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Chainsaw Protective Clothing Standards

Richard Tregoweth, Tuesday, July 14, 2009

We get a number of calls each week from people looking for information about NZ Chainsaw Protective Leg Wear Standards. Most are planning to buy chainsaw protective clothing on Trade Me due to the low prices being offered. A word of warning: check which Standard the ..

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Petzl Ear-Face Protection

Richard Tregoweth, Monday, July 13, 2009

The Petzl ear-face combination is by far our most popular form of hearing and eye protection for tree workers. The ear-face system is designed to easily fit onto the Petzl Best or Vent helmet.

Treetools has various configurations depending on your requirements. Your can buy it as the Petzl ear-facewith ..

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Allite aluminum orchard ladders

Richard Tregoweth, Sunday, July 12, 2009

The Treetools range of Allite orchard ladders are made in New Zealand from structural grade aluminum. All joints are welded for extra strength.

Theunique tripod design of this ladder offers the best possible stability on uneven ground - perfect for the orchard, hence the name - but this does not ..

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Wolf Claw climbing spurs

Richard Tregoweth, Saturday, July 11, 2009

I had a good chat with Tom McDougall who works with Asplundh Tauranga about Tachyon and other climbing gear earlier this afternoon - we got to talking about the Wolf Claw tree climbers. Buckingham Bashlin and Klein are the most well known in this arena and are all very similar ..

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Thompson Uniscender

Richard Tregoweth, Friday, July 10, 2009



Last week we featured the Spiderjack 2 from ART - its described as a multi-functional ascending and descending device and supposedly one of the first to be commercially available. The Thompson Unicender is another one to consider. We're not sure if ..

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Timbersaws Firewood Cant

Richard Tregoweth, Wednesday, July 08, 2009

If you didn't get your firewood in over the summer and you're finally getting around to doing this chore invest in a Firewood Cant today. Its so simple you will wonder how you did without one. Now you can easily manhandle logs up to 400 mm thick - swing in ..

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Update on Tachyon by Drew Bristow

Richard Tregoweth, Monday, July 06, 2009



Been using the New England Tachyon rope for a couple of weeks now and I am very impressed with it so far, the size makes it a bit comfier ..

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Corona Tree Pruning System

Richard Tregoweth, Sunday, July 05, 2009

We had Brett Nasmith, an arborist with Asplundh, in yesterday to look over the latest climbing equipment including the DMM Ultra O's and the new ART Spiderjack. Brett is ..

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ART Spiderjack 2

Richard Tregoweth, Friday, July 03, 2009

Calling all gear-o-holics out there! Get your beady little eyes onto this piece of kit from Advanced Ropeclimbing Technology. I had an interesting evening reading the manual trying to figure out exactly how the Spiderjack worked!

Thankfully Drew Bristow arrived and within minutes he had it under control - but ..

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Hitch Climber Set-Up

Richard Tregoweth, Thursday, July 02, 2009



There is a lot of interest in the DMM and the new Ultra O carabinas used to create this friction-hitch based, work positioning system so we've included the YouTube video from Treemagineers to show how the set-up works.

The video was ..

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