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Why bother with 'expensive' friction cords?

Richard Tregoweth, Saturday, December 05, 2009

One of the most common questions asked by climbers moving to the Treemagineers Hitch Climber system, a friction saver or one of the pulley based rope savers (

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Unicender video upload

Richard Tregoweth, Wednesday, December 02, 2009



Johno Smith is trialling the Thompson Unicender in New Zealand and has suggested various modifications to its designer, Morgan Thompson in the USA.

Johno climbed on the Unicender in the Aerial Rescue event at the NZ National Tree Climbing Competitions held ..

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Tree gaffs from Europe and USA are different

Richard Tregoweth, Tuesday, December 01, 2009

In arboriculture the Americans and the Europeans do things differently. Different climbing styles and different equipment - probably due to different trees.

Most differences are obvious but some are more subtle: tree gaff styles for example. There are the American-style gaffs - straight with a narrow point and European-style gaffs with ..

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Mounting the RC-3002 lowering device

Richard Tregoweth, Monday, November 30, 2009

There has been considerable interest in the new lowering devices from Stein Safety in the UK. Designed by Reg Coates in the UK, the RC-3002
weighs in at over 27 kgs. Many customers ask the question: how do you mount that beast! Reg has made the answer very simple ..

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Jimmy Kilpatrick in action at the '09 NZ NTCC

Richard Tregoweth, Saturday, November 28, 2009


Many Treetools blog readers have asked if we had any video footage showing Jimmy Kilpatrick's climb in the NZ NTCC Masters after seeing Jawand's post earlier in the week so we've put together this montage.

Unfortunately we were so fascinated with the ..

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The throwbag has evolved!

Richard Tregoweth, Saturday, November 28, 2009


Innovations are coming thick and fast in the arb industry - the humble throwbag is the latest to fall victim to changes! (Better not tell Andy Harrison).

Check out the ..

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Jawand Nga Chun in the NZ NTCC Masters Challenge

Richard Tregoweth, Thursday, November 26, 2009



Wildcard entry Jawand Nga Chun, a climbing arborist with Treescape in Auckland, went through to the Masters Challenge in the NZ NTCC after a frantic start. Jawand had trouble with a jammed hex screw on a D-shackle pulley he planned to use ..

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Jerry Lynch to trial Wolf Claws

Richard Tregoweth, Thursday, November 26, 2009

Jerry Lynch, senior arboriculture lecturer at Otago Polytechnic is trialling a pair of Wolf Claw climbers from Treetools.

Jerry is well known and respected for his work in the NZ arb industry. Rob Douglas, winner of the of this years New Zealand Arboricultural Association Ron Flook Award, recognized Jerry in his ..

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Popular products at Conference Trade Show

Richard Tregoweth, Thursday, November 26, 2009

Treetools had planned to show a completely new range of products from Stein Safety in the UK and Pfanner Stretch-Air and Klima-Air gear from Austria at the NZ Arboricultural Conference in Blenheim held last week. Reg Coates (Stein RC Lowering Devices) and the Stein Safety UK team worked very hard ..

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NZ NTCC photos now on Flickr

Richard Tregoweth, Wednesday, November 25, 2009



By popular demand the photographs taken by Treetools at the NTCC in Blenheim are now loaded onto Flickr. A few short videos of the mens masters will be loaded ..

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