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Threading the Needle / Skate Block Ground Based Tower Rescue Technique for Tower Workers

Lance Piatt / Ascend - Descend, Fall Safety, General Rigging, Rescue Baskets / 14 Comments

Threading the Needle / Skate Block Ground Based Tower Rescue Technique for Tower Workers | Tower Rescue Training Videos Videos & dvds on safety, techniques, procedures, high angle, equipment, harnesses and gear. Some classes and courses available. Products in some videos include: Petzl, Sterling Rope, Traverse Rescue, PMI, Yates, Gear, CMC Rescue, ropes, harnesses, […]

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Raising Then Lowering Ground Based Tower Rescue Technique for Emergency Responders

Lance Piatt / General Rigging, Rescue Baskets, Team Competencies / 3 Comments

Raising Then Lowering Ground Based Tower Rescue Technique for Emergency Responders | Tower Rescue Training Videos Videos & dvds on safety, techniques, procedures, high angle, equipment, harnesses and gear. Some classes and courses available. Products in some videos include: Petzl, Sterling Rope, Traverse Rescue, PMI, Yates, Gear, CMC Rescue, ropes, harnesses, aluminum auto-lock carabiners,

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English Reeve — Control Side & Carriage System | Horizontal Rigging | Rigging Lab Laboratory

Lance Piatt / Anchoring, General Rigging, Pulley Systems, Rescue Baskets, Team Competencies / 9 Comments

English Reeve When we talk about reeving systems for highlines, we are referring to the rigging component that allows us to lower from and raise to the carriage system of the highline. This is our rope elevator so to speak. The English Reeve, like it’s brother the Norwegian Reeve, is a 6:1 compound mechanical

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Norwegian Reeve – Control Side & Carriage System | Horizontal Rigging

Lance Piatt / General Rigging, Pulley Systems, Rescue Baskets, Team Competencies / 36 Comments

Norwegian Reeve When we talk about reeving systems for highlines, we are referring to the rigging component that allows us to lower from and raise to the carriage system of the highline. This is our rope elevator so to speak. The Norwegian Reeve, like it’s brother the English Reeve, is a 6:1 compound mechanical advantage.

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Norwegian Reeve – Control Side & Carriage System – Horizontal Rigging

Lance Piatt / Anchoring, Personal Competencies, Pulley Systems, Rescue Baskets, Team Competencies / 9 Comments

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PART 4: Gin Pole | TWIN BUNDLE | Horizontal Rigging

Lance Piatt / General Rigging, Portable Anchors, Pulley Systems, Rescue Baskets, Team Competencies / 33 Comments

The Gin Pole: The floating gin pole (mono-pod) is a useful alterative for a high directional especially when backpacking long distances. With proper guying in place, the gin pole works quite well as a high directional for a highline system. Sterling Rope is the Official Rope of Rescue Response Gear’s The Rigging Lab. The

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PART 5: Termination Side | TWIN BUNDLE | Horizontal Rigging

Lance Piatt / General Rigging, Personal Competencies, Pulley Systems, Rescue Baskets, Team Competencies / 7 Comments

The Termination Side: This video shows one of many methods to eliminate a knot in the trackline of a highline system. Depicted here is single prusik bypasses; one per each leg of the twin bundled system. The single prusik is a load cell in its own right…if the trackline is receiving too much tension they

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