Talking Trees with Davey Tree
Your trees and landscapes require year-round care, and The Davey Tree Expert Company is here to help provide you with expert advice. Join our professional Davey arborists and gardening-expert host Doug Oster to learn all about caring for your properties. We'll talk about introduced pests, seasonal tree care, tree diseases, arborists' favorite trees, how to help your trees thrive and everything in between. Tune in every Thursday because here at the Talking Trees Podcast, we know trees are the answer.
Talking Trees with Davey Tree
Battery-Powered Tools: Advancing Sustainability at Davey
In honor of Davey's Stewardship Week, Noah Pechatsko, environmental program specialist at the Davey Institute, discusses the long-term benefits of using battery-powered tools and how Davey is making this switch.
In this episode we cover:
- Battery-powered tools vs gas-powered tools (:47)
- Do Davey arborists carry gas-powered tools? (2:22)
- Charging battery-powered tools and having backups (2:53)
- How many years do battery-powered tools last? (3:53)
- The environmental benefits of using battery-powered tools (4:46)
- Challenges of converting to battery-powered tools (5:50)
- Are battery-powered tools widely accepted? (6:26)
- What does Noah do with the Davey Institute? (7:29)
- How Noah got into this job (7:51) (8:12)
- What other battery-powered tools do Davey arborists use? (8:31)
- State laws and gas-powered tools (9:08)
- Will Davey eventually switch to all battery-powered tools? (10:08) (10:41)
- What battery voltage does Davey use? (11:17)
- Noah's reaction to helping advance environmental sustainability at Davey (12:42)
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To learn more on how Davey is using battery powered tools, read our blog, Taking Charge with Battery-Powered Equipment.
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