In this video, John McKently, former CMC School Director, takes us through an important installment in the CLUTCH Application Video Series: inspecting, loading, and testing the 11mm CLUTCH. These steps should be fully understood and followed to ensure safe operation of your device. **Full Transcript Below** The CMC CLUTCH™ BY Harken Industrial™ is the latest evolution […]
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Technical Information ©Petzl Insights Into Carabiners Carabiners are rated in capacity by loading along the long axis. They have little strength when side-loaded along the short axis. Some offset carabiners, such as the modified “D” carabiner, help prevent side loading. Make sure to always load a carabiner along its spine (the long axis). Technical “use”
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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
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Equipment Overview: Petzl I’D (Excerpt and transcription From RLA 5 Day Advance Online Course) We just showed the other end of the haul system where we had the RollClip and the Tibloc. At the progress capture anchor end, we decided to use the Petzl I’D. There are lighter options out there; even later this
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Last night our friends at Ronin Rescue posted this photo taken at GRIMP NA. There have been guarded rumors and reported sightings of the new CMC Clutch by Harken but everyone was really tight lipped.. and well, there still isn’t a lot of info. What rumors? It’s going to completely replace the 11mm MPD! It’ll
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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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