Advanced riggers operate at the sharp end of heavy industry. Executing complex lifts, coordinating multi-crane movements, calculating load paths, and controlling high-risk operations where millimetres matter. 🏗️⚙️ On shutdowns and major projects, this level of precision and competency earns $3k–$6k per swing, driven by high-risk allowances, long hours, and specialised skill demand. When the lift is critical path, the crew trusts the advanced rigger to read the terrain, understand load dynamics,

can chase the titles and the buckles all you want, but there’s certain moments you just can’t replicate. The feeling of going 3.3 to tie the NFR record in Vegas with Junior Nogueira in 2017 was one we may never be able to feel again. Junior and I have both changed in the years since—I’m grateful I’m not the same man in this video in a lot of ways—but one thing that hasn’t changed is the fact that I trust Classic Rope with the way I make my living and Classic Equine with the horses I’ve made it o