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Old 25th February 2008, 06:48 AM   #26
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i'm actually studying arboriculture right now and working on investing in some climbing gear so i can get practicing. i really don't mind handling a rake. i'd rather start at the bottom so when i'm at the top i feel like i deserve it.
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Old 25th February 2008, 08:26 AM   #27
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So true pomme i wish i had a mentor to show me the ropes.
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Old 25th February 2008, 12:25 PM   #28
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well, i'm a horticulture student at Kansas State University. over the past couple of years i've just really developed a passion for trees. my arboriculture teacher is an amazing woman and she's trying to get me hooked up with a local arborist to really learn the ropes.

any advice or information any of you care to share with me would be absolutely invaluable to me. learning is the name of the game.
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Old 25th February 2008, 01:07 PM   #29
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If yuo've never climbed before start off with a hitch that is fool proof like the tautline or blakes nothing to complicated basically until you get a year or two under your belt keep it a k.i.s.s factor.Stick around here and you'll gets lots of great advice and don't be afraid to ask a question about anything.
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Old 25th February 2008, 04:14 PM   #30
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right now, all i care to use is the DdRT with a bowline holding me in, a good old Blakes Hitch and some solid body thrusting. eventually i'd like to learn some other tricks and probably SRT, but for now this does just fine.
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Old 25th February 2008, 08:30 PM   #31
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right now, all i care to use is the DdRT with a bowline holding me in, a good old Blakes Hitch and some solid body thrusting. eventually i'd like to learn some other tricks and probably SRT, but for now this does just fine.
simple is good.i use a blakes cant fault it. you can make things too complicated
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Old 26th February 2008, 07:24 AM   #32
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Started in spring of 1967 with Davey Tree. Still do it regularly in the summer to support my hobby of teaching the rest of the year. Will quit when it is no longer fun!
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Old 26th February 2008, 09:24 AM   #33
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Was dangling off ropes from perfectly good Aircraft for the defence 28 years ago, rocks for about all of that (on and off) and trees for about 10years.
6 years on the ground was too long.
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Old 26th February 2008, 07:48 PM   #34
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Been in the tree game about 20years now, both for others but mainly myself. Climbing seriously for past 15 I guess. Vertical roping and rescue for the services since 1989. Fell out of many a tree from age 6 though...does that count as a workplace accident??
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Old 26th February 2008, 09:34 PM   #35
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Been climbing for the last 2 going on 3 this year... I've had 3 climbing system changes and about to make it my 4th by going to the VT.

Learning from AS then here at Tree World really helped alot, then last year for the last 6 months I REALLY came forward with my climbing and now I'd like to say that im alot more swift and efficient in the trees.

I'd like to attend (then maybe enter?) a few climbing competitions in NSW in the near future...
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