What’s in your pockets at the end of a shift?
Here’s mine. Guess what RA Sector I work in…
Then post your own pocket dump and let the rest of us guess your profession.
No cheating. Bonus points for the strangest everyday carry. 😄
Diameter is only one part of durability.
All of these influence how a rope behaves over time.
Two ropes with the same diameter can perform very differently.
What's the biggest factor you notice when a rope starts aging?
Hi everyone !
I've got my irata recently and coming to australia to start my rope acess career.
Do you have any advice to find a first experience ? (I already got my white card and doing my wh tickets next day).
Thank you !
Does anyone have an advice on how to get into this kind of industry. I'm a 16yo in high school in Texas USA.
Thank you
I have a 5m rope and I need to use it for my cow tails. Should I cut it down and will it affect the rope if I do. How long does it need to be so I can use it for my cow tails? Any advice would be great thank you
Hi all! We're focusing on growing our training center here in Arlington, Washington and would love to know what you look for in a trainer/training facility! What are some things that you'd be excited to see here as a Rope Access tech/enthusiast?
Hi everyone, I’m trying to better understand rope access work from the people who actually do it.
I’m interested in learning where the biggest safety challenges are and what kinds of solutions could actually make the work safer or less physically demanding.
I don’t want to assume I understand the space from the outside, so I’d really appreciate honest input:
What parts of rope access work feel most dangerous, frustrating, or physically hard?
Where do current tools, gear, or processes fall short?
Are there specific tasks where better equipment or new solutions would genuinely help?
What do outsiders usually misunderstand about rope access?
I’m just trying to learn from people with real field experience. If anyone is open to answering a few questions here or chatting for 15–20 minutes, I’d really appreciate it.
Hi all,
I'm currently working on a roof with a ~35⁰ pitch installing skylight covers, we're attached to a fall arrest system along the ridge using dynamic rope with a rope grab, so not suspended.
As you can imagine it's a nightmare because we're struggling for grip and relying on the rope grabs to stop us at this point, also descending is a nightmare because we have to hold our line and rock our grabs and feed rope to lower ourselves.
This led me to looking into more appropriate PPE, at first I thought a GriGri could work but they're not EN 353-2, so that led me to think a ID or rig could work but looking on websites they don't appear to be EN 353-2 either, so this made me wonder why rope access guys set up rig for rescue when rigs and IDs aren't designed to take such shock loads, say the main line fails, guy free falls, his secondary device catches him but that load goes back to the rig, is this allowed or am I missing something?
For the record I'm not a rope access tech, I was put through my level 1 years ago just to do 1 job and haven't worked rope access since but I did really enjoy it! Still a lot of the knowledge I gained Is very useful, I primarily install fall arrest systems, guardrails, eyebolts, abseil tracks, davits (I'm fully aware most of you don't like them, neither do I) ect.
A friend of mine found this device next to a train track. He thought it was a Grigri, but obviously it's not. We've done some research to try and understand what it is and what it's for, but without success.
I have a Customer who has an Expired Sala 783L4010 that has a Chest ascender. Sala Rep said these are discontinued and the next best is a 783L4016 which is the same without the Chest Ascender. What's a Really good alternative I should quote to them? I dont do RA myself but im heavily in the W@H Compliance industry so idk whats best. These will be used for Mine Rescue Teams.
I completed my br course and im l2 irata tech. Turkey based what do you recommend me to improve myself and have a better carrier
The 110 is insane. Could stow it on your neck if you were slim enough.
HUGE congrats to our students today, 100% pass! Five level 1’s, one level 2, and two level 3’s. We could not be more proud of this group (including the owner, Mark, now level 3 SPRAT certified!)
Also a big shoutout to our awesome evaluator D'Arcy and trainers Tony & Jeremiah. What a fantastic end to the week!
What questions do you have about SPRAT/Rope Access?
I know this probably isn’t the best sub for this but I didn’t know where else to post it. Can anyone tell me what this style of camming device is called?
this is for recreational climbing, top rope soloing. i’m just having trouble getting advice and i figured yall rope access people deal with static lines more than most climbers.
it shouldn’t be too static but something around 4 no more than 5% elongation is great. and it’s got to handle knots well and not be too stiff.