Explains how pulleys work and presents examples of their use.

This is an 100 page Introductory e-Book, designed to give a flavor of the books in the "Ropes, Pulleys, Rigging Systems, and Avoiding Dangerous Resultants Book Series." You can get a free E-Book Reader on this site for your Android, I-phone, I-pad, or Computer. to read the book. It's birth is due to my observation while work with Professionals in Construction, Rope Access, Work at Height, Technical Rope Rescue, Fire Fighters, Search and Rescue, Confined Space, Paramedics, Climbers, and others. I noticed that there are "Resultant Forces, and Resultant Angle of Force (Vectors) that were creating problems inconveniences, other create injuries and property damage, and the worst one create fatalities. Consequently, I put together a presentation for the International Technical Rescue Symposium (ITRS) 2001. It was well received, so for the next five years I continued to share more ideas at ITRS, 2002 - 2006 to help prevent accidents and improve our skills and efficiency. Working with ropes, pulleys, and rigging systems, etc. is complicated. There are many different terms, a mountain of equipment, engineering principles, and an infinite number of ways the equipment can be used to aid us, or to hinder us. In this 100+ page book I explain many concepts, ideas, techniques, and most importantly, principles regarding the use of this gear. You find a sampling of subjects, examples, charts, pictures, details, pulley systems, complex pulleys systems, block and tackle, moving and non moving pulleys (COD) This book will help you make a purchasing decision to buy the first book in the Ropes, Pulleys, Rigging Systems, and Avoiding Dangerous Resultants Series called Mechanical Advantages #3 Pulley Systems Explained V 3.0 by Douglas S. Hansen Available on Amazon.com

An Advanced Skills book dealing with Mechanical Advantages - primarily Pulleys but many related items for rescue, work, and adventure. 300 pages plus of skills and idea that will be of value for anyone who uses rope, pulleys, and the related gear.

A 200+ page book, now Version 3.80! is about ways to rig pulley systems and lots of other good information. It is about pulleys and pulley system for accomplishing many different systems, for Firefighters, Paramedics, EMT's, Search and Rescue Personnel, Work at height, while Mountaineering, Canyoneering, Work, and many more activities that deal with height, rigging, and pulley systems. It is a detailed study book to prepare personnel for training in these areas and to serve as a reference afterward. If a student reads this first and refers back to it during training, and while using these skills you find that you can assemble, and improvise when needed because you will understand the principles, as well as the techniques. "Ways, Means, Methods, and Techniques Change, Principles never do." I wrote this book because I found a large degree of misunderstanding, during classes, and training and to give something to students so they can refer back. I had other engineers saying things like, "why don't they teach us these things in college?" Good question? This is not just for engineers, sailors, high rise window washers, arborists, Paramedics, tower workers, adventurers, Search and Rescue, etc., ranchers, home tinkers, and others find this information of value.

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