Some arborist companies, particularly in the upper North Island, are moving towards the mandatory use of fiberglass pole saws and pruners for city tree maintenance. This trend may be due to the recent changes in the New Zealand Electrical Code of Practice for Electrical Safe Distances ..
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 ..
The Caution Notice regarding ascent techniques posted late April on the ITCC website has been withdrawn (or least it has disappeared from the link).
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 ..
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 ..
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, ..
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 ..
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 ..
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!
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
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