Knowledge is power… so they say!
Neal Harding, co-organizer of this weekends Taranaki Open, has uploaded the Aerial Rescue scenario onto facebook to allow climbers plenty of time to plan their rescue attempt.
The injured climber in the rescue scenario is a chap named James and he's blathering on about loosing is ..
The ubiquitous smart phone is taking over the world!
Apart from high levels of street cred, a smart phone does have some useful purposes, particularly for trades people looking for very specific and often hard-to-find information.
Knot-based tools where the first smart phone applications to make an appearance in arboriculture but ..
WINTEC will open their doors this afternoon from 3-6 pm to prospective arb students and anyone else who is interested in top-quality arboriculture training.
Visitors at the WINTEC Open Day, February 1, 2012 ..
The first tree competition for the year - the Taranaki Open - is on this weekend (Saturday February 4) in Stratford and the weatherman tells us the sun will be shining!
As of yesterday over 20 climbers had registered interest in competing in the Taranaki Open according to event co-organizer Nicky ..
Yale Blaze is a very popular climbing line - tree climbers who acclimatize to the 11mm diameter remain very loyal to the rope and virtually always replace like-for-like when their Blaze climbing line finally does give up the ghost.
But many Blaze diehards are unaware of the fact that Yale Blaze ..
Ropes from New England, including Tachyon (the US version), KM III, HRC Thermashield and the new ascent line Escalator will soon be available in New Zealand.
Treetools first shipment of Tachyon back in June 2009 was manufactured in the US by New England ..
The Franz Kreuzeder designed Tree Austria harness was one of the first ultra lightweight European aerial arborist harnesses available.
Currently there are three versions of the harness on the market. The Tree Austria I (Duo) and Tree Austria II will remain in the model lineup and version three is now ..
This blog post is restricted to gear freaks! If SRT bling is not your thing you can skip reading this one.
Treetools is fielding questions regarding the use of the ART Spiderjack and the Rope Wrench on a single rope.
In theory, the doubled rope ART ..
WINTEC Arboriculture in the Waikato have produced some of the best aerial arborists in the world.
Next week (Wednesday February 1) the Hamilton Gardens Campus will be open from 3:00pm until 6:00pm to prospective students for a tour of the complex and to see tree climbers in action. There is also ..
There is an excellent Aerial Rescue (Part 1) article in the latest edition of Arb Climber written by Jo Hedger and Ade Scott..
Among other things, Jo and Ade make a couple of very important observations.
One, not all emergency services will have the ability to get an injured climber down ..
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