Virginia Beach Adventure Park

[Steve Connally]

I thought this was pretty interesting. Spent a little time talking to the safety engineer. Would love to be the consulting arborist on staff for this international corporation.

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[Jeff]

Steve, did you and your boys do the course?

 

[Tom Dunlap]

ACCT certified techs do inspections on installations like that. Some of the tree interface connections look bad

 

[oldoakman]

Steve, did you ask who did the install?

 

[Steve Connally]

We did do it. All the safety engineers do the installs after a solid 3 weeks of 12 hour 7 day a week training. Tom can you explain. They looked fairly good to me. They were out checking tensions and compression while we were climbing.

 

[Steve Connally]

They were also doing rescue drills with the staff. They were really slow.

 

[frashdog]

ACCT certified techs do inspections on installations like that. Some of the tree interface connections look bad

Yea acct is the ones who stepped up and wrote the ansi bmp's right?

Our local adventure park looks the same...should have seen the worn carabiners on the double lanyards. I mean like worn 1/3 rd of the material gone where they run along the safety lines. Never seen so much wear on a biner. When I asked about it, they assured us the manufacturer was ok with more wear.

We had a bachelor party with several tree/ego dudes. Bout got kicked out when the shirts came off. They really made us put our shirts back on. They did make the mistake of telling us (me) only two on a platform/station at once, as many as you want on a feature and feel free to bounce and shake. By the end, people were freaking out screaming as we shook/bounced the whole adventure forest, scrambling for the platforms while the staff yelled at them for too many people hugging the platforms. Grown men were screaming at me. They apologized when they collected them selves.

 

[frashdog]

They were also doing rescue drills with the staff. They were really slow.

I saw a real rescue of a fat lady in tears. Really slow and really funny.

 

[Jeff]

I saw a real rescue of a fat lady in tears.

"Umm, anybody got any 50kN steel 'biners?"

 

[JeffGu]

How big was the crane they used?