The throwbag has evolved!

Richard Tregoweth, Saturday, November 28, 2009

Innovations are coming thick and fast in the arb industry - the humble throwbag is the latest to fall victim to changes! (Better not tell Andy Harrison).

Check out the ..

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Jawand Nga Chun in the NZ NTCC Masters Challenge

Richard Tregoweth, Thursday, November 26, 2009

Wildcard entry Jawand Nga Chun, a climbing arborist with Treescape in Auckland, went through to the Masters Challenge in the NZ NTCC after a frantic start. Jawand had trouble with a jammed hex screw on a D-shackle pulley he planned to use ..

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Jerry Lynch to trial Wolf Claws

Richard Tregoweth, Thursday, November 26, 2009

Jerry Lynch, senior arboriculture lecturer at Otago Polytechnic is trialling a pair of Wolf Claw climbers from Treetools.

Jerry is well known and respected for his work in the NZ arb industry. Rob Douglas, winner of the of this years New Zealand Arboricultural Association Ron Flook Award, recognized Jerry in his ..

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Popular products at Conference Trade Show

Richard Tregoweth, Thursday, November 26, 2009

Treetools had planned to show a completely new range of products from Stein Safety in the UK and Pfanner Stretch-Air and Klima-Air gear from Austria at the NZ Arboricultural Conference in Blenheim held last week. Reg Coates (Stein RC Lowering Devices) and the Stein Safety UK team worked very hard ..

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NZ NTCC photos now on Flickr

Richard Tregoweth, Wednesday, November 25, 2009

By popular demand the photographs taken by Treetools at the NTCC in Blenheim are now loaded onto Flickr. A few short videos of the mens masters will be loaded ..

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Pfanner functional protective clothing coming soon

Richard Tregoweth, Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Treetools will list a limited range of StretchAir and KlimaAir arborist and tree climbing protective clothing and boots over the next few weeks. Check out what climbers are wearing at any of the international tree climbing events and you will see StretchAir clothing by Pfanner.

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Scott Forrest takes out the mens National TCC

Richard Tregoweth, Tuesday, November 24, 2009

The National Tree Climbing Championships held on Saturday 21 November at Pollard Park, Blenheim provided plenty of drama. James Kilpatrick led the mens event into the Masters but overall victory went to Scott Forrest.

The Mens Masters qualifying points are as follows:

1) James Kilpatrick 147.28
2) Scott Forrest ..

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Unofficial NTCC Results (mens)

Richard Tregoweth, Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Arborists can't be working very hard today - following the previous blog posts we have had a number of requests for us to publish the full NTCC results prior to the masters.

These are unofficial preliminary results - check the NZ Arb website for the Official version.

 

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Womens TCC results from Rick Mexted

Richard Tregoweth, Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Just in from Rick Mexted (new President of the NZ Arboriculture Association) - the Womens National TCC results are as follows:

1) Chrissy Spence 129.56
2) Nicky Ward Allen 107.39
3) Elena O'Neill 60.33

The Aerial Rescue was particularly challenging for most of the climbers. Woody was ..

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National Tree Climbing Competitions this Saturday

Richard Tregoweth, Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Good luck to all the climbers in the National Tree Climbing champs to be held this coming weekend at Pollard Park in Blenheim.

The overall winner of the Nationals will represent New Zealand at the International Society of Arboriculture (ISA) International Tree Climbing Championships (ITCC) held in Chicago, Illinois, USA, ..

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