Course information

Safety and Risk Management

◦ Integrated risk assessment, tree dynamics and prescribed work risk

◦ Communication system

◦ Establishment of work zones and drop zones

◦ Emergency response and readiness

Physics and Dynamics

◦ Dynamic load vectors, angles, force, mass, and impact

◦ Reactive forces and system load distribution, building a better structure

◦ Tree Dynamics, System Dynamics, Force Management

Lines Slings and Rope Tools

◦ Line selection, care and maintenance

◦ Elasticity, tensile strengths, bend radius, working load, factor of safety

◦ Slings for lowering, balancing and lifting

◦ Compliant interface, terminations and attachments

Knots, hitches, prussics and terminology

◦ Bight, bend, loop, turn & round turn, tail, lead, fall, standing parts, working & 

  running end

◦ Rigging knots and hitches; figure 8, slip knot, cow hitch, timber hitch, 

  running bowline, half hitch, clove hitch, single/double sheet bend, girth hitch, 

  English prussics, French prussics kleimheist and krutzelkleim

◦ Select and match sling size and construction to rope diameter

Rigging equipment

◦ Fiddle blocks, blocks, pulleys, connecting links, selection, care and use

◦ Ratcheting or winching lowering/lifting devices features and benefits