THE BASICS OF SWL - PODCAST - THE ROPE ACCESS AND CLIMBING PODCAST
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- THE BASICS OF SWL - PODCAST - THE ROPE ACCESS AND CLIMBING PODCAST
Hello and welcome back to The Rope Access and Climbing Podcast. This week I’m chatting about the basics of Safe Working Load (SWL). This isn’t going to be a long episode but with the increased interest in the topic, I wanted to shine some light on the subject. This is part 1 of 2. So make sure to Subscribe to my TH-cam channel for the release of part 2.
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Till next time,
Mikey Stevenson
Another great video Mickey. And yes, the Taz LUV 3 arrived, and I've been running up and down the rope with it, I also used it during some tree pruning work. Axel Manz has some great videos about it too. The NOAM competition in Southern Oregon was off the charts last week, They had a 60 foot speed climb straight up a rope, in the dark, black lights, glow in the dark saddles, just totally outrageous. Jim.
Awesome
You and I had this convo today!!! 😂
Very important subject to touch upon. I have noticed not everyone, including Levels 3s, understands or knows how to use/calculate SWL and MBS to make a safe system/rescue.
Looking forward to the tech talk.
Its a topic that seems to go in one ear and out the other with many. But then applying it is a totally different thing.
Tech talk is coming soon
I will love to know more about calculations on SWL.MBS
Again bro very good information
Hope you continue to make more
Video. Trinidad is the house
Thank you very much.
Thats my plan.
Thank you for your support
Thanks very much for your podcasts. I appreciate the information.
Thanks for listening
I'm glad you enjoy
Cheers,
Mikey
Why no discussion of work load limit? In this discussion? Will you bring that up in the tech talk?
I will talk about WLL in another video. One thing at a time
@@theropeaccessandclimbingpo2380 in my mind you can’t really talk about SWL without talking about WLL. I’ll be interested to see what you hav to say about WLL
That will depend where your located i guess.
Hey man, any advice where I can find the RA industry standard about hard and soft goods swl, mbs, and or wwl?
Where are you based?
@@theropeaccessandclimbingpo2380 US, Washington State.
Since I just noticed those clips from ropetrip or whatever in your intro, do you have much experience using a pantin for rope access? I've got some annoyingly repetitive rope climbs at my current jobs that a foot ascender might be nice for but I just cant seem to get the groove right and just end up frogging anyway, and we're too busy to take a bunch of time to dial in a luxury system lol. Got any tips?
Hey Julian,
Yes, I have used the pantin a lot is comps. For the most part it takes time. But for long climbs you wont regret it.
First thing is make sure to buy the proper foot pantin. So if you use your right foot in your foot loop. You will need the Left pantin.
Next is back up line. This device works best with any sort of Trailing style device. ie ASAP/ASAP Lock. Once you have that. Tie up the bottom of the backup line in a coil about 1' off the ground.
Get on the ropes, Sit-down, install the rope to the pantin. When you stand up to climb. Start with little movements and as you get higher, the more aggressive you can be.
Left hand, Left foot move at the same time. Right hand, Right foot move at the same time. (1 hand on the handle ascender, 1 hand on the rope above.
Hope this helps out a little bit.
Cheers,
Mikey