speedline attachment krabs/crabs

[Gary Prentice]

Looking at some of the speedline kits available I'm confused about how to attach the sling to the speedline. One American kit shows carbine hooks, some provide snap gate krabs, some three way locking.

 

In brief, are there any best practice guides (ACoPs) out there.

[Joe Newton]

I just use steel screw gates or relegated 3 ways.

[TIMON]

When we did our CS 31 rigging course earlier this year the instructor had made up a speed line kit, the slings were large prussic loops tied with double fishermans knots and the Krabs were DMM revolvers. It was the Rolls Royce of speed line kits for sure.

[Gary Prentice]

I know that everyone will use something but what I'd like to know is what we should be using!

 

Using old krabs makes sense, but should we use anything that's been relegated from other rigging roles?

[stewmo]

Probably should use equipment rated to the job - rigging slings and rigging krabs.

But old krabs been fine for me.

[Andrew Gale]

I tend to use normal sewn slings and steel triple action karabiners for the small stuff; where bigger lumps are to be sent out I have used the lowering kits pulleys to reduce the wear on the karabiner (we use blocks for the main lowering point and smaller pulleys to act as craning/redirects for the lowering line; it's these that I'm referring to here).

 

I've seen tandem pulleys used to spread the load on the line but strikes me as a little expensive as they would need to be purely for rigging.

[TIMON]

I know that everyone will use something but what I'd like to know is what we should be using!

 

Using old krabs makes sense, but should we use anything that's been relegated from other rigging roles?

 

 

Depends why they have been relegated.

If a krab has been relegated from PPE to rigging it still needs to function correctly.

 

Here's a link to the current rigging research HSE document.

(If it works)

 

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=rigging+research&gws_rd=cr,ssl&ei=YLLNVbazOaa27galvqSIBA

[TIMON]

I know that everyone will use something but what I'd like to know is what we should be using!

 

Using old krabs makes sense, but should we use anything that's been relegated from other rigging roles?

 

 

I'm probably teaching granny to suck eggs here methinks...

[Gary Prentice]

I'm probably teaching granny to suck eggs here methinks...

 

grandpa please:biggrin:

[mistahbenn]

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