Climbing gear

[alex_m]

You can't start subcontract climbing straight out of training.

 

i did! If you can afford it, i would advise going for it! I used to practice out of college doing rec climbs at the weekend, which helped my progression alot!

 

Your looking at £400 for brand new stuff (not inc spikes), not the worst, but not the best. You can keep adding stuff until you reach over £1000 easily.

[Tom10]

i did! If you can afford it, i would advise going for it! I used to practice out of college doing rec climbs at the weekend, which helped my progression alot!

 

Your looking at £400 for brand new stuff (not inc spikes), not the worst, but not the best. You can keep adding stuff until you reach over £1000 easily.

 

Agree - you can climb out of college with the right opportunity, as Alex did ^... and me... do what you want if your sensible, have your head screwed on the right way and are willing to learn.

 

But 400 is very little. A decent harness is 250 ish - rope 100 - crabs 60 - silky 30 - - kit bag and rope bag - 50 - a kitted up lanyard - 30 - a kitted up flipline - 70 and several other anomalies will kiss goodbye to around the 600 mark - plus spikes and a top handle on top.

 

Good luck

[son of a birch]

I wouldn't have thought that someone straight out of NPTC training would be proficient or confident enough to start contract climbing straight away. But maybe it works for some people

[son of a birch]

Google "Gustharts" and order a harness, rope, two prussic loops and two carabiners.

[jay2231]

Google "Gustharts" and order a harness, rope, two prussic loops and two carabiners.

 

why the change of mind birchey ?

[alex_m]

I wouldn't have thought that someone straight out of NPTC training would be proficient or confident enough to start contract climbing straight away. But maybe it works for some people

 

I didn't start doing big tree contract climbing from day one. (should of made that clear. I did alot of rec climbing for a few months after college, whilst i worked in the woods doing alot of felling, then i found a job with a company who had just started, doing around 3 days a week mixed climbing and ground work.

Being chucked in at the deep end as such helped me loads!

here is my first reduction after a month with that company

http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/picture-forum/11537-my-first-ever-crown-reduction.html

[Paulfreebury]

Google "Gustharts" and order a harness, rope, two prussic loops and two carabiners.

 

Or, Treeworker, or Honey bros, or fr jones and sons! Shop around for the best price!

[son of a birch]

why the change of mind birchey ?

 

That set up will allow you to get up and down trees with the minimum of fuss, and minimum of expense. Other kit can be borrowed, or bought later on. It is good to get on with the basics first, and add new techniques and gear as you go, over time.

 

Also, if you end you following a different route or decide that you don't like climbing after all, you haven't wasted a heap of money.

 

It is very easy to spend a lot of money on hi-tec climbing gear that you may end up only using once or twice a week. Considering that if you do manage to get a job, and they do send you up a tree, you aren't going to need the full range of ART products to top a row of leylandii or "dismantle" a 20ft birch.

 

But by all means get some gear and get practicing as it can only make you better!!

[son of a birch]

I didn't start doing big tree contract climbing from day one. (should of made that clear. I did alot of rec climbing for a few months after college, whilst i worked in the woods doing alot of felling, then i found a job with a company who had just started, doing around 3 days a week mixed climbing and ground work.

Being chucked in at the deep end as such helped me loads!

here is my first reduction after a month with that company

http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/picture-forum/11537-my-first-ever-crown-reduction.html

 

Good for you mate, practice makes perfect as they say. And that is a nice reduction