AB-Tree Care Buyers' Guide - FOCUS: Tree Care

Need pruning tools? Arborist insurance? Tree injection treatments? This listing is designed to help landscape contractors track down all of their tree care business needs.

Arbor Business, Aug. 2001Need pruning tools? Arborist insurance? Tree injection treatments? Lawn & Landscape magazine's first Tree Care Buyers' Guide as part of Arbor Business is designed to help landscape contractors track down all of their tree care business needs.

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Tree Care Buyers' Guide

    ADI Tools by TOL
    800/732-2142
    www.tol-inc.com
    hydraulically operated pruning tools, i.e. coppers, pole saws, circular saws, etc.; self-propelled manlifts up to 35 feet

    American Arborist Supply
    800/441-8381
    www.arborist.com
    hand pruner, pnumatic and hydraulic saddles, rope rigging devices, safety apparel, sprayers, chemicals, injection equipment, chain saws

    American Express Business Finance
    800/366-4228
    equipment leases, loans and business lines of credit

    ArborGuy/Staking Systems
    888-782-5346
    www.arborguy.com
    tree staking equipment

    Arborist Supply Co.
    403/240-3993
    www.arboristsupplyco.com
    hand tools and removal equipment - chippers, stump grinders, saws, etc.

    Arborist Supply House
    800/749-9528
    saws, pruners, pole saw heads, pole pruners, saddles, climbers, safety equipment: hardhats, chainsaw chaps, road cones; books, root barriers, trunk protectors

    ArborSystems
    800/698-4641
    www.arborsystemsllc.com
    tree injection device, tree insecticides, tree fungicides, tree micronutrients

    Artistic Arborist
    602/263-8889
    www.artistic-arborist.com
    disease and insect control products/fertilizer treatments, micro/macro injection treatments, hand tools, climbing equipment, including saws, pruners, shears, gloves, safety equipment, boots

    Bandit Industries
    517/561-2270
    www.banditchippers.com
    hand-fed tree and brush chippers in 6-, 9-, 12-, 14- and 18-inch diameter capacities; stump and log shear attachment available

    Bartlett Tree
    www.bartlett.com

    Bethel Sales
    519/452-1006
    www.bethelsales.com
    arborist supplies, landscaping supplies

    Bishop Co.
    www.bishco.com
    hand tools, climbing equipment

    Boething Treeland Farms
    818/883-1222
    www.boethingtreeland.com
    more than 600 tree and shrub varieties in 1-gallon container size to 60-inch box size - throughout the western United States, Texas and Florida

    Border City Tool & Manufacturing Co.
    810/758-5574
    carbide stump cutter teeth

    Brisco
    800/439-6834
    www.briscoinc.com
    powered shovels and digging equipment

    Brown Manufacturing Corp.
    800/633-8909
    www.brownmfgcorp.com
    tree cutter

    Buffalo Turbine
    716/532-2272
    www.buffaloturbine.com
    turbine sprayers, dusters, debris blowers

    Cal-Line Equip
    925/443-6571
    www.cal-line.com
    brush chippers, stump grinders, log splitters, arborist supplies, climbing gear, saddles, saws, pruners, ropes, slings and safety gear

    CLC Labs
    614/888-1663
    soil, plant tissue and irrigation water testing; technical consulting services

    Cleaves Co.
    877/449-0833
    www.cleaveco.com
    skid-steers and attachments, tree spades, hand tools, removal equipment, commercial mowing equipment, tree climbing ropes, saddlers, cabling supplies, fine wood processors, wood chippers, stump cutters, grapples

    Complete Green Co.
    800/GREEN-99
    www.bettersoils.com
    micro/macro injection treatments, soil amendments (P.A.M.)

    Contree Sales
    800/433-3579
    www.contree.com
    professional spraying equipment for the tree industry from seedlings to full-grown - can build units specifically for contractor

    Crary/Bear Cat
    800/247-7335
    www.bearcatproducts.com
    wood chippers/shredders, stump grinders, lawn vacuums

    Creative Automation
    800/49-ARBOR
    www.creativeautomation.net
    business software for the green industry

    Creative Sales
    402/727-4800
    www.acecap-medicap.com
    systemic tree implants for insect control

    C.R. Daniels
    800/933-2638
    www.crdaniels.com
    multi-purpose cart that can haul small to medium balled-and-burlapped trees

    C.U.E.S.
    603/889-4071
    www.cuesnet.com
    tree removal equipment, specialized trucks

    Cutler-Malone Industries
    954/741-5888
    fertilizer spreader for tree farms, nurseries and citrus groves

    Deep Root Partners
    800/458-7668
    www.deeproot.com
    root barriers, staking and guying material, truck protectors and water barrier

    Direct Edge
    909/392-4648
    www.directedgeusa.com
    removal equipment, including stump cutters, chippers, log splitters and truck and trailer lifts

    DriWater
    707/588-1444
    www.driwater.com
    irrigation

    Dueco
    800/558-4004
    www.dueco.com
    aerial lifts and digger derricks - aerial lift equipment with or without chipbox capabilities from the Hi-Ranger product lines. New equipment, used equipment, parts, service and rental options

    Duthmaster Nurseries
    905/683-8211
    trees, skid-steers and attachments, tree spades

    EFCO Imported by Tilton Equipment Co.
    800/447-1152
    www.tiltonequipment.com
    chainsaws, trimmers, brushcutters, hedge trimmers and augers

    Elvex Corp.
    203/743-2488
    www.elvex.com
    safety products, including glasses, hearing protection, FM-radio earmuffs, loggers safety caps with hearing and face protection, chain saw chaps and vests

    Excel Industries
    800/395-4757
    www.excelhustler.com
    stump cutters

    Fanno Saw Works
    530/895-1762
    www.fannosaw.com
    pruning tools (saws)

    FMC Corp.
    800/321-1FMC
    www.fmc-apgspec.com
    insecticides

    Forestry Suppliers
    800/647-5368
    www.forestry-suppliers.com
    disease and insect control products/fertilizer treatments, hand tools

    Fred Marvin Associates
    800/540-6680
    www.pruner.com
    hand tools, including pole pruners, pole saws, fiberglass poles, wood poles, saw blades, hand saws, extension couplings for poles, pruning packages

    Gravely, an Ariens Co.
    800/472-8359
    www.gravely.com
    skid-steers with attachments, including 4-in-1 bucket, augers, trencher, vibratory plow, blade and more; chipper/shredders

    Green Garde
    800/745-2392
    www.hdhudson.com/green-garde.html
    spray equipment

    H&H Sales Co.
    219/637-3177
    www.gtesupersite.com/hhequip
    service vehicles for transportation of lawn equipment, service/crane vehicles

    Hall’s Safety Equipment Corp.
    www.hallssafety.com
    hand tools, boots and safety equipment, chaps, tree trimmer saddles, climbers, peavies, first aid kits, rope, pruners, clothing, ear and head protection

    Hawk Equipment Corp.
    877/591-5855
    www.hawkstumpgrinder.com
    stump grinders

    Husqvarna
    704/597-5000
    www.husqvarna.com
    hand tools, including arborist chain saws, helmet systems, roping gloves, safety apparel

    Independent Protection
    219/533-4116
    www.ipclp.com
    lightning protection equipment - full line of equipment used in lightning protection systems, including club houses, shelters, etc., and equipment for trees

    J.J. Mauget
    800/873-3779
    www.mauget.com
    microinjection treatments

    Jameson
    800/346-1956
    www.jamesoncorp.com
    hand tools, including pruners, saw blades, boom mount tool holders

    Jarraff Industries
    800/767-7112
    www.jarraff.com
    utility, right-of-way, maintenance, distribution lines, brush mowers, ground clearing site preparation

    John Brown & Sons
    888/227-6686
    www.brownbronto.com
    excavator-mounted brush and small tree cutter/mulcher for land clearing, row maintenance and roadsides

    JRM Chemical
    800/962-4010
    www.soilmoist.com
    disease and insect control products/fertilizer treatments, polymer, mycorrhizal products

    Karl Kuemmerling
    800/464-8227
    www.karlkuemmerling.com
    hand tools, removal equipment, clothing, ropes, saddles, wood splitters, hand and hydraulic pruners, bean sprayers, peaveys, pruner poles, loppers, chain saws, chippers, etc.

    LESCO
    800/321-5325
    www.lesco.com
    disease and insect control products/fertilizer treatments, hand tools, 50- to 300-gallon sprayer packages

    Lewis Utility Truck Sales
    800/856-2064
    new and used aerial equipment, chip trucks, chippers, cab chassies, aerial lift bucket trucks

    LIFT-ALL Division of Hydra-Tech
    219/747-0526
    truck-mounted aerial lifts from 28 feet to 75 feet and digger derricks from 42 feet to 47 feet

    Maasdam Pow’R-Pull
    888/797-7855
    www.maasdam.com
    rope pullers, come-alongs, jacks, trees, hand tools, removal equipment

    MacKissic
    800/348-1117
    www.mackissic.com
    removal equipment, including stump cutters, chippers/shredders, vacuum-chipper-bagger, walk-behind blowers

    Malcolm & Parsons Insurance
    800/FORTIFY
    www.malcolmandparsons.com
    total insurance programs for arborists - auto, w-c, liability, equipment, employee health and benefits, association-endorsed programs

    Midwest Arborist Supplies
    800/423-3789
    www.treecaresupplies.com
    disease and insect control products/fertilizer treatments, micro/macro injection treatments, hand tools, climbing and rigging rope, professional climbing equipment, pruning tools and landscape supplies

    Morbark
    800/233-6065
    www.morbark.com
    brush chippers

    Multitek
    800/243-5438
    www.multitekinc.com
    skid-steers and attachments, tree spades, tree removal equipment

    NESCO
    800/252-0043
    www.nescosales.com
    hand tools, removal equipment, specialized trucks - equipment rental/sales, tools and parts

    New England Ropes
    800/333-6679
    www.neropes.com
    rope for climbing and lowering

    Nu-Arbor Products
    888/773-8777
    www.nu-arbor.com
    tree/shrub fertilizers and soil injectors

    North Mountain Enterprises/E-Z Tree
    801-763-8488
    www.eztree.com
    specialized skid-steer loader attachment for trees

    Nu-Gro Technologies
    888/370-1874
    www.nugrotech.com
    fertilizer treatments

    Pacific Arborist Supplies
    604/929-6133
    www.pacificarborist.com
    orchard ladders, tree climbing equipment: belts, lanyards, climbers, environmentally safe oils and lubricants, rope; climbing, rigging and cabling equipment; root barrier carabiners, pulleys, personal safety: clothing, hardhats, etc.

    Peerless Corp.
    870/236-7753
    www.peerless-trailers.com
    all types of wood residue handling equipment, storage bins for chips, truck and trailer dumpers, chip, inwoods, drop center and live floor trailers

    Pigeon Mountain
    800/282-7673
    www.pmirope.com
    vertical access equipment - life safety rope, harnesses, helmets, gloves, carabiners, pulleys, etc.

    Plant Food Co.
    800/562-1291
    www.plantfoodco.com
    fertilizer treatments, organic soil amendments, etc.

    Plant Health Care
    412/826-5488
    www.planthealthcare.com
    fertilizer treatments - injectables, vertimulch, wetting agents

    Plastic Composites Corp.
    800/747-9339
    www.buckettruckparts.com
    replacement parts for bucket trucks, including fiberglass booms, buckets, covers and accessories, liners, saw scabbards, tool trays, bucket pumps, bucket covers, etc.

    Polecat Industries
    800/876-5322
    www.polecatindustries.com
    self-propelled highway towable aerial lift

    Porter-Ferguson
    508/835-2900
    www.lowellcorp.com
    hand tools - saws, pruners, etc.

    Praxis Illinois
    888/316-8200
    www.stumpmachine.com
    stump cutters

    Rayco Mfg.
    800/392-2686
    www.raycomfg.com
    removal equipment, including stump cutter machines, forestry mowing and mulching machines, crawler/dozer, power buggy

    Redmax Komatsu Zenoah America
    800/291-8251, ext. 228
    www.redmax.com
    hand tools, including chain saws, pole saws, backpack and handheld blowers, hedge clippers, reciprocating brushcutters, string trimmers, edgers, sweepers, drills, augers

    Remke Enterprises
    630/810-1662
    Fe-26 iron chlorosis tablets and 20-10-5 planting tablets

    Roots
    800/342-6173
    www.rootsinc.com
    organic compounds and fertilizer

    Samson Rope Technologies
    800/227-7673
    www.samsonrope.com
    rope and cordage, climbing lines, rigging lines

    Scandinavian Forestry Tech
    208/682-2002
    www.forestindustry.com/forestrytech
    hand tools, removal equipment, portable post peelers, ATV and tractor forwarding trailers with radio remove, hand and pole saws, hand tools, planting tools, winches, etc.

    Shark Corp.
    800/891-7855
    www.sharkcorp.com
    hand tools, loppers, pruning saws, etc.

    Shelter Tree
    800/720-8733
    www.sheltertree.com
    skid-steers and attachments, tree spades, disease and insect control products/fertilizer treatments, micro/macro injection treatments, hand tools and tree removal equipment

    Sherrill Arborist Supply
    800/525-8873
    www.wtsherrill.com
    trees, disease and insect control products/fertilizer treatments, micro/macro injection treatments, hand tools, climbing gear, arborist clothing

    Sheyenne Tooling Mfg.
    800/797-1883
    www.sheyennemfg.com
    skid-steers, attachments, tree spades, pruning saw

    Shindaiwa
    800/521-7733
    www.shindaiwa.com
    sprayers, pole pruners, hedge trimmers, backpack sprayers, chain saws

    Shred-Vac Systems
    530/477-7240
    www.shredvac.com
    removal equipment; green waste collector/shredder; blower for recycling, revegetation and erosion control

    Ski Landscape Equipment
    317/897-5885
    tree pinchers

    Structural Plastics Corp.
    810/743-2800 ext. 217
    www.plastictreegrates.com
    plastic tree grates

    Sundance
    970/339-9322
    removal equipment - grinder for converting waste wood and unsellable chipper chips into mulch and compost

    Terex Telelect
    605/882-1842
    www.telelect.com
    specialized trucks - tree trimmer aerials

    Time Manufacturing
    254/399-2100
    www.versalift.com
    versalift aerial bucket trucks

    Tree Equipment Design
    570-386-3515
    www.treeequip.com
    tree planters

    Tree Management Systems
    812/876-7664
    www.turftree.com
    specialized database software for tree/turf care companies

    Tree Pro
    800/875-8071
    www.treepro.com
    tree and truck protectors

    Treessentials Co.
    800/248-8239
    www.treessentials.com
    seedling establishment tools, including treeshelters, tree mats, fertilizer packets and deer repellent

    Tree Tech Microinjection Systems
    800-622-2831
    micro injection treatments

    Tree Tools
    888/635-8733
    www.treetools.com
    disease and insect control products/fertilizer treatments, arborist equipment

    Triple D
    919/639-4295
    tree spade

    TRIMS Software
    800/608-7467
    www.trims.com
    tree inventory software

    TruckCraft Corp.
    800/755-3867
    www.truckcraft.com
    pick-up dumpers, combination service/dump bodies, aluminum flatbeds, and aluminum storage boxes, tool boxes and salt spreaders

    Universal Refiner Corp.
    360/249-4415
    www.universalrefiner.com
    tree removal equipment, portable wood waste grinder, models ideal for orchard waste, green waste, limbs, leaves, etc.

    U.S. Rigging
    www.usrigging.com
    tree anchors and staking systems

    V&H
    715/428-2238
    www.vhtrucks.com
    skid-steers, attachments, tree spades, specialized trucks, swinger articulated loaders

    Villa Landscape Products
    800/654-4067
    www.villarootbarrier.com
    root control barriers, tree planting and erosion control products

    W. Fearnehough of America
    800/327-3445
    brush chipper, knives and bed knives

    Wallace Laboratories
    www.bettersoils.com
    soil, plant and water testing and consulting for better growth and plant health care

    Westheffer Co.
    800/362-3110
    www.westheffer.com
    high pressure skid-mounted sprayers, high pressure truck-mount sprayers and root fertilization sprayers

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