Releasable anchors with the I’D Setting up a rope on a releasable anchor allows a worker to be lowered in case of an accident, with no need for the rescuer to access the victim. Another advantage: a single person on foot can monitor multiple workers at height. WARNINGS Read the technical notice before viewing …
Ultimate – the best achievable or imaginable of its kind. Can we have The Ultimate Gear List for anything? Probably not, but we can put some thought into what that might look like. Before we get to the list, let us outline where this gear cache came from. In building this course with Jason Ilowite …
The Gear Used In Artificial Highlines and Two Tension Rope Systems Read More »
Pulleys are used to haul up equipment or raise a person in a rescue situation. Some of them can be combined with a rope clamp to facilitate maneuvers, others allow movement along rope or cable. A quick, down and dirty way to categorize the types and or styles of pulleys, but first!!! Here is a …
We’ve passed the age of whether or not to include online learning to our cache of educational options… It is here and if you’re not in the midst of learning via online modes you are already behind. This is especially true for rescue and rigging folks. It isn’t that rope rescue rigging systems and equipment …
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So as most of our community knows… we incredibly excited about the Two (Twin) Tension Rope System. Technically, it isn’t new, but newer. The system, like most paradigm shifts, need some time to acclimate. Not the system mind you… the teams, individuals and thus expectations, goals and SOPs. Rather than try to create “new” information …
To understand rigging is to understand at least some aspects of trigonometry and vector physics. The knowledge of angles, components, and resultants is synonymous with quality rope rigging. To study vectors is to study the physical qualities of force that has both direction and magnitude. There are two important distinctions we make in quantifying attributes …
Online learning can be the most measurable way to increase understanding and perception of today’s learning methods. Students working around their existing responsibilities and commitments and they don’t have to travel anywhere to study. They can log in to the virtual campus from the comfort of their own home or office and off they go. …
Ice Breaker: The goal of “thinking beyond our thoughts” or metacognitive strategies is to help us become comfortable with developing strategy. Why is this so vitally important to us as humans, riggers, and rescuers? We as people, especially in today’s world, tend to take the easy way out and “believe” what we are told and this …
The MAESTRO combines the abilities of a progress-capture pulley and a descender for effective hauling, releasing and lowering of the load. The AUTO-LOCK system locks the load automatically and returns the handle to the stop position. Let’s start with a Petzl Maestro Overview! 1. Working principle The MAESTRO uses a pulley mounted on a …
A belay system must stop a falling load in case the work system breaks or fails. The belay rope must ” follow ” the load, to avoid creating any slack that would increase the fall distance if the work rope fails. Belaying a hauling operation When hauling, belaying poses no technical problem. It is …
