Leading tree climbing photographer Rob Fisher was at the recent 2011 VTCC, and has been kind enough to let the VTIO use some of his pictures (see below). For more great shots of the day please check out his website, where he has posted a gallery of VTCC shots.
To facilitate the current public comment process on the draft model Work Health and Safety Code of Practice for Safe Access in Tree Trimming and Arboriculture released on 26 September 2011, Council Arboriculture Victoria are hosting a public meeting. This meeting is open to every person who is interested in making the amenity tree industry a better place to work. This is your opportunity to better understand how the code came to be formed, what the possible scope of the code is and how you can comment on it.
When: 4:15pm November 30 2011
Where: Mount Waverley Community Centre
47-49 Millers Crescent
Mount Waverley
Melway 61 E12
There will be a 45 minute presentation by SafeWork Australia followed by a question and answer session. Information will be presented on how to make submissions. Submissions close 16 December 2011. Submissions must be made at the Safe Work Australia Code of Practice Public comments site.
Please come along and help make this Code of Practice the best it can be.
For more information, or to register for the event, visit the CAV website.
It is expected the meeting will finish by 6pm.
There is no charge for this event.
It would be appreciated if you could pass this on to every person you know that may be interested in attending.
Thank you to all the climbers, competitors, judges, volunteers and officials who made the 2011 VTCC such a success. The competition was run in the Commonwealth Reserve in Williamstown, and Hobson’s Bay City Council went out of their way to contribute to the event.
Congratulations to Gerard Reynolds and Kiah Martin, who won the 2011 VTCC Men’s and Women’s Masters Challenges, and to all of the fifty climbers across four grades who demonstrated a high level of skill and professionalism throughout the weekend. Please click on the image below to download a PDF version of the preliminary scores for all four grades.
On 11 Oct 2011 the VTIO held it’s AGM. Outgoing president Pat Kenyon accepted the thanks of the committee for several years of hard work on behalf of the organisation.
The new committee and office bearers are as follows:
President: Kiah Martin
Vice-president: Joe Harris
Treasurer: Pete Reynolds
Secretary: Dean Simonsen
Website Manager: Juri Meggarity
Media Officer: Shane Hall
VTCC coordinator: Pat Kenyon
Promotions and prizes: Grant Cody
General committee members: Graeme Hughes, Troy Porter, Andrew McKennan, Michael North, Matt Weatherhead, Mark Cashmore, Alex Pinniger
Entry for the 2011 Victorian Tree Climbing Championship is now closed. The event will be run on Saturday 12 November at the Commonwealth Reserve in Williamstown, to the west of Melbourne. The aim is to run the whole event in a single day, weather permitting, so we’re going to be on a tight schedule!
The event will be run in the same format as last year, with competitors split into four grades: Student, Men’s Open, Women’s and Men’s Masters grade. Entries for the Masters grade will again be capped at 25, with places awarded on previous competition ranking then by precedence, so get your entries in early.
On the day before the competition, the VTIO will be offering a full-day tree climbing workshop, focusing on honing the skills and techniques used at the climbing competition, but also on tying those skills in to the practice of tree climbing in your day-to-day work. Presenting the workshop will be some of the top climbers in the world: Scott Forrest (ITCC champion), Joe Harris (ITCC runner-up) and Grant Cody (3 time Australian champion). Please see the post below, or click here to download a PDF of the flyer.
Entry for both the 2011 VTCC and the preliminary workshop closed at 6:00pm on Wed 2 November.