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Building Anchors with Spring Loaded Cams- Pull Test Using Metolius Camming Units

By / Anchoring, Anchors, Blog, Horizontal Rigging / 40 Comments

Building Anchors with Spring Loaded Cams Pull Test Using Metolius Camming Units So we did some back yard testing and while what we found wasn’t particularly astonishing, it was never the less, very interesting. We purposely used some marginal placements with our Metolius camming units.  Some more marginal than others.  We found a range from …

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Force Multipliers and What Are They?

By / Anchors, Blog, Dynamic Directional, General Rigging / 116 Comments

To understand rigging is to understand at least some aspects of trigonometry and vector physics. The knowledge of angles, components, and resultants is synonymous with quality rope rigging. To study vectors is to study the physical qualities of force that has both direction and magnitude. There are two important distinctions we make in quantifying attributes …

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3 Steps To Building Your Rigging Quiver Part 1

By / Artificial High Directional AHD, Blog, Elevated Anchor Systems, Safe Practices, Team Competencies / 8 Comments

Question: Two or More Vectors Added Together = Applied Force = Resultant I think we all want the best.  We want a stellar life.  But when you get past things like  Marriage?  Kids?  Friends? You might think of cars, houses and jobs… then what?  If we are honest with ourselves, we are struggling with at …

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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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