The Chilean ash cloud has forced New Zealand woman's NZ Arbor No 1 Chrissy Spence and rookie international climber Stef White out of the Asia-Pacifc TCC due to start Friday in Singapore.
'Home-made' rope savers are commonplace in New Zealand. Most of these savers follow the same method of construction. Climbers take a suitable length of rope (usually Sirius 10mm
Last week Treetools posted a YouTube clip showing climberdad using a whole raft of new equipment (which is interesting in itself). This blog incensed one particular safety conscious arborist.
Evidence of two 'Bad Practices' in the video were the ..
Who will win the Asia-Pacific Regional TCC later this week?
The Asia-Pacific Regional TCC is the last chance for climbers to represent their country with a starting position in the 2011 International Tree Climbing Championships scheduled for Sydney, July ..
Andy Neverman says this video is important viewing for arborists and he's right! You will need to watch right through to the end to see why.
We'll be honest, Treetools cannot fully explain how the physics worked in the climbing configuration test where the DMM Sentinel screw gate carabiner failed at 21kN.
But we do know… on paper at least, the DMM carabiner ..
You'll probably all remember the Matt Says No! story from January last year where Matt Glen had a go at Wouter (from the Netherlands) for using the Kong Duck in a rope saver set up.
Following this stressful ..Yesterday we ran an article demonstrating a 'solo' topping effort. Climberdad shows off plenty of gear but there are a number of questionable practices in this video. Currently, in ..
Before everyone gets all hot and bothered there is a reason why this DMM Sentinel carabiner failed at 21kN (for those who don't know the Sentinel is rated at 24kN).
The carabiner in ..
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