How to Pick the Best Gear for Tree Climbing
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- čas přidán 17. 07. 2024
- Where do I start? I want everything I need to climb trees. Get knowledgeable recommendations on every product you need head-to-toe (or soup-to-nuts) from our General Manager and former field arborist Nick Bonner. TreeStuff.com has over 1500 CZcams videos covering everything seen in this video and much, much, more.
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0:26 PPE
0:35 Helmets
0:50 Safety Glasses
1:10 Ear Protection
1:30 Boots, Gloves, Things Like That
2:06 Harnesses
2:53 Books and Education
3:40 Throwline
4:47 Throwball
5:45 DRT Climbing
6:45 Classic DRT Ropes
7:05 Modern DRT Climbing and Prusiks
9:40 Switching to SRT Climbing
11:30 SRT Rope
12:02 More DRT Rope Options
12:32 Foot ascenders
13:17 Knee Ascenders
13:40 Hand Ascenders
13:50 Hold-up Thingies
14:37 Spur Climbing
15:50 Lanyards
16:41 Friction Savers
17:33 Handsaws
19:14 Tool Clips and Harness Accessories
19:50 Bags and Storage
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I planted a tree yesterday and ordered everything I need to cut it down from you. Hopefully the gear gets here before the tree becomes a hazard.
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Really great run through of the basics. The pop-ups make for a great visual example, without having to juggle a ton of gear. Well done sir.
Glad you enjoyed it!
VERY helpful, Nick. Thanks for taking the time to continue putting out this high quality, valuable vids. For someone new to the industry, like myself, these videos have been extremely helpful
Thanks this really solidified my confidence in getting my first setup. I climbed as a kid with a club, we jumarred up an SRT and absailed with a baby rattle, and lots of crevise points, overhangs and good good training. I'd never get into climbing without a course unless I had that training from a kid. It's like learning to swim, you have to have learnt to float before learning to swim, and jumping in the water without knowing how to swim, is like climbing just from watching a how to. I really advise anyone who wants to learn, to at least go out with someone who climbs and do a few practise runs, with no agenda other than just getting familiar with the handling. It's your life on the end of the line and it's not worth throwing it away because you didn't learn properly or enough or practise. Be wise, be safe, and live to tell the tale. Oh and climbing is addictive.
Great video Nick that will definitely help get a new bee started and helpful to a guy like myself been in the game 12yrs! Stay safe!
This is a great video. Thank you from an arborist in London, England!
Rudi, The Berkeley tree company.
Thanks Nick like of of your vids it helps to see an break down gear when we don’t have it in our hands to see it be safe
Great video, Nick! Thank you for putting it together.
Nick - thanks for creating such a useful overview. I'm just starting to learn this stuff and your video sure helped me alot.
Thanks for making this video.
I being looking for this video long time ago, thanks nick!
awesome! This could have been twice as long and I would have still watched it completely through and appreciated every minute! As a recreational climber of less than one year now, I can say that I am still slowly figuring out which tools/accessories I need to further my mobility in the tree and this was incredibly helpful and reassuring as to the decisions that I've made to date. It's a daunting (and expensive) hobby to undertake, but the challenge and reward has made it extremely worthwhile.
watched it again a week later, love this video! :)
Instablaster...
This is definitely one of your best! TONS of information!
So many toys, so little time
Glad it was helpful!
Yes, too much info. After this, I'd rather just fall outa the tree.
Super helpful, no attitude.👌🙌👍
Thanks Nick great video now I can compile a list of goodies
What a great video, I am just starting out and of everything i have watched this has to be up there with the best of them, thank you.
You're very welcome! We also have it in spanish, www.treestuff.com/espanol and are also working on a rigging video.
Awesome video. I appreciate your knowledge shared here
Great video. Nice job with the editing too!
Great video! Thank you!! Especially schoeing the products and prices!
Great video
Love all the videos learning so much from your amazing content, I can’t Help but notice how much you sound like Alton Brown the famous cook 👨🍳 and the glasses I’m convinced you’re related !! 😂😅 Great Work !!!
I have a good amount of love for TreeStuff. In particular, your videos tend to have good issue selection and perspicuity, so that I am much less inclined than average to speed up the playback to spare myself the extra verbiage. Nevertheless I offer a quibbly critique: a book might be a good choice for gaining "education," and often outperforms in-person instruction, but tree climbing is pretty dangerous, so the question of education might deserve a little more careful attention here. It doesn't take much investigation to find out CZcams videos likely outperform even "classic" books when it comes to concrete knowledge like this. Compare any randomly chosen 7 TreeStuff videos to the book. Compare the book/in-person combo to just the book. Note a few things about cost of various options, where the fluff is, etc. cheers
Thank you for the spanish translation. I am deep Brooklyn and my husband is deep Mexican - This HELPED. LOL
Good tips and instruction man🍀🤙
Glad you liked it!
Great Video. Thank you. Greeting from Phoenix Az
I use two rope wrenches on my ropes and love them. I make my own sewn hitch cords and for 70-100 foot descents I’ll switch to my Petzl Gri gen 2 to save me hitch cords. I use Yale 11 mm Safari kernmantle and Yale 12 mm XTC Fire. Use a Pantin and CMI foot ascenders. Use a Chest Ascender left knee ascender and a SAKA mini max. I use a Treemotion S Light saddle.I have been climbing for 6 months. No training at all. I watched hundreds of videos, read a few books spent about 5K on gear and started Low n Slow and Safe. Now topping out in massive Poplars n Oaks. Wish I started when I was 22 not 52 but I love recreational climbing and camping out at 80 feet is unreal!! Gear junky for real.
Wish I would have started this in my Twenties as well.
I always wanted too..
In my 50s as well and just now getting into it
Well, most people who start in their twenties aren't able to climb in their fifties! So look at the bright side; your body has been preserved 😜 enjoy!
@@arie8515 I work in Remodeling and Construction 6 days a week. I won't slow down until they bury me...
@@tittyrino oof, I respect the grind! Don't torture yourself though. (You probably should be the one telling me that, as I'm the youngster in this conversation, heheh!)
In the winter I build (and do maintenance on) climbing routes in the treetops for a dutch recreational company called 'klimbos nederland' in the summer I'm an instructor and lifeguard for that same company. And I build market stands on the side.
Anyways, I'm always told to preserve my body because I'm only a 23 year old who likes to power through everything, not taking it easy enough. So I thought I'd forward that message :)
@@arie8515 Your body will tell you when you have had a good work day.Take care of yourself and enjoy every second of every day.
Nick, I think this video is actually helpful for some new climbers, I appreciate it not being a notch commercial and it felt genuine.
Get real. This guy's a salesman
Glad you liked it, I try to give people an honest review about stuff. With Notch, I am certainly biased because I work on the product dev team, some of our products we aim to make as premium offerings and others are more value-oriented and that definitely plays into my favorites! We have a lot of really premium stuff coming soon, keep your eyes peeled.
I have the Treemotion S Light it is awesome!
pretty cool Nick ..
I watched the entire video. Thank you.
Thanks for watching!
Thanks Avgn
Wow. As someone who just interviewed for tree climbing job, this was an awesome video to answer about a billion questions at once. Thank you for providing multiple options within each recommendation btw. Cheers!
Glad it was helpful!
Nice!
I love my notch gecko gaffs. Oh and my Notch Sasquatch rope. My safety blue is 2nd runner up, but only because I haven't used Yale yet. I got enough gear to take out a tree for under $600. Not counting my stihl. Great video, yet again and as always :) (I do really want a zigzag and the notch sentinel, possibly after a couple paychecks)
Good call!
Nick and Treestuff great video.
Could you post here all the links to the other videos that you mentioned on this video?
I want to continue educating myself with more in depth information with the videos that you recommend us, but I went to the treestuff youtube page and there are so many videos that I was not able to find any of the referred videos.
Thank you brother.
Super useful video! I'd like to ask what's the difference between these harnesses and regular rock climbing harnesses? Could I use a rock climbing harness for tree climbing?
Very awesome video very informative if I am right handed which foot asunder do I need a right or left then also which hand ascended would I need as well is one left the the other right
Nick, good idea about using lanyard as a tempo-chest harness. Thanks!
You bet!
You could use a hand ascender with a foot loop instead of a foot ascender and have a knee ascender on the other leg that system works great!
Thanks
No problem
I think the reason for choosing buckled spurs over velcro is the velcro can get clogged with sawdust and not stick but the buckles are going to hold on no matter what.
Just bought the tree climbers companion ty.
Nice!
You should do a video on the protos helmet.
I personally love it. Especially because we work with faces hield
Noted!
I've got the Gecko Classic Aluminum climbers and the pads just eat my shins and calves up. I end up with blisters at the pad contact points every time I wear them..
this video keeps my attention unike some of the people trying to explain things
I turn my anchor bend around after I tie in so my prusik knot doesn't get caught under the horizontal ridge of the anchor bend during ascent (when the prusik collapses.) I've noticed that a 30" 4/3 VT will extend slightly beyond the ridge of the anchor bend, but using a 32" cord might do the trick. A distel or schwabisch will get caught under the anchor bend, so always separate the tails and set those prusik knots after collapsing them especially when tying in DRT with a terminal anchor bend. For example: When I do an SRT ascent and switch to DRT to work, I use the distel underneath the rope wrench, so the transition is a bit quicker/secure. Just takes time and a few unintentional descents to get used to what knots you're using. A splice is nice but I've also found that even a tight splice can get catastrophically stuck in a tight crotch, perhaps during repositioning - whereas with a typical rope has a better chance of working its way out (in my opinion.) Unlimited amount of pros and cons to every single aspect of the trade I suppose. Sometimes I'll rock a closed blake's hitch when im feeling LAZY and dont want to rummage for anything more than a carabiner/rope.
I work in industrial rope access and I'm wondering why you wouldn't use an ascender with a cam, also we use alpine butterfly's to the harness, and wondering why you'd use two half hitches. for me DRT is to have a safety line. I'm not having a go at you i'm just wondering. peace mate.
Wow - what a great presentation! One thing that wasn't covered for me: throw bag slingshots - is there a 'best' in this group for distance & accuracy? Really appreciate it - got another sub -
APTA is the best in my opinion, or the big shot! -nick
Can’t believe the sequoia is more expensive than a tree motion or a sentinel over there; the sequoia is the middle ground over here in the uk!
As far as climbing gear, first and foremost if you don’t know what you need then you do not have enough education or training. Started with a ISA certified arborist trainer, they can coach as to gear when your ready.... safety first.
I make thinks like You. The anchor hitch blocks prusik , and prusik was stack under dem, and don't braking.............................
Any chance you could review the Notch Gecko Quick Connect Lower Spur Straps
It's what everyone talking about but they almost seem to gud to be true.
very helpful but better if you did climb ang demonstrate how to use those things.
Where can I get the book that you are referring to? Thank you
Agradezco los subtítulos en español, siempre q se pueda, suscrito sin duda
de nada!
Need a new video on all the Notch gecko spurs!
You also show a lot of viedos but how do I find them. Sorry to be a drag but a lack of experience on my part
How do you get the rope into tree and tie rope to tree???
Can you use your harness for DRT and SRT techniques? It’s really confusing that one is labelled as a SRT harness and the other is DRT, but surely the SRT can also accommodate for DRT techniques aswell? And vise versa ?
Yes. Any harness we sell is equipped for both techniques. The Petzl product uses SRT in the product name which is a bit confusing, marketing!
To me its definitly the distel carbon or the distel aluminum
How many carabiners and what style would you recommended initially?
4 Oval shaped carabiners is a great start!
Probably good to talk about chainsaws as well. Separate video?
tree stuff don't sell chainsaws
What's with that big puffy Beach box the throw line comes in do you need all that Airy space
It folds up to a small compact triangle! That way when you're putting your line back into it, it has high walls and a large area to get it all in easily and keep it contained. Then when you fold it up, it's held tightly so it can't jostle around and get tangled up when it's in the truck.
@@TreeStuffdotcom thankyou
I’m in a small budget. Could I get away with a $60 black diamond or Petzl climbing harness. I don’t have the money to spend $400 on a tree saddle. How much more uncomfortable are climbing harness. Thanks
Just an opinion here.. if your using it for recreational climbing you could maybe get away with it, although without D rings you'd have a tough time using a lanyard if you were able to at all. As far as for a work scenario, I would never fully trust anything except atleast a basic climbing saddle. A weaver cougar is a cheap option thats okay to work in, i think its the updated weaver puma now. But if you want something truly comfortable and versatile get a tree motion or monkeybeaver. You get what you pay for
@@NZastawny Like Nick Z says here... the biggest difference isn't comfort or safety, its the lack of dee-rings and the resulting inability to use a lanyard.
Whoa whoa whoa!!! You need the anzi chainsaw protective class III jacket! The class III bibs! Class III GLOVES! A neck gator class III boots! Chainsaw proof! SOCKS! then you need a set of chainsaw CHAPS, to go OVER the pants, and another set of chaps to put on in reverse because otherwise the whole back would be left open! Then you the chainsaw proof helmet LINER, I’d get 2 they should be cheap.. then you need the Knights Suit get the high nickle content NOT THE TIN! then you need to cover yourself in a tarp, so you don’t get pitch all over you… then wrap yourself in TIRES! like the mischilin man in case you cut yourself accidentally or fall out of the tree… make sure you’re wearing your signature black and red flannel shirt underneath get the 14oz flannel cuz 9oz is just too thin.. make sure you got the wrangler cowboy jeans (as underwear)
cool, thanks
Please make a video. It's MY OPINION That attaching a Chain saw with a short rope or Lanyard to your Climbing Belt is DANGEROUS. WHY ? it's O K to hang the saw after a cut on your belt with the metal clip on the saw. Here is the rub with Lanyards. IF you make a cut on a tree Limb and your saw hangs up in the Limb , if it Binds in the Limb do to various forces, the Limb falls and takes the saw with it, if you are Lanyard'd to the saw you will be Pulled hard with the weight of the tree Limb as it falls. If the Lanyard does not break you have a serious Problem . Therefore i STRONGLY recommend never attach your chain saw to your Climbing belt with a Lanyard. Finish your cut, then hang the saw on your belt with the metal clip on the saw. Roger
What's the best rope to use when using zigzag?
Any Kernmantle because they don’t milk or flatten out. Yale Safari is awesome 11 mm actually 11.7
Throw line
This was a real sale to the website. Not much teaching. So thank you
You need links to those videos if you want to get more views.
Merci momo france
Nick why does tree service recommend and always use alpine butterfly instead of figure 8?
FirefighterDave426
I did climb back in late 70s
Easier to untie after loading. Bi Directional, cant roll out.
Where do I start? CZcams at 3:30 in the morning.
WTF do you do when you get to the top?
No footlocking? 'Sup?
Skip first 3:40 to save time
Dry ??
Prices have doubled now. Damn.
I've met Jeff Jepson, great guy. Best tree climber in the Iron range. His son makes custom knives.
I don't know why everyone is talking so great about this video. I understand it is useful to have an idea of the stuff necessary to work on trees and that you are giving personal preferences on each item, but claiming this stuff is "basic" gear that is "needed" is incredibly false. You can climb a tree safely and fairly efficiently on 2 prusik friction hitches and there are known techniques for making climbing saddles out of sections of rope so claiming you need hundreds of dollars in gear just to get up a rope is just wrong and could cause a lot of people who have genuine interest in the subject, but have no good entry points to the field, to be quite discouraged. I took my first tree down with a climbing rope, 2 prusik chords, some throw line tied to a rock filled pouch of duct tap, an Amazon branded sitting harness and flip line, Amazon branded ANSI compliant helmet, some gardening gloves, rigging rope, spare rope for tag lines etc, a rigging ring and sling, and a Port-a-wrap. Buying all of it in 2022 cost me less than $500, yet one of the items you listed cost that. The video itself is informative, but it is by no means a "basic" gear list, which should be obvious considering a lot of these tools didn't even exist that long ago despite trees being cut down by people way earlier than the invention of the rope wrench.
I would also say, never climb alone.
You show a lot of information but to a new climber as my self I get way be hind and lost. It is not your fault but my inexperience.
There are category-specific breakdowns that you might find helpful. Thanks for sharing your feedback, we will work on it in the future!
I got rope.
You forgot the orange flashing light and nappy . click bye .
bye.
I don’t know anyone that would pick the sequoia over the treemotion. Except someone who doesn’t spend much time in a tree.
Sell me some of your older gear
My husband is trying to learn how to use the gear thqt has a harness that goes over the shoulder. Like the kind hydro use on the poles
I'm the one who buys things from far away in your shopping mall.
Every time you guys shop at a shopping mall,
I feel... ignored...
Don't make excuses for Corona 19.
If there's a reason, we need to communicate with the buyer.
You guys do as you please, not at all.
You people who are only eager to promote and who don't communicate with the people who purchased the product...
We run shopping malls as much as we promote them.
Pay attention to the buyers.
You're the ones who just talk, send e-mails, wait, wait, and don't reply.
Could have been a good video and I tried to watch but the sound effects with popups was annoying. I know it was to draw attention to the popup and that's fine just way to loud and annoying for me.
I just use a ladder..... For the really tall trees I zip tie two ladders together. When I price jobs I just ask what the lowest bid was and say I'll do it for half plus the firewood. You guys with your fancy equipment and insurance can't compete with me and my poulan pro. Chumps.
Thats a hell of a strategy man. Dont die.
Lmaooo
Macho edgy boomer over here like I climb trees blind folded with broken legs and to get down I just fuckin dive straight onto my head from atop the tree cause what do I need my brain for other than breaking falls?
@@justinmiller2914, says the bucket baby.
Yeah, a hook on the D-rings and a climbing hitch and you can walk up the tree. Why all that unnecessary stuff? 6-7 mins of this vid is the meat.
Every single product from each category you are “recommending” the highest end shit. The throw line you “like” is $329.99 LOL. for people starting out you can get that with the ball for $29.99 and it will work fine. Just an example
A hank of dynaglide is $42. Definitely not the cheapest throwline. Zing it is a good option too, but it isnt as stron.
I won't the video of this
We wont either.
W.r.t.??
Too fast your demonstrations of knots. Especially with your hands in front of it...Looks like a show.
My harness I got on amazon for 20 bucks
Imagine needing rope and 500 dollars worth of equipment to climb trees.
Watch some videos of what happeneds when you don't have it.
Enough Paracord and you can give yourself a 30% survival rate and a little bit of fun
everyone is assuming tree climbing for work.... i came for the fun... none of this is helpful.
*COOL STORY BRO.*
But you didn't even climb.
Next time!
I’m sorry but I don’t like this guy. Has he survived a really bad fall before or something because I get a “victim” vibe from him. I’m sure he is leaps and bounds nicer than me better man than me richer than me everything more than me but I’m just curious what his deal is.
If you all haven't seen a documentary called....... It's worse than you think.. by revelations of Jesus Christ's ministry... I suggest you do..... All praise and glory to the most high Jesus Christ