Treetools is an advocate for climbing (and rigging) education: through official providers like WINTEC, Otago Polytech, Pro Climb or Thought Planters. Or through the unofficial 'retail education' channel Treetools provides in store.
If you have had a 'Treetools experience' you will know it takes at least an hour (or two) in ..
Your average, everyday hard working arborist is very thankful the Stein brand exists. Real value for money is a sort after commodity and that is what Stein is all about.
Take the new Stein X2 Climbers for example (as blogged about previously).
Made in the US, ..
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Second place-getter in the Work Category of the 2011 Treephoto Competition and regular blog reader Laurent Pierron sent us a link to 10.5 mm Beal Dynastat, suggesting this new rope as a possible solution to the access line innovation we blogged about earlier in the month.
Beal Dynastat conforms to two ..
Photographs of popular aussie climber Joe Harris feature on the new, still under construction, ISC website and in the arborist section of their 2012 catalog.
German tree climbing manufacturer ART also feature Joe's work.
Joe is ranked number two in the world ..
James Kilpatrick and our other 'international' tree climbing stars are probably blissfully unaware of the fact their climbing set-ups are picked over with a fine-tooth comb following every Masters climb… and this year was no exception.
When we say fine-tooth comb, we mean an extra, extra, extra fine-tooth comb!
For example, ..
Three times woman's ITCC winner and reigning woman's tree climbing champion Chrissy Spence has announced her retirement from competitive climbing. Chrissy will not compete for the world title at the 2012 ITCC event in Portland.
Chrissy first attracted international tree climbing attention with her runner up position in the 2004 ITCC. ..
If you were competing in the 2011 NZ Arbor/Husqvarna National TCC at the weekend in Masterton, the photographs from Day One and Day Two are now loaded onto Flickr.
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The Singing Tree Rope Wrench is possibly the least understood bits of kit currently available on the market! Only die-hard SRT (Single Rope Technique) proponents seem to have any idea as to its application and benefits.
The Rope Wrench concept is relatively simple: the 'Wrench' ..
US-based Treemagineers promoter Taylor Hamel has started a thread on TreeBuzz dedicated to the DMM Rigging Hub - large and small (and it is worth visiting for rigging ideas).
The DMM Rigging Hub has its critics, many ..
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