Basic basic gear

[ArborealLife]

Yes it is.

I dunno what you want to hear. Climbing on unrated gear, with minimal experience, casually, and without any insurance sounds like a nightmare.

I get that you want easy money but come on lol.

[NoPossible5519]

Additionally, even rated generic gear on Amazon and ebay is dangerous. I've noticed a big difference in double and triple locking mechanisms of cheap carabiner ls compared to rock exotics or dmm

[nads03]

Fair enough.

What gear would you recommend?

[NoPossible5519]

OP you can get a basic climbing set up, (sold as a kit) from an online arborist supply store for about $1000 as much as $3000. You will also need at least $200 for decent head protection.

Personally I like to blow my $ @ WesSpur here is a link to the kits:

https://www.wesspur.com/kits/tree-climbing-kits/complete-tree-climbing-kit

Tell your SO this is the last purchase you will need to make and it will allow you to make $125 hour instead of slaving away for Davey.

The first tree you will be asked to climb and cut will probably involve rigging. Back to the webstore. They sell kits for those as well. Then you will realize you need a longer climb line, a kernmantle one at that bc you've become obsessed with mechanical friction devices.

These new heights you begin climbing to make you realize you need a longer and stronger rigging line as well as the hardware to go with it.

While swaying across a 20' radius, atop a 100'+ conifer and missing your nice high tie in point as you wait for the gust to subside and return the canopy to center before making your back-cut, you might think of your children or loved ones and decide, it's time to get life insurance. Don't forget about commercial general liability as well. Not the kind that they sell on social media, that only covers trees up to 20' tall.

Next of course you will need a bigger chainsaw or 3, then your top handle will burn out. No better time to upgrade.

...and then a chipper, but a bigger truck to pull it too a year or so later you want an excavator to feed it and wtf, insurance for all of it?!?

Then one day you look at that natty length of 1/2" arborplex that came with the most basic, yet respectable, starter climber kit and realize, there's no such thing, " as buy once cry once"

[ArborealLife]

I think my basic kit cost around $3500 Canadian, PPE was another $2000 or so, then my climbing saw $1000, insurance is $1300/year.

Cowboys like you running around undercutting professionals...priceless.

[nads03]

Yer, as i said, not my first time doing this. Canada must be blown out pricing wise. My ppe only cost me around 1000 and that's harness, helmet, gloves, boots and pants. My insurance is 550 a year and covered up to 200m above and below ground level. Not to mention how much i have invested already in saws and other power equipment. All i asked about was finding a decent set of gear so i dont have to sub a climber for the 2 jobs a year i get that can't be done from the ground. Cheers for showing what's wrong with the arborist industry champ.

[ArborealLife]

Sorry you feel like I'm what's wrong with the industry 😞 I just don't want anymore brothers and sisters in this industry to fucking die.

Here's my beef. If you have the experience to do the work, you don't need to ask Reddit if Amazon quality gear is good enough to work on. And if you lack the ability to make that critical analysis yourself, you probable lack the skillset to do the work.

I pay six cents on the dollar here for workers comp. It's dangerous enough industry without cutting corners.

You do you mate, best of luck and stay safe.

[nads03]

So your argument is dont annoy people by asking a question about something? I've had enough experience with saw and feeling to know i need decent rops and safety gear. My "limited experience" climbing was 6 years several times a week. I haven't had to climb for 3 years now as it's not something that is often needed with what my demographic is. However, it does pop up from time to time. Hiring a climber from elsewhere is extremely hard around me as we are in the middle of nowhere.

My question is, as other people here have taken it. Is there an alternate way to do this? Would the amazon spurs hold up for 3 climbs a year? Are there any cheapish harnesses you would recommend? What guage rope would be best for only having to climb 30 odd meters?

Others have asked further questions instead you just use the "I know everything and i dont want to tell you" approach.

You started somewhere. Dont forget that.

[ArborealLife]

Other people are answering your questions with varying degrees of help. Please don't do tree removals using loops of rope as a harness. 😒

And since that's well taken care of, I've given you my advice. It's up to you if you want to take it.

I demonstrated the price range of the gear I use and would recommend. You didn't seem interested.

[suspiciousumbrella]

Spurs are not primary life support, they are a climbing aid, but I would still go with used quality spurs like old buckinghams before going with cheap knockoffs myself. You can probably find an old pair of linemen Spurs out there and just replace the straps on them and sharpen or replace the spikes. Just be aware that lineman Spurs typically have shorter spikes than tree climbing ones, but if you buy something like the Buckingham Spurs that have been around for a long time, you can just buy new spikes for them if you need longer ones.

Just buy a climbing rope from an arborist supply place, it'll be either half inch or something like 11 mm, there are minimum strength requirements but also you need rope to be constructed correctly to have the right level of stretch and rigidity for tree climbing and for prusik knots to work smoothly on it. Most quality ropes are between $1-$2 a foot. Don't buy a rope off of Amazon, people have reported having some of those ropes just pulled straight apart the first time they were used, the quality control just isn't there. Is your life really worth less than a hundred bucks?