I'm the dude who enjoyed my 15 minutes of fame way back in 92, at the age of 32, when I invented the first settable, retrievable from the ground cambium saving device for lifelines, called Cambium Savers, leather tubed CS's that sold retail for about 25 bucks. Got me on the cover of Arbor Age Mag that year. Got introduced to a few industry shakers like Harris, Shigo and Blair.
Shortly after Buckingham introduced ringed friction savers, etc.
And while cambium saving devices are quite common now, even mandated by some contracts and regs?
In 91 it was an industry wide dirty secret how much damage repeated use of a climbing line in the same tree did over the years. I got WCISA certified in 91, the testing took place in Hart Park, Orange County/LA. Each work climb tree had dead and dying heads, mostly sycamores, with massive crotch wounding from years of use as testing trees.
That was the impetus for me developing the leather tube CS. It was only after all the synthetic materials I tried burned holes through at the friction point from heat, and I patched one of them with leather from an old boot, and it took the heat with no problem? I knew I had found the right stuff!
15 minutes are up and gone now though!
I find being all humble bout it hard in all truth. Tree climbers are show offs with egos or they wouldn't post vids of themselves on YouTube. It's like an actor with an agent and picture portfolio sayin I'm really quite shy, like a bloody self evident hypocrite!
Top O the world ma!
Jomo
Shortly after Buckingham introduced ringed friction savers, etc.
And while cambium saving devices are quite common now, even mandated by some contracts and regs?
In 91 it was an industry wide dirty secret how much damage repeated use of a climbing line in the same tree did over the years. I got WCISA certified in 91, the testing took place in Hart Park, Orange County/LA. Each work climb tree had dead and dying heads, mostly sycamores, with massive crotch wounding from years of use as testing trees.
That was the impetus for me developing the leather tube CS. It was only after all the synthetic materials I tried burned holes through at the friction point from heat, and I patched one of them with leather from an old boot, and it took the heat with no problem? I knew I had found the right stuff!
15 minutes are up and gone now though!
I find being all humble bout it hard in all truth. Tree climbers are show offs with egos or they wouldn't post vids of themselves on YouTube. It's like an actor with an agent and picture portfolio sayin I'm really quite shy, like a bloody self evident hypocrite!
Top O the world ma!
Jomo
