Below is a Z Drag. It's a rope configuration that allows the team to haul a person up the cliff face without putting in a winch. The drag works much like a pulley system and gives a mechanical advantage of three. In other words the load feels lighter although you have to pull the rope three times as far, or is that 3 times less far? Even I'm reading this thinking.... ' is that right' and can't work out the maths, but trust me it does work. They even hauled me up the cliff with it! Actually that's a complete lie as they used the winch which was almost smoking when I got to the top (Only joking MCA Safety Bods it definately wasn't smoking)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-drag
This photo wasn't taken for the blog as such but rather a training aid so that we could demonstate this on our 40inch plasma HD TV in the training room, if we had one.
It would be great if we had such a training aid as we could do lots of 'training' over the next 5 weeks or so. The lads could come down for say, I don't know 90 minutes or so, and 'train' everyday.
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