Animas Valley Arborist, Inc.

As the owner of Animas Valley Arborist, Inc.y Arborist and J&J Landscaping LLC, every week we discuss safety to prevent accidents in our workplace, and to create a culture of safety in everything we do! This means changing our personal habits and incorporating new, safer habits in our daily lives. This weeks topic is a review but I want to share this with the public, family and friends for your awareness while driving in parking lots. Please excuse the long read, but here ya go!

Parking maneuvers, particularly a vehicle’s maneuver for entering and leaving a parking space, have varying rates of use and safety impacts. In this effort, crash data were collected for parking lots in the vicinity of a university campus and compared to observational parking position data. The campus was selected for this study because a change in the parking enforcement process was expected to (and did) change parking maneuver choices. When entering and leaving a parking space, three maneuver options exist for drivers: (1) forward, (2) reverse, and (3) pulling through an adjacent parking space. When specifically entering a parking space, the maneuver options become: (1) pull-in, (2) back-in, and (3) pull-through. When leaving the parking space, the maneuver options become: (1) pull-out, (2) back-out, and (3) pull-through. This study found that the pull-in/back-out vehicle maneuver’s percentage of total crashes was greater than the percentage of vehicles that were actually observed to use the same maneuver. The analysis from this study implies that the pull-in/back-out parking maneuver is more likely to result in a collision and therefore, is associated with a higher crash risk. Further analysis of North Carolina’s parking related fatal and serious injury crashes found that vehicles backing out of parking spaces was overwhelmingly the main cause for these serious injuries. 90% of North Carolina’s parking related fatal and serious injuries occurred during a back-out maneuver. Overall, this study concludes that the back-in/pull-out parking maneuver is safer than the pull-in/back-out maneuver and is the recommended approach to 90° parking.

Safety effects of parking maneuvers Parking maneuvers, particularly a vehicle’s maneuver for entering and leaving a parking space, have varying rates of use and safety impacts. In this e…

We had the opportunity to reinvigorate an old orchard. The orchard was mainly Apples trees with a few Pear trees. However, the trees were older and had extensive heartwood dieback.
We pruned the old trees and gave them new structure and dignity. Then we planted 19 new fruit trees (4 different apples varieties, 2 pear varieties, cherries, and plums). The new trees will grow in as the older trees reach the end of their lifespan but continue the cycle of life in this beautiful orchard.
In addition, we cleaned up an overgrown Amur Maple hedge, and a very overgrown Privet hedge. Always, fun and challenging to transform a property that has become overgrown and turn it into something beautiful while enhancing the life of the trees and plants!

Spring time is for planting trees! Today we were planting these 22 feet Spruce trees! Since 1978 we at Animas Valley Arborist, Inc. have known how to plant these big trees and small trees too!!!