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 ..
Treemagineer Bernd Strasser has won the 2012 ITCC bringing his ITCC title bag to nine all told (as listed by Ling Wah Ling on FaceBook: 2012, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2000, 1999) - a truly amazing effort!
Women's ITCC title went to first-timer Veronica Ericsson of Sweden. Veronica is ..
Legends Foundation trustee Neal Harding, currently reporting from Portland in the US, is loading some pretty good information about the 2012 ITCC onto the Legends Foundation website - for those of us who could not make the event.
Neal offers a full analysis of each event over a series of posts ..
Visit any Australian city and you will see trucks proudly advertising themselves as 'tree loppers'. These guys are not arborists but most of them do know how to use a chainsaw and simply lop and top the tree, as and when required by the customer and charge a fee accordingly. ..
Launching a new piece of kit these days is a right challenge, even for non-PPE hardware like a rigging bollard. Along with all the product testing, manufacture and paperwork you have to hope you sell few of your new toys to get a return on your investment - in many ..
As the highest profile, most successful, independent tree climbing team in the history of the sport its little wonder international brand owners are showing a great deal of interest in The Scott Forrest Legends Foundation.
A number of multi-national companies have already approached the Legends Foundation with a view to coming ..
If you followed the TreeBuzz Rules and Regs thread linked in yesterdays post you will have noted several references to 'Petzl documentation' regarding the use of the Petzl Rig and I'D in SRT work positioning.
One observer stated: 'no other single line device has this kind of documentation'.
Treetools wondered what 'this ..
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