history of climbing

texasmossball

texasmossball

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Howdy!
I am wondering if anyone can give me some information about the history of climbing. I have done a couple searches and looked through the forums until my eyes are red, but not seeing anything real specific.
Having grown up in the business, I got some stuff from my pops about bowline on a bight, wooden board seats tied up with manila, etc, but I'd like more about specifics- things like who created the first actual treeman sadde (Kuemmerling?) and when, or in what year did SRT really start, and was it Morgan Thompson or someone else that got that going? NONE of this seems to be online anywhere.
 
See if you can get a copy of Don Blair's book "Arborist Equipment"
Perhaps not exactly the info you are looking for, but it is a good read.
 
I nominate Oldoakman and JeffGu.

Chroniclers of the Tree Climbing Ages.

(Alternate titles far too likely to be deleted)
 
texasmossball said:
Howdy!
I am wondering if anyone can give me some information about the history of climbing. I have done a couple searches and looked through the forums until my eyes are red, but not seeing anything real specific.
Having grown up in the business, I got some stuff from my pops about bowline on a bight, wooden board seats tied up with manila, etc, but I'd like more about specifics- things like who created the first actual treeman sadde (Kuemmerling?) and when, or in what year did SRT really start, and was it Morgan Thompson or someone else that got that going? NONE of this seems to be online anywhere.
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Working on some info to return p.m Guy:sisi:
 
Thanks for the suggestions everyone. Tom, thanks for the phone call today. I'd like everyone to know that Tom Dunlap was the guy that kept trying to get me to convert to SRT for 15 years!! Finally, about 3 years ago, I made the switch, and it's probably going to add another decade to my already way too long career. Thanks Tom, I think! ;)
 
Guy

You think right!

Those of us at a certain age came into arb work during
The transitional years from natural fiber ropes, harnesses and in-tree friction. Now we're transitioning out of arb work...more fit and healthy than the generation who taught us
 
To my dying day, I will never forget the smell of a greasy, filthy, damp manilla rope that spent far too much time in a metal pickup truck toolbox. Or the agony of pulling a three inch long splinter out of that crease where your buttcheek meets you thigh... from spending four hours in a bosun seat that was made on the spur of the moment from a piece of old, weathered 2x8 board, with a spade bit in a 3/8" metal case electric drill, not double insulated and not 3-prong, zapping you senseless every time the cord wiggled a little bit.

Technology is a wonderful thing!
 
In the opinion of the more seasoned arborists here, has the amount of work expected to be completed in a day changed drastically in recent years?
 
Jem4417 said:
In the opinion of the more seasoned arborists here, has the amount of work expected to be completed in a day changed drastically in recent years?
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I am also curious if production standards across the board have changed.
I know that toys and tricks have made us faster.
 
You might want to check out the book by the late Richard Campana (University of Maine): Arboriculture: History and Development in North America [1999 or so]. I don't have a copy right with me now, but I expect he dealt with some of these matters of practice.

As I recall, the book was published by ISA, but I see it available at Amazon. If it were me, I'd get a copy through my local inter-library loan first to check it out.
 
SomethingWitty said:
I am also curious if production standards across the board have changed.
I know that toys and tricks have made us faster.
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across the board

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