Pulley systems for outdoor, survival, and climbing

Setting up a pulley is an essential skill that is not only needed in outdoor, survival, and climbing, but these systems will help you in your everyday life.

In this tutorial, I'll show you how pulleys work, how to set them up properly, and how to include various progress capture devices in your pulley systems.

These pulleys will work for crevasse rescue as well as for lifting a heavy mattress up to the second floor.

0:00 Introduction
0:43 History of pulleys
1:20 Theory behind pulleys - physics & mechanics
5:36 Practical application
5:57 The Redirection Pulley
6:51 Basic Pulley - Mechanical Advantage
11:10 Capturing Progress - 1 Prusik
12:57 Capturing Progress - 2 Prusiks
14:06 Progress capture devices
17:27 Pulleys on a loaded rope
21:24 Pulley systems for heavier loads
24:30 Rope clamps and micro ascenders