Legends Foundation trustee and TCC chief score keep Neal Harding has provided a running commentary, YouTube clips, an excellent review and full results for the 2012 NZ tree climbing competition via the Legends blog.
Consequently, there is no need for Treetools to repeat the info on this site so we ..
Treetools published Zane Wedding's plea to Rock Exotica on Facebook, regarding the Unicender, as part of a previous post.
Here is Rock Exotica's answer.
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Here's the word from Wild Country:
For the safety of all of our customers we are issuing an immediate recall of the Wild Country Ropeman 3. If you own a Wild Country Ropeman 3 please read this notice carefully and follow the instructions: “How to Return the Product”.
Reason for the ..
World foot lock record holders, and recognized tree climbing Legends Nicky Ward-Allen and James Kilpatrick lead the points table after day one of competition in the 2012 NZ TCC held in the Wellington Botanic Gardens today.
Other points leaders include Drew Bristow, Johno Smith, Clay Winter, Peter Boyle, Michael Winstanley ..
Unicender (and Single Line Work Positioning) advocate Zane Wedding felt the wrath of NZ TCC organizer Mat Palmer at the climber de-brief session this evening (see FB post below as a precursor).
Here's how things unfolded.
Zane presented the Unicender at Gear Check on Friday evening where his full kit was passed. ..
Treetools will commence sales of locally produced stitched rope terminations next month. The 'Whiptail' terminations are manufactured in Auckland by custom rope stitching company Shift 2. Stitched terminations will compliment the splicing work currently undertaken for Treetools by DB Tree (not all ropes can be spliced).
Shift 2 have their own ..
Thanks to Silky Japan and a lot of leg work by Silex (Silky NZ), a number of qualifying competitors in the 2012 NZ National TCC, scheduled for the weekend of 27-28 October in Wellington, will be sporting unique 'toothless' Silky Tsurugi 300 competition saws - ..
The Hitch Hiker is bit of a hard one to get your head around (at first). We all possibly felt that way about the Rope Wrench (I honestly don't recall - it seems so long ago!).
The Hitch Hiker is a little foreign in that it combines the friction hitch and ..
Petzl have re-worked a couple of their old faithfuls; the Croll and Pantin, due for launch first quarter 2013 (we believe).
On first sighting, the Croll prototype has a more 'finished' look than its predecessor. The edges are rounded and rope friendly (almost DMM-like) ..
Here's some Single Line viewing for a Saturday afternoon!
In the link above, Ontario Climber Cary Gibson films his first use of the revolutionary Teufelberger Platinum we first blogged about early October - see previous post here. ..
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