Climbing Arborist podcast #9 - with Dan Holliday, Marten Penrose and Tiger Devine

On this episode of talking trees Dan is joined by Marten Penrose (@1_armed_arb) a one armed arborist, splicer and tree equipment enthusiast, and Tiger Devine (@tigerdevine). Marten talks about being a one armed arborist (2:00m), Marten talks about his love of splicing and how that came about (11:00m), Tiger discusses breaking his heels and how that lead him into splicing (17:00), Dan brings up the topic of using a closed system and what the guys thoughts on it are (24:30), the guys talk about the different ways they climb and different pieces of kit the use (41:00), arborists reading user manuals (49:50), what college teach as far as training goes and if they should change (55:30), the Petzl Chicane (1:19:00), Sena headsets (1:27:50), Tiger talks about the guys he works with (1:34:20), Tiger talks rope runner and Teufelberger Xstatic (1:40:00), the 'John's climb podcast' (1:46:45), climbing a tree barefoot (2:03:00), the Husqvarna power pole battery chainsaw, and other battery powered saws (2:09:30)

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