Time for transparency here. Highlines versus Offsets. Which is one of these accomplishes the goal of moving the person or load from one side to the other in the most effective and efficient manner? Well, at this point I wasn’t thinking about either one… I really didn’t care. I hadn’t ever set up a true …
The Less Than 10 Percent Solution Just Got Easier: Highlines Read More »
The Story For a long time you were the lone wolf. Making decisions about life and your team’s future and basing the decisions off of what you thought would be best… without much input from others. We’ve all been in that place and now… we need to rethink how we are making decisions and planning …
Working on the Horizon Line: Seeing What Lurks Below Requires a Higher Vantage Point Read More »
“Something is brewing from the west”… sounds like a tale from Lord of the Rings. Well, that isn’t to far from the truth. As I woke up this morning… hot coffee with my Laird Superfood in hand, my mood was somewhat whimsical. I have large window to my left… open space, trees blowing… ice everywhere! …
Something Is Brewing From the West: How It All Started Read More »
The 5 Day Advance Live Workshop Technical Assessment Technical Rescue Assessment: This questionnaire provides you with an opportunity to evaluate your skills and comfort with technical rope rescue. There are no ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ answers and no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ choices. If the space in a ‘Comments’ section is not sufficient, please continue on a …
The Crackerjack Group Technical Rescue Assessment Read More »
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… …
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 …
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 …
Harken Industrial Part 1: Who is Harken Industrial? Read More »
A few years ago, we had a very cool time and space with CMC Rescue (now simply… CMC). This project was a dream world of live training, film production and in-use product defining. Here is snapshot of what transpired. Mitigating “edge trauma”, as many call it… is likely the most arduous job of any rigger …
The Basics Of How The Arizona Vortex Works: Part 2 Read More »
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, …
