Forestry & Tree Care Insulated Booms

The tree care sector, one of the core industries we serve, requires reliable and safe insulated equipment to minimize unexpected electrical service interruption. Operators servicing rights-of-way on aerial lifts require reliable, safe, insulated equipment that protects them from nearby electrical hazards while allowing them to manage trees and shrubs efficiently. Waco Boom products installed on bucket trucks, “cherry pickers,” and track driven aerial devices ensure a rigid and proven solution for safely performing work near electric lines. For more details and information on our forestry, tree care, and ROW management insulated booms, contact us today!

Tree care encompasses a range of practices aimed at maintaining and enhancing the health, safety, and aesthetics of trees. It involves various tasks, such as pruning, trimming, removal, planting, and disease control. Tree care professionals, often known as arborists, are trained in tree biology and maintenance techniques to provide expert care. This work often requires the use of specialized equipment like bucket trucks and compact aerial lifts.

Highlight the advantages of using insulated fiberglass booms in tree care operations: Safety.

These powerlines are carrying more than 46 kilovolts (46,000 Volts), and using an insulated boom could help the operator trim the trees more safely by ensuring there is a barrier between voltage and ground.

See Common Sizes: Standard or Metric

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Check out our blog post, TREE CARE: SAFETY & EFFICIENCY, to learn more today!

For three decades Waco Boom has been the trusted standard in producing reliable insulating booms for the aerial work industry. Since 1988, Waco Boom engineers have helped inform and shape industry standards for domestic and international applications. 

Waco Boom’s unique filament winding process and molding techniques, coupled with superior electrical grade fiberglass and epoxy resin systems ensure heightened consistency, optimum stiffness and durability, prevention of air and moisture gaps, lighter weight, and superior aesthetics. Each filament-wound boom is submitted to rigorous onsite destructive break testing and dielectric tests. When designing to customers’ needs for the safety of life and property, choose the boom that is backed by the best quality, expertise, and service in the industry.

Waco Boom continues to be the industry leader in developing state-of-the-art filament wound booms for aerial lift manufacturers. Ongoing onsite engineering research directly informs innovative processes, techniques, and product designs. Waco Boom continually strives to improve processes in pursuit of increased production efficiencies, new tooling and product designs, and enhanced quality checks. With each new challenge, Waco Boom works to produce a safer, lighter, stronger product for the aerial lift industry. This combination of innovation and attention to detail puts Waco Boom at the forefront of the industry, manufacturing the best filament-wound booms for aerial work.

Based on performance requirements, Waco Boom can help recommend and develop the proper boom for your application. Tooling can be machined to create a unique, proprietary component for your design. In addition, the chart below displays readily available, common distribution boom sizes.