Bore and release?

Richard Tregoweth, Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Wouter (from the Netherlands) reckons we shouldn't take Daniel's 'Step Cut ' video too seriously - and he is not alone!

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The Treemagineers 6mm lanyard adjusting prussic loop

Richard Tregoweth, Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Yesterday we featured Menno Kluiter's 6mm Globe 5000 lanyard adjusting prussic loop. Take a closer look and you will notice a short length on clear ..

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Looking for an alternative to the ubiquitous Dyneema webbing sling?

Richard Tregoweth, Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Another gem to come out of the Climbers Open Forum at the 2010 NZAA Conference, lead by Omnitree Directors Menno Kluiters and Jelte Buddingh, was the use of 6mm ..

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The Game of Logging - a great example!

Richard Tregoweth, Tuesday, December 14, 2010

A great example of the step cut in action. As far as we understand it, the step cut was first introduced by the Game of Loggingtrainers and fine tuned by Daniel Murphy.

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The 2011 Taranaki Open TCC and Mountain Climb

Richard Tregoweth, Monday, December 13, 2010

January is over, start booking February now! Plan to be in Stratford for the inaugural Taranaki Open TCC and Mountain Climb over Waitangi Weekend, 2011. Five Trees, Two Days, One Mountain, Two thousand five hundred and eighteen meters!

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Revisit the Unicender with Johno Smith

Richard Tregoweth, Sunday, December 12, 2010

The Unicender is a love it or hate it device! The naysayers will tell you the Unicender can 'unclip' off the rope (virtually impossible in our opinion) and that it 'creeps' when there's ..

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Japanese tree work with Tree Climbing Japan

Richard Tregoweth, Saturday, December 11, 2010

The Treetools blog has a high readership in Japan - for which we are very honored. Have a look at what is happening tree-wise in Japan.

The video linksshow the removal of a Camphor tree from the grounds of a 700 ..

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A clever LAD from Buckingham

Richard Tregoweth, Thursday, December 09, 2010

LAD: lanyard adjusting device. By default, traditional rope grabs have become a useful lanyard adjuster… but they where not necessarily designed for that purpose.

The cam-based, carabiner attachment point on a rope grab generally runs parrell to the rope. When used as a LAD, the directionof the hole forces the ..

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Gift eCards now available from Treetools

Richard Tregoweth, Wednesday, December 08, 2010

We know! You think we're doing this as a Christmas promotion but its not true! Gift eCards have been on our wish list for some time - we just never gotaround to doing anything about it.

Many partners, parents, grand parents, brothers, sisters and lovers have asked about ..

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Here's a new twist to coiling your rope

Richard Tregoweth, Tuesday, December 07, 2010

Here's a new 'twist' on rope coiling - well, we thought it was a new twist until we started showing climbers who turned up at the store! Turns (excuse the pun) out a few of them already use ..

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