I love using the rigging techniques I've learned as an arborist to recover stuck vehicles when we go off-roading.

4:30, You need a bucket (preferably of a bright colour) to keep and throw your stuff into - throwing it onto the ground generally means you will lose stuff. That applies to whatever job you are doing outdoors, including pruning trees. I lost a few pairs of secateurs, wire cutters, etc, that way, until I learned to put them in a bucket and never set them down on the ground, even for 10 seconds.

You can absolutely capture the progress of the main line and reset the mechanical advantage with the 3:1 system that you built at 4:00 quite easily. In rope rescue we refer to this as a Z-rig as it resembles a Z when laid out. All you need to do is add another prusik to the main line attached to the anchor carabiner and it will capture the progress on the main allowing you to reset your MA by advancing the prusik and pulley back up the main line.

Wow, that was great. That's the best explanation I've seen of how to use mechanical advantage. Thanks!

Nice trap But, how do you drop the rock on the deer when it passes?

thank you for putting the equipment on screen as you demonstrate!

Excellent demonstration !

Great video and well explained... I needed this!

THIS DEMO IS EASY TO UNDERSTAND THANK YOU SHARING US THE IDEA SIR.

Thanks bro made it easy to teach my daughter this concept for school.

THIS DEMO IS EASY TO UNDERSTAND THANK YOU FOR SHARING US THE IDEA SIR.

I learned a lot, lots to think about thank you

Nice explanation, Nick.

Excellent information! Thank you.

Great tutorial. Easy to understand.

Well done!

What a great teacher you are! Your strong point is intellectual, not physical. In fact, your weak physical constitution helps your demonstration, making it more convincing. Great job!

Very helpful vidoe on mechanical advantage #mechanicalAdvantage for backyard DIYers

Interesting, thanks for the video. I need to life a ~150lbs anvil so this will absolutely be useful

Hope dont need it but love it. And wasent aware i could reset. Thanx great vid

This was very interesting, and I learned from it. My main take-away is that the Rock Exotica system costs just under $400.00!!! you do realize that is out of reach to most of us non professionals! Can you show us an alternative, though surely not as convenient, method using only rope and/or affordable gear?

Awesome video, thanks for sharing, God bless

Pricey mechanical advantage gear!

Very useful.

Excellent and clear explanation. But I wonder, how did you attach that rope to that heavy boulder? This deserves a tutorial on its own. ;)

Very cool

Very smart !!!

Thankyou vm vefy usefull and very didactic .Heakth for you and yours

nice vid 👍

Good info

Can you use this system with larger pulleys to assist in lifting branches in tip tying method, similar to GRCS or Stein RCW3001?

I love it excellent

Excellent demonstration.... most appreciated! : ) Amen Veteran

Thanks!

Nice & would like to learn it but it's so far away I can't see anything that went on really for a job arborist. Looks like pretty cool results though

What knot is used to wrap/hold the rock up? 😊

muito bom!!!

Amazing

I like that. Can you tell me this……..does the amount of mechanical advantage vary depending on the angle of the redirect.

Can we use a Dyneema 1/2inch rope with the rope jack

Amazing

This is a lot of very basic rigging techniques and some fairly advanced equipment. Hopefully, anybody who needs this basic of instruction hasn’t bought that much equipment without knowing how to use it.

I would use a CLEAT HITCH to lock off the Porta-Wrap.....not 2 half hitches. Outside of that. Great presentation.

Wait the first one is basically a truckers hitch. You could lock that one off.

Wow!

I love my Rock Exotica kit.

Looks like you could mangle your fingers badly on the reset process if you fail to set it correctly.

You can put progress capture on all these system. Even the one without mechanical advantage. What are you talking about?

Im confused with the last part where hes talking about how something can be done with scrap rope

It was explained in the video, this is a 'Cadillac $ system', and this all could be done much cheaper with some shopping for similar equipment. If life or critical materials are being maneuvered, I'd assume you acquired the best equipment available and had some formal training. If this is more for 'Handyman use', a cheaper (but definitely reasonably reliable) system you can make on your own would work just as well, might take more time to set up, but would do just fine, and the videos are pretty good showing how to use the system, BUT PRACTICE BEFORE! It is fun to learn & use the pulley systems, but to 'Compound the Advantage' also means 'Compounding any possible problems you weren't aware of' before Murphy's Law set up an unforeseeable dangerous mess. So study several different videos and practice. Good luck & be safe.

Pulleys are way more expensive than I thought they'd be

Or....you can simply put a pulley straight onto the main tree and using only the main rope you can lift up the rock as much as you want :) no more “pulling distance” bothering or forcing you to have 500$ equipment to lift something up 2 yards. Beside kidding it was a nice video, it was interesting to see your alternative solutions

3 to 1 used often yer prob is gets in ya pulley. Then doesent work. That was good cheers

truckers hitch

Extra ordinary tough procedure.it would be better if make one scenario and then give us solution

Now why would I go through all that trouble just to raise a rock?

Can i have video request content can you make lift 1 ton using pulley and how many pulley needed to do the jab **** hehe I'm now good at english sory

Not easy for a newbie to see exactly what you're doing. You're whipping through this demo without closeups or pauses, no diagrams. All I learned was that you know what you're doing.

$500 dollars of gear? Go spend 40 at home depot for a come along.

Thanks, now my brain hurts!

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$365 for 2 pulleys and some rope??? RRRIIIIIGGGHHHTTTT!!!!

You know your rigging buy you are not a good instructor. You did not show attachment of progress stop on MA system well enough for teaching someone how.

Stop the irritating laughter, please

Now iknow how they built the pirámides

Well done!