The power of mechanical advantage (MA) should not be underestimated!
Have a look at the TG Hoffman video above. It's only 29 seconds long and for the first 20 seconds it appears nothing much is happening.Then 'boom' the stump is gone. You wouldn't want ..
The Northland Tree Climbers Association Agathis Lanyard is New Zealand's most popular chainsaw lanyard for arborists.
pAnd there is good reason for this.
One, the Agathis Lanyard is a fantastic New Zealand made product (Aspiring Enterprises), and… two; all the the profits from the sale of ..
Treetools is on the RSS feed from the NZ Arb Association website. That means we get information from the association as soon as it is posted on the net.
Over the last year, job vacancies have represented the vast majority of content coming through from our industry organization - the latest ..
Tall (arb) tales of true-and-bold are par for the course at Treetools! Most of the stories are hilarious accounts of on-the-job hi-jinks resulting in right royal stuff ups - work place banter you would expect to hear in an industry like arb.
But, there are times when the stories take on ..
If it can happen. It will happen! A cautionary note from Joe Harris.
"A friend called yesterday to say that one of his climbers has just received the new Dyneema kit for the Spiderjack.
He installed the kit and started climbing, but two hours later sent it down saying that it was ..
Watch a master splicer at work and you'll understand why splicing is considered an art. And yet, most of the videos seen on net depict splicing as a pretty dull affair, certainly not the art form we know it to be.
Not happy with ..
Pfanner, manufacturers of Stretch-Air chainsaw clothing, have expanded their range to include safety glasses.
As with all things Pfanner, the new Nexus Safety Glasses come packed with innovation, partially due to the fact the Pfanner designers actually stopped and listened to what arborists had to ..
Treetools alluded to ART Spiderjack 2.1 developments back in January and the new gear has finally arrived in store.
The complete Spiderjack 2.1 Dyneema model is available along with the replacement 'Dyneema Kit and the extended Roll Lever. Both 'improvements' can the retro-fitted to ..
Harrison Rockets, DB Tree, Climb Every Thing, Pro Climb, Kiwi Klimbers, the Northland Tree Climbers Association, the Agathis Fund and the Scott Forrest Legends Foundation are all examples of kiwi (tree climbing) entrepreneurial spirit.
Many of these entities are only a few years years old, but they already play a major ..
Fisher Photo Industry (famous for the 2012 Sherrill catalog cover were on hand in Hobart to provide a photographic record the 2012 Australian National TCC and the 2012 Asia-Pacific Regional TCC.
Rob Fisher of Fisher Photo Industry, was the official photographer for the ISA sanctioned events but he would not ..
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