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Rope Rescue Highline Systems and Rigging Techniques

Rope Rescue Highline Systems and Rigging Techniques

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Rope Rescue Highline Systems and Rigging Techniques Rope rescue and rigging highline systems are critical components of technical rescue operations, particularly in situations where victims or rescuers need to be moved vertically or horizontally across challenging terrain or obstacles. These systems are commonly used in wilderness search and rescue, industrial settings, and by first responders […]

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Highline Systems for Rope Rescue

/ Blog, Elevated Anchor Systems, Highline Rigging, Horizontal Rigging, Mainline Systems and Operations, Portable Anchors

Highline systems are critical for rope rescue operations in challenging terrains and popular climbing areas. They demand advanced rigging skills, meticulous planning, and specialized equipment to ensure safety and efficiency. Key Components of Highline Systems Building Highlines Highline construction requires thorough knowledge of rigging principles and safety measures. It is crucial to use the right

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Building Highline in Popular Climbing Areas: What Fire Services and Search and Rescue Teams Need to Know

/ Blog, Equipment, Mainline Systems and Operations, Offset Track Line, Search and Rescue Training, Vertical Rescue Solutions

Climbing is a great recreational activity for outdoor enthusiasts. However, accidents and emergencies can happen, especially in popular climbing areas where crowds are high. As emergency responders, fire services, and search and rescue teams should not only have the skills and equipment to rescue climbers when accidents occur. Still, they also need to have a

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Balancing Act: Navigating Highlines in Rope Rescue and Life

/ Blog, Designing Your Processes, Equipment, Fall Safety, General Rigging, Safe Practices, Team Competencies, Technical Learning

I love the parallels between highline systems in rope rescue and the challenges of everyday life. “In the world of rope rescue, the concept of ‘highlines’ holds a profound parallel to the challenges we encounter in life. Picture this: a highline system, suspended across a perilous gap, serving as a lifeline for those in need.

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A FRAME | QUAD BUNDLE HIGHLINE | Horizontal Rigging

/ Blog, Elevated Anchor Systems, Equipment, General Rigging, Highline Rigging, Horizontal Rigging, Mainline Systems and Operations, Pat Rhodes, Prusik Strength and Use

Let’s look at the floating A-frame of our quad system right now. The floating A-frame is being guyed forward and backwards with the prusiks directly connected to the track line system. Okay. So this is our guying system front and back. This is pretty clean right here the way the guys put this together… a

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A Frame | TWIN BUNDLE HIGHLINE | Horizontal Rigging

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We’ve moved over to the floating A-frame, very much like the floating A-frame that we used for the single track line, but as we said, we’ve added the second track line here. It’s very important that these two track lines be tensioned the same. We would never mix products, for instance. We would never have

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English Reeve: Control Side & Carriage System Highline Systems

/ Blog, Designing Your Processes, Dynamic Directional, Elevated Anchor Systems, General Rigging, Highline Rigging, Horizontal Rigging, Mainline Systems and Operations, Mechanical Advantage, Pat Rhodes, Portable Anchors, Principles of Learning, Prusik Strength and Use, Pulley Systems

We’re back here at the lab, and this is a continuation of what we’ve done, the past couple of days with high lines. In quick review, We had, and we built the track line, and we had the control line for our basic high line system. Now what we’ve added to it is a third

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How To Use The Petzl Reeve Carriage Pulley: Reeving Highlines

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  Let’s take a look at the Petzl REEVE carriage pulley and some of its common uses. The REEVE is made from two high-efficiency pulleys mounted onto a rigging plate. This design simplifies setting up rescue systems on a highline by reducing the amount of equipment needed as well as reducing the overall height of

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Basic Highline System with Pulleys, Rope and Pulley Systems for High Angle Technical Rescue

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Basic Highline System with Pulleys, Rope and Pulley Systems for High Angle Technical Rescue   Highline operations are one of the most dangerous and most difficult vertical rescues. Highline rescues invoke the use of advanced rigging skills, performed by advanced technicians. Under no circumstances should a highline be attempted solely on the instruction of this

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