RopeKnight

I experienced the same. Like migraines in your elbows and shoulders and some times all at the same time. no more cut and catch, no more odd position pole or hand sawing, no more using the arm and shoulder to lever into position, no more ineffecient body thrusting, no more hard fast swings and drops, and I don't know if this helps but gave up Cola/pops altogether. I have very minor flare ups at 42 yrs old and these few changes in practice will hopefully keep me going for another 42. I had to keep working thru the pain to keep the fridge full and stay far far away from the docs and so far so good. Be conscience how your body moves, it has very specific movements that are comfortable.

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I left a Dead Ash. I was sure i could do it. Tree was over the house and I was preparing rubber mats and tarps on the lower roof and it was at this time I smelt the rot and could even taste it in the wind. Your senses do not lie, poke around and chop through sections you suspect. Gave the work to a bucket tuck company, the home owner pays the price so we live another day.

I am a bare handed climber. Most of my work is hazard prune and crown reductions. I rope walk and love my Lockjack to monkey around. and to date the best performing rope is the 11mm velocity. Low stretch, lite weight, feels good in the hands, smooth finish, ties well and blakes up for double crotching well, wears well. If it gets any bettter than this I'll be surprised.

Lock Jack is my best friend when pruning and removal of trees. It works as well as you can imagine and then some. My first experience was a little tense because your past experience is with tying your friction hitches and now you are looking at simple caming mechanism and release handle. I don't use a cambuim saver much at all and find my style of climbing prefers the added friction. Before the Lock Jack I would have trouble figuring out how many wraps on my distel and alternating ropes(Blaze, Velocity and Fly) make it difficult to get your friction hitch set up just right also always watching for side loading biners. Lock Jack just simpley works well on any diameter based on the clutch plate. I have been climbing now for 6 month on the same clutch and find it creeps slight as it reach near horizontal. I am sure if i had the Lock Jack 10 years ago my elbows and shoulders would be in a whole lot better shape. It will work for any one who is willing to give it the full go. My apprentices all wish for one after teaching them first rope on rope and then giving them the chance to try the lj. The draw backs are it is difficult to slack off when you are climbing above your tie in but easily remedied by feeding line into the lj from the bottom and then pulling the handle I think you will find your curiousity will be satisfied with a smooth and effecient system. I used a distel endless loop tied with double fishermans and slack tending pulley the other day just to see what I had been missing and really the big difference is all the slack tending and pushing your friction hitch forward and the loosening and slackening of the friction hitch as well. Hope this helps. Best of Luck

Reducing in Canada. The sadest thing for me is to find after every storm a tree has failed at the gound or with a major limb/leader. Some times you have to be cruel to be kind. take for example young tree training. If you refuse to remove a co-dom and let it grow because its not very nice for the tree and the client sees a whole in the tree you have done a diservice to both. Do what you feel is right and spend as much time with the principle concepts used for young tree training. The right thing is to treat each pruning cut as if it where a small tree. I will prune harder for hazardous limbs and prune at leaf out on vigorous trees to avoid epicorms. What I don't want to happen is the tree to fail and home owners getting excited and resorting to a removal and to constantly repair trees that have failed that had been recently pruned with out any reductions. Reductions require alot more mental and physical energy than any removal. Get rid of spurs and the routine and find a friend out there on the tips.

Treepedo with protective foam sleeve is being offered and is much better at protecting non-targets( glass, slate, tile, human etc.) than any throw weight on the market.

The treepedo with the foam sleeve is safer than a throw bag. We will be updating the web site in the next week or two. So you can have another look.

started production last year in june and there is about a dozen or so in England. Let me send you when with free shipping and the 10% discount since you have been the keenest to give it a whirl.

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I was trying to isolate a tip for a bull rope to do a pull down. Throwbag got stuck and then snapped the top out got lucky because the string bag and all sort of set up a slack vertical speed line. One the hardest jobs I ever had trying to do everything from the ground and save a few bucks. no room for cranes or bucket truck and try to stay away from rentals. I had 6 more to do all the same way and each one getting closer to the the house. That was the job that planted the treepedo seed.

Much safer. I agree but consider this I know throw bags will wiggle and shake loose dead wood and on another occasion pulled the top 30' out of dead tree, and snapped limbs etc. The Treepedo is alot safer to use given these types of scenarios and many more. Chain saws are dangerous anything is dangerous. I don't see that as valid point considering how the Treepedo moves so smooth and easy.

I like to hear how people have made their own. I have made others as well one with an eye bolt and stacked washers and tons of hockey tape. Lasted almost as long as a throw bag about 1/2 year. I have another one same design and it is a couple of years old and only use it as weight to complete the throw weight, hasn,t seen any action since the TP You are trying to say a piece of pipe or a shackle pin has the same smooth conical shape, accepts rope for interior and exterior connections. The design, shape, form, near frictionless surface and adaptability come on a throw bag will never be what a Treepedo will be and vice versa. I am just offering up an alternative to Arborists who encounter the same things I have and still do. I will throw it any time any where over the bag. All you need to do is aim, hit your tree/target, isolate and access. I will throw it, and retrieve from a missed shot and isolate and access in less time and with less aggravation IMHOP. So at this point I agree to disagree. I appreciate your opinion and the experience Cheers:001_smile:

The Treepedo is three main seperate pieces. The nose and base cones have differenent inside and outside diameters as well as being chamfered and drilled for adaptability. The internal S.S. weight has three diferent diameters so it fits perfectly with in the two cones. The new weights are being bored out further to get the whole package down to 9 ounces and from there you can build the weight to precisely what you want. There is room for an eye splice and ropes with diameter upto 25mm. The Treepedo is a beautifully crafted precision tool that performs as claimed and it may have a simple purpose(ease of movement/rope access) but it is accomplished with ingenuity and innovation and precision. I am sure when they invented the throw bag it was concerned a novel idea. The Treepedo is a paradigm shift and I am an agent of change. Why continue doing something the same old way. Take for example the ski. Its Older than the wheel. They both work but sometimes one works better than the other. I am sharing with you my spin on not just the simple throw weight but solve alot of the rope access issues.

Whats wrong with making money and whats wrong with spending money on something that works well and moves the traditional throw weight into the 21st century. We live very modestly and I choose arboriculture as my vocation. The throw weight is what you chose and I am here to share with you my re-imagined rope access device/system. I hope some day some one can one up me, but for now you only have two choices and that is better than just one.

the Treepedo comes with interior and exterior connection points, so as long as it is connected to your line or a biner it will be quite difficult to lose and truethfully I have not been able to get it stuck, I have retrieved about 100 times and even with a very vvery tight crotch/vertical it won,t stay jammed and you can just drop it to the ground for a re-throw. Price wise it is less expensive than throw bags. Replaces a life time of throw bags, jaming, snagging all of the associated frustration with smooth easy movemnt, multipurpose it Is 21st century craftsmanship, precision and performance. The Treepedo makes me mony every time I throw it.

Most still use lead in their throw weights. A bag of metal or an all metal projectile, line transition device, pull handle, endline security knot smooth over and with protective sleeve for impact dampening. Either way you want to hit your target tree and clear anything that can break. Just trying to share with you a device and system that works well at what it claims

$ 100.00 candian which is I am estimating is around 60 pounds

I use the Treepedo almost daily. If you are throwing weights at 10 plus meters in thick obtrusive trees the Treepedo will help you with smooth and easy rope access. It is agile and responsive to your command on the line. Works well at what it claims.

The treepedo is a great start to my day now. I have been using the same two now for many months and I have not been able to get it stuck. You will have to work very hard to get stuck. Also it has a lifetime guarantee. I am still using the two from my impact tests with no mechanical failure and the finish is very easy to bring to new condition, just smooth out any dings with an axe stone and touch up the area with crazy/super glue for a nice smooth finish. I have one with reflective tape to see on an over cast day and the other shines like a mirror at 100'. It is very adaptable weight, colours, coupling bolts, interior and exterior connections, protective sleeve is vinyl and rubber and works well to dampen impact and a foam sleeve will also be available some time this year. Safety is not an issue if you hit your target and its a tree for petes sake. Throw bags are actually costing you money and the Treepedo is such a good working tool it make me money every time I throw it because I am a bad thrower and usually resort to the catapult.

Tree torpedo not tree pedophile pedo has a couple of meaning soil, child(male boys), Spanish slang for fart. I thought being a country of Naval distinction this would be a good name for the device and the majority of arborists surveyed at AA fair last year thought the name hit the mark spot on.

It is actually much safer to use than you might think because its nice smooth concial shape allows you to retrieve the Treepedo quite easily. Really if you can imagine a slippery fish navigating the crown that is how smooth it is. A throw weight in comparison does not even come close in comparison. A bag of metal that rarely cooperates are a multi-purpose metal projectile and rope access device/system that does and At $ 100.00 Canadian approx. 60 or so pounds it is well worth the investment. Life time of bags, no waste, no lead, no jams or snags, multi-purpose, two way torpedoing, great shape to pierce the leaves and twigs that cause throw bags to fall short and allow ease of movement through the crown and down to the ground and back up and over your target with rope transition makes this an exceptionally useful tool to get what can be one of the most frustrating tasks done smooth and easy. Sure it is dangerous atleast move people a safe distance away and try to hit the tree.

what hurts more is loosing the muscle and then getting hurt or pulling something else. keep climbing and enjoy the pain as best you can. I Fractured ribs both sides on different rigging mishaps both times caused by the d-rings once on the right and recently on the left managed to finish the jobs and moved cautiosly in the weeks following.