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Unlocking Efficiency and Safety: The CAPTO and CLUTCH Mechanical Advantage System

By Lance Piatt / Blog, CMC Clutch by Harken Industrial, CMC Rescue, Designing Your Processes, Equipment, Harken Industrial, Highline Rigging, Mainline Systems and Operations, Mechanical Advantage, Pulley Systems, Pulleys & Mechanical Advantage

Welcome to a new era in rope access and rescue operations, where innovation meets simplicity. In the world of technical rope work, the challenges of complexity, safety concerns, and limited versatility have met their match. Introducing CAPTO and CLUTCH – a dynamic duo designed to transform the way technicians approach their work. The following is …

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The New Harken Industrial Wingman

By Lance Piatt / Blog, CMC Rescue, Harken Industrial, Mechanical Advantage, Pulley Systems, Pulleys & Mechanical Advantage

The Harkin Wingman is a compact haul kit that offers versatility, functioning as either a four-to-one or a five-to-one kit depending on how you position the load. You’ll notice significant distinctions when comparing the Wingman to other mini haul kits available on the market, with one notable feature being its exceptional compactness. We’ve engineered this …

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Harken Industrial Part 4: Syd Millman and Sean Cogan

By Lance Piatt / Blog, Harken Industrial / 116 Comments

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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Harken Industrial Part 3: Marine to Industrial Rigging and Rope Access… Who is Elevated Safety?

By Lance Piatt / Blog, Elevated Safety, Harken Industrial, Rope Access and Working At Height / 25 Comments

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 …

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Harken Industrial Part 1: Who is Harken Industrial?

By Lance Piatt / Blog, Harken Industrial / 12 Comments

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 rope rescue, industrial rigging and …

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Harken Industrial Part 2: I See The Future Of Rigging Coming Through Pewaukee, Wisconsin

By Lance Piatt / Blog, Harken Industrial / 7 Comments

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 of changes, in terms of …

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A Shout Out To Many Who Have Stood By Us Through Thick And Thin: Vision Is Always Within Your Grasp

By Lance Piatt / Blog, CMC Rescue, Elevated Safety, Harken Industrial, Pat Rhodes, Peak Rescue Institute, Reed Thorne, Tom Wood / 140 Comments

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 and rescue videos and has …

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Industrial Skate Block Trackline System Lower Section (Part 2)

By Richard Delaney / Anchors, Blog, Harken Industrial, Richard Delaney, Skate Blocks, Tracking Lines, Two Tensioned Rope Rescue Systems / 7 Comments

Now we’re down at the bottom end. As I said at the top, we’ve got our red track line and we’ve got our blue skate block. The attachments here, we’ve got a pulley on the track line. Also on the track line we have a mobile fall arrester, a Petzl ASAP. That means worst case, …

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A Quick Look at a Tower Rescue Tracking Skate Block (Hybrid) System

By Lance Piatt / Anchors, Blog, Elevated Safety, Harken Industrial, Industry / 42 Comments

Earlier in 2018, we had a great time hanging out with the Elevated Safety crew to learn more about (and film) Tower Rescue and what Technicians need to understand. The result is an amazing course focused primarily on Offset techniques. This is an excerpt from that course… Tower Rescue Technician. A quick look at a …

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Winch Power, Artificial High Directionals and Human Curiosity

By Lance Piatt / Arizona Vortex, Blog, Elevated Safety, Harken Industrial, Portable Anchors, Team Competencies, TerrAdaptor / 8 Comments

We have been saying for years… “it doesn’t take 6 people to do a rescue”. Really! Two strong, smart and logical riggers (certainly no more than three) can do a raise and lower from just about any place. I think over the years, a near sided perspective and a lack of vision has kept thousands …

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