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I've never seen one as clearly demonstrated like this especially trying not to drop anything

Amazing, Thank you so much! Glad to hear it! Keep your back-up's high and count your points! Let us know how it goes!!

Absolutely. I say "mule" knot, which is essentially the tie off for a "munter"...look up "munter mule" and you should be able to find something. When you tie off to the grillon, it keeps the connection system (and casualty management tie off) attached only to the spine of the I'D carabiner...When the casualty reaches the ground, their weight is suspended by your descender carabiner and therefore you can open the gate and remove your d-ring without being attached directly with either point; this leaves the casualty slightly suspended, just off the ground, and you can move away so medics can put a stretcher under the casualty and you can lower them out without sitting on top of them.

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Great question. Typically a large re-anchor is rigged to avoid a hazard underneath it. Otherwise you would just do a large rope to rope transfer. The idea behind leaving the standing ropes behind you and getting fully into the loop is to maintain access on either side in case of rescue, and not to drag your standing lines through the hazard underneath. That said, if there's no hazard underneath, and no access issues, I don't see any reason why you couldn't just go straight to the far side of the loop and treat it like a small re-anchor.

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Absolutely that is an option. I would argue that in fact your chest ascender, when loaded on a vertical rope in full suspension, is a full point. Often instructors teach that the chest ascender and hand ascender are half a point each...this is a teaching tool for beginners so that they don't forget their hand ascender when moving on ropes diagonally and running the risk of rolling out the chest ascender if rope is pulled through. I challenge you to accidentally remove the chest ascender when statically loaded vertically. In my humble opinion, the hand ascender is an assist to the chest ascender, which is your main full point of connection. There are different perspectives on this so I appreciate your comment, but in my opinion there is no such thing as "half a point" you're either connected safely or you're not. No two pieces of equipment do the job of one, if that makes sense.

@Pacificropes I appreciate your response and absolutely see your point (2 pieces of equipment doing 1 job). As you noted, I just received my SPRAT level 1 cert the first week of September, so the "half point of connection" is fresh in my mind. Again, be safe, my friend!

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ALWAYS follow the direction of your current training center! haha these videos are meant to help with concepts and offer some solutions but every training center has methods they like and methods they don't. If you want to practice these methods stop in for an Open Gym here and we'll help expand your arsenal, there is not ONE correct way to do it.

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Thank you so much! Glad you're stoked on them hopefully we'll get some more out for you soon!! Let us know if there's anything specific you'd like to see!

@@Pacificropes every vertical activity is almost infinite; thanks for answering 🪢

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Hey Jim, this is actually an old one shot at our old facility in Richmond, but we are now located in Burnaby BC!

I should mention we have a location in Edmonton as well! (;

The purpose is to combat rope stretch; if you've got a bunch of rope above your casualty the rope that is being stretched with their weight, it will recoil when the casualty is removed from the rope...if you're using the hand ascender attached to a cowstail to perform the pick that hand ascender will recoil with the rope and potentially hang you up. Once transferred to the descender, you can remove the hand ascender and as you lower the casualty onto you (the rescuer) the rope stretch will be lowered out with nothing obstructing it. Hope that makes sense!

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Excellent advice! Pinning this comment!

Mr. Thomson as I live and breathe. I'm off to Cuthy's new place in Feb. might see you there.

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Yeah seemed a long way for a shortcut that.

Agreed! Nothing is ever going to be a fix-all ONLY WAY solution...that kind of thinking is dangerous and limiting! Glad you like the videos man! Would love to hear more feedback! 🤘

Nice one Simon! Yeah we wanted to mix it up for this one as we essentially demonstrate the method you describe in the Large Re-anchor rescue video! For both of those rescues it's handy to have as many possible tools in your arsenal as it can be such a different situation depending on environment and where your casualty is situated!

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To me this is the best rigging in rope access, when ever I rig I always think rig to rescue 😊

Yes, you are correct. The pick sling for casualty management was placed over the loop, easily removed and re-installed. Had they been the main points of connection to the casualty it would be a much more difficult mistake to fix. This has been noted haha good eye! (:

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Thanks Barry!!👊

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Cheating or smart? Cows tail works if you want to pick him off it again, if you have the tools use them!

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Posso definitivamente apreciar a preocupação de me apegar à vítima enquanto ainda estou no ascensor torácico. É importante não colocar uma carga de choque potencial no sistema, mas quando carregado estaticamente assim, não fico tão preocupado. Obrigado por compartilhar sua perspectiva! Definitivamente, é algo para se ter muito cuidado ao trabalhar com dispositivos dentados.

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Thanks! He knew he was in the great hands of our training manager Josh, and had nothing to worry about but lunch!!

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