Beginners guide to rigging.......

[Adam Bourne]

Well it's been a strange old couple of months, got back on the net and then the lap top gets a smashed screen so that kind of put the stop on getting back on here, me and Alex took our time to shop around for a new computer but decided on the new iPad 3rd generation and we love it.

 

I would start with this thread straight away put all my photos are on the old lap top and now I have to start over again. I have downloaded iMovies so it will be miles easier for me and the videos on the go pro. The pictures I had I will try and get of the old one some how. But till then I'll just have to start from scratch.

 

Work is crazy at the minute and subby work does also mean I am limit with my time to mess around taking photos and video doc's. But some firms I work for, love it so all ain't that bad.

 

The iPad is strange to use but is great fun and well worth the money.

 

Anyway back to the thread. Sorry to disappoint you mark and huck I'm still alive and the thread must go on....

 

Some great post's from a few people and some valid points. Also I like the link to the forces calculated from drew not exactly accurate as you have said but a very usefull thing to have. Great stuff.

[tuttle]

nice that your back, did not want to look like a derailment with the dyneema ROPE (not sling) things.

 

just wanted some positive/negative reactions to its use, most seem put off by myths.

[Adam Bourne]

nice that your back, did not want to look like a derailment with the dyneema ROPE (not sling) things.

 

just wanted some positive/negative reactions to its use, most seem put off by myths.

 

It's all down to personnel preference. As long as your using the what ever it is your using in the right application and with in it's swl then fair does. I myself like using a variety of equipment including tenex, d12, and dineema slings, wish I had the photos of a cedar limb I had to remove we're everything had to be balanced perfect over a car port. Think at one stage I had the rope as the main anchor then 3 spiderleg balancers plus a secondary line with 3 dineema slings attached to help prevent the role of each section .....sounds complicated but proved it was well worth the effort as they came out beautifully with the tag line. Planning and more planning for the day on that one.....

[tuttle]

It's all down to personnel preference. As long as your using the what ever it is your using in the right application and with in it's swl then fair does. I myself like using a variety of equipment including tenex, d12, and dineema slings, wish I had the photos of a cedar limb I had to remove we're everything had to be balanced perfect over a car port. Think at one stage I had the rope as the main anchor then 3 spiderleg balancers plus a secondary line with 3 dineema slings attached to help prevent the role of each section .....sounds complicated but proved it was well worth the effort as they came out beautifully with the tag line. Planning and more planning for the day on that one.....

 

That sounds spot on, what I like is the clever tricks to dismantle, including new products and thoughts.

 

The dyneema I use, took the brunt of a couple of scots pine limbs with ease, both the rigging pulley and the capstan were secured with 11mm whoopies.

[skyhuck]

a good friend dropped a very big piece of oak into a rigging line and snapped the rope. we roughly calculated the load at the anchor (using a forces calculator) to be 56t. the big impact block and 22mm dead eye took it but the rope snapped over the block. wonder what would of happened with the dyneema sling?

 

They will not have taken the full load, just a little more than the rope.

 

A bit like you and your mate being chased by a lion, you don't need to out run the lion.......just your mate

[Adam Bourne]

 

A bit like you and your mate being chased by a lion, you don't need to out run the lion.......just your mate

 

Did not see this before but that has to be one of the best physics explanations I've ever heard.......

 

You know while I'm taking time out from the thread getting my photos and that back together again, should be good to see some other arbtalkers Rigging pictures systems techniques so on and so on. Don't worry I can still pick back up where I left off.

 

Oh Steve I tried out the shrek system only I have evolved it.....great stuff works awesome.....pics to follow....

[Rich Rule]

A couple of pics from February this year. Knackered beech dismantle. Most of the tree was cut and chucked but I rigged the timber.

[Stephen Blair]

 

Oh Steve I tried out the shrek system only I have evolved it.....great stuff works awesome.....pics to follow....

 

Is it by adding micro pulleys:confused1:

If so I did that:laugh1:

If not look forward to the pics:thumbup1:

[Adam Bourne]

Is it by adding micro pulleys:confused1:

If so I did that:laugh1:

If not look forward to the pics:thumbup1:

 

It was mate I used my speed line setup with small ISC rigging plate and 2 slings then used the bollard for the friction.....tried it without and I would not condone it.... will gett some more photos of the setup as the other are still on the wappy lappy .... great system though

[Dopey Dora]

Hi Adam, I finally decided to become a member of this site, and your thread happens to be the first one I have read, and read it I have, from the beginning, I have to say it is possibly the best thread I have ever read, on any subject, it's incredibly informative and filled with ingenuity,

Liam