
By that, I’m thinking about communications tower workers and crane workers who are often just the crane operator and a dogman who may be caught in this situation where they have to effect a rescue from the jib.ĭifferent times when we’ve taught skate block rescues, we’ve tried different techniques introducing fore and aft belays to protect the system in case we have a failure of the main line. Skate blocks is something that we’ve taught for many years, and often struggled with presenting various components of them to different teams, particularly small teams working in remote areas. Today, we want to have a look at skate blocks.

Hi, I'm Richard Delaney from Rope Lab in the Blue Mountains of Australia, and I'm working with the rigging lab at Rescue Response Gear.

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