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Jiggers Are Compact 4:1 Pulley Systems and are The Rigger’s Future

By Lance Piatt / AZTEK ELITE, Blog, General Rigging, Pulleys & Mechanical Advantage / 5 Comments

Generally, these beauties are considered pre-rigged pulley systems used mainly for hauling, but can be very important in lowering heavy loads as well. The advantage of these systems is in their rapid deployment, and straightforward operation without advanced levels of training or expertise. They are low maintenance and high yield work horses and have been …

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

By 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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Building Your Own Anti-Gravity Machine: AHD Using the TerrAdaptor Part 1

By Lance Piatt / Blog, Designing Your Processes, Dynamic Directional, Elevated Anchor Systems, Offset Track Line, Portable Anchors

Anti-gravity (also known as non-gravitational field) is a hypothetical phenomenon of creating a place or object that is free from the force of gravity. I love the word, hypothetical! – Very non-committal. You can play in a sandbox of “theory” and never be wrong. However, the other side of theory is a “proving ground”. So is …

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Anchor Overview for Rope Rescue Rigging

By Lance Piatt / Anchoring, Anchors / 9 Comments

Anchors Overview Anchors are the foundation on which we build our rescue systems. Rescuers must quickly decide on an appropriate anchor system for a given rescue situation. Usually, anchors need to be in place before other aspects of the rescue can proceed. Determining where anchors should be built and beginning their construction early are critical …

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How to Use The Arizona Vortex Guidebook

By Lance Piatt / Arizona Vortex, Elevated Anchor Systems, Portable Anchors, Rob Stringer / 134 Comments

Photos © Reed Thorne The ARIZONA VORTEX (or AZV) is so named from its development in the rugged highlands of Northern Arizona’s Oak Creek Canyon through the rigging and rescue school, Rope That Rescue. Reed Thorne, the school’s senior instructor developed the current Version 2 AZV with the help of Rock Thompson at Rock Exotica …

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CMC Arizona Vortex Series 1 of 4: Introduction to the Arizona Vortex

By Lance Piatt / Artificial High Directional AHD, Blog, CMC Rescue / 12 Comments

The originator of modern artificial high directionals (AHD)s, the Vortex is a tripod, bipod and monopod in one all-inclusive kit. Its precision machined two-piece head can be rigged as a standard tripod or, in advanced applications, as an A-frame, Sideways A-frame, Gin Pole or a multitude of other configurations. The tripod can be formed into …

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The Basics Of How The Arizona Vortex Works

By Lance Piatt / Anchors, Artificial High Directional AHD, Blog / 47 Comments

Okay, so we’re just going to talk about the background on why we use the Vortex, so for this demonstration, we’ve taken the rope out of the pulley, the head of the Vortex. In this configuration, assuming that the Vortex is actually not even here, you can see that John is tied into the red …

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Two Rope Tension System A-Frame Resultant Insight, Part 2

By Lance Piatt / Blog, Portable Anchors, Two (Twin) Tension Rope Systems, Two Rope Offsets, Two Tensioned Rope Rescue Systems / 5 Comments

Excerpt from “A Guide to Artificial High Directionals & Two Tension Rope Systems” To review, this simplest way to make sure it’s stable is to visualize your resultants and make sure they’re landing within the footprint of your system. Then provide some guying for stability and the insurance that in the event that someone should …

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Two Rope Tension System A-Frame Resultant Insight, Part 1

By Lance Piatt / Arizona Vortex, Blog, TerrAdaptor, Two (Twin) Tension Rope Systems, Two Tensioned Rope Rescue Systems / 11 Comments

Excerpt from “A Guide to Artificial High Directionals & Two Tension Rope Systems” Defining a resultant is what determines if your high directional is going to be stable or not. So when we say resultant, the full term is a resultant vector. A vector is a measure of force and direction. Here, we’re talking about resultants through the …

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~CMC 11mm MPD Flash Sale ~

By Lance Piatt / Blog, CMC Rescue / 5 Comments

We have an opportunity for departments and teams who have invested strongly in the CMC MPD. We have a limited time offer for a limited quantity of the MPD Multi-Purpose Device. Grab an extra one or two and build those dream systems you have always wanted. Wanting to run TTRS, but only have one MPD? No …

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