positioning. This subject is one that Dan is very passionate about, and is also one that causes many disagreements among arborists, employees and employers. Arboriculture as an industry has an extremely high incident and injury rate compared to most other industries. The reason being is, there are so many risks that we are faced with in the industry, but the majority of these risks can be mitigated. So why is it that when it comes to see of the more serious risks like cutting ourselves with chainsaws or falling from height, that many people are willing to take chances and expose themselves to more of a risk than is necessary. There are so many people that can and will be affected by an injury, family, friends, co-workers etc, some of these people depend on you, would you really want to put them in a situation were you depend on the for physical, emotional and financial support? Once you have listened to this podcast, please take my challenge of trying 2 hands on the chainsaw and 2 Tie in points for 6 weeks, I promise you, you will make huge strides in the way you climb, and become a much better, safer and more efficient climber because of it. If you like this episode, please tell a friend, colleague, employer, share on your social media, and even send me an email letting me know what you think and if you have any questions (email can be found on climbingarborist.com). Thank you for listening, you can subscribe to us on YouTube, iTunes, Stitcher, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and of course keep up to date with the industry on ClimbingArborist.com . Climb safe….. Work safe……..
Episode 10 - With Educated climber Patrick Masterson & Dan Holliday
Talking trees and Educated Climber podcasts meet for an excellent conversation between Dan and Patrick. Dan talks about how his career began, the motivation behind creating ClimbingArborist.com, Dan's Lyme disease, Patrick's winter work in Ontario & more
Episode 9 - With Marten Penrose & Tiger Devine
On this episode of talking trees Dan is joined by Marten Penrose (@1_armed_arb) a one armed arborist, splicer and tree equipment enthusiast, and Tiger Devine (@tigerdevine). Marten talks about being a one armed arborist (2:00m), Marten talks about his love of splicing and how that came about (11:00m), Tiger discusses breaking his heels and how that lead him into splicing (17:00), Dan brings up the topic of using a closed system and what the guys thoughts on it are (24:30), the guys talk about the different ways they climb and different pieces of kit the use (41:00), arborists reading user manuals (49:50), what college teach as far as training goes and if they should change (55:30), the Petzl Chicane (1:19:00), Sena headsets (1:27:50), Tiger talks about the guys he works with (1:34:20), Tiger talks rope runner and Teufelberger Xstatic (1:40:00), the 'John's climb podcast' (1:46:45), climbing a tree barefoot (2:03:00), the Husqvarna power pole battery chainsaw, and other battery powered saws (2:09:30)
Episode 8 - With Ryan Senechal and Aidon Pyne
The guys talk about the Internationl Urban Foresty Conference 2018 (IUFC) that they were attending while recording this podcast (00:01:30), they discuss women in Arboriculture and how there are still so many old fashioned mentalities even in todays world (00:23:30), they talk about the importance of education for arboriculture and specifically the struggling ITA program they are running in British Columbia and how it needs more support for local companies to put there staff through it (01:04:20), learning from others mistakes and experiences to make a safer industry (01:21:00), Ryan talks about the changes he is making to the BTCCC that he organizes.
Episode 7 - Dan talks about recoving from chronic Lyme disease
Dan shares the story of the past 18 months where he was suddenly taken extremely ill, and pretty much debilitated at his worst point. He discusses diet, nutrition, lifestyle changes. People need to be familiar of Lyme disease and ticks, especially in this industry as we have more exposure than most. Please help spread awareness amoung you circles of friends and work colleagues about this horrific disease.
Episode 6 - With Aidon Pyne
We are back with episode 6 of the Talking trees podcast. In this podcast Dan is joined by his good friend Aiden Pine an ISA Board Certified Master Arborist. Aiden gives a little background on himself & his current work (0:03:09), topping trees and pressures from other climbers and bosses to climb unsafe trees (0:16:45), how fun and how much is to be gained from climbing competitions (0:32:25), experiences and benefits of the husqvarna battery powered chainsaw (0:51:10), efficiency in the tree and how it can extend longevity of your career (1:02:41), Dan talks about slideline Hemlock job and the rigging setup (01:10:50), Aiden becoming a BCMA (1:28:10), Aidens experiences with Coquitlam search and rescue (1:39:15), the ITA certification for arborists in B.C and how important it as and training in general (1:51:40)
Episode 5 - With Justin Temple & Joel Spooner
Dan is joined by fellow arborists Joel spooner and Justin Temple. They go in depth on the discussion of on using a chainsaw with one hand, having two tie in points while using a saw in a tree, Dan talks about how great the Sena bluetooth headsets are, and Justin shares a close call from the past few weeks. 1 or 2 handed use of a chainsaw discussion @ 3:20, Close calls (Justin) @ 1:13:35, Tool of the week - Sena Bluetooth headsets (Dan) @ 1:23:10
Episode 4 - With George Keays, Mat Fernandez & Joel Spooner
Dan is joined by George Keays, Mat Fernandez and Joel Spooner to catch up on the last few months. Dan gives us the run down on a wildlife habitat creation project he worked on, and also a scary close call he had while on that job. George talks about Meindl Airstream boots in 'Tool of the wek', and Joel explains why he was asked to write a monthly news letter for his company.
Episode 3 - With Stuart Witt & George Amos
Dan is joined by Stuart Witt, an arborist of 18 years, well known on the competition scene and has previously competed and the European TCC, he has recently started a Canadian Arborist supply company Tree North industries. Also joining this weeks podcast is good friend George Amos, owner of George Amos treecare in Vancouver.
Episode 2 - With George Keays & Matt Beatty
Geroge Keays and Matt Beatty join Dan to chat about current topics within the industry, and Mat talks about an awesome old growth tree climbing project he has just been involved in.
Episode 1 - With Mat Fernandez, George Keays & Joel Spooner
In the very first episode of Talking Trees, Dan is joined by friends and fellow arborists, Mat Fernandez (from the 'Mat Fernandez project'), George Keays and arborist/photographer Joel Spooner. They chat about the Sherrill/TreeStuff deal, the B.C Tree comp, favourite tool of the week, close calls and much more...