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Essential Elements of Rigging

Rigging is essential for rescue operations, climbing, and industrial applications. Mastering the key elements ensures safety and efficiency. This comprehensive guide covers crucial aspects, including bombproof anchors, understanding resultants, mastering knots, setting up highlines, confined space rescue techniques, mechanical advantage systems, reeving systems, friction management, and slackline rigging, offering valuable insights for professionals and enthusiasts […]

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Powered Winches and Tripods

Lance Piatt / Anchoring, General Rigging, Portable Anchors / 8,907 Comments

Powered Winches and Tripods in Rescue Operations The integration of powered winches with traditional tripod and multi-pod systems marks a pivotal development in rescue techniques. While these tools and configurations have existed independently for years, their combination introduces unique challenges and opportunities for confined space, technical rescue, and rope access operations. Let’s delve into this

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Building Your Rigging Quiver

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

Building Your Rigging Quiver We all want the best—a stellar life—but what does “best” even mean? Marriage, kids, friends, jobs, cars, houses… those are the easy answers. But peel back the layers, and you’ll see most of us are struggling to define what “best” truly looks like for our own lives. Here’s the truth: we

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