About the Course
The use of elevated anchors (i.e. high directional anchor systems) is a mandatory requirement of NFPA 1670 for rope technicians. Having said this, it’s impossible to discuss one facet of rope rigging and not address all the many other aspects at the same time. A rope system is like a living breathing thing; like any living thing, it's composed of many cells and body parts. Yes, these many parts are separate components, but without a realization of the whole body, each component means little. This is the essence of the knowledge base that rope rescue technicians must try to ascend to. And this is what we're working towards in the Elevated Anchor Systems course.
Checklist
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Text length of individual points can be shorter or longer depending on your needs
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What an Edge Management is at the heart of Elevated Anchors
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Safety considerations
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Resultants
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Back-ties
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How Elevated Anchors and Horizontal Systems work together
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And more!
Course Curriculum
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Unit 1: Welcome
- 1.1 Welcome to Elevated Anchor Systems FREE PREVIEW
- 1.2 Physics for Roping Technicians Manual
- 1.3 Schematic Overview: What Elevated Anchors Might Look Like Through AHDs
- 1.4 Schematic Overview: What Elevated Anchors Could Look Like within A Horizontal System
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Unit 2: Examples of Elevated Anchors, Part 1
- 2.1 Examples of Elevated Anchors, Part 1 FREE PREVIEW
- 2.2 Video Tutorial: Tension & Compression Study
- 2.3 Video Tutorial: Aerial Ladders Used as an Artificial High Directional FREE PREVIEW
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Unit 3: Examples of Elevated Anchors, Part 2
- 3.1 Examples of Elevated Anchors, Part 2
- 3.2 Video Tutorial: Gin Pole Usage Overview FREE PREVIEW
- 3.3 Video Tutorial: Managing Edge Friction With a Monopod / Gin Pole as a High Directional
- 3.4 Video Tutorial: Industrial Skate Block - Tensioned Track Line - Using a Gin Pole FREE PREVIEW
- 3.5 Video Tutorial: Anchor Considerations When Using Elevated Anchors
- 3.6 Video Tutorial: Marginal Anchors When Using Elevated Anchors
- 3.7 Video Tutorial: Arizona Vortex SA Frame with a Compression Member
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Unit 4: AHD Within a Rescue
- 4.1 AHD Within a Rescue
- 4.2 Video Tutorial: Cliff Rescue High Directional and Tracking Line, Part 1
- 4.3 Video Tutorial: Cliff Rescue High Directional and Tracking Line, Part 2
- 4.4 Video Tutorial: High Angle Raise with Vortex Side A-Frame, Part 1
- 4.5 Video Tutorial: High Angle Raise with Vortex Side A-Frame, Part 2
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Unit 5: Guying
- 5.1 Guying
- 5.2 Video Tutorial: Arizona Vortex Artificial High Directional A-Frame Single Front Guy
- 5.3 Video Tutorial: Elevated Anchor in Horizontal Rigging: Guying Systems
- 5.4 Video Tutorial: Guying Through a Truckers Hitch
- 5.5 Video Tutorial: Guying Through an Advanced Tech Haul System Leg
- 5.6 Video Tutorial: Guying Through a Progress Capture Tension Leg
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Unit 6: Aerial Ladders
- 6.1 Video Tutorial: Aerial Ladders Used as an Artificial High Directional
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Unit 7: Other Types of Elevated Anchors
- 7.1 Video Tutorial: Elevated Anchors In Mirrored Skate Block Top Anchor Overview
- 7.2 Video Tutorial: Elevated Anchors in Mirrored Skate Block Top Anchor Considerations
- 7.3 Video Tutorial: Two Rope Offset Using Natural High Directional
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Unit 8: Additional High Anchors & Directionals
- 8.1 Learning Objectives
- 8.2 Tripods
- 8.2 Arizona Vortex
- 8.3 Davit Arms
- 8.4 Industrial Cranes and Fire Department Aerial Apparatus
- 8.5 Gin Poles & The Arizona Omni Rigging Pod (AZORP)
- 8.6 Resultant Forces on High Anchor Points
- 8.7 Improvised A-Frame
- 8.8 Setting up the A-Frame and High Directional