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Richard Tregoweth, Monday, December 17, 2012

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Protos Integral: what value do you place on your head?

Richard Tregoweth, Friday, December 14, 2012

According to Pfanner marketing the word Protos is ancient Greek for 'first'. Those with serious helmet envy tell us Protos is the truncation of two words: Professional Tosser! On first sighting of this new helmet Treetools would have to disagree with the naysayers.

Pfanner have gone to a lot of bother ..

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Whiptail sewn terminations pass SAI Global testing

Richard Tregoweth, Thursday, December 13, 2012

New Zealand rope stitchers Shift 2, working in collaboration with Treetools, have concluded a series of independent tests undertaken by SAI Global in Christchurch to determine the break strengths of Whiptail sewn terminations on various friction cords and lanyard ropes.

Download the full SAI results

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Stitched or spliced climbing line terminations for Petzl ZigZag

Richard Tregoweth, Wednesday, December 12, 2012

The latest edition of Arb Climber has an excellent Gear Review by Ade Scott featuring the new Petzl ZigZag - download the article here.

Ade is one of the few ZigZag users so far to put their impressions into words (and pictures) so this ..

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Rock Exotica Omni-Block 1.1 attracts interest from tree climbers

Richard Tregoweth, Monday, December 10, 2012

Rock Exotica are well known for their beautifully milled aluminium climbing products. When the Omni-Block swivel pulleys were first introduced back in 2005 there were more than a few rumors suggesting these pulleys would change the world!

This early prediction certainly did not eventuate in ..

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New ART instructional video lifts the bar in online learning

Richard Tregoweth, Saturday, December 08, 2012

Like it or not there are plenty of 'arborists' and tree climbers out there who use YouTube as a free training resource.

One could argue YouTube learning is the same as taking instruction from a book but there are some fundamental differences.

The traditional book publishing ..

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Care issues for Jameson Safe-Stik poles

Richard Tregoweth, Thursday, December 06, 2012

NZ vegetation management regulations require pruning poles (used around electrical lines) to be “Dry” tested every six months and “Wet” tested every two years. Earlier in the year the testing level for fibreglass pruner poles was raised from 45KV to 75KV.

Since raising the NZ electrical rating Jameson JE Series poles ..

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Tricks-of-the-trade: Petzl Caritool V2

Richard Tregoweth, Wednesday, December 05, 2012

The Petzl Caritool (large and small is one of those 'can't do without' bits of tree climbing kit but it is not without its critics.

The biggest issue with the Caritool, particularly the small version, is its tendency to break (sometimes ..

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Rope selection for dummies: how to choose your very first tree climbing line!

Richard Tregoweth, Tuesday, December 04, 2012

Advanced tree climbers can stop reading now - this blog post is not for you! And… when Treetools refers to 'dummies' we don't literally mean 'dummies' - we are talking to readers new to tree climbing (in a kind-hearted way).

Listed below is a non-intimidating series of questions first time ..

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Petzl ZigZag: 5 reasons why this new product has the potential to change rules of the game!

Richard Tregoweth, Monday, December 03, 2012

Every now and then a 'disruptive' new product enters the market and changes the rules of the game.

The Petzl ZigZag mechanical prusik offers a benefit package with appeal to individual tree climbers as well as aerial arb companies, potentially compounding this ..

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