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. ..
Launching a new piece of kit these days is a right challenge, even for non-PPE hardware like a rigging bollard. Along with all the product testing, manufacture and paperwork you have to hope you sell few of your new toys to get a return on your investment - in many ..
As the highest profile, most successful, independent tree climbing team in the history of the sport its little wonder international brand owners are showing a great deal of interest in The Scott Forrest Legends Foundation.
A number of multi-national companies have already approached the Legends Foundation with a view to coming ..
If you followed the TreeBuzz Rules and Regs thread linked in yesterdays post you will have noted several references to 'Petzl documentation' regarding the use of the Petzl Rig and I'D in SRT work positioning.
One observer stated: 'no other single line device has this kind of documentation'.
Treetools wondered what 'this ..
By Treetools reckoning 'Joe' is correct in his assumption that SRT climbing (Ascent and Work Positioning) IS ALLOWED in the ITCC events.
Non-allowance of the Rope Wrench is product specific. The ITCC restriction does not apply to the climbing method in which the Rope Wrench ..
Hackfalls Arboretum Arborcamp and Working Bee is on again this year, over the weekend of 24-25 November. Last years inaugural event attracted arborists and their families from all over the North Island.
Arborcamp organizers Mark Randall (ArborCare Gisborne) and Rossy Ross Pro Climb and The Scott Forrest (Legends Foundation) tell us ..
Scott Forrest's Legends Foundation website went live this afternoon.
The new website celebrates the success of New Zealand tree climbers on the international stage.
The Legends Foundation trustees are keen for the site to act as a repository for New Zealand tree climbing related material, including historical data, photographs and characters - ..
Single Rope Technique in tree climbing has to be the THE hot topic for 2012!
Following a passionate SRT outburst from Rich Hattier on TreeBuzz earlier in the year the ISA/ITCC public relations machine faulted a few times in their delivery of information, causing the associations' Technical Advisory Committee to ..
Finding the right chainsaw protective boot is a mission by anyone's standard. Price, performance, durability, water-proofness, comfort, availability, warmth (but not too hot), weight, height… the list goes on.
Treetools landed the first shipment of the new Stein Phantom chainsaw protective arb boot last ..
As promised back in March the ITCC Technical Advisory Committee Performance Criteria document is now out for review.
Considering this years who-ah surrounding the use of the Rope Wrench in ISA sanctioned tree climbing competitions there is a plenty at stake with this document.
One imagines many sleepless nights (and long Skype ..
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