To date there has been no official documentation (from hand ascender manufacturers at least) endorsing the use of top holes on these devices for life support connection.
Jords Climbing Corner have questioned whether the practice is now officially accepted by Petzl with their latest news release titled "Self-Belay: one single rope ..
Watch single line work positioning in action with the tree dudes from Oakwood Tree Care in Auckland… and check out the interesting angles with the camera attached to the lowered limb - nice work boys!
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Asplundh Auckland aerial arborist Guy Clark is the first competitor to use the Rope Wrench climbing single line in an 'official' New Zealand Tree Climbing Competition. Generally speaking single line work positioning is frowned upon in kiwi TCC events so this is certainly one for the history books!
Guy completed the ..
Click on the Ian Flatters comment above and re-read the previous blog post before you have a look at the YouTube clip below. RAD refers to Rapid Ascent/Descent is case you are wondering.
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The weather may not have been kind for the 2012 Taranaki Open but competitors were well compensated with the kindness shown by major sponsor Brendan Bellamy from Tricky Tree Specialists - everyone went ..
Knowledge is power… so they say!
Neal Harding, co-organizer of this weekends Taranaki Open, has uploaded the Aerial Rescue scenario onto facebook to allow climbers plenty of time to plan their rescue attempt.
The injured climber in the rescue scenario is a chap named James and he's blathering on about loosing is ..
The ubiquitous smart phone is taking over the world!
Apart from high levels of street cred, a smart phone does have some useful purposes, particularly for trades people looking for very specific and often hard-to-find information.
Knot-based tools where the first smart phone applications to make an appearance in arboriculture but ..
WINTEC will open their doors this afternoon from 3-6 pm to prospective arb students and anyone else who is interested in top-quality arboriculture training.
Visitors at the WINTEC Open Day, February 1, 2012 ..
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 ..
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