Pioneer Scout Interest Badge
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Badge requirements

Note: Refer to the SCOUTS South Africa Pioneering Manual for more information and assistance for this badge.
- Have passed the Pioneering Scoutcraft Badge or complete all the requirements for it.
- Discuss with the examiner types of ropes and cordage (including man-made fibres) with particular regard to suitability for the job, strength, and general care. Know the dangers of recoil and fracturing under strain.
- Using a rope which you have whipped using the sailmaker's whipping, make the following knots, hitches, and lashings with a high degree of efficiency:
- Demonstrate the following:
- A Spanish windlass
- A rope tackle (Harvester's hitch)
- Demonstrate the following:
- Moving heavy weights by means of sheer legs, lever spar, parbuckle, and block and tackle, removing a stubborn picket (lever spar)
- Demonstrate the following:
- Mousing a hook
- Reeving a 3-2 tackle
- Seizing a rope end
- Know the purchase of various arrangements of block and tackle
- Demonstrate the following 3 types of holdfasts, and know which conditions each is best suited for:
- Dead man's anchorage
- 3-2-1 holdfast
- Log and picket
- Discuss with the examiner the need for safety and the dangers which arise from negligent leadership, ill-discipline, misuse of and overloading of gear, incorrect practices, and bad planning.
- Construct a model of a pioneering project chosen from the list below, to a scale 1:20. Discuss with the examiner the purpose and advantages of constructing a model.
- Lead a team of no fewer than four Scouts in the construction of a project selected from the following list and take part as a member of a team of four Scouts in the construction of two other projects from the lists.
- ONE PROJECT MUST BE CHOSEN FROM EACH OF THE SECTIONS A, B AND C
- A tower with a platform height of at least 4 m above the ground.
- A monkey bridge, suspension bridge (Abington spring bridge or similar), drawbridge or any other bridge of equal complexity approved by the examiner.
- A fun-type project such as: an aerial runway (know the aerial runway code), a swing boat, a merry-go-round, swinging derrick, a pile-driver or similar project approved by the examiner.
- ONE PROJECT MUST BE CHOSEN FROM EACH OF THE SECTIONS A, B AND C
Requirements in PDF
Resources
- Pioneering
- Anchorages
- Category:Pioneering projects
- Category:Whipping
- Category:Hitches
- Category:Knots
- Category:Lashings
- Category:Pioneering
Additional links
See also
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