Tumblehome and Prussik Ltd

'Adventure with Purpose'

High Ropes Courses - Zip Wires - Assault Courses - Giant's Swings

 Low Ropes - Climbing Walls - Climbing Towers

Construction - Design - Inspection - Maintenance- Training

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'Pi' Linear High Ropes Course

Ropes Course - Services

Arboreal Work

Having spent some considerable time swinging around in trees, lopping off branches and felling trees to make room for ropes courses it's not too surprising that we have become  adept at this. We are able to provide full arboreal surveys, felling, dead-wooding and general arboreal work specifically to outdoor activity providers who have to take into account the necessity of customer safety

Improvements -  Alterations -  Upgrades

We often find ourselves inspecting courses course built by other High Rope construction companies. Some pass with flying colours - sadly some won't. We have considerable experience of improving, altering and upgrading courses

Planning Permission

We have successfully applied for and gained planning permission for many different types of customers, constructions and locations.  Planning permission is  not a difficult thing to apply for once you have the knowledge. However gaining that knowledge, can be a frustrating experience when you are busy running your own business.

We are happy to make planning applications on your behalf which will include the following:

• Doing an initial survey of your intended location

• Researching the Local Planning Policy

• Making contact with your local planning authority

• Making the actual planning application

• Providing maps and block plans, at the correct scale, of your intended location

• Providing scale plans, at the correct scale, of your installation

• Supplying the planning authority with a Design and Access Statement - this is a new requirement for all planning applications for 2007 onwards

• Overseeing the whole planning process and keeping you up to speed of step by step developments.

Please do contact us for a quotation. You may be surprised at how cost effective our services are! As a guide we would charge £295 plus expenses for the planning permission work required for a 'Pi' course. This assumes one site visit, one meeting with local council planning authority and would not include any appeals.

Inspections

Tumblehome and Prussik can carry out inspections of all types of adventure constructions. We have inspected Climbing/Abseil towers, internal/external climbing walls, poles courses, cow tail courses in trees, assault courses, zip wires and initiative exercises.

Should you decide to contact us for a quotation or inspection our procedure is as follows:

We will ask you to provide us with this information

• The original build certificates for all the installations.

• The standards that the courses were built to and/or tested to.

• The original plans for information on the the construction materials - particularly underground anchors

• Your company inspection records for the installations to ascertain the type of inspections carried out, the frequency and the results.

• The results of any external inspections that have been carried out on the course.

Once we have established the type, build standards and history of your adventure construction we will undertake an inspection visit using these guidelines:

• We will apply EN: 15567 and standards laid down by the European Ropes Course Association where applicable but refer to the build standards where this is appropriate, as it is not the custom to apply new standards to 'senior' constructions - see notes on standards at the bottom of this page.

• We will carry out a detailed visual and manual testing of all aspects of the course – poles, wires, all steelwork, SRB’s, turnbuckles/rigging screws, ground anchor attachments, main pole anchors attachments, shackles, eye nuts, all thread, timber work and all other aspects of the course.

• Depending on the age of the course we will dig a narrow test pit on one of the main poles to assess the condition of the pole underground at a depth of 1.5 M

• Depending on the age of the course we will dig a test pit on one of the main poles anchors to assess the condition of the anchors – this also depends on what the anchor is made of.

• We will load test all of the anchor points and ground anchors and inspect for signs of excessive movement in the system.

Once the inspection is completed we will then provide a detailed report of our findings, with a checklist of all items inspected and photographic evidence of the condition of all aspects of the items inspected on the day of the installation.

Should the course require any minor maintenance this can normally be carried out immediately. For major maintenance we will be happy to advise you on the best course of action to take.

Please do contact us for a quotation. As a guide we charge £190 per day plus expenses. Our working day starts at 0800 and finishes at 1730. We would expect to fully inspect  a large installation similar to the 'Pi' course, do routine maintenance - greasing, tightening etc and write reports in that time.

Notes on Standards

There are many standards which have been applied to High Ropes constructions over the last few years, most notably EN 12572 which is for Artificial Climbing structures

The current situation in the UK is that EN 15567, which has been initially accepted by the Health and Safety Executive, will soon become the definitive standard.

We are also members of the European Ropes Course Association and will use their extensive guidelines to determine the stability of your equipment

If your Adventure Construction does not comply with these standards we will be happy to advise on the best course of action to get your facility up to speed with the latest standards

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