Floating Along Is A Nice Way To Go – – The Guiding Line
A guidance system merges a descent mechanism with a tensioned rope to aid in safely lowering a stretcher, whilst ensuring it is kept at a
A guidance system merges a descent mechanism with a tensioned rope to aid in safely lowering a stretcher, whilst ensuring it is kept at a
This is the second part of the question… “talking points” for the rope rescue organizations. One of the biggest problems that rope rescue teams often
Earlier this week, I was asked to provide a quick list of talking points for a group of technicians who regularly gather for their own
This illustration features a climbing outing gone awry with a climber falling 60′ while checking the route at the edge before roping up. The Rescue
Hey all I meet regularly with a number of Rigging Lab members and discuss “random acts of service and rigging”. Super fun! A while back
Generally, these beauties are considered pre-rigged pulley systems used mainly for hauling, but can be very important in lowering heavy loads as well. The advantage
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
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 moved ourself down now looking at, the opposite end of the control side. We’re on the gin pole side, the “A” frame being the
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