What Does an Arborist Do?

If you were to ask ten people that you know “what does an arborist do” you might get a couple of right answers. An arborist is defined as a practitioner of arboriculture, which is a professional that can cultivate, manage, care for, and rehabilitate trees and shrubs. Most areas of the country have several professional companies that are engaged in this business and a leading practitioner in North Carolina is Asheville arborist Family Tree Services. From the more routine care and services to the specialized treating of dangerous trees Family Tree Services is recognized throughout the area as the leading high-quality arborist.

While it is true that anyone can call themselves an arborist as there is not an educational requirement to use the designation, anyone needing the services of an arborist should be sure to use only a company such as Family Tree Services that is Licensed, Insured, Bonded, with a staff that has a Certified Arborist on their staff. A certified arborist is a person who has earned a specialized certification from the International Society of Arboriculture which demonstrates their knowledge in various areas of arboriculture.

Family Tree Services has a professional staff of highly experienced workers that are available to serve customers in the Asheville area in all aspects of arboricultural care and even has staff on call for 24-hour Seven Day a Week emergency services. Whether the services needed are residential or commercial the company has the experienced staff to fill the needs of any customer. Whether you need spraying and maintenance of existing trees or planting of news trees on your property Family Tree Services has the staff and equipment to complete your job. They have the specialized equipment to perform the safe removal of trees, stump grinding or high height pruning of trees. They also have staff available to assist in the clean up the mess and danger created with storm damage.

Now, you not only know what an arborist does, you know which arborist to call when you need services.

We Did Not Get Much Done at Work Today

I was at work early this morning and as soon as I got there I realized that there was something very wrong, the parking lot was wet and it had not rained for four days. It took no time to figure out that there was water running over the edge of the loading dock. First I needed to cut the water off and then I had to figure out where the burst pipe was. It was a mess and I figured out how to find an emergency plumber in Bergen County NJ. I do not think it would have been necessary if Trey had not been on vacation. I sort of suspect that the guys who were doing maintenance in his absence may have had something to do with the pipes, but they certainly did not volunteer to tell me if they had done anything. Of course I had to focus on getting the water out of the shop. Luckily there was not much of it in the offices, although we are likely going to have to rip up one piece of carpet and replace it.

At any rate it was well after lunch before be got things dried out enough to think about starting up the line. Obviously we wanted to be really careful about the machinery, that stuff really can not be replaced easily and if it is gone, then none of us have jobs. We opened the machines up and inspected them really well. I was wondering how much humidity there was and if you are careful that has to worry you and awful lot. In the Second World War they put air conditioning in submarines because humidity has such bad effects on the machines in them. I knew that and I knew you did not want to have too much of it in your stuff.