The sheer number of recent product recalls has tree climbers asking questions about the testing of equipment before it is put into the market. Obviously, all legitimate PPE products have to reach appropriate standards before they can be sold.
Get out of here… it's a complete waste of time asking for the break strength of EN 892 dynamic rope! But… if you insist, it turns out to be about 18kN.
Treetools knows this because we stretched a length of dynamic EN 892 climbing line until it finally broke at the ..
Enjoy! Thanks to Joe Harris, Into Trees and film making by Jordan Glossop, iClimbinc.
Arb Climber "at last, a magazine specifically for climbing arborists and riggers" is due to launch in October 2011 . Arb Climber is a sister publication to 19-year old, Technical Rescue and is part ..
All Rock Exotica Unicenders manufactured before August 8, 2011 should be returned to Rock Exotica for inspection.
From what Treetools can ascertain, one of the riveted chain links has come adrift ..
If you are planning to enter this years Treephoto competition you'll need to get a move on - entries close Thursday, September 1! Entry is simple: just email your ..
Load the weekend of November 12-13 into your iPhone! The Hackfalls Arboretum (Gisborne) is the first arborcamp/working bee planned for the summer of 2011.
Hackfalls Arboretum, home of the largest private collection of oaks in the world, is run by a charitable trust and they need some ..
Graeme and Angus McMahon of Sherbrooke Tree Services (Australia) presented a workshop at the ISA Conference in Parramata on a rigging system called Trivect.
In the last edition of Tree Matters, the NZ Arbor Quarterly Journal, president Rick Mexted wrote about the rapid evolution of tree climbing equipment and techniques - good-to-go one day and abolished the next.
Rick was referring specifically to SRT (relative to the Best Practice Guidelines) but his comments are valid ..
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