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THE DAVEY BULLETIN
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September/October 2022
LEADERSHIP
The Great Lakes Operating Group held two arborist training
sessions to elevate the skills of their employees in the
group's eastern and western offices.
An Ascending, Work Positioning, and Descending Arborist
training was held over two and a half days in Ann Arbor,
Michigan's Veterans Memorial Park, led by the Davey Institute's
arborist skills trainers and the Davey health and safety
department. The training started with gear inspection, climbing
fundamentals, how to conduct a job briefing, and drop zone
cone necessity. The group reviewed closed and open systems
and Single Rope Systems (SRS). The participants used
these techniques in the tree climbing sessions in different
scenarios. This module included a train the trainer element.
The trainees were North Detroit office's Cody Lamson,
foreman, Casey DeCocker, trimmer, and Mike Saintonge,
foreman; the Northwest Detroit office's Anthony Fisher,
trimmer, Colton Lipinski, trimmer, and Mackenzie Krupsky,
foreman; the South Detroit office's Eddie Bennett, foreman,
Wade Karos, foreman, and Anthony Liwag, trimmer; the
Toledo office's Brian Gargac, landscape foreman, Steven
Buford, trimmer, and Charles Powell, trimmer; the Northeast
Detroit office's Jake Atikian, trimmer, Andrew Poggi,
trimmer, and Jacob Wilkins, foreman.
A two and a half day Arborist Felling Module was held in
Lanesboro, Minnesota at the Eagle Bluff Environmental
Learning Center. They explained chainsaw maintenance,
safety, and sharpening, and the six step Precision Tree
Felling Plan from The Davey Safety and Training Manual.
After the classroom session, the attendees went out to the
woods, split into groups, and practiced base cuts, making
notches in trees, and forecuts, then felled the trees.
Trainees were Maier Tree & Lawn, a Davey company's
Brandon Bennett, trimmer, Hunter Heightland, landscape
foreman, and Drew Loechler, trimmer; the South Minneapolis
office's Matt Sharrow, foreman, Luke Myers, foreman, and
Daniel Kamish, trimmer; the North Minneapolis office's
Ryley Wolfe, trimmer, and Jake Hauger, trimmer; the South
St. Paul office's Rachel Kirchner, trimmer, Isaac Bries,
trimmer; and Davey Resource Group (DRG), Environmental
Consulting services' environmental scientists Brittany Allen
and Benjamin Rietz.
GREAT LAKES R/C GROUP HOLDS ARBORIST TRAININGS
CORPORATE THIRD WING ADDITION NEARS COMPLETION
To watch an update on
the Davey corporate
office third-wing
addition, scan this QR
code to see a video
about the project.
Pictured from left, Brian Parris, senior regional safety specialist, and
Brian Gargac, landscape foreman, set up a rope wrench for climbers.
Above: The third wing addition under construction this summer at
the corporate office.
Left: Office furniture is being installed in the third wing and interior
finish work is under way.
