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 […]
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
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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I am pretty excited about the future of our community. Folks are talking more about what is important and designers, builders, techies, manufacturers, and instructors are all listening to each other… for the most part. 🙂 We are surrounded by amazing people. I have long desired to have a playground to build and adventure into things
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Almost all rope rescue systems used could be considered a “two rope system”. Traditional mainline / slack belay systems and twin tension rope systems (TTRS) both use two (2) ropes. However, the similarities stop there. I won’t get into the biopsy of the mainline-belay line system because, well… they have been around forever. The “relatively”
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Recently, Rigging Lab Academy concluded a 5 day custom rope rescue course for a small, all volunteer team on the island of St.John in the US Virgin Islands. The course was set to focus on utilization of a large cache of recently purchased, modern rope rescue equipment such as an artificial high directional, MPD and
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I just got back from RLA’s first ever Live On-site training in Mt. St. Helens National Monument with the Volcano Rescue Team. It was awesome, I loved connecting with these amazing people. They ranged from full time EMS professionals, self employed designers, engineers, freelancers, mechanics, guides and a host of other passions and occupations. Jason
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Alright! Here we are again to talk about something “sort of out there?… You love this right? Culture vs New Opportunity. We’ve been discussing “creating a mass movement”. Everything we talk about here is solid for team building, systems, operations and politics. So lets break this down a bit. First what is a New Opportunity
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The terms guyed, self-supporting, and monopoles refer to varying types of cell towers. Non-standard tower structures are ones such as transmission towers, water tower, cranes, smokestacks, and possibly bridges. In this article, we’ll discuss first-in operations for a cell tower incident, but the majority of what is discussed can also be relevant for these non-standard
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