This video teaches a new friction hitch called the Calligraphy Hitch, highlighting how it grips, slides, and locks under load ...

The enzyme friction hitch is a specialized knot used by arborists and tree climbers to create a secure, adjustable grip on a ...

Before the school bell, a tree team rolls a compact tracked spider into a narrow side passage, lays a run of ground mats and brings a dead ash gently down over a glass atrium. No climber suspended ...

From left, Eric Massie, Ryan Rastok, Erin Massie and Chris Johnson suspend themselves in a Scotch pine tree in northwest Lawrence on Thursday, Feb. 14, 2019. The four arborists enjoy spending some of ...

It’s what arborists do for work — scaling trees and scrambling narrow branches to prune, clear, thin, remove and occasionally to rescue. And a few times a year, climbing is also what some of them do ...

BENTONVILLE -- Joey Cameron was 1 second too late. Cameron, who works for Integrity Tree Care of Fort Worth, had 5 minutes to rescue a dummy from a tree Saturday in the Natural State Tree Climbing ...

Although Mel Hamilton is completely at ease when she works high in the branches of a tree, she said her mother was anxious while watching her compete in the Illinois Arborist Association Annual Tree ...

BENTONVILLE -- Joey Cameron was 1 second too late. Cameron, who works for Integrity Tree Care of Fort Worth, had 5 minutes to rescue a dummy from a tree Saturday in the Natural State Tree Climbing ...