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Thank you for your insight, especially with to respect to body and foot position. I'm kind of coming to terms with the idea that, without on the job training and someone more knowledgable on hand to observe I am looking at a long, shallow learning curve.

So I received the pole gaffs for my steel Gecko's and tried them out - a great improvement over the tree gaffs. I found that it was easier to remove the points from the bark but it was also easier to gaff out. On Saturday, I climbed the tree to within 30' of the top, limbed using a pole saw and...

Thanks Blair. I’ve been ‘round and ‘round and up and down the bottom 25’ of my tree and I’ve found my spurs more than adequately sticking in the bark. In fact, I’ve ordered some pole gaffs for my spurs to see if they improve the experience. Oh and by the way, l’ve enjoyed the You Tube videos.

I’m not put off, just amused.

isn't it Diadora?

I have an electronic copy - it’s been my bedtime reading for a couple of months. Thanks for asking!

What can I say, some very good advice, a few cautions (much appreciated), a movie, an answered question and more responses than I could have hoped for. Thank you, gentlemen! I will take pictures of the process so you see what you inspired.

Wow, I really appreciate your time in posting this. I only have tree gaffs and my experience at the bottom of my cedar tree has been less than stellar; I mentioned the fungal infection in a previous post and that has made the tree punky around its bottom girth. In order to get the gaffs to stick...

My plan, when the time comes (read: when I'm comfortable with the equipment) is to spur up the tree with two flip lines and bring a climbing line with me. I will bring a hitch climber pulley and eye to eye on my saddle and, if things seem to be going sideways, have a way to rappel down. I could...

The Cottonwoods I am familiar with have extremely thick bark, especially the old specimens; it is a bark that is soft and tends to slough off for no particular reason where I live. I appreciate your advice about practicing on a tree that I'm willing to sacrifice. As it happens, there is a cedar...

I suspected as much. In fact, the tree I really want to set to work on is dying. Its a lone cedar that seems to have a fungal infection at its butt and an exposed split that runs from the root splay to a height of about 25'. The foliage atop is still greenish but no where near as healthy looking...

Heya, I'm a new climber and I have a question: How much will I damage a Western Red cedar by spurring up it (as practice)? I need to know because I need to get some experience (low and slow) and these are the trees I have available to me. I also have access to broad leaf maple and Hemlock...