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Restructed all the rigging content into smaller pages as a rigging guide

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<p>There are many obscure tricks of rigging that are specific to the case of
exploration, and are rarely used in UK-style SRT.</p>
<p>Read <a href="sherry-mayo.html">Sherry Mayo's SRT Guide</a> - with diagrams!
<h4>Pendules</h4>
<p>A pendule is a technique for crossing a void more or less horizontally. It
@@ -23,6 +24,8 @@ far end, starts to become tight, attach your jammers to it and pull rope
through until they take your weight; now prusik on this side, pausing to let
out the rope through your descender as needed.</p>
<p>Read Sherry's <a href="sherry-mayo.html#pendu">notes and diagrams on Pendules</a>.
<p>There are a number of pendules <a href="../../fixaid.htm">left rigged</a> in
CUCC's caves, to avoid having to repeat death-defying climbs and traverses that
were originally used to reach the far ends.</p>
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<h4>Tyrolean traverses</h4>
<!-- This needs work. I haven't actually ever done a tyrolean underground, and
I think it shows! -->
<div class="onleft">
<a href="../l/rltyrl.html">
<img alt="Tyrolean: Becka" src="../t/rltyrl.jpg" width="250" /></a></br><span
class="caption">Tyrolean: Becka being rescued</br>(click to enlarge)</span>
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<p>A tyrolean is used in much the same places as a pendule - roughly horizontal
traverses across voids - but is much more difficult to rig, and dangerous if
not rigged right. The idea is to have a tensioned line across, which you can
@@ -49,10 +55,12 @@ backups, or multiple spits - with a completely independent backup line rigged
parallel to the main line (but not under tension). A Z-rig or something similar
can be used to tension the rope.</p>
<p>Read Sherry's <a href="sherry-mayo.html#tyrol">notes and diagrams on Tyroleans</a>.
<p>Tyroleans are also important in rescue rigs, where they can be the only safe
way to transport a stretcher across a traverse; this lies out of the scope of
this guide, and is well covered in <i>Life on a line</i> (available online
somewhere; on Exo there should be a copy in the tatty hut.)</p>
this guide, and is well covered in <i><a href="http://www.lifeonaline.com/">Life on a line</a></i>; on Expo there should be a copy in the tatty hut.)</p>
<h4>Rope protectors</h4>
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weight is across it on the rope, which should then keep it secure.</p>
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