Man...I'm confused! Rigging Kit!

[Sunflower27]

Well, I need to invest in some of my own rigging kit (not done so before) and I'm a little swamped by what I might need. I will be rigging medium sized stuff and need to know which are the best blocks (anchor) and pulleys (redirect, that I can also use on the ground as a winch redirect pulley) I should have. I am also not sure what the most typical sized rigging rope is (12-16 mm) for medium sized stuff, what length of rope is ideal or what tonnage slings need to be?

 

Can anybody help me to unpick this and help me spend my money on the right things?

[AWarb00]

This is what i use, and have vary rarely needed bigger rigging kit, so it does 90% of the work i do.

 

Stein RC2001:

https://www.frjonesandson.co.uk/prod...e-end-of-june/

 

a pulley:

https://www.frjonesandson.co.uk/prod...for-16mm-rope/

https://www.honeybros.com/Item/Teufe...Dead-Eye_Sling

 

and rope:

https://www.frjonesandson.co.uk/prod...bull-rope-50m/

 

plus a few karbiners, and a bag. It not incredibly expensive but will do basically any rigging apart from the really big stuff.

 

Or theres this, which would work well on lighter-medium stuff:

https://www.honeybros.com/Item/HB_Li...ht_Rigging_Kit

 

Hope this helps

[Andrew McEwan]

Avoid the port-a-wrap style lowering devices if you can, they do the job but any of the single drum bollard types, with a back plate are a big improvement. Tree runner P500 is what we use for what you describe, and it's decent.

Have a look at x-ring slings and similar, that and a DMM pinto rig or two, and probably any of common 12 or 14mm ropes will be fine.

[Sunflower27]

Lovely, thankyou. The links don't seem to work directly but I will go onto the websites and see if I can find those products manually.

[Sunflower27]

Avoid the port-a-wrap style lowering devices if you can, they do the job but any of the single drum bollard types, with a back plate are a big improvement. Tree runner P500 is what we use for what you describe, and it's decent.

Have a look at x-ring slings and similar, that and a DMM pinto rig or two, and probably any of common 12 or 14mm ropes will be fine.

 

That's really helpful, I will have a look at these. Thank you!

[AWarb00]

Lovely, thankyou. The links don't seem to work directly but I will go onto the websites and see if I can find those products manually.

 

Sorry! Frjones has updated its website recently which is why the links don't work:blushing:

 

the products will be on there though!