Rope Access Tips, Tricks & Chats

This week we chat about pulley systems.

How do you work out mechanical advantage?
what's a compound system?

We start with the basics of how to work out mechanical advantage, and what makes a compound sy…

This week we sit down with Richie Spence.
Richie has gone from a Level 2 who didn't want to take the responsibility of being a Level 3 all the way through to Technical Authority to Evaluator, and IRAT…

This week we have a look at the EN 12841 standard for rope access, try and explain how it works and what's covered in it.
Don't worry I'm just a rope tech talking about a standard, i'll keep it a simp…

How a chance meeting on the streets of Melbourne can take you to the Red sand of Western Australia and back to the mountains of Canada. 
Once again a unique story of life in rope access. 

This week we take a look at IRATA.
We all know IRATA and the level 1,2 and 3 system, but how is it set up and who is involved.
We hope this answers a few questions you had, and maybe some you didn't kn…

Keeley is a second generation welder and IRATA rope tech, having found some great support at Women Building Futures in Alberta, Canada, Keeley has kicked down some doors and created a great future fo…

Time to chat about all things  load sharing.

Do we have to do it?
Why should we do it?
When don't we do it.
Why you want to do it.

Let us know what you do to load share.
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This week i had the pleasure of sitting down with Charlie, this is where it all started for me back in '98.
Charlie on the other hand has been on the ropes since the 80's.
Developing his  own technique…

This week we have a quick chat about 5 bits of kit to have on your harness.
I bet you have a few bits of kit of your own.
let us know what you carry, send us a message on face book rope access tips tri…

This week we sit down with Mikey Stevenson from Rope access and climbing podcast.
We chat about how he got into rope access and represented Canada in the Petzl rope trip and the team walked away champ…

This week we have a fast and dirty episode on what a supervisor should check before a project. 
A good listen for supervisors or soon to be supervisors. 

This week we chat to Daniel Thornton,  From one of the first guys at RAT to Vegas and back to his Celtic roots with Keltic Falcon. 
I hope you enjoy this chat as much as I did, I think he was talking …

This week we chat about the types of slings we use in rope access, what are the advantages and disadvantages of them all?

This week we sit down with Ryan and chat about going from sweeping the floors of a rope access company warehouse to sitting in a massive fridge in the dessert, and how he is to blame for any Global c…

First of all thank you for listening for a whole year. that's where I wanted to end this, but Damo had other ideas, hope you enjoy. X

Andy went from a shop assistant to starting the company that every rope tech in Australia wanted to  work for. With the dream team of Laura, Denis and Andy,  Vertech began.
Could this really get you t…

This week we have a look at the ASAP from Petzl, see how it came about and when and where it is good and not so good to use.

This week we chat with Laura about getting into rope access as a female in Europe and working her way towards becoming an Assessor.

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After all the interest in the Singapore Special we discussed back in episode 43, we thought a chat about some tricks to help make for a quicker faster rescue.

Kit list
3 cowstails, 1  Karabiner on each
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Ben has been abseiling since SRT turned up in the UK back in 1982, a cave diving passion turned into a job offshore as a commercial diver, while on a platform abseilers went past him on the ropes and…