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Arborist App a real time-saver

Richard Tregoweth, Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Almost every self-employed arborist complains about the paperwork associated with the job; quotes and invoices, job sheets, site risk assessments and tree health and hazard reports - unfortunately all this bureaucracy goes with the territory.

If you happen to have an iPhone or iPad your problems might just be solved - ..

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Splicing Circle planned prior to SI Regional TCC

Richard Tregoweth, Monday, August 20, 2012

The South Island Tree Climbers and Gentleman's Guild is at it again - the 2012 Splicers Circle is to be held on the evening Friday 31 August at the Riccarton Racecourse prior to the NZ Arbor Husqvarna South Island Regional TCC.

The original plan was to have Drew Bristow (DB Tree) ..

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Only a couple of weeks until the South Island Regionals

Richard Tregoweth, Sunday, August 19, 2012

Abberley Park, St Albans is the venue for the 2012 NZ Arbor Husqvarna South Island Regional Tree Climbing Competition (boy what a mouthful) scheduled for Saturday 1 September. Gear check 7:30am, competition gets underway 8:30am.

The southern round of the Husqvarna sponsored TCC ..

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DMM Bat XS revisited

Richard Tregoweth, Thursday, August 16, 2012

A ring is preferred as the floating anchor point on the bridge of a tree climbing harness because it is round! Roundness results in randomly spread wear over the connection point. That is, wear is not concentrated in one place on the connecting aluminum ring.

Drew Bristow was well aware of ..

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2012 ITCC official results posted

Richard Tregoweth, Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Congratulations to the 2012 ITCC Portland organizing committee - by all accounts the event ran like clockwork from start to finish and the official results are already posted on the ISA website - bloody amazing!

ISA 2012 ITCC Results ..

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Single Line Work Positioning concept bedding in

Richard Tregoweth, Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Thoughtplanter Mark Roberts, with help from Brian French (Treeverse) and Treemagineer Mark Bridge presented their thoughts on SRT at the Climbers Corner in Portland today. Here's the notes from Mark Roberts:

"Brian and I talked about cam-based ascent/access devices and how work should not be undertaken while ..

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Second hand climbing gear; is it worth the risk?

Richard Tregoweth, Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Running almost in sync with the growth in the NZ 'lopper' market blogged about last week) there is a higher than normal level of interest in second hand tree climbing and rigging equipment.

One has to question, what aerial arborist worth their salt would ..

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Nine times ITCC win for Beddes Strasser

Richard Tregoweth, Monday, August 13, 2012

Treemagineer Bernd Strasser has won the 2012 ITCC bringing his ITCC title bag to nine all told (as listed by Ling Wah Ling on FaceBook: 2012, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2000, 1999) - a truly amazing effort!

Women's ITCC title went to first-timer Veronica Ericsson of Sweden. Veronica is ..

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Legends Foundation blog posts bringing live information from ITCC in Portland

Richard Tregoweth, Saturday, August 11, 2012

Legends Foundation trustee Neal Harding, currently reporting from Portland in the US, is loading some pretty good information about the 2012 ITCC onto the Legends Foundation website - for those of us who could not make the event.

Neal offers a full analysis of each event over a series of posts ..

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New Zealand 'tree lopper' sub-market beginning to emerge

Richard Tregoweth, Thursday, August 09, 2012

Visit any Australian city and you will see trucks proudly advertising themselves as 'tree loppers'. These guys are not arborists but most of them do know how to use a chainsaw and simply lop and top the tree, as and when required by the customer and charge a fee accordingly. ..

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