Here at J.M. Tree Service we are the exclusive owners of an aerial work platform, also known as a tracked lift. The lift is on tracks and is 3’8″ wide and allows us to work up to 82′ high. The advantages of this equipment are as follows: Although we do own and utilize bucket trucks for many jobs, the tracked lift is able to go across open lawns with minimal ground depression. Due to the unit being self propelled and being on tracks it puts down the equivalent ground pressure as a person walking across the lawn. This allows us to get in and out of a job without leaving deep ruts or depressions (like our bucket truck would). The other major advantage of utilizing this piece of equipment is that it ‘s compactness in travel mode (when it is being driven into position) allows us to access trees in an area of a property a bucket truck could never get to. This allows us to operate in not only a safer , but also a more efficient capacity then if we were engaging in climbing operations. This unit can also negotiate up and down as well as side slopes on the property. It can be set up for work on up to a 22 degree incline in any direction. Again, this allows us to utilize the aerial work platform in places a bucket truck would not be useable.