Rumor has it, Petzl's not-so-secret D22 ascender/descender might be introduced to the market at the TCIA Expo in November this year.
The D22 'Zig-Zag' has a similar feel to the Bulldog OAR first shown on a blog back in 2010.
According to the D22 patent document the new device can be ..
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Make sure you head north to Whangarei this weekend for the NTCA Aerial Rescue and tree climbers Open Forum at Mander Park - see map below. The AR day gets underway at 8:30am (Saturday 25 August) and ..
Almost every self-employed arborist complains about the paperwork associated with the job; quotes and invoices, job sheets, site risk assessments and tree health and hazard reports - unfortunately all this bureaucracy goes with the territory.
If you happen to have an iPhone or iPad your problems might just be solved - ..
The South Island Tree Climbers and Gentleman's Guild is at it again - the 2012 Splicers Circle is to be held on the evening Friday 31 August at the Riccarton Racecourse prior to the NZ Arbor Husqvarna South Island Regional TCC.
The original plan was to have Drew Bristow (DB Tree) ..
Abberley Park, St Albans is the venue for the 2012 NZ Arbor Husqvarna South Island Regional Tree Climbing Competition (boy what a mouthful) scheduled for Saturday 1 September. Gear check 7:30am, competition gets underway 8:30am.
The southern round of the Husqvarna sponsored TCC ..
A ring is preferred as the floating anchor point on the bridge of a tree climbing harness because it is round! Roundness results in randomly spread wear over the connection point. That is, wear is not concentrated in one place on the connecting aluminum ring.
Drew Bristow was well aware of ..
Congratulations to the 2012 ITCC Portland organizing committee - by all accounts the event ran like clockwork from start to finish and the official results are already posted on the ISA website - bloody amazing!
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Thoughtplanter Mark Roberts, with help from Brian French (Treeverse) and Treemagineer Mark Bridge presented their thoughts on SRT at the Climbers Corner in Portland today. Here's the notes from Mark Roberts:
"Brian and I talked about cam-based ascent/access devices and how work should not be undertaken while ..
Running almost in sync with the growth in the NZ 'lopper' market blogged about last week) there is a higher than normal level of interest in second hand tree climbing and rigging equipment.
One has to question, what aerial arborist worth their salt would ..
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