Hopefully you’ve already seen part one of this series Passing Knots Introduction: A Rope Rescue and Rigging Primer You Must Know – Using The MPD (Part 1) where we showed how to pass a knot through a CMC MPD on both raise and lower.  Now we’ll show knot passes through a Scarab…

I will admit, back in the day, the scariest thing for me to learn and then show people, was how to pass knots on either raise or lower.  I would downplay the whole process in an effort to “deny myself the opportunity to learn something super cool” because I just…

The other day while Craig and I were scripting out a new mini series we are planning, the topic of rope abrasion and how much of it is true and how much of it is a hoax came up?  Tough question right?  Sterling has long been a friend of the…

Hey all, Here is a quick insiders conversation with some pretty solid and cool people at Harken…. The conversation started with a bang… Here is Sean Cogan and Syd Millman. “What do you think about there’s some … I won’t mention names here. But a fellow manufacturer in our space,…

Mid way through the 2018 season, there was a shift in the industrial rigging arena.  I saw this coming years ago, but quite wasn’t sure as to how the blending of Harken into the rope access and rescue space would happen; this was 2010. It was to come through the…

Hey all, Here is the first of a 4 part series we are doing with Harken Industrial.  Not sure who Harken Industrial is?  If you don’t know, you will very soon.  Their goal is to be the number 1 (that is #1) “rope handling” company in the world. This includes…