Rigging manual

[bootboy]

I searched with no luck for a link someone posted about a year ago for a PDF rigging manual with a bunch of numbers and research in it. It was replete with information on rigging knots, rigging cuts, diagrams etc.

Can I anybody help me out?

 

[imagineero]

http://www.hse.gov.uk/research/rrpdf/rr668.pdf

 

[imagineero]

You might also enjoy these threads if you haven't read them;

http://www.arboristsite.com/arborist-101/212035.htm

http://www.arboristsite.com/commercial-tree-care-climbing/204030.htm

http://www.arboristsite.com/commercial-tree-care-climbing/239658.htm

 

[sgreanbeans]

International Society of Arboriculture

link to Arbormaster, also a good one

 

[beastmaster]

International Society of Arboriculture

link to Arbormaster, also a good one

Something to keep in the back of your mind, "the man who wrote the book" on rigging was tragically killed in a rigging accident. He knew more science and had more experience then most, hell he invented a lot of the science. A great lost. But it shows no ones immune.

 

[bootboy]

http://www.hse.gov.uk/research/rrpdf/rr668.pdf

That's the one. Thanks

 

[bootboy]

Something to keep in the back of your mind, "the man who wrote the book" on rigging was tragically killed in a rigging accident. He knew more science and had more experience then most, hell he invented a lot of the science. A great lost. But it shows no ones immune.

Interesting. It's true that people with greater knowledge actually tend to take greater risks. I know the same is true for avalanche fatalities. There is a bimodal distribution in the demographics of people most frequently killed, those who know the least, and those who know the most. The middle ground seems to be the safe zone.

 

[TheJollyLogger]

Whew, guess I'm safe then. Looks like you're screwed, Beast.

 

[sgreanbeans]

Fur sure beast, can happen to all of us. Ex head of the ISA, was in a tree doing a rec climb with several other master arbs, they did all the proper stuff, was up in the canopy of a big one and the tree uprooted. He died from the fall. Anytime anyplace, the hammer cometh.