If you are a self-employed contracting arborist paying your own ACC levies you might be interested in this article.
Back in February, parliament passed a bill that reduced some ACC entitlements, changed work assessment rulesand raised the ACC levy for self-employed business owners. So ..
Christchurch climber Adam Hartshorne, who is currently traveling in Europe, picked up some of the new 12mm Yale Imori (pronounced EEE-MOR-LEE) at the recent UK Arb Show - he will probably be the first climber in New Zealand ..
Joe Harris has posted a redirect designed by Tom Oldmeadow that will have climbers digging into their climbing kit looking for that old Wild Country Ropeman!
A couple of customers visiting the store today said they couldn't see Chrissy in the 2010 European TCC pictures provided by Petzl on Flickr - see previous blog - so we have obliged.
2010 ..
Back in February we blogged about Reg Coates' development of the new 'crane bag' for Stein. Climbers who regularly undertake crane jobs thought Reg's idea was brilliant and wondered why they had not already thought of ..
The climbing arborist is one of the last professions to rely on the tying of a knot for everyday work. The Tree Climbers Companion by Jeff Jepson and The Tree Climbers Knotbook
Chrissy, Nicky Ward-Allen, Scott Forrest and James Kilpatrick will ..
The ISC hand ascender is called the Ultrasafe because it is virtually impossible for the rope to come free of the channel.
Milled from a solid block of 7075 aluminum, the ISC Ultrasafe hand ascender has a unique captive-eye pin ..
Joe Harris's VTIO Advanced Climbing Workshop handouts have proved to be very popular, judging by the number of downloads from the Treetools website. See previous blog regarding 'living documents'.
By 6:00pm last evening over 75 copies of the
Development in tree climbing gear and techniques is moving forward at an unrelenting pace. The speed of this development makes it difficult for climbers to document procedures, do's and don'ts etc - as soon as it is written down, someone comes up with a new variation, ..
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