Love them or hate them - snap hooks get lots of use in the arb industry! But… as we all know not all snap hooks are created equal. When used on lanyards for tree work some double-action snaphooks were opening unexpectedly. Safety concerns reached a point where ETCC officials restricted ..
Rigging is one of the more technical aspects of arboriculture and Reg Coates is considered a world master. Reg is the designer of the Stein RC-3002dual bollard and the video below shows Reg and the dual in action.
If you are into the tree climbing comps set aside the weekend of March 20/21, 2010 for the Auckland TCC and the Asia Pacific TCC the next day. The venue is not confirmed as yet but plenty of tree climbing action ..
Often customers will call in with a pulley or carabiner that requires a bit of attention. Usually a few puffs of graphite powder brings brings the offending item back to life - but not always!
Graphite is essentially very finely ground 'pencil lead'. As well as climbing gear, graphite willalso give ..Working load limit (WLL) can get confusing. For a start you cannot use a WLL rating in isolation - there are very important relationships between Breaking Strengths (BS), Safety Factors (SF), Working Load Limit (WLL) and Cycles to ..
Taiwan and China love copying the screw-tight connectors commonly used in climbing. The simplicity and usefulness of a screw-link make them the perfect target. But there is only one original - Maillon Rapides manufactured by Peguet in ..
A reputable Auckland marine supply retailer is selling climbing rope at an unbelievably low price. The picture below shows the inside of the rope when an attempt was made to splice it. The reason for the CHEAP price is now very apparent although the outer sheath looked to be in ..
The closer the retrieval shackle is to the choke the easier the rope saver is to retrieve!
This EUREKA moment lead to some changes in the latest DB Tree Rope Saver. The original version was a finite length (usually 1.3 m) and had a very tight spliced eye (with a DB ..
Webbing friction savers with large rings, rope friction savers with small rings (the smaller rings mean easier retrieval), rope savers with pulleys and adjustable prussics and rope savers with pulleys and mechanical devices - tree climbers have plenty of choices when it comes to reducing (or managing friction) in their ..
First noted by Drew Bristow in an early October Treetools blog the new version of the DMM Hitch Climber pulley (designed by the Treemagineers) is now available. Apart from the fancy new colour scheme it shares the same features as the original pulley with one exception: low friction, super smooth ..
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