 enlarge 132KB, 800x600 1 Don & some of the CLP Gang, in Hong Kong (HK)China Light & Power -Engineering Donald Lee Picker is the Managing Director for Asia Tree Preservation Ltd. www.asiatreepreservation.com
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 enlarge 153KB, 800x640 3 P.S.Chin, Supervisor, CLP, Helped With Many Photos
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 enlarge 173KB, 800x600 5 Detailed Explanations for Safety
|  enlarge 165KB, 800x600 6 Questions & Answers Help Ensure Safe Operations
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 enlarge 162KB, 800x600 7 The Demonstration; Safe Climbing (www.buckinghammfg.com)
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 enlarge 157KB, 800x600 9 Tying the Knots (www.samsonrope.com)
|  enlarge 206KB, 600x800 10 Don Performs Aerial Rescue (AR; up close and personal) www.asiatreepreservation.com
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 enlarge 205KB, 600x800 11 Discussing & Debriefing the Procedures
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 enlarge 174KB, 800x600 13 Explaining Tools of the Trade
|  enlarge 149KB, 800x600 14 Tools Used for Training: Buckingham Manufacturing Co, Inc. & Samson Rope Technologies
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 enlarge 184KB, 600x800 15 Demo Those Techniques, the man still has it!" (climbing since 1974)
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|  enlarge 183KB, 800x600 18 Knots, More Knots & Knots That are Not Knots
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 enlarge 170KB, 640x800 19 Lau Chi Wai, Youngest CLPE Man, (Now a Certifed Tree Worker/Climber Specialist)
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 enlarge 120KB, 800x640 23 Training For Real Learning Tsui Kam-Wing is another Certified Tree Worker/Climber Specialist now!
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 enlarge 108KB, 800x640 25 Fung, Ji Ming (Gary) Supervisor/Translator (also helped to edit our New book, the Tree Climbers' Guide; Chinese 1st Edition, copyright ISA, published Jan. 01, 2006
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 enlarge 184KB, 800x600 31 K.C. Ho (John) CLP Operations Branch, VM Manager, Doing a TV Commercial of Training for CLP
|  enlarge 208KB, 600x800 32 CLP TV Commercial Includes Aerial Rescue (AR) (Don with men in the tree directing)
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 enlarge 89KB, 800x600 33 P.S. Chin, On Rope
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 enlarge 110KB, 800x600 35 Don Demos a High Climb While CLPE Gang Observes the high level techniques
|  enlarge 109KB, 600x800 36 Don spent hundreds of hours along with Ken So of Kadoorie Farms Botanic Gardens (KFBG) overseeing the translation the Tree Climbers' Guide; Chinese 1st Edition, copyright 2006
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 enlarge 35KB, 800x600 37 Xue Ya, director and president of Acumen Advertising & Marketing Co. Ltd. Yunnan, Kunming works with Don to layout and finalize copy for printing.
|  enlarge 52KB, 800x600 38 Don found a great professional team with Acumen Co. (they worked hard on the project from start to completion)
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 enlarge 44KB, 800x600 39 Don worked hard to assure a quality guide, the very first Chinese tree-care manual!
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 enlarge 37KB, 800x600 41 The TCG; Chinese 1st Ed. 2006/01/01; copyrighted by the ISA and published by AG (HK) Ltd. and is now for sale: HK$388.00 (US$49.00) (discount available to ISA members)
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 enlarge 62KB, 800x600 43 This Chinese document will be a landmark production that will influence tree care practices in Asia for years to come...
|  enlarge 88KB, 800x600 44 These wonderful tree specimens in TST Tsim Sha Tsui have been designated in to have support cabling installed.
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|  enlarge 77KB, 800x600 46 At a historic site in Hong Kong this overlooks the "fragrant habour".
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 enlarge 110KB, 800x600 49 This was an interesting job and used as training for Swire Holdings Oriental Landscape Ltd. crew.
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