Davey Tree : Work For Davey : Adam Murray


Adam Murray

"I like dealing with different people from all kinds of backgrounds, including customers and the people I work with. It’s the diversity of the people and their knowledge that always makes each day different."

Adam Murray welcomes the challenges he often faces with his job at Davey and the patience and discipline needed to tackle them. After all, he was in the Canadian Army and worked as an armored car guard for several years before joining the tree experts in 2002.

A Residential/Commercial foreman with the Kitchener, Ontario, office, Murray had to apply his skills when he responded to a storm damage call at a home during the summer of 2007. A tree had blown down on a house, but the location of the tree and property limited the equipment that could be used.

"A week and a half prior, I had recommended that the tree be removed," says Murray, an ISA Certified Arborist and an Ontario Ministry of Training and Colleges Certified Utility Arborist. "But the homeowner wanted to salvage it and just have it pruned. When we showed up again on his property, we were committed to making sure nothing would be damaged. It was a make-it-or-break-it situation, and we worked our hardest – in the dark and into the night, even – to get it off his house."

When the job was successfully completed, neighbors cheered, and the homeowner breathed a sigh of relief as barely a scratch was left on the home. Murray believes that everyone’s personal skills and knowledge contributed to the positive outcome – and to all victories each Davey crew encounters.