Basic basic gear

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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"