What kit is needed to do my Climbing and Rope Rescue Training...

[struie]

8 hours ago, Paul Tomo said:

I’m looking at doing the the same course this coming October. I’ve received a equipment list and I need to take spikes, has anyone else used spikes on this course?.

pole rescue with spikes.

[Paul Tomo]

Pole rescue ? 

[AHPP]

Pole rescue ? 

Fourteen cans of lager and a powerful German saloon car.

[Paul Tomo]

Ok

[struie]

15 hours ago, Paul Tomo said:

Pole rescue ? 

on my course we had a casualty in a sitka,{pole} we had to do a rescue on, it was an exercise,rescue using spikes,ie,how to approach the casualty, and attach to casualty without stabbing him/her in the process 

talking about sitka,anyone noticed a burnt,decline,on the needles of the sitka just lately.

[htb]

Spruce aphid, Its everywhere you look up here

[struie]

2 hours ago, htb said:

Spruce aphid, Its everywhere you look up here

ok, just wondered if we had been hit with yet another plague from distant shores,cheers htb.

[Paul Tomo]

12 hours ago, struie said:

on my course we had a casualty in a sitka,{pole} we had to do a rescue on, it was an exercise,rescue using spikes,ie,how to approach the casualty, and attach to casualty without stabbing him/her in the process 

talking about sitka,anyone noticed a burnt,decline,on the needles of the sitka just lately.

So this rescue on the pole could be a rescue in a tree.

[Cheesy pete]

nope  you should have no anchor point as the accident has happened with all the canopy cut already  !

all that is left is the stem .

so you have to spike up and past the casualty and set up a false anchor and then attach casualy like a normal rescue and lower 

[Paul Tomo]

I’m starting the same course in November and at the moment I’m using the hitch climber, would I need to go back to just using the friction hitch while on the course?.