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…

So I received some great information from Petzl.  Soon, I will release a better and more specific release (pic and vids), but for now… I wanted to address some questions I have received over the last month or so.  Currently images do exist out in cyberspace, but we’d prefer to…

So, I’m over here at Harken Industrial, in Pewaukee, Wisconsin, to come out and take a look at what Harken does. I’m Lance Piatt, I’m owner, founder, and CEO of Rigging Lab Academy. I’ve been in the industry pushing 25 years plus. There has been very little in the way…

So the operation we did here was again a simple two tension lower, and two tension raise, through two Petzl I’Ds, with the highlight of it being the high directional that we chose to use this time. And that’s the SMC Vector. So it’s a single gin pole, and it…

Most people, at the end of each year, stand back and reflect on what was, what is and what should have been. An epoch season and epic events both apply to myself, our company and those around us. To date, we have produced somewhere between 600 and 700 technical rigging…