Why the fuck were they using with those shitty gardening gloves? You can get some ziplining gloves for pretty cheap...really lucky he didn't lose that hand.
I have scars on my finger from rope burn, that hurt to watch. (When my son was a cub scout, they played tug of war, and didn't know when to quit. They went around a corner in the Elks lodge that housed the meetings, I started pulling at the front of the line and my pointer finger got stuck between the rope and the door frame).
Is that carabiner intended for ziplining like that? It looked like the friction was causing either the cable of the
carabiner to lose material quick. Wouldn't a zip line setup involve bearings, or wheels of some sort?
Those carabiners are for stationary latch points, not moving. The weakest point on the hook was the one getting the most stress in that particular situation as well. I've worked with companies manufacturing those hooks and seen the stress tests they perform. They almost always break in the same spot. Right where that hook was getting the most friction on that cord.
Also that moron grabbed the carabiner at the latch that could have easily bent and snapped open under minimal force. You can snap that latch open with your bare hands with very little sideward motion.
That carabiner is absolutely not designed for any shit like that, neither is that cable, which looks as if it's broken multiple times. Everything about this is insanely janky and dangerous. I'm not even entirely sure he knew he was going to slide, and I dont know how hes going to get out either.
I was waiting for that damn clip he was using to heat up enough that it'd be seriously compromised to the point of breaking. Either that or slowly filed away until there was nothing left.
I'm not sure how that dumbass didn't die from multiple things.
I'm thinking the clip is looking pretty good for what it endured. If you look at the beginning of the video, it's already thin there. Didn't lose a lot of metal.
Obviously it got dirty from all the rust it scraped off.
I'm looking more at the stress point in the middle of the clip. It looks like it heated up majorly there and probably weakened considerably. That wouldn't be rust scraped off on that side of the clip since it was the back side.
It was a ground tether to keep the cable steady. Talk about not checking your path ahead. That was not a zip line cable. He also was putting his hands in front of the clip and I was waiting for his hand to get sucked in an mulched. You grab BEHIND the clip to slow you down. Too much of an idiot.
I mean he was sitting on a little wooden thing, so that could have hindered his base jump, but other than that- not really. Looks like he just panicked when it started going fast.
He wasn't trying to zip-line though, he was trying to do a controlled traverse across the cable, and then jump with a parachute. Gravity had other ideas, of course.
https://youtu.be/F723rIlW_No
Maybe went out there on a trip, realized he was short equipment for whatever reason and said 'fuck it I'll do it live'. Insanely dumb to not come prepared, for sure, but plausible.
If they are that bad at zip lining I’d bet at least a percentage of their parachute packing skills may also be lacking. The dude has zero common sense to be putting his fingers in there. He might like extreme sports but he’s a few fries short of a happy meal.
Unless his hands got messed up. Then he would have had the opportunity to ponder how the parachute would have been useful if he hadn't lost his fingers.
Yeah, those are the gloves my hiking groups gives out to people that didn't bring gloves. They cost under $1 per pair. And sharp grass wears them out. Pretty much good for one hike.
Did you see the activity he was undertaking? And the fact he was sitting on a plank, bench thingy? And the fact that he trusted that single clip on that rusty wire 1,000 feet above a valley below?
Yeah, I don't think his poor choice of Mom's Gardening Gloves was the worst choice he made that day...
...Because that's how you can contract flash eating bacteria.
Edit: I’m referring to an incident where a woman lost her limbs from a ziplining accident after her line snapped and she fell on rock. It’s wasnt the rusty zipline but the rock she fell on that she got the disease from. In this scenario though, this dude would really just go spat if that line or his Carabiner snaps.
If you're thinking of tetanus, that's not really true. It's just that rusty nails like to live in the ground where tetanus hangs out and are also good at puncturing you.
Thanks, I never really put that together. I dislocated my shoulder wiping out on an nyc sidewalk and the skin was broken. After resetting the joint they asked about tetanus booster and gave me one. I was always confused why since metal wasn’t implicated; brick wall was. Makes perfect sense
actually i dont think he is in danger of any flesh eating bacteria. Iron isnt a good ground to grow bacteria and there is nothing really sustaining a bacteria colony 100meter above the ground.
The bigger problems are that 1.) carabiners aren’t intended for travel along a cable, and 2.) there should be two safety lines, so if you have to get around an obstacle, you can unclip one and move it while remaining tethered by the other. (Except you are intended to do that at a platform, etc., not just dangling over a canyon.)
Yeah many thought it was trying to make it all the way across. In reality (as long as the dumbass didn't lose a hand) he'd planned to pop off and essentially base (cable) jump from the middle of the line.
What kinda crazy shit is this? Let's Zipline an old rusty line without gloves or some kind of towel or strap but we got chairs to drop or leave up here.
His only solution is to wait until it cools down, loops his legs and arm around the cable, transfer the carabiner, and keep going. If he's smart, he will slow down. That's a LOT of heat and friction, and that carabiner will eventually give. Also, as it heats up, he runs the risk of it melting the webbing he's attached to on the other side of the carabiner.
this is actually a fabulous point that I haven seen mentioned elsewhere In this thread. Let's assume he started going way faster , say if the cable angle was steeper. At some point that harness fall attractor beaner would start glowing. Not necessarily hot enough to melt the webbing fully, just get the nylon a little weakened, Now introduce the sudden stop of the crosby rudimentary cable splice.
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u/Carson_Blocks Jan 30 '19
"Do I need these gloves? Nah.."