3-point anchor testing

By Grant Prattley
May 3, 2016

3-Point Anchor Testing

Updated and revised by Grant Prattley, OTE Rescue 2014.

Based on original work by SARINZ Trust 2005.

We started to research 3-point anchor loading as a result of questions asked by both instructors and students. At the time we could not find any articles or testing on this subject area. To date we have undertaken a small number of tests but enough to give some indications of what works.

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