Thank you Mark Pfeifer of Ronin Safety and Rescue… In this video, we are looking at the control side of an English Reeve. The video shows four control descent devices and our riggers putting them into use to both have tension, the tension line and to be operating the English Reeve system. Now starting from …
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The Omni Of The Rope Rescue and Rigging Pulley World: Rock Exotica Omni-Block Swivel Pulleys So what exactly does “Omni” mean? The designers of the Omni Block pulley have some very elevated claims about their product. Here are a few definitions of the word “omni”. Combining Form Without Limits In All Ways and Places …
So lately, I have been going through a type of transformation of sorts. I will be honest… not all of the process has been fun and pushing through bias demons can be difficult, but with friends like Craig McClure, Jason Ilowite and Rich Delaney… the sojourn has been rewarding. Bear in mind that a sojourn …
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The other day I walked into the studio (Neverland) armed with one goal for the morning… build a system that is Functionality Efficient in Gear Efficient in People Efficient in Physics AHD Based Small Team Based One Person Load Very Reproducible Raise Only Based (but with a margin of error that allows for downward adjustments… …
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 space video?” Well, everybody wants …
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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 a progress capture prusik at …
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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 didn’t get the practical steps. …
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 family and well, this evening …
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, a good friend of mine, …
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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 open-door of Elevated Safety. Now …
