So as most of our community knows… we incredibly excited about the Two (Twin) Tension Rope System. Technically, it isn’t new, but newer. The system, like most paradigm shifts, need some time to acclimate. Not the system mind you… the teams, individuals and thus expectations, goals and SOPs. Rather than try to create “new” information […]
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(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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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
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“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!
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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
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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
Two Rope Offset Systems or “cross hauling” uses two identical working systems (normally). Now while some use a main-belay system, we are advocating a “two tension system” as it “halves” the amount of tension on both sides respectively, thus reducing the chances of any load related challenges… I am purposely not using the term “catastrophic
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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