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Arbor Age June 2014

For more than 30 years, Arbor Age magazine has been covering new and innovative products, services, technology and research vital to tree care companies, municipal arborists and utility right-of-way maintenance companies

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OPERATOR SAFETY ii The Next Level Be Safe. Get ChipSafe TM . When preparing to use a brush chipper equipped with the ChipSafe device, operators must wear ChipSafe work gloves on their hands and straps on their ankles, or ChipSafe straps on both their wrists and ankles. The ChipSafe Operator Safety Shield is mounted directly to the sides of the infeed chute of a Morbark brush chipper. If, while feeding the brush chipper, the operator's hands or feet enter the defined ChipSafe sensing zone, sensors in the plates send a signal to interrupt the chipper's feeding mechanism, protecting the operator from possible injury. By simply swiping a ChipSafe gloved hand or strap across the reset box, the operator is able to reactivate the feeding mechanism with little or no disruption in productivity. Introducing the ChipSafe ™ Operator Safety Shield — the latest operator safety innovation for Morbark ® Beever ™ brush chippers. Learn more about how the ChipSafe Operator Safety Shield can help protect you and your workers, and see it in action at www.morbark.com/getchipsafe. Morbark and our network of authorized tree care dealers are committed to chipper operator safety and ongoing training. After several years of research, development and testing, we see the introduction of the patented ChipSafe Operator Safety Shield as a true testament to this commitment. Here's how it works:

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