Christmas Gear Guide

Craig is an arborist from the PNW and now a Board Certified Master Arborist. He's spent years training climbers and chainsaw users in person, and through the TreeU program.

Jason Dudek of Dudek Tree Service in Mukwonago, WI is the nicest guy around, and the only ones who love climbing trees more than him are his daughters.

Ryan Torcicollo is an arborist athlete representing SavaTree, Husqvarna, and Petzl, and is consistently in the top 3 competitors at TreeStuff competitions. If you've been to a TCI, Arborfest, or Treetopia event, you've probably seen him teach a class.

Nick Araya is a Board Certified Master Arborist and true tree nerd who owns TreeCareLA. He's the go-to resource for dealing with trees and palms on the west coast, and a font of knowledge.

"Hand spliced Kernmaster with a DMM Director Swivel on it."

Taylor is the Technical Representative for DMM in North America, and plays drums for the dissonant death metal band Sunless when he's not playing around with ultra-complex mechanical advantage rigging systems. He's done tons of webinars and videos for us on climbing and rigging.

"Liros Safe Vision 11.8mm for MRS"

Apparently, it's some sort of European rope?

Travis Vickerson has been an arborist, instructor, and technical director in the arborist industry for over a decade, and currently brings his expertise to providing climbing equipment and training for law enforcement and military. He's also been a fighterfighter and EMT.

You can find him in our TreeU Groundsperson Training and Orientation Course.

Lindsey Purcell is the real deal: municipal arborist, college professor, published author, BCMA, TreeU Instructor, consulting arborist, he's done it all.

Make sure to watch all of his webinars!

Robert is a lead climber for our besties, A Plus Tree in California. You might have seen him directing a giant redwood removal operation including a helicopter, or swinging people around at our Human Claw event at expos.

Indiana arborist Joe Paden is the owner, climber, and trainer at Sycamore Tree Care and has done a bunch of great Customer Video Reviews for us at Tree Stuff. He specializes in training the next generation of arborists to be safe and effective.