treebuzz and srt history

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From what I remember these 2 things are inextricably linked. Did treebuzz and the discussions herein give birth to the modern style of work positioning in trees using a stationary rope? Tom Dunlap, Morgan Thompson, Treebing, and more I can't recall kinda started the whole thing from what I remember. Cool stuff, dudes. Changed the game forever(y)
 

When did you first hear?

I'm trying to get a better understanding of the timeline for how SRT has been exposed in our profession. Can you tell me two things? When did you first hear about SRT in arborculture? When did you first climb on SRT in trees? Even just the year or make a guess. Thanks!
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here it is
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Have you already been through those threads? Some good reading and history.
 
History:

When did you first hear?

I'm trying to get a better understanding of the timeline for how SRT has been exposed in our profession. Can you tell me two things? When did you first hear about SRT in arborculture? When did you first climb on SRT in trees? Even just the year or make a guess. Thanks!
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SR.Timeline

A post in another thread made me curious about the timeline of srt coming into trees in particular about what different gear came around at what time. This thread is talking unicender in 05, seems like it was around before this thread as well...
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Post #15, etc

New Tribe, in Grants Pass, Oregon, was teaching SRT ascent well before 1994.
My initial contacts w/ them were thru Tom Ness & Sophia Sparks (original founders).
After the ascent they would switch over to DRT for limb-walking & decent.

Ness & Sparks are referenced numerous times as contacts & suppliers (in 1994), in the book "The Wild Trees", by Richard Preston. The book about Steve Sillett (& others) in the their adventures exploring the NW redwoods.
(Great Book ! .......... but don't climb like they did back in those early days.)

TreeBuzz was started in 2001.
 
The discussion of SRT for work positioning was going on in the ISA tree climbers forum a few years prior to Treebuzz birth

SRT ascent has been talked about a lot too.

There is a thread that I started a while ago asking when people first heard about SRT work positioning.

Before Morgan and Kevin's creations came along SRT as a work positioning solution wasn't very smooth.

I was there the day that Morgan debuted the Uni. That was destiny if there ever is a destiny
 
Tom Dunlap said:
The discussion of SRT for work positioning was going on in the ISA tree climbers forum a few years prior to Treebuzz birth

SRT ascent has been talked about a lot too.

There is a thread that I started a while ago asking when people first heard about SRT work positioning.

Before Morgan and Kevin's creations came along SRT as a work positioning solution wasn't very smooth.

I was there the day that Morgan debuted the Uni. That was destiny if there ever is a destiny
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@Tom Dunlap - see 1 post up; I referenced your "When did you first hear". ;)
 
I was at a buddy's place and found the first edition of On Rope on the bookshelf. I borrowed it and then bought my own copy. It was published in '86. The lightbulb went off in my head. Lots of climbing concepts could be used in trees.

A few years after buying the first edition the second edition was published in '96. I don't know exactly when I got the first edition but it seems like it would have been in very early 90s

Having the ISA forum to discuss and share ideas was invaluable. Too bad they weren't recovered or reconstructed when the server crashed.

If a historian were doing a definitive delve into SRT in trees I have a lot of info to share.
 
Tom Dunlap said:
The discussion of SRT for work positioning was going on in the ISA tree climbers forum a few years prior to Treebuzz birth

SRT ascent has been talked about a lot too.

There is a thread that I started a while ago asking when people first heard about SRT work positioning.

Before Morgan and Kevin's creations came along SRT as a work positioning solution wasn't very smooth.

I was there the day that Morgan debuted the Uni. That was destiny if there ever is a destiny
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I wish I still had a uni with stainless steel and the barrel attachment :cry: bull dog bone is pretty great too, though
 
Tom Dunlap said:
@Dan Cobb

Those are ascending systems. What did you use for up s as bd down moves
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Downclimb a little or change over to rappel. Or switch from rapppel to ascend. Or (rarely) free climb a little with a safety attachment.

No, it wasn't particularly fun or efficient, but vertical caving techniques were what I knew. I have seen the light and I am basking in it's warmth.
 
Tom Dunlap said:
The discussion of SRT for work positioning was going on in the ISA tree climbers forum a few years prior to Treebuzz birth

SRT ascent has been talked about a lot too.

There is a thread that I started a while ago asking when people first heard about SRT work positioning.

Before Morgan and Kevin's creations came along SRT as a work positioning solution wasn't very smooth.

I was there the day that Morgan debuted the Uni. That was destiny if there ever is a destiny
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Once Morgan and Kevin made their contributions it seems like it just took off at light speed, so many little nuances and tricks were being shared and developed here when I first joined around 2009/2010. Was so exciting and fun to be in the mix.

Strange though, how the info didn't really soak into the industry like you'd expect, it just passed a lot of people by. I, for one, would not have figured it out if it weren't for reading here and trying stuff with my brother. Then when I went to work for old school buzzer Jamin Mayer, he really showed me how to cruise trees with SRT!
 
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