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4 Artificial High Directional AHD Types

Getting To Know Project Director and Partner Craig McClure of The Crackerjack Group

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I’ve known Craig for many years now and felt super comfortable in having him lead our workshops over the last six months.  During this time, we pooled some ideas together and wondered what a mega-course might look like.  Knowing the work and resources it took to finish and produce our amazingly successful 5 Day Advance …

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Using A Frame Mounted Winch Should Be An Acceptable Tool… Why Isn’t It?

By / Blog, Confined Space Rescue, Elevated Safety, RRG Gear Review

Hey all, It has been interesting hearing from many of you with respect to the use of “rigging or rescuers winch systems”.  We’ve been discussing both the Harken LokHead Winch and Harken Riggers Winch. There seems to be 3 camps… Departments who swear by the 15:1 SSSF and 1/2″ rope only. More adventure-based riggers who …

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Artificial High Direction (AHD) Easel A-Frame Using Arizona Vortex Multipod Part 2

By / Anchoring, Anchors, Arizona Vortex, Blog, CMC Rescue, General Rigging, Portable Anchors / 8 Comments

  As noted in other literature, the most overlooked challenge of setting up any AHD is controlling the vector forces or resultants.  Now, we have a bunch of training videos through Rigging Lab Academy that talk about this in depth, but for this short snippet, I am simply making this a point of reference.  And …

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Elevated High Directional Mini Series Part 1-The AHD Overview

By / Anchoring, Arizona Vortex, CMC Rescue, General Rigging, Highline Rigging, How-To Concepts, Portable Anchors

Mitigating “edge trauma”, as many call it… is likely the most arduous job of any rigger or rope rescue team.  Edge trauma is all about the transition vertical to horizontal terrain (or visa versa).  It is difficult and can be dangerous.  So it is here the vision and strategy of anchoring and positioning the working …

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