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Rescue Tripods   (Artificial High Directionals) Artificial High Directionals, or AHD's, allow a qualified rescue team to redirect the path of their mainline around and over obstacles. Although the uses for a versatile AHD are limitless, the most frequent is to reduce edge trauma in raising and lowering systems. Running your mainline through a directional, located seven feet or so above the edge, allows your team to go over the edge with very few of the typical risks and difficulties. Better yet, it allows you to bring your victim back over the edge quickly, easily, and safely. The greatest majority of AHD's are sold as tripods. With adequate training, a tripod can rapidly be deployed over many cliffs, structures, and vertical access shafts. More advanced AHD systems, such as the Vortex Multipod, allow a well trained team to quickly create alternate rigs: A-Frames, Sideways A-Frames (SA), Easel-A, Gin Poles. In the right hands, these advanced rigs can offer increased stability and extremely safe deployment. AHD's require advanced training for proper use. Anything less is a recipe for disaster. In the hands of trained and qualified technicians, however, an effective AHD may well be the most significant key to dramatically increasing the safety of any over-the-edge rescue.

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Arizona (AZ) Vortex Multipod Pkg for Artificial High Directional (AHD) $4,495.00 727300 Manufactured by TMI UL Classified to NFPA 1983 - General Use The father of all portable artificial high directional systems (AHD), the AZ Vortex is a tripod, bipod and monopod in one all-inclusive kit. Its precision two-piece head can be rigged as a standard tripod or, in advanced applications, as an A-frame, a sideways A-frame, or a gin pole. The versatile third leg allows rescuers to set up an artificial high directional in virtually any urban, industrial, or wilderness location.

Arizona Vortex Multipod - Upper Leg $180.00 727030 Need to replace an upper leg do to loss or damage.... Here they are.

Arizona Vortex Multipod - Lower Leg $180.00 727040 Two additional legs can be used to assemble the Multipod as a 12ft. tripod. More than three lower leg sections per leg is not recommended.

SMC TerrAdaptor Portable Anchor System $3,815.00 SM230100N Multiple configurations of the TerrAdaptor Portable Anchor System can be built from various standard system components. The primary system revolves around the TerrAdaptor Tripod System (SM230100N). This system includes all of the necessary parts to assemble a standard symmetric tripod that provides the ability to reach a height of approximately 10 ft, and can be used in a Gin Pole or Bi-Pod configuration.

Info | SMC TerrAdaptor Users Manual 2008 English (pdf)

Sked-Evac Industrial Rescue/Entry Tripod $1,415.00 757000 Manufactured by Skedco, makers of the Sked Stretcher, the Sked-EVAC tripod features aircraft-grade, gold-anodized aluminum legs and a cast-aluminum head. Three heavy-duty rigging anchors, located in the center, have exceptionally large holes for easy attachment. Legs adjust in 5-in. (127-mm) increments for a maximum height of 10 feet (3 m) and a minimum length for transport of 7 feet (2.1 m).

Sked-Evac Tripod Carrying Case $99.00 757010 The carrying case for the Sked-Evac Industrial Rescue/Entry Tripod. Heavy duty vinyl coated nylon material and an extra long zipper along its full length and across it ends to facilitate easy repacking. 9" diameter and 71" length.

Instructions | AHD - Anchoring the Vortex 2.0 Multipod by Reed Thorne Reed Thorne provides detailed technical information on proper assembly and anchoring of the Arizona Vortex 2.0 Multipod. Set aside a bit of time, put on your thinking cap, and click on the link above to read along with Reed about proper usage of this marvelous tool. Click the link above to read the full article

Tripods, multipods and artificial high directionals (AHD), search and rescue (SAR), rope confined space access, highline, cliff and rock climbing high angle tripod-multipod evacuation, npfa fire rescue tri pods. Brands feature Skedco, Arizona Vortex, Rock Exotica, Terradaptor and more. Also see our videos, manuals, pdfs and pages for instructions, rigging, applications training and download options.

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