NTCA co-founder Joe Cooper dropped into Treetools on Friday afternoon to bring us up to date with plans for the 2012 Tree Climbers Gathering at the Otaua Sports and Pig Hunters Club in Otaua over the weekend on 17-18 March.
Last years inaugural event was held ..
Event organizer Nicky Ward-Allen has posted the Taranaki Open on facebook - if you are planning to attend click the 'going' button now!
The trees for the 2012 event are completely different to those climbed last year - Nicky has conveniently included an aerial view of King Edward Park in Stratford ..
Treetools touched on the subject of ART innovation late last year but many readers managed to overlook the detail, preferring instead to get lost in Joe Harris's Spiderjack instructional video (and we can understand why).
Part way through the video Joe makes a reference to the planned changes for the Spiderjack ..
Treetools has a length of Type B Yale Blaze in the showroom kindly donated by Drew Bristow. The sample is the result of an experiment conducted by DB Tree to see what happens when the Frog system is dynamically loaded with 80kgs of weight.
Drew's length ..
The first issue of Arb Climber arrived this afternoon instore - there is nothing like the smell of fresh ink! Copies of Arb Climber are available now for immediate delivery.
As far as we know Arb Climber is the first aerial arborist magazine ever. And readers should be very happy with ..
Working the tree on a single (leg of your climbing) line has always polarized climber opinion.
Now, with increasing popularity for the Rope Wrench the SRT issue is coming into much sharper focus.
While the Rope Wrench might be renewing interest in working SRT it is not ..
The White Knight, Evercreech Forest Reserve, north-east Tasmania - 91m tall. Amazing footage from Matt Glen.
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Cut a bit short and visual overload, but fun to see Wouter in action!
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Arboriculture Lecturer, School of Architecture, Building and Engineering
FULL TIME
Otago Polytechnic is seeking a suitably qualified and experienced person, to fill an arboriculture lecturing position in the Natural Resources section of the School of Architecture, Building and Engineering.
The successful applicant will hold a recognised qualification in Arboriculture.
Previous tertiary teaching experience ..
Questions regarding the use of the Petzl Shunt as a professional rope access back-up device surfaced way back in 2001 following an extensive study by Lyon Equipment for the Health and Safety Executive in the UK.
The 2001 Lyon Report raised some serious concerns about ..
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