Over the last year or so I have been trying to up my rigging game with the main focus being “rigging light, rigging quick, rigging solid and rigging efficient”. I will be the first to admit that all for all of this to happen at the same time it is a special day. I will […]
(This article was originally run in Firehouse October 1, 2019) Russell McCullar clarifies whether 15:1 is still relevant and says that fire departments should select gear and load limits that meet their needs. All Photos by Russell McCullar Not long ago, I was explaining to one of my students that our training agency was undergoing
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Before any rope zealot goes over the edge, before even the first anchor is set, the most important step of any rigging job must be taken: The scene size up, or job hazard analysis, depending on your industry. Much has been written and recited regarding the art of the size up, so rather than rehash,
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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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So I received some great information from Petzl. Soon, I will release a better and more specific release (pic and vids), but for now… I wanted to address some questions I have received over the last month or so. Currently images do exist out in cyberspace, but we’d prefer to use our own or Petzl’s
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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
The following excerpt is Mark Pfeifer of Ronin Rescue during an interview with Lance Piatt of Rigging Lab Academy. “So 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 highline failure videos you can watch. There wasn’t a
What to learning something well?… “Do it yourself “. Well, this isn’t always the case, but for me (right now) it is. While not obsessed, I am really curious as to what a true minimally viable raise and lower system looks and feels like. Remember the 3 types of learning?….. Vision, Auditory and Kinesthetic. Well,
So 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 highline failure videos you can watch. There wasn’t a lot on confined space we found. We decided, you know, how do we do a confined space video? Well
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