The first tree competition for the year - the Taranaki Open - is on this weekend (Saturday February 4) in Stratford and the weatherman tells us the sun will be shining!
As of yesterday over 20 climbers had registered interest in competing in the Taranaki Open according to event co-organizer Nicky ..
Yale Blaze is a very popular climbing line - tree climbers who acclimatize to the 11mm diameter remain very loyal to the rope and virtually always replace like-for-like when their Blaze climbing line finally does give up the ghost.
But many Blaze diehards are unaware of the fact that Yale Blaze ..
Ropes from New England, including Tachyon (the US version), KM III, HRC Thermashield and the new ascent line Escalator will soon be available in New Zealand.
Treetools first shipment of Tachyon back in June 2009 was manufactured in the US by New England ..
The Franz Kreuzeder designed Tree Austria harness was one of the first ultra lightweight European aerial arborist harnesses available.
Currently there are three versions of the harness on the market. The Tree Austria I (Duo) and Tree Austria II will remain in the model lineup and version three is now ..
This blog post is restricted to gear freaks! If SRT bling is not your thing you can skip reading this one.
Treetools is fielding questions regarding the use of the ART Spiderjack and the Rope Wrench on a single rope.
In theory, the doubled rope ART ..
WINTEC Arboriculture in the Waikato have produced some of the best aerial arborists in the world.
Next week (Wednesday February 1) the Hamilton Gardens Campus will be open from 3:00pm until 6:00pm to prospective students for a tour of the complex and to see tree climbers in action. There is also ..
There is an excellent Aerial Rescue (Part 1) article in the latest edition of Arb Climber written by Jo Hedger and Ade Scott..
Among other things, Jo and Ade make a couple of very important observations.
One, not all emergency services will have the ability to get an injured climber down ..
NTCA co-founder Joe Cooper dropped into Treetools on Friday afternoon to bring us up to date with plans for the 2012 Tree Climbers Gathering at the Otaua Sports and Pig Hunters Club in Otaua over the weekend on 17-18 March.
Last years inaugural event was held ..
Event organizer Nicky Ward-Allen has posted the Taranaki Open on facebook - if you are planning to attend click the 'going' button now!
The trees for the 2012 event are completely different to those climbed last year - Nicky has conveniently included an aerial view of King Edward Park in Stratford ..
Treetools touched on the subject of ART innovation late last year but many readers managed to overlook the detail, preferring instead to get lost in Joe Harris's Spiderjack instructional video (and we can understand why).
Part way through the video Joe makes a reference to the planned changes for the Spiderjack ..
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