TEEX ROPE RESCUE 2026 EVALUATION TEST
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Only made from steel or aluminum carabiners with locking gates and a G rating -
✔✔Carabiners
✔✔Figure eight device - ✔✔- appendages are called ears
- heat builds rapidly
- no more than 150 ft to prevent glazing of rope
✔✔Mechanical Rope Grabs - ✔✔- Cam
- Pin
- Shell
5,000 lbs
✔✔Pulleys - ✔✔- Sheave
- Bearing
- Axle
- Side plate
- Becket
✔✔Brake bar rack - ✔✔Soiling
Contamination
, Excessive wear
Physical damage
MBS is 5,000 lbs
✔✔Class 1 harness - ✔✔Single rescuer fall protection (loads up to 300 lbs)
✔✔Class 2 harness - ✔✔May be used in rescues with up to 600 lbs
✔✔Class 3 harness - ✔✔Full body harness, designed to support a 600 lbs load
✔✔What must be started and kept with the rope throughout its working life when a
piece of life safety rope is purchased? - ✔✔Rope log
✔✔What are three main ways to clean synthetic ropes? - ✔✔- manual washing (without
agitator)
- rope washing device
- washing machine
✔✔What are two descant devices? - ✔✔- figure eight (5,000 lbs)
- brake bar rack (5,000 lbs)
✔✔Dress the knot - ✔✔the proper arrangement of all the knot parts, removing the
unnecessary kinks, twists and slack so that all rope parts of the knot make contact
✔✔Working end - ✔✔The end of a rope that is being used to tie a knot.
✔✔Running end - ✔✔The free end of the rope used to form a knot
✔✔Standing end - ✔✔Middle of the rope between the working end and the running end
(long end)
✔✔The 4 to 1 rule - ✔✔Efficiency of the rope
✔✔What are two different webbings? - ✔✔Tubular and Flat
✔✔Tubular webbing - ✔✔MBS is 4,000 lbs
✔✔Flat webbing - ✔✔MBS is 6,000 lbs, similar to that of a seat belt
✔✔Anchor straps - ✔✔MBS is 10,000 lbs
✔✔Anchor/rigging plates - ✔✔MBS is 8,000 lbs
✔✔How much efficiency is lost when you tie a knot in rope? - ✔✔30%
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Only made from steel or aluminum carabiners with locking gates and a G rating -
✔✔Carabiners
✔✔Figure eight device - ✔✔- appendages are called ears
- heat builds rapidly
- no more than 150 ft to prevent glazing of rope
✔✔Mechanical Rope Grabs - ✔✔- Cam
- Pin
- Shell
5,000 lbs
✔✔Pulleys - ✔✔- Sheave
- Bearing
- Axle
- Side plate
- Becket
✔✔Brake bar rack - ✔✔Soiling
Contamination
, Excessive wear
Physical damage
MBS is 5,000 lbs
✔✔Class 1 harness - ✔✔Single rescuer fall protection (loads up to 300 lbs)
✔✔Class 2 harness - ✔✔May be used in rescues with up to 600 lbs
✔✔Class 3 harness - ✔✔Full body harness, designed to support a 600 lbs load
✔✔What must be started and kept with the rope throughout its working life when a
piece of life safety rope is purchased? - ✔✔Rope log
✔✔What are three main ways to clean synthetic ropes? - ✔✔- manual washing (without
agitator)
- rope washing device
- washing machine
✔✔What are two descant devices? - ✔✔- figure eight (5,000 lbs)
- brake bar rack (5,000 lbs)
✔✔Dress the knot - ✔✔the proper arrangement of all the knot parts, removing the
unnecessary kinks, twists and slack so that all rope parts of the knot make contact
✔✔Working end - ✔✔The end of a rope that is being used to tie a knot.
✔✔Running end - ✔✔The free end of the rope used to form a knot
✔✔Standing end - ✔✔Middle of the rope between the working end and the running end
(long end)
✔✔The 4 to 1 rule - ✔✔Efficiency of the rope
✔✔What are two different webbings? - ✔✔Tubular and Flat
✔✔Tubular webbing - ✔✔MBS is 4,000 lbs
✔✔Flat webbing - ✔✔MBS is 6,000 lbs, similar to that of a seat belt
✔✔Anchor straps - ✔✔MBS is 10,000 lbs
✔✔Anchor/rigging plates - ✔✔MBS is 8,000 lbs
✔✔How much efficiency is lost when you tie a knot in rope? - ✔✔30%
