Battery-Powered Tools: Advancing Sustainability at Davey
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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)

To find your local Davey office, check out our find a local office) page to search by zip code.To learn more on how Davey is using battery powered tools, read our blog, Taking Charge with Battery-Powered Equipment. )

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