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 ..
Being the first to publish a Best Practice Guideline on the use a Single Rope Technique in tree climbing should not be considered the winner of a race.
But whoever is the first to do just that will be defined in tree climbing folklore as ..
A number of SRT Work Positioning practitioners including Drew Bristow, Rossy Ross (Pro Climb) and Johno Smith are beginning to question the 'safety' of base anchored SRT work positioning climbing lines.
The basal anchor issues are largely limited to SRT Work Positioning and are not necessarily apparent in SRT Access systems.
Apart ..
Before meaningful discussion can take place everyone has to be speaking the same language. Without a common, accepted lexicon the development of perfectly sound theories will be lost in translation.
Dr Roger Mortimer referenced this phenomenon in his Suspension Trauma presentation we featured yesterday and, to ..
The academics will have you believe these Rope Wrench static pull tests are crap.
They say the same about the break tests Treetools does but we believe this style of testing is better than nothing - it's certainly better than proprietary data secreted away in ..
Anyone working in a work positioning harness (read tree work) day-in-day-out needs to set aside and hour of their time to watch this presentation by Dr Roger Mortimer from the National Cave Rescue Commission.
Dr Mortimers' presentation was video taped at the 2012 NCRC National ..
By all accounts a prototype version of the 'new' Rope Wrench (manufactured by ISC Wales we believe) can be seen on the 'Tight Hitches', Bitches!' video posted last week.
Take another look at the video - you will have to look ..
Check out the test simulating Marc Powell's Rope Wrench pin release problem - see previous blog post here. The video speaks for itself.
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Note the reference to the Figure 8 when climbing SRT - Treetools couldn't agree more!
All the controversy surrounding the Rope Wrench has certainly achieved one thing; users are ..
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