INTRODUCING DIFFERENT INDUSTRIES INTO ROPE ACCESS - PODCAST - THE ROPE ACCESS AND CLIMBING PODCAST
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- Опубликовано: 13 сен 2024
- INTRODUCING DIFFERENT INDUSTRIES INTO ROPE ACCESS - PODCAST - THE ROPE ACCESS AND CLIMBING PODCAST
Hello and welcome back to The Rope Access and Climbing Podcast. This week I want to touch on something that I have encountered over the years. But, kind of never really thought about it. Yes, I have spoken about cross-training on my platform before. But it doesn’t stop there.
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Mikey Stevenson
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I totally agree. We should always find the best way to improve our work. If that means cross training with different industries, it is the way to go.
Your example with the ice should be risk assessed and after that implemented.
I think a good rope tech knows he can always learn. Even from none climbers. I’ve worked as an arborist, taught rope rescue and intervention to fire departments and police, used to be a rock climbing instructor and I use every trick I know when needed.
But unfortunately there are a LOT of people stuck in their ways in rope access. I try not to be cocky, try to share my view and have the team leader decide. If I am that person I still try to listen to the team. Often there are some good ideas coming in from inexperienced people.
Getting a conversation like yours going is part of the reasons I started my channel. Help the community grow as rope techs.
Thanks for sharing !!
Excellent subject, I'm using any gear that's safe, no matter what school it comes from. I use my ID or my Taz in the trees consistently, it's a matter of the right size rope of course. Let's get together, Jim H.
Id love to get my hands on a Taz. I maybe heading to Grimp NA if youll be there
As an arborist, I completely agree with the concept of cross cross training. Arb and RA are very different worlds but also brother and sister in that both have roots in caving and mountaineering. Aside from the obvious difference of single rope vs two-rope systems, there are other more subtle differences. In general, I think that arborists are much more open to experimentation than other high angle disciplines. That makes sense when you consider that, at least in the US, the majority of arborists are either self-employed contractors or mom-and-pop size companies, as opposed to large companies with stricter policies and limits on gear/systems. In the US we still don’t even have an OSHA standard specifically for our industry (although that will likely be changing soon), just the voluntary ANSI Z133 standards. We certainly don’t have the regulatory oversight of something like SPRAT. I think anyone with a true passion for rope can learn from other industries. Arb could benefit from more redundancy in our climbing systems, but I think it may need to be on our own terms with purpose built gear. I’ve used main/un-tensioned backup many times in trees. It’s a rough fit for sure, and hard to make production in a lot of cases, but there are a few areas where it’s quite efficient. On the flip side, RA could benefit from adding some multicenders, like the Tazlov, into the mix.
As a training arborist learning to climb the last two years, and recently getting started with a search and rescue team hoping to work towards technical rope rescue, this video made me smile very big !!! So happy to hear you say basically in reserve, what my perspective was coming from the tree climbing side of things ! So excited to see what the future holds with all the knowledge I seek!
Hey there, I'm glad to hear that. Keep up the good work and never let someone get in your way!
Awesome.
Thanks for discussing this. Reminds me of a saying I have realized over my time in rope access and rescue. Whatever other people do not know is automatically dangerous because they will not think it through.
So true.
Just because you dont know what it is… doesnt make it dangerous
Haha I've never met a good rope access tech that's not a little bit cocky.
Haha fair…