5 Day Course for: D, C, and B Rigger's Certification

Monday

1. 9:00 am we start each morning.
Hand out Booklet - Go over Drug and Alcohol policy

2. 10:00 am
Tour of Training facility
OSHA / ANSI regulations

3.
Over view of Rigging for Live Events and Installations
Crosby Video tapes
Crane / Rigging techniques
All aspects of RIGSTAR Training book
" 5 aspects of Rigging "

4. 1:00 p.m. Lunch


5.
Steel cable Construction: Use of Crosby Clips,
Nico Press oval Sleeves and Flemsh eye splice

6.
Synthetic sling construction: Different fibers, round,
flat and K-Link slings, high tech fibers & slings.
Manufacture a 3 ft, round sling.
Pull test and Break one round sling.

7.
Hardware for chain slings, Grade 80 & 100 chain.
Assembly of a chain bridle and rating it.

8.
Rigging hardware: Shackles, rings, turnbuckles
ratchetstraps, come-alongs, matching hardware.

9.
Break testing slings

9:00 pm end of class day

Tuesday

1. 9:00 am
Check in - Review of Monday / Go over today's schedule

2.
Different types of Ropes , construction, materials

3.
Knots & Splices, care & inspection
Break testing rope with knots

4. 1:00 p.m.Noon LUNCH

5.
Dissecting the workings of a Motor control system & testing it.

6.
Basics of computerized motor controllers and distance counters

7.
Over view chain hoist, take apart, view, inspect, maintenance
repair, reassemble. Unjamming a jammed chain in a hoist.
setting limits, re threading a chain into a hoist.
This is a 6 hour hands on class.

8.
Load testing a hoist --- Bringing a hoist down without power.



9:00 pm End of class day!!!!!!!!!

Wednesday

1. 9:00 am
Check in - Review of Tuesday / Go over today's schedule

2.
Structural Engineering of Trusses / Snow load on roofs

3. 1:00 p.m. LUNCH

4.
Nuts & Bolts / Tensile strength, compression, shear, Bending, Yield.
When to throw away bolts, ect.

5.
Truss Loading

6.
Structural loading

7.
Speaker hanging Bar Systems & Hardware

8.
Dissecting how to build a cable ladder

9.
View Crosby Video about Block & Tackle and their mechanical
advantages along with pulleys. Tension on pulleys with lines entering and exiting
the pulley block.

10.
Manufacture a Block & Tackle / experiment with pulleys and a Load
cells.

9:00 pm End of class day !!!

Thursday

1. 9:00 am
Check in - Review of Wednesday / Go over today's schedule

2.
Surety Fall Protection Videos

3.
Walking Lower I-Beam to check balance

4. 1:00 p.m. LUNCH

5.
Use of Fall Arrest equipment: Harnesses, Shock absorbers,
Horizontal Life lines, Verticle retractible life line.
Inspection and care of equipment.

6.
Math for Bridles and Tension / Computer calculations / Cross
referance charts / Bridles & Angles

7.
Advancing a building for rigging, moving in, marking out points,
communication between house and road rigger.
Laser rigging techniques

8.
Hanging techniques: pulling up points, choke, basket, split basket,
dead hangs, sliding bridle----------

9:00 pm End of the class day!!!

Friday

1. 9:00 am
Check in - Review of Thursday / Go over today's schedule

2.
Climbing and load cell testing hanging points

3.
Use of lasers for rigging / computer system

4. 1:00 p.m. LUNCH

5.
Marking out points on floor / calculating bridles & tension on
cables and forces on I-Beams before hanging.

6.
Theatrical grid overview : Bridles on theatrical grid, Dead hangs,
Loading C-channels, side loading C-channels, use of pipe and
square tubing to hang from.

7.""" TEST TIME """


9:00 pm Done for the day !!! It's Time to relax !!! 60 HOURS are over !!!
The Week Has Been Completed

Very often this day becomes the longest day of the course because of the testing and going
over the answers at the end.
Be prepared to possibley stay late.
We will stay as long as it takes. We do not want you to be rushed and make mistakes.
Do not plan on flying out on Friday for the 5 day course........

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Saturday and Sunday : are extended days for the A Certification course and it is all hands on ground rigging, high rigging open steel, Theatrical Grid rigging. It gives students extensive hands on practice every minute of the day without any class room. It's all in the training center conducting real life practice sessions to perform everything you have learned throughout the week. These 2 days gives you the time you may need so it will solidify the training you have gone through Monday to Friday, so performing rigging tasks will become second nature to you. If you are signed up for the 7 day A certification course you will not have to take your test on Friday.
Your test will be conducted on Sunday evening.

Exercises scheduled:

Open Steel Rigging: 8 to 10 hours, starting at 11:00 am with a 1 hour lunch.

1. Formulating a rigging plot
2. Layout and marking rigging points on the ground
3. Dead hang using Bowline, Klien tool, and Carabineer
4. 2 leg bridle
5. 3 leg bridle
6. 4 leg bridle
7. 2 leg Diagonal bridle and knowing how to prevent a diagonal bridle from sliding inwards.
8. 2 leg High, Low bridle
9. Breast bridle
10. 2 leg High Low bridle running stage right to stage left crossing over a 2 leg bridle running Up stage to Down stage.
11. 2 leg H-bridle
12. Adjusting bridle leg lengths up on the steel.
13. Dead hang on a beam sloping downwards and preventing it from sliding.

Theater Grid Rigging: 8 to 10 hours, starting at 11:00 am with a 1 hour lunch.

1. Dead hang around 3" C-channel with open basket hitch
2. Dead hang around 2 = 3" C-channels with open basket hitch
3. Dead hang using closed basket hitch between 2 = 3" C-channels using pipe and after using square box beam.
4. Dead hang around one 12" main C-channel at the well.
5. Dead hang around two 12" main C-channels at the well.
6. Dead hang around two 12" main C-channels at the well, using an even open split basket hitch.
7. Dead hang using 3" channel as a breast.
8. 2 leg bridle between 2 main 12" C-channels under hung from theater grid.
9. 2 leg bridle above theater grid with a stinger going down between two 3" C-channels
10. Large basket hitch around top main I-beams from stage right to stage left to position a point between two 3" C-channels.
11. Adjusting bridle leg lengths up on the theater grid to get pin point accuracy.

Break before the hands on and written test on Sunday evening.
Test takes anywhere from 2.5 to 4.5 hours depending on each individual.

Do not plan on flying out on Sunday for the 7 day course.