We reached out a year or so ago and started looking at confined space. There’s a lot of video on rope rescue, a lot of cool high line failure videos you can watch. There wasn’t a lot on confined space, we found. We decided, “How do we do a confined…

Meet The Players... The AZTEK Elite and the Pocket Hauler. Compact pulley systems have been in use for a long time, but the AZTEK in its current version is really what is known best. The original version (AZTEK Pro), is Sterling’s Pocket Hauler, includes these mini double pulleys and had…

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,…