Arborist Equipment (Vancouver, Calgary or in between)

[+Team MundS]

Hello everybody,

 

I am a Cacher from Germany, who will visit your nice country in two weeks

My Visit will start in Vancouver and end there, too. But in this three weeks I will travel around and visit Victoria, Kamloops, Banff, Calgary, etc.

Here in the North of Germany some Cachers climb on trees for some T5 caches and I am one of those.

After some searching in the Internet I found out that IMHO Canada is the paradise for tree climbing, especially in prices for Arborist ropes

So I like to buy a useful souvenir in Canada, for my hobby at home...

Can you tell me some shops in Vancouver, Calgary or in between where I can get a XTC tree climbing rope or a equal one?

That would be very nice!

 

I am looking forward to visit your country and your caches! Especially the big number of Earth Caches!

Thanks in advance for your help!

 

Markus from Team MundS

(Germany)

[+Red90]

I'm not sure is mountain climbing ropes are the same. If so, then http://www.mec.ca/ They have stores in Vancouver and Calgary.

[+Team MundS]

Thank you for your help! I´ve written them an email, maybe there is a chance to get such a rope...

It is a special rope, but some mountain climbing shops do have such ropes.

 

Perhaps somebody can tell me a special arborist shop?!?

 

AND: Please excuse my bad english... I am out of practice

[+NerdFrog]

You might want to try out this store in North Vancouver:

http://www.pacificarborist.com/

Viel gluck und spass!

[+Team MundS]

Thank you for the adress, I´ve written them an email, too... It is my favorite

But until now there was no answer. I really hope to get an answer and this shop isn´t bankrupt or something else...

Do you have some experience with this shop?

 

And thanks for your good wishes

Edited June 11, 2009 by Team MundS

[+NerdFrog]

I'm not an arborist, but a quick Google search led me to the above link.

Here are a couple others:

http://www.csinet.ca (Vancouver)

http://www.canadianarboristsupplies.com (Calgary)

 

The local arborist school trains in our park. If I run into them, I'll ask them for a referral.

 

Say hello to "meine rothaarige aus Koln"!

[+Hippie Kidz]

Hey Marcus,

 

I am an arborist in Kamloops, BC. I buy my equipment at Sherill Tree, at http://www.sherrilltree.com/Professional-Gear/XTC_2 . They carry your XTC rope. They then ship it to BobCat Country in Abbotsford at http://www.bobcatcountry.com/ . You would be able to get your stuff on the way to Kamloops. Good luck!

 

Brad.

[+Viajero Perdido]

My guess is that arborist ropes need to be non-stretchy, like caving ropes.

 

Climbing ropes are stretchy, and are what you'd find at outdoor stores like MEC.

[+Red90]

My guess is that arborist ropes need to be non-stretchy, like caving ropes.

 

Climbing ropes are stretchy, and are what you'd find at outdoor stores like MEC.

 

They sell static lines as well, which are not stretchy.

[+Team MundS]

Yes Arborist Ropes are not stretchy and they are much more thicker than normal climbing and static ropes.

They have a sitze of 1/2 inches or 13mm.

And the covering has another crown (?)...

 

The Store from North Vancouver has written me an email and I think this shop I will visit then!

Thank you very much for all of your help!