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Test Your Rope Rescue Knowledge: Key Questions and Answers for Mastery

Lance Piatt / Blog, Confined Space Rescue, Elevated Anchor Systems, FAQ-Frequently Asked Questions, General Rigging, Knot Craft, Litter Operations, Mainline Systems and Operations, Mechanical Advantage, Patient Packaging, Principles of Learning, Pulleys & Mechanical Advantage, Twin Tension Rope System, Two Rope Offsets

Rope rescue operations require mastery in key areas to ensure safety and efficiency. Here, we explore five essential topics that comprise the core of advanced rope rescue knowledge: Mechanical Advantage Systems, Knots and Knot Passing Techniques, Anchor Systems and Bombproof Anchors, Twin Tension Rope Systems, and Patient Packaging and Evacuation. Dive into these subjects with […]

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Floating Along Is A Nice Way To Go – – The Guiding Line

Lance Piatt / Blog, CMC Clutch by Harken Industrial, CMC Rescue, Elevated Anchor Systems, Litter Operations, Mainline Systems and Operations, Offset Track Line, Principles of Learning, Pulleys & Mechanical Advantage, Skate Blocks, Tower Rescue, Tracking Lines, Two Rope Offsets

A guidance system merges a descent mechanism with a tensioned rope to aid in safely lowering a stretcher, whilst ensuring it is kept at a safe distance from the surface. This technique becomes particularly useful in challenging environments, such as the rocky terrains commonly found at the base of cliffs, which make transportation to level

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Building Your Own Anti-Gravity Machine: AHD Using the TerrAdaptor Part 2

Lance Piatt / Blog, Dynamic Directional, Elevated Anchor Systems, Pulleys & Mechanical Advantage, TerrAdaptor, Two Rope Offsets

Sideways Easel A-Frame Resultant Insight (Taken from our A Guide to Artificial High Directionals & Two Tension Rope Systems online course… ) We’ve added this compression member with a tension element added to it. The reason we did this is because we previously had to keep our resultant between our two legs. As you’ll see

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Class 5 Litter Handling & Offset Rigging

Lance Piatt / 5th Class Litter Raise, Blog, Offset Track Line, Tracking Lines, Twin Tension Rope System, Two Rope Offsets, Two Tensioned Rope Rescue Systems

Class 5 Litter Handling It may be necessary to lower the litter and rescuer past a roof or overhang. In this event, it will often be best for the litter tender to get his or her legs through the spiders or above the spiders so that he or she can hold the litter away from

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Quick Overview: Two Rope Offset

Lance Piatt / Blog, Mainline Systems and Operations, Mechanical Advantage, Two Rope Offsets / 4 Comments

Thanks goes out to Peak Rescue Institute. A two rope off system is essentially a system of two two rope systems that are working in a complementary fashion to move a load down one side of a gap across laterally or horizontally, across the bottom of a gap and then up the other side.

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Dynamic Directional Offset System Using an A-Frame and Natural High Directional

Lance Piatt / Blog, Dynamic Directional, Elevated Anchor Systems, General Rigging, Highline Rigging, Horizontal Rigging, Offset Track Line, Pulley Systems, Pulleys & Mechanical Advantage, Twin Tension Rope System, Twin Tension Rope System Clutch, Two (Twin) Tension Rope Systems, Two Rope Offsets, Two Tensioned Rope Rescue Systems / 10 Comments

Over time, we’ve found this style of deflection offset to be really fun. They have their limits, as with any system, but strength (when properly rigged and run) comes easy and we appreciate the versatility it offers. Large gaps or spans are typically the MO for dynamic directionals. We used a standard A-Frame configuration on

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Two MAESTRO, I’D or RIG (used in parallel by a single operator)

Lance Piatt / Blog, Equipment, General Rigging, Twin Tension Rope System, Twin Tension Rope System Clutch, Two (Twin) Tension Rope Systems, Two Rope Offsets / 104 Comments

The MAESTRO, I’D or RIG descenders can be used in parallel in rescue situations, mainly with long rope lengths and smaller rescue teams. This technique enables a single user to simultaneously operate two devices. Advantages Even sharing of the load on the descenders Reduced potential extension of the system, in case one of the

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How can rescue trainers use computers to find hidden treasures?

Lance Piatt / Arizona Vortex, Artificial High Directional AHD, Portable Anchors, Principles of Learning, TerrAdaptor, Twin Tension Rope System, Twin Tension Rope System Clutch, Two (Twin) Tension Rope Systems, Two Rope Offsets, Two Tensioned Rope Rescue Systems / 13 Comments

I have been sharing about my sojourns… which are really about your journeys and your journeys are about your vision for the future. Everything I have taken on has been anchored into something all y’all have gone through… I know this because you told me so. Early on I in my career I was embarrassed

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What’s the #1 leadership and team building mistake rope rescue technician’s make?

Lance Piatt / Arizona Vortex, Artificial High Directional AHD, Dynamic Directional, Elevated Anchor Systems, Horizontal Rigging, Leadership, Portable Anchors, Principles of Learning, Professional Standards, Safe Practices, Team Competencies, Technical Learning, Twin Tension Rope System, Twin Tension Rope System Clutch, Two (Twin) Tension Rope Systems, Two Rope Offsets, Two Tensioned Rope Rescue Systems / 229 Comments

The year was 2003… almost 5 years post my bellwether event in Sedona. These “leaders” had shown me not just an existence of something new, but of a direction of a trend of things to come. During these years, I had taken other courses and had become much more familiar with “the vertical terrain”. Mind

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What would you say to a nervous rope rescue technician about getting started with leadership and team building?

Lance Piatt / Arizona Vortex, Artificial High Directional AHD, Elevated Anchor Systems, Horizontal Rigging, How-To Concepts, Offset Track Line, Portable Anchors, Principles of Learning, Safe Practices, Twin Tension Rope System, Twin Tension Rope System Clutch, Two (Twin) Tension Rope Systems, Two Rope Offsets, Two Tensioned Rope Rescue Systems / 4 Comments

I found myself in a very compromising predicament. I had been running my gear company for less than a year and had been in search and rescue or the better part of 2 years and felt comfortable with what I had understood rope rescue to be. Fast forward a bit… I am standing on Bell

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