Single line innovation ain't about to stop!

Richard Tregoweth, Saturday, July 07, 2012

The Treemagineers will be horrified! Their trusty DbRT Hitch Climber pulley has found its way into the ..

'Human' testing for climbing configurations?

Richard Tregoweth, Friday, July 06, 2012

Tree climbers are often lambasted for their lack of scientific data when it comes to the testing of 'homemade' climbing configurations.

Even the testing of manufactured equipment ..

TCIA appear to be heading in the right (SRT) direction

Richard Tregoweth, Friday, July 06, 2012

Being the first to publish a Best Practice Guideline on the use a Single Rope Technique in tree climbing should not be considered the winner of a race.

But whoever is the first to do just that will be defined in tree climbing folklore as ..

Base anchored SRT Work Positioning lines cause concern

Richard Tregoweth, Thursday, July 05, 2012

A number of SRT Work Positioning practitioners including Drew Bristow, Rossy Ross (Pro Climb) and Johno Smith are beginning to question the 'safety' of base anchored SRT work positioning climbing lines.

The basal anchor issues are largely limited to SRT Work Positioning and are not necessarily apparent in SRT Access systems.

Apart ..

Mind your language, or things will get (even more) complicated

Richard Tregoweth, Wednesday, July 04, 2012

Before meaningful discussion can take place everyone has to be speaking the same language. Without a common, accepted lexicon the development of perfectly sound theories will be lost in translation.

Dr Roger Mortimer referenced this phenomenon in his Suspension Trauma presentation we featured yesterday and, to ..

More Rope Wrench testing data

Richard Tregoweth, Wednesday, July 04, 2012

The academics will have you believe these Rope Wrench static pull tests are crap.

They say the same about the break tests Treetools does but we believe this style of testing is better than nothing - it's certainly better than proprietary data secreted away in ..

Suspension trauma - not moving a muscle can be dangerous

Richard Tregoweth, Tuesday, July 03, 2012

Anyone working in a work positioning harness (read tree work) day-in-day-out needs to set aside and hour of their time to watch this presentation by Dr Roger Mortimer from the National Cave Rescue Commission.

Dr Mortimers' presentation was video taped at the 2012 NCRC National ..

New Rope Wrench prototype on display

Richard Tregoweth, Monday, July 02, 2012

By all accounts a prototype version of the 'new' Rope Wrench (manufactured by ISC Wales we believe) can be seen on the 'Tight Hitches', Bitches!' video posted last week.

Take another look at the video - you will have to look ..