March/April 2017 | The Davey Bulletin 15
AN INCREDIBLE OFFICE VIEW
The Niagara, Ontario, Residential/Com-
mercial office employees experienced
the breath-taking Niagara Falls as their
daily office view for the summer of
2016.
WildPlay, an adventure company,
contacted Nich Spino, former district
manager of the Niagara office and
now district manager of the Burlington
office, to complete a unique tree
trimming project for the installation
of the company's MistRider Zipline
to the Falls.
MistRider features four parallel zip
lines, 200 feet in the air, overlooking
the American and Canadian
Horseshoe Falls.
Before tourists could hop on this
thrill-seeking ride, Davey employees
needed to prune all trees along the
edge of the zip line within the
vast Niagara River gorge.
This challenging, eight-week project
tested nearly the entire Niagara office.
"It was a full team effort," said Mike
Lenarcic, district manager of the
Niagara office.
Jordan Kripp, foreman, worked the
duration of the project.
"We had to prune a passage basically
through all the forestry on the way to
the falls," Kripp said. "It wasn't difficult.
There was just a lot to do."
Crews also conducted herbicide
treatments on cut stumps to prevent
re-growth of invasive trees and shrubs.
As a reward for a job well-done,
WildPlay's staff let Kripp and a few
other Canada employees test-ride the
zip line. "It was a lot of fun," Kripp said.
Later that summer, WildPlay called
Canada's Niagara office yet again
to prune trees for their second
attraction, the Wildplay Whirlpool
Adventure Course.
While pruning trees for this project,
Kripp and his crewmembers could
see from their bucket truck Maid of
the Mist riders traveling in the rushing
water below.
When Kripp was asked what the
most memorable part of the project
was, without hesitation he answered:
"The view."
Above: Davey's Jordan Kripp uses a bucket truck to trim trees overlooking
Niagara Falls.
Davey's Niagara office trimmed trees for Wildplay's second adventure
attraction, the Whirlpool Adventure Course.
