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
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 ..
Regular visitors to Treetools will have noticed slight changes to the website navigation over the last few weeks. This evening we have changed over the complete site to a new format to make it easier for customers to find products and to better reflect the emphasis of Treetools - high ..
The new generation Stihl Advance Class 1 chainsaw trousers we blogged about late May are now in stock. These new trousers are definitely 'light in weight' when compared to similar spec'ed trousers and are likely to be ..
We have had a quick note from Chrissy and it appears she gained the most points in the preliminary round of the women's division - bodes well for the Worlds! As a wild card entry in the European Tree Climbing Competition, Chrissy could not compete in the Masters.
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