January/February 2017 | The Davey Bulletin 9
Staff from Davey Resource Group (DRG), the Davey Institute
and Davey corporate communications and marketing traveled
to Indianapolis for the 2016 Partners in Community Forestry
Conference. Several DRG employees served as speakers
during the conference, while communications and marketing
staff worked a Davey photo booth in support of Keep
Indianapolis Beautiful (KIB). For each photo taken, Davey
pledged to make a donation to KIB. The conference proved
a success, as nearly 200 people had their photo taken.
PARTNERING FOR URBAN FORESTS
An intense, pop-up thunderstorm
created a challenging test for a
crew in Davey's North Philadelphia
Residential/Commercial office.
A large, uprooted locust tree was
leaning on the back of a two-and-a-half
story Philadelphia apartment building.
Jason Parker, district manager, needed
to remove the hazardous tree, but
there wasn't enough room to maneuver
their crane behind the building.
Parker and his crew members John
Gehringer, foreman, Matt Buza,
technician, and Marc Grose, ground-
man, worked to remove the tree by
positioning the crane in the front of the
apartment complex.
"The two main safety concerns
were the customer's property and
preventing any additional damage
to the roof," Parker said. After a long
job briefing, his crewmembers used
Bluetooth headsets to strategically
coordinate the removal.
"My crews were able to make quick
work of a hazardous situation," he
said. "They made the job look easy
while keeping themselves and the
property safe."
PHILLY OVERCOMES
A CRANE CHALLENGE
Davey's Jason Parker, John Gehringer, Matt Buza and Marc Grose completed a blind
crane job after a storm knocked down a hazardous tree onto an apartment building.
Attendees at the 2016 Partners in Community Forestry
Conference who posed for a photo with the Davey Instagram
frame helped raise money for Keep Indianapolis Beautiful.
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