I started climbing trees for my brother's company in 2007. My career progressed and took me to a variety of states and countries working as a groundy, then climber and eventually an ISA certified arborist. I started my company in 2015, today we own and operate Tree Steward LLC in the beautiful Northern Black Hills of South Dakota . I have been climbing trees for 18 years now. My love of the vertical world brought me to rope access and rock climbing in 2013. These three disciplines combined three of my favorite things in life, nature, exercise and rope craft.

I was extremely slow to catch on to new tools and gadgets in the tree world, it was my rock climbing partner who I hired occasionally to help me with tree work that talked me into using a hitch climber pulley and eventually that led me to the rope wrench and beyond. I believe there is a lot of benefit to sticking with a tool if it works well and learning how to use it with impeccable efficiency. After all,  our knowledge, tools and techniques make us money.

In 2020 I realized a need for a midline attachable SRS canopy anchor but I couldn't find one and all I could find were videos of people cobbling together different tools to make a midline attachable canopy anchor. 

Today we are getting ready to release the KBNest anchor. The Nest is the first midline attachable SRT cambium saving canopy anchor. It is capable of anchoring up to three independent rope systems all retrievable from the ground without pulling hardware through the TIP. The Nest can anchor both SRS and DRT. The Nest anchor is easily advanceable while working off of a SRS setup. And the Nest is being put through the rigorous tests to