Cambridge climber (kiwi, ex-Melbourne) Hamish Fraser won today's Open Masters Challenge in the oaks at Monte Cecelia Park, Auckland taking home the Donahys Cougar Blue kindly donated by event organizer Matt Glen. Other prizes were provided by Treetools.
Cougar Blue is a prototype Donahys rope currently under development and jointly designed ..
The Singing Tree Rope Wrench is slowly making its presence felt in the New Zealand tree climbing market following extensive promotion out of the United States.
The Kevin Bingham designed device allows for ascending and descending on a stationery single line when used in conjunction with a suitable friction hitch - ..
The Auckland City Council Consents Department wants to get the message across: CHECK BEFORE YOU CHOP!
The Auckland City Consents Department is hosting three information sessions for Auckland arborists held across the city next week: one in Auckland Central, one North Shore and one out West - see the Treetools events ..
Open Masters Challenge organiser Matt Glen has announced Monte Cecilia Park in Mt Roskill as the venue for this Saturday's (December 10, 2011) Open Masters Challenge.
The best access to the Masters tree is from the Korma Road car park off Pah Road - see map below. The Masters tree is ..
Most arborists would agree: tree rigging is a complicated business.
Up until recently rigging lines available in New Zealand were almost all low-stretch, double braid polyesters, either Samson Stable Braid and Yale Double Esterlon or 12-strand Samson TenexTEC and Yale Yalex.
A generation of kiwi arborists have been trained on the low-stretch, ..
The photographs taken by Treetools at the WINTEC Best Practice Guideline for Tree Climbing launch last weekend (Saturday 26 November 2011) are now available for viewing on Flickr.
..Joe Cooper from the Northland Tree Climbers Association has advised Treetools the 2012 NTCA Tree Climbers Gathering will be held on the weekend of 17-18 March in Northland.
The inaugural 2011 NTCA event at the Alderton Farm in Pakaraka set the bar very high but we ..
This year the Auckland climbing scene has missed the energy of Matt Glen in producing the Open Masters Challenge Matt's Open Masters Challenge became a fixture on the local tree climbing calendar during 2009-2010 and the envy of other tree climbing centers throughout the country.
Matt ..
ISC Wales have taken the triple-action snap hook to the next level by adding a swivel eye as the base connector, similar in style to the current ISC Twister.
The ISC triple-action snap was the ..
The WINTEC Best Practice Guideline for Tree Climbing was launched in Hamilton on Saturday 26 November 2011.
During the presentation Andy Harrison, the documents author, alluded to the fact that many of today's tree climbers had 'gaps' in their knowledge base.
Simply put: a little bit of knowledge can be a ..
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