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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