Check this out.

The image samples that are given pair nicely with the text.

I can see how this manual could reduce the reaction time for a particular rescue as well as reduce the likelihood of further injuring a trapped climber.

Thanks Steve!
 
Got mine today. Holy shit is this a fantastic book. So detailed and such great illustrations. Worth every penny from a first look.

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Looks like remote control SRT. Cross application of climbing and rigging, after all it's the same loading.
 
Hey everyone

Thanks for the positive review of the tree rescue manual and thanks Steve for sharing it here... we couldn't work out why we were seeing so many US sales but I guess this forum answers the question!

The manual was written to assist professional rescuers (fire, police SAR, etc) with responding to arborist accidents, which are sadly too frequent here in Australia. Everyone involved in writing, illustrating or technical review was a volunteer (from either the arb industry, from one of the vertical rescue teams, paramedics etc) so it's an entirely not-for-profit project administered by the national arboricultural associations in Aus and NZ, with the $ from each sale funding free copies of the book for the professional rescue teams here in Australia and New Zealand.

To be honest, we only thought we'd sell a handful of these... enough to cover the cost of printing a handful of manuals for the rescue teams... so we're very excited to see that's it's been popular, and that people are finding it useful. The manual is moderately Aus- and NZ-specific (in particular the equipment that our vertical rescue teams commonly use) but we'd be happy to talk to anyone who was interested in being part of a working group to rewrite and republish the manual for the US rescue community / arb industry... on the proviso that it would continue to be a not-for-profit enterprise and that copies of the manual would be given away to the rescue bodies based on sales to the tree industry.

I know you guys have different regulations, and someone would need to translate the formulae from Nm to ft-lbs and so forth. Ideally, the working group would probably include representatives from both the tree and vertical rescue communities, or people who 'crossover' into both.

Anyway, thanks again for sharing this Steve, and for the feedback from those who ordered a copy. Hope you're all keeping well in these strange times.

Joe
 
Joe Harris said:
Hey everyone

Thanks for the positive review of the tree rescue manual and thanks Steve for sharing it here... we couldn't work out why we were seeing so many US sales but I guess this forum answers the question!

The manual was written to assist professional rescuers (fire, police SAR, etc) with responding to arborist accidents, which are sadly too frequent here in Australia. Everyone involved in writing, illustrating or technical review was a volunteer (from either the arb industry, from one of the vertical rescue teams, paramedics etc) so it's an entirely not-for-profit project administered by the national arboricultural associations in Aus and NZ, with the $ from each sale funding free copies of the book for the professional rescue teams here in Australia and New Zealand.

To be honest, we only thought we'd sell a handful of these... enough to cover the cost of printing a handful of manuals for the rescue teams... so we're very excited to see that's it's been popular, and that people are finding it useful. The manual is moderately Aus- and NZ-specific (in particular the equipment that our vertical rescue teams commonly use) but we'd be happy to talk to anyone who was interested in being part of a working group to rewrite and republish the manual for the US rescue community / arb industry... on the proviso that it would continue to be a not-for-profit enterprise and that copies of the manual would be given away to the rescue bodies based on sales to the tree industry.

I know you guys have different regulations, and someone would need to translate the formulae from Nm to ft-lbs and so forth. Ideally, the working group would probably include representatives from both the tree and vertical rescue communities, or people who 'crossover' into both.

Anyway, thanks again for sharing this Steve, and for the feedback from those who ordered a copy. Hope you're all keeping well in these strange times.

Joe
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Joe,

Outstanding work. I was excited to see this. My background is 25 years as a Firefighter/Paramedic. I spent the majority of my career on the Technical Rescue teams as a firefighter and an Officer (crew boss). This has been something very near and dear to my heart. I think I delivered my first training on Arborist Rescue about 20 years ago., We have a long way to go here in the states but I do see some forward momentum. I'd be happy to participate, Dave Stice and I have talked about this at length. I believe he was invited to assist and he asked me to work with him on a US version. Anything I can do to help. I'm more than happy
 
Steve Connally said:
Joe,

Outstanding work. I was excited to see this. My background is 25 years as a Firefighter/Paramedic. I spent the majority of my career on the Technical Rescue teams as a firefighter and an Officer (crew boss). This has been something very near and dear to my heart. I think I delivered my first training on Arborist Rescue about 20 years ago., We have a long way to go here in the states but I do see some forward momentum. I'd be happy to participate, Dave Stice and I have talked about this at length. I believe he was invited to assist and he asked me to work with him on a US version. Anything I can do to help. I'm more than happy
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Steve, that's awesome to hear, I'd be proud to work with you on this project. I know you've been working in this space for years, so you've probably had the chance to watch some of these training ideas work out. And you probably know which good ideas don't work so well in practice!

Yes, I already asked/begged Dave to be involved in this - the two of you together, plus any other good techs you invite, will make this project fly.

I'll wait to hear from Dave when the whole working group has been assembled, then maybe we could set up a video call to discuss the rewriting, republishing process, who will handle sales, who will handle shipping the free copies to the rescue teams etc? (I imagine that last one will be a lot harder in the US than it is in Aus/NZ - far wider area and larger number of groups to reach?)
 
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