Climbers' Forum @ the Baumpflegetage in Augsburg

[Mark_B.]

Climbers\' Forum @ the Baumpflegetage in Augsburg

Hi all,

on the 3 and 4 of May the Climbers' Forum will be held again during the German Treecare Days in Ausburg (www.forum-baumpflege.de). The forum, for those of you who have never been, is a unique platform for all things related to rope access techniques in arboriculture. Over the years the event has evolved and has covered an ever increasing range of topics, ranging from the history of treeclimbing, certification of friction hitches, health and safety issues, risk assessment, aerial rescue, work positioning techniques, team building and many other things. These themes are covered in a number of practical and formal presentations over the two days. The forum and conference also offer an unique opportunity to meet and interact with many practicing arborists from all over Europe, to see the newest developments in equipment at the Trade Show and to polish up your theoretical knowledge at the conference.

This years topics will be:

Tuesday
Incident analysis in treeclimbing accidents, Patrick Zürcher (SUI)
The dark site of tree climbing - psychological effects on workers climbing high trees, Renè Comin (ITA)
Certification of splices, Christian Kruck (GER)
From product design, development, intended to actual use from a manufacturers point of view, Alex Bronnaz (Petzl, FRA)
Friction measurement at anchor points, Dirk Lingens (GER)
Forces on redirected anchorpoints, Andreas Detter (GER)

Wednesday
Single line rescue techniques, Bernhard Schütte (GER)
Attaching, trimming and moving loads, Kay Busemann (GER)
Comparison of different lowering devices, Gregor Hansch & Florim Ajda (SUI)
3-D Rigging, Chris Cowell & Mark Bridge (UK/ SUI)
Understanding the way that tree dynamics are affected by work that arborists do and how to use them to your benefit, Ken James (AUS)
Rigging mechanical advantage, Knut Foppe (GER)
Safe chainsaw cutting techniques, Rip Tompkins (US)

About half of the talks will be held in English, we will be organising some form of translation, depending on how many people require it...

You can fly to Munich, from there it's a short trip to Augsburg by train or bus.

Sooo, just maybe see you there...

Mark Bridge

 

[countryboypa31]

Re: Climbers\' Forum @ the Baumpflegetage in Augsburg

Looks like an amazing event!

Would love to go and get manufacturers opinion on SRT setups.

 

[RopeShield]

Re: Climbers\' Forum @ the Baumpflegetage in Augsburg

This is a great show and a great trip! Europe in general is real eye opener when it comes to living and working. Most people speak english.
I exhibited there last year and got on well with just english.
The fly in, trains to Augsburg is world class.
There is B & B Hotel that is in walking distance with a great Euro breakfast every morning. Top notch. The level of service is great and absolutely quite.

Interesting tools, art and ways of doing things. This is the Arb show for Europe.
Trees and landscapes are treated differently and is accepted as true vocation and trade to be respected. Europes connection to trees and the metaphysical is cool. Much different then North America.

Augsburg was the banking centre of the world and founded world exploration and wars. Has an interestting flare of Conservatism, Christianity and real old world charm plus what is new and cool. It is also a University town with the acedemic energy in the background.

The Konig Von Flandern is in centre town and the highlight of the trip for me. Two things I enjoy more than arboriculture is meat and beer.
You can smell the roasting meat mixed with stoutness of brewing beer at street level.
Descending down the stairs into what feels and looks like you have descended into the worlds heart beat, beer as blood and meats as muscle. I drank 3 litres of incredible beer so pure you awake with no hang over. Just a little drunk stupid is all.
Germany purity laws are second to none. Piles of meat, sausage, steak, liver, pate, black forest ham( crispy skin and melt in your mouth), incredible fresh rye bread.

For a Traditional Bavarian Experience this is it!

 

[treebing]

Re: Climbers\' Forum @ the Baumpflegetage in Augsburg

i definitly want to know more about the dark side of tree climbing. cool!

 

[Mark_B.]

Re: Climbers\' Forum @ the Baumpflegetage in Augsburg

Yes, I must admit that I'm intrigued by that one too! Renè's a smart cookie, I'm sure he'll come up with something interesting...

 

[TC]

Re: Climbers\' Forum @ the Baumpflegetage in Augsburg

Mark, few questions/observations......

Is the show free?

could you briefly outline 3D Rigging?

Ken James? - will he be discussing the mechanical stability of trees under dynamic loads?

Have attended a two day training course with Rip Tompkins, great guy, good teacher.

 

[Mark_B.]

Re: Climbers\' Forum @ the Baumpflegetage in Augsburg

Grover,

the show is not free. Prices are on the web-site.

3-D rigging will be similar to the demo we did at the Lyon Technical Symposium in Cumbria last year and discusses what tools and techniques can be used to rig a mass not just up and down, but also to move it laterally, i.e. from one side to another.

M

 

[Mark_B.]

Re: Climbers\' Forum @ the Baumpflegetage in Augsburg

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[TC]

Re: Climbers\' Forum @ the Baumpflegetage in Augsburg

thanks Mark, looks interesting.

can you post a link to the website that has the prices?

 

[Mark_B.]

Re: Climbers\' Forum @ the Baumpflegetage in Augsburg

www.forum-baumpflege.de

 

[maarten]

Re: Climbers\' Forum @ the Baumpflegetage in Augsburg

Did someone sit in on this one:

The dark site of tree climbing - psychological effects on workers climbing high trees, Renè Comin (ITA)

I would like to know what was all about?