Hackfalls Arboretum Arborcamp and Working Bee is on again this year, over the weekend of 24-25 November. Last years inaugural event attracted arborists and their families from all over the North Island.
Arborcamp organizers Mark Randall (ArborCare Gisborne) and Rossy Ross Pro Climb and The Scott Forrest (Legends Foundation) tell us ..
Scott Forrest's Legends Foundation website went live this afternoon.
The new website celebrates the success of New Zealand tree climbers on the international stage.
The Legends Foundation trustees are keen for the site to act as a repository for New Zealand tree climbing related material, including historical data, photographs and characters - ..
Single Rope Technique in tree climbing has to be the THE hot topic for 2012!
Following a passionate SRT outburst from Rich Hattier on TreeBuzz earlier in the year the ISA/ITCC public relations machine faulted a few times in their delivery of information, causing the associations' Technical Advisory Committee to ..
Finding the right chainsaw protective boot is a mission by anyone's standard. Price, performance, durability, water-proofness, comfort, availability, warmth (but not too hot), weight, height… the list goes on.
Treetools landed the first shipment of the new Stein Phantom chainsaw protective arb boot last ..
As promised back in March the ITCC Technical Advisory Committee Performance Criteria document is now out for review.
Considering this years who-ah surrounding the use of the Rope Wrench in ISA sanctioned tree climbing competitions there is a plenty at stake with this document.
One imagines many sleepless nights (and long Skype ..
Three kiwi aerial arborists working in Canberra have well and truly wooed the locals - making the pages The Canberra Times today.
Billed as the 'daredevils of the tree world' Andy Neverman, Drew Bristow and Freddie Hjelm have been working in Canberra for the last week pruning trees in the Parliamentary ..
Get ready for a busy September!
The NZ Arbor/Husqvarna South Island Regional TCC is scheduled for the first of the month, Waikato/Bay of Plenty on Saturday 22nd and the South Island Regional TCC a week later.
Wellington is the only regional event with a confirmed venue: Kowhai Park in Whanganui. The ..
A couple of years ago Jerry Lynch organized a splicing workshop in Dunedin, presented by Menno Kluiters and Jelte Buddingh, as part of a Labour Weekend climbing festival. Along with a training session, the plan was to establish some sort of 'certification' criteria relative to splicing production.
Unfortunately, only half a ..
The limited size of our tree care labor pool is well documented. Now it appears the land of milk and honey (Australia in case you don't know) is short of experienced aerial arborists as well.
There are a number of big tree care projects underway across the Tasman offering fly-in fly-out ..
The A-Kabel ArborCOM 'wireless' Bluetooth headphones/ear protection helmet muffs we discussed in a blog post last month have arrived in store and they are better than we could have ever imagined.
A 200m range for Bluetooth is not something Treetools has come across before so we were more ..
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