ADVANCED RIGGING/FELLING AND CLIMBING CLASS

October 10-12, 2017 at Carol Joy Holling Center

27416 Ranch Road - Ashland, NE 68003

8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.Attendance is limited to 20!

TO REGISTER:Complete the registration form & mail to Nebraska Arborists Association, FAX to 402.761.2224 or email: staff@nearborists.org. Questions? Call (402) 761-2219.

We are excited to announce the fourth annual Advanced Rigging/Felling/Climbing class. This class will be held on October 10-12 at the Carol Joy Holling Center in Ashland, Nebraska. The class is for experienced climbers and/or certified arborists who have already completed the NAA Arborist School and who want to further develop their skills with hands-on instruction from internationally recognized instructor Tony Tresselt.

COURSE LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

• Art of Felling Equipment selection, determining lean and height, types of notches, hinges, mechanical advantage

• Rigging and cutting aloft Minimizing risk for climber and grounds person, rigging points, angles forces and vectors, spar removal

• Advanced climbing and rigging techniques within the canopy ANSI standards, equipment, rigging triangle and positioning into the canopy, pruning

COURSE FORMAT:

3 days (8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. with a half hour on-site lunch and morning/afternoon breaks)Limited indoor instruction followed by outdoor hands on demonstration and instruction

CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDITS:• International Society of Arboriculture (I.S.A.) Certified Arborists and Certified Tree Workers will be eligible to receive 10

Continuing Education Units (CEU’s) at completion of course. (6.5 CEU’s for each full day. 19.5 Total)• Tree Care Industry Association (TCIA), CTSP holders will also receive CEU’s from TCIA

INSTRUCTOR

Anthony (Tony) Tresselt is a climber, trainer, writer and student of arboriculture associated with North American Training Solutions, Arboriculture Canada Training and Education, and Arborist Enterprises. He is also an instructor for North American Training Solutions and has led many insightful and popular tree demos on the TCI EXPO show floor. Tony was a climbing presenter at the 2013 Nebraska GREAT PLAINS Conference.

COURSE INFORMATION

Advanced Tree Climbing

This course is designed to educate participates about legislation and safety requirements as they pertain to working in trees as well as train participants in advanced climbing techniques, gear, knots, hitches and climbing definitions. Instructors will explain, demonstrate and coach students in work positioning and fall protection techniques. Participants will practice skills learned and be mentored and coached during the course. Topics to be covered include:

Safety, teamwork and communication • Integrated risk assessment, terminology and definitions • Understanding customer and performer dynamics • Work planning, ergonomics and personal safety Overhead Belay/Tie-in location selection and establishment • Temporary anchor point selection and field-testing • Throwline use, handling and shot pouch selection • ‘Big Shot’ safety and operation • Friction management strategies and techniques • Fall protection legislation and work positioning Tree climbing gear and tools • Fall Protection Harnesses, saddles belts and lanyards • Connecting links requirements, limitations and differences • Ascenders, descenders and other mechanical devices • Rope tools, slings and accessories Lines, knots, hitches and splicing • Line care, maintenance and storage • Termination knots, bends and hitches • Climbing hitches and prussics • One eyed and two eyed tails

Work Positioning and Fall protection • Climbing system physics and reactive forces • Fall arrest, fall restrict, fall restraint and work positioning • Rope access ascent methods and techniques • Work positioning tools, equipment, slings and lanyards Work oriented tree climbing • Field-tested self-belayed tree climbing • Work climb planning and self-rescue strategies • Ascent tools, techniques, prussics, slings and ascenders • Climbing safety and efficiency, double tie-in techniques • re-directs, slack line tending and sling usage

Safety and Risk Management • Integrated risk assessment, tree dynamics and prescribed work risk • Communication systems • Emergency rescue and readiness Physics and Dynamics • Dynamic load vectors, angles of incidence, force and mass • Reactive forces, system load analysis and interpretation • Tree dynamics, system dynamics and force management Lines and rope tools • Line selection, elasticity, tensile strengths and bend radius • Slings for balancing and lifting • Compliant interfaces, terminations and attachments Knots, Hitches and Terminology • Rope terms: bight, bend, loop, turn, round turn, tail, lead, fall, working and running end! • Rigging knots and hitches: Figure Eight, Slip Knot, Cow Hitch, Timber Hitch, Running Bowline, Half Hitch, Clove Hitch, Single/Double Sheet Bend, Girth Hitch, English Prussic, French Prussic, Kleimheist

Rigging equipment • Fiddle blocks, blocks, pulleys, connecting links, selection, care & use • Ratcheting or winching, lowering/lifting devices, features & benefits • Specialized devices, tools, and equipment • Matching sling size and construction to rope diameter for optimum hitch performance Compound rigging techniques and planning • Planning work and working the plan, teamwork & communication • Specialized cutting techniques, mis-match, lift notch and v-notch • Rigging systems, balancing, lifting, drifting, sliding and traveling • Operation & set-up of Specialized devices, tools and equipment operation

Advanced Tree Rigging

The Arborist Technical Rigging module is designed to provide skilled tree workers with education and practice in making sound designs on how to plan and set up complex rigging systems. Advanced training is provided in a hands-on, teamwork format that provides participants with the skills needed to remove large trees in confined locations or surrounded by obstacles with a low impact focus. The instructor will ensure safety and reserves the right to limit participation according to student experience and expertise. Specifically, this course will have a one half day in class component followed by a full day of in field training activities. Topics to be covered include:

To register, complete the registration form & mail to Nebraska Arborists Association, 6 fax to 402.761.2224 or email: staff@nearborists.org. You cannot register by phone.

Questions? Call (402) 761-2219.

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In order to have a beneficial experience for all participants we are only accepting EXPERIENCED arborists. (At least 2 years experience in tree work required.) Please list below your past experience. Include years of experience as well as the year you attended the arborist school if applicable:

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Send check, payable to Nebraska Arborists Association, to: NAA, 521 First Street, Milford, NE 68405 or: Please bill my q VISA q MASTERCARD for the total of $_______________ Name as it appears on card:__________________________________________________ Card Number_______________________________________Exp. Date_______________ Signature Authorization _____________________________________________________

When you provide a check as payment, you authorize us either to use information from your check to make a one-time electronic fund transfer from your account or to process the payment as a check transaction. When we use information from your check to make an electronic fund transfer, funds may be withdrawn from your account as soon as the same day we receive your payment, and you will not receive your check back from your financial institution.

Please return registration form & payment to: NAA Office, 521 First Street, Milford, NE 68405 or email to: staff@nearborists.org

Cancellation Policy: A refund, less a $25 administrative fee, will be given for all written requests postmarked by September 8, 2017. Requests received after that date will be reviewed by the NAA Board of Directors. In the unlikely event the Conference is cancelled due to uncontrollable circumstances, your payment will be considered a donation to the NAA.

2017 ADVANCED RIGGING/FELLING AND CLIMBING CLASSOctober 10-12, 2017 - Carol Joy Holling Center (27416 Ranch Rd.) Ashland, NE

8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Nebraska Arborists Association521 First Street, Milford, NE 68405

Phone: (402) 761-2219 Fax: 402.761.2224email: staff@nearborists.org

Attendance is limited to 20!

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Certified NAA Arborist Tim Crowl felling a tree.

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