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TABLE OF CONTENTS
FEATURES & PRODUCTS
10 Special Feature
Equipment Trends 2014
18 Training & Education
Tree Appraisal
How much you reckon that puppy's worth?
22 Plant Health Care
Trees Playing Footsie: How Root Grafts Work
26 Vegetation Management
Entering a Competitive Bid
How utility companies select vegetation management
line-clearance companies
30 New Products
Arbor Age A+ New Product Awards
Arbor Age recognizes some of the top new products
to hit the market in the past year
34 Show Preview
There's No Excuse to Miss TCI EXPO
38 Milestone Series Special
Bobcat Celebrates Production of
One Millionth Loader
42 Trucks
Pickup Trucks
46 Equipment Focus
Aerial Lifts
Volume 34, Number 8 October 2014
Volume 34, Number 8, October 2014
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DEPARTMENTS
5 From the Editor
6 Industry News
48 Marketplace
48 Classifi eds
49 Ad Index
50 Tree of the Month
On the Cover
Photo by T. Clausen
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