Climbing Arborist Podcast

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.

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. We talk about safety, competition climbing and a story to we can all learn from

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

David is an Ornithologist, biologist and tree climber. David talks explains how the thought of some tropical birds never being visible from the forest floor gave him the passion to learn to climb trees, his methods along the way and teaching others..

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.

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

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...

Dan goes solo in this podcast to talk about safe work practices with a chainsaw in the canopy. This is one of the topics Dan is so passionate about and he really wants people to take the time to think about why they expose themselves to unnecessary risk

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

Dan is joined by friends Tiger and Marten. Marten talks about his career as a 1 armed arborist, they discuss projects they have been working on, lots of equipment and gear talk and lots more tree talk

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. It is important people are aware of Lyme disease, especially arborists.

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, topping trees, pressures from other climbers & bosses to climb unsafe trees, competition & more...

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, topping trees, pressures from other climbers & bosses to climb unsafe trees, competition & more...

The guys have discussions on using a chainsaw on handed, having 2 tie in points while using a saw in the tree, Sena bluetooth communication and Justin talks about a close call.

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 talks about a monthly news letter he's writing...

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. Also joining this week's podcast is good friend George Amos, owner of George Amos treecare in Vancouver.

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.

Dan is joined by friends and fellow arborists, Mat Fernandez (from the 'Mat Fernandez project'), George Keays and arborist/photographer Joel Spooner