Tree climbing spikes on the bay!

[RobArb]

I so need these!

 

They've even got knuring on the foot area so my boot doesn't slip:thumbup:

 

 

10 TREE CLIMBING SPIKES /NO ROPE/OR STIHL / ARBORIST | eBay

[Goaty]

Absolutely Hideous!!!!

 

I'd just get a ladder, imagine chogging lumps down with these in.

[Pete Hart]

'you can just un screw them and nobody will know you have climbed the tree' brilliant!

 

 

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[Goaty]

Just reread it in disbelief, so you are up a tree standing on two of these things and hanging on with one hand I assume whilst winding in another of these tree bleeders.

But at least you have the reassurance this is "one of the best ways to climb a tree" and "No one will know you have been up" but next time "you can put them back in the same holes" even if you are 90 stones in weight!!!!! Just dont forget to only mutilate living trees as peg a dead un you will join it.

 

One last question how much would it cost to climb a 20 metre tree? I going to ask him now.

[rossy]

These sound awesome why did no-one ever show me these before? Come next loler inspection my kit is going in the bin and I'm going to rock these babies!

 

 

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[Ross Winchester]

they look very much like ladder brackets

[D A Tree Surgeons]

ive been climbing Soooooooooo wrong all these years !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[rossy]

Send that zigzag back DA, you can buy about 150 tree climbing spikes instead. That should be enough for any tree and some for your aerial rescue kit too!

 

 

 

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[KnotSure]

THEY ARE ONE OF THE BEST WAYS OF CLIMBING TREES

 

Ok, so I am learning

[leafcut]

These spikes were designed with bowhunters in mind when they set up a tree stand in order to shoot downwards and are only for entry/exit into the stand. I have a set of the "Ameristep" design which are very robust. There is a tool that fits onto a cordless power drill which is a god send. They are not designed for arborists etc but steps with straps are available which prevent damage to the tree.I normally get up 12-16ft telegraph poles and use my tree stand to take deer and pigeon depending on the lie of the land/little backstop issues. Cabelas and other outfitter supply companies over the water stock lots of different designs. The biggest downside of course is damage to the tree itself. There are other designs which basically involve screwing in an initial bolt then slipping over the step you put your boot on-the beauty of this design is that the step can be removed when not in use then reinstalled when you wish to use that tree. For an arborist to use them is a serious no no, a fall will result in disembowlment etc. Just my little input, regards...Nick Pearson, Timberline-Roe Ltd.