Why train employees to use and understand A300 standards?
Some clients desire a lot of information about how their trees are cared for. To see how the A300 Standards relate to what a typical client wants to know about tree pruning, please visit the www.TreeCareTips.org web site. Incorporating A300 into your operations and your thinking makes good business sense. Increasingly, contracts for governmental, institutional and large commercial projects are specifying that tree care maintenance shall be performed according to the ANSI A300 Standards. There is another benefit of A300: crew training. Remember the first time you climbed a tree to prune it? If you were like most green climbers, you got into the tree and thought, “What am I doing?” After you climbed for a while, you developed a methodology: You sized up the tree from the ground, chose your tie-in points and figured out where most of the work was. Then you climbed to the top of the tree and tied in. At that point, if you were like most arborists, you started to eliminate the most obvious
