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As the title suggests, I’m considering purchasing a pair of chainsaw protective pants for climbing. I live in the US, where they are not required but it seems like it may be a good thing to have. On the ground, I’m pretty good about using chaps but admittedly, I don’t always use them. Especially just to make a few cuts. At least if I had those, I would always have some amount of protection. If you have a pair, do you actually wear them? Are they bearable on hot summer days? Any recommendations or insight would be very much appreciated.

I work for a tree company in South Alabama and have been building an Android app called DebrisDash around the hauling/logistics side of the industry.

The idea came from seeing how scattered debris hauling still is sometimes. A crew gets material on the ground, but now somebody has to figure out hauling, dump runs, receiver sites, scheduling, etc.

The app lets someone post a pile, set a payout, and a hauler can claim it, upload completion proof, and get paid after approval.

I also built in receiver sites for chips/logs/firewood/brush/fill, plus dump and scrapyard maps with routing, comments, and user-added locations.

One thing somebody recently suggested that I really liked was the ability to line a hauler up before the debris even hits the ground instead of only posting active piles after the job is done.

I’m curious from the climber/tree crew side — what would actually make something like this useful in the real world?

Hello,
I’m about to start a job as an arborist intern with a tree removal company and need some recommendations for boots. They told me I’ll be doing climbing as well as ground work, so I’m looking for boots that can do both. I’m leaning towards logging-style boots right now, either Carolinas or Red Wings but I’m not sure how they do with flatter feet. Any recommendations you guys have would be greatly appreciated.

Good morning everyone!

I need some advice.

I work as a tree climber, and it often happens that, usually after very hard days, I get to the weekend with sore arms. The pain is mostly concentrated in the lower part of the biceps, and then spreads throughout the arm. I believe the main cause is the contractions, often sudden and abrupt, of the biceps during work. For example, when I swing between trunks, I often have to hold on to the trunk, keeping my arm bent and contracted until I'm anchored on it with the ropes, and this is quite exhausting.

I'm currently on a break, so I decided to train myself to solve this problem. If anyone has any advice, I'd love to know what types of exercises could help me strengthen my arms and tendons, so as to avoid this constant inflammation. For now, I'm training with ring pull-ups and dips, towel dead-hangs, and kettlebell exercises. But maybe I should do some isometric exercises... What do you think?

Thank you for your help!

P.s. Yes, I know that it is an exhausting work, but sometimes the pain is very acute, and it doesn't let me work properly...

Hi everyone just reaching out to see what the communities’ experiences are with this scenario. Many of us have tied in to another tree in order to safely access another, usually dead or sketchy tree. I like to do this as often as I can with dead trees, even when safe to climb stand-alone. My question is has any one had a tree fail while doing this? After playing through a few scenarios in my head on certain trees I realized I might be screwed either way, high tie in or not. I like to think I’d be able to unclip or cut my strap and swing back into the tree I’m tied into but we all know how fast things can happen. I know there are options for creating a breakaway system but I would like to hear peoples personal experiences with this scenario and how it turned out for them. And if this has happened to you what do you differently now? Thanks everyone and safe climbing.

[quoted from u/shrikestep in https://www.reddit.com/r/TreeClimbing/comments/1t0vy1h/first_ever_post_in_this_sub/ but that thread is locked so I can't reply there]

Huh? If that is really true please change the "Because climbing trees is awesome. -- To climb one is to know one. Welcome to the canopy." welcome text and add to the rules (currently only

• 1 Only safe and secured climbing methods allowed.
• 2 Don't be a jerk

)

I thought any technical, on-rope climbers were welcome here, including recreational climbers, canopy and wildlife researchers, cone collectors, etc. even if the majority of the readers and content are related to tree work such as pruning and removals.

Been using a closed MRS moving rope system with anchor and Blake's hitches. I'd like to try the open MRS with the VT to get around branches without retying the friction hitch.

The advice I read is to use a 32" long or so eye-and-eye of the same diameter as your climbing rope, which is a 11.7 mm Blue Moon. But over on WesSpur the 11.7 mm E&E starts at 20 ft long. Lots of 8mm prussiks at 28" to 32" long.

So what do people use?