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September the month for TCC Regionals

Richard Tregoweth, Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Get ready for a busy September!

The NZ Arbor/Husqvarna South Island Regional TCC is scheduled for the first of the month, Waikato/Bay of Plenty on Saturday 22nd and the South Island Regional TCC a week later.

Wellington is the only regional event with a confirmed venue: Kowhai Park in Whanganui. The ..

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Learn more about your rope

Richard Tregoweth, Tuesday, July 17, 2012

A couple of years ago Jerry Lynch organized a splicing workshop in Dunedin, presented by Menno Kluiters and Jelte Buddingh, as part of a Labour Weekend climbing festival. Along with a training session, the plan was to establish some sort of 'certification' criteria relative to splicing production.

Unfortunately, only half a ..

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Opportunities abound for skilled aerial arborists

Richard Tregoweth, Monday, July 16, 2012

The limited size of our tree care labor pool is well documented. Now it appears the land of milk and honey (Australia in case you don't know) is short of experienced aerial arborists as well.

There are a number of big tree care projects underway across the Tasman offering fly-in fly-out ..

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ArborCOM Bluetooth headphones exceed expectations

Richard Tregoweth, Wednesday, July 11, 2012

The A-Kabel ArborCOM 'wireless' Bluetooth headphones/ear protection helmet muffs we discussed in a blog post last month have arrived in store and they are better than we could have ever imagined.

A 200m range for Bluetooth is not something Treetools has come across before so we were more ..

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Buckingham ErgoLite harness arrives (again)!

Richard Tregoweth, Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Treetools landed a 'tester' Buckingham ErgoLite harness early last month. Before we could properly evaluate the harness a climber came into the store, slipped it on and tried a couple of moves on the Treetools 'tree'. He purchased it on the spot.

As the name suggests the ErgoLite is the lightweight ..

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Spot the Difference: Pro Climb answers the base anchor riddle

Richard Tregoweth, Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Treetools posed a question in the "Base anchored SRT Work Positioning lines cause concern" blog post last week. We deliberately did not answer the question in the hope that somebody else might take up the baton.

So… if the solution was keeping you up at night you'll be able to rest ..

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Treetools Blog: world famous in New Zealand

Richard Tregoweth, Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Who is the target audience for the Treetools blog? This question was posed to us last week by a visiting international blog reader: did we blog for the world audience or was our primary focus New Zealand tree climbers?

We answered the latter of course!

But the question did get us thinking. ..

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NTCA to host another Aerial Rescue and Open Forum Day

Richard Tregoweth, Monday, July 09, 2012

The Northland Tree Climbers Association, headed by Joe Cooper and Troy Alderton, plan to host another Aerial Rescue and Open Forum following the success of last years effort.

Scheduled for Saturday 25 August, starting at about 8:30am, this years NTCA tree climbers Practice Day and Open Forum will be located in ..

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Single line innovation ain't about to stop!

Richard Tregoweth, Saturday, July 07, 2012

The Treemagineers will be horrified! Their trusty DbRT Hitch Climber pulley has found its way into the ..

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'Human' testing for climbing configurations?

Richard Tregoweth, Friday, July 06, 2012

Tree climbers are often lambasted for their lack of scientific data when it comes to the testing of 'homemade' climbing configurations.

Even the testing of manufactured equipment ..

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