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Workshops gather momentum

Richard Tregoweth, Friday, June 25, 2010

There are a number of interesting workshops coming up over the next few months that you need to pencil into your diary now.

Coming up soon…
Saturday July 3, Auckland: Rigging with the Port-A-Wrap Workshop presented ..

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ITCC Caution Notice withdrawn?

Richard Tregoweth, Thursday, June 24, 2010

The Caution Notice regarding ascent techniques posted late April on the ITCC website has been withdrawn (or least it has disappeared from the link).

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Tree cilmbers - Dunedin is the place to be Labour Weekend '10

Richard Tregoweth, Thursday, June 24, 2010

Hot on the heels of the successful Brass Monkey Arbor Camp held recently, Dunedin is to host another tree climbing event later in the year. Set aside Labour Weekend now! Search out the best flights and get them ..

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International tree climbers invited to Singapore TCC

Richard Tregoweth, Wednesday, June 23, 2010

A number of New Zealand and Australian tree climbers have been invited to compete in the 2010 Singapore Tree Climbing Championship.The Singapore event has two sections: an Open Category for climbers not working and residing in Singapore and Local Category (obviously for locals).

The Singapore TCC follows the same guidelines as ..

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More on the Stein SRT system

Richard Tregoweth, Tuesday, June 22, 2010

As noted in a previous blog, Stein have a number of new products scheduled for release during 2010. One of those products is an SRT tree access system. The grainy image below is lifted from the ArbTalk forum as posted by Fletcher Stewart, ..

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Even more new gear on the horizon

Richard Tregoweth, Monday, June 21, 2010

The use of SRT in tree climbing is taking center stage at the moment but one of the downsides with the current SRT systems is that they are designed to go ..

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Port-A-Wrap rigging workshop planned by Pro Climb and DB Tree

Richard Tregoweth, Sunday, June 20, 2010

The humble porty is the most abused piece of equipment in the arborist kit bag. However, it does not have to be like that.

Pro Climb and ..

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8mm Armor Prus spliced friction cord test results

Richard Tregoweth, Thursday, June 17, 2010


Neil Montgomery is an Australian caver who (it is claimed by the aussies) first coined the phrase Single Rope Technique (SRT) back in 1977 - sorry tree climbers, you did not invent SRT!

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Splicing workshop proposed by Jerry Lynch

Richard Tregoweth, Wednesday, June 16, 2010

If you missed the comment from Jerry Lynch regarding a proposed splicing workshopin Dunedin later in the year - see the comment below.

This is an excellent idea of Jerry's! Apart from the cross-pollination of ideas (as alluded to in yesterdays Read More

The real value of workshops to the tree climbing community

Richard Tregoweth, Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Treeskills founder, Roger Gale dropped in to Treetools over the weekend to say hello. Before too long we got to talking about the Arborcamp Workshop held recently at Mt Stuart Reserve south west of Dunedin.

The workshop was conducted by Drew Bristow and Johno Smith representing DB Tree and covered off ..

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