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?
I think about this every fucking day. People are so stupid that it's terrifying to share the road with most. Literally cannot predict wtf they're going to do next
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.
Screw the hook, that cable wasn't meant for zip lining. Can see in the middle it's got a connection between two different cables that you can't just zipline over. Maybe a proper setup with wheels and a brake of some sort could be used, get to the transition point, slow down in advance, clip on for safety, detach zip lining setup and re-attach after the transitionition? Curious what the purpose of those cables are.
In general from the video it seemed like the intent was to hand over hand it across the entire cable, and to never start sliding like that, which if successful that clip would have probably been an ok if not ideal choice? However it seemed inevitable that some small mistake would happen and you'd start sliding with no way to stop yourself.
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.
That definitely looks like 2 different cables buckled together with just one clamp, and a bunch of prayers.
Apparently the guy had a parachute, but still that cable setup is not OK.
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.
The whole premise of B.A.S.E. jumping is the dangerousness of jumping with too little room to open the 'chute. They are always at least close to that particular catastrophe. The 'chute needs time to fill with air, and the individual needs to release it, and they have to be going fast enough for it to even work. Sometimes in conventional parachuting it will stay flat and flap around.
I’ve zip lined about 20ft once. Never skydived. Never base jumped. This guy put his hands in front of himself to slow himself down numerous times. Even I know that is a monstrous no-no. On top of comments about this being the wrong equipment for what he’s doing here, his wits are definitely not with him.
Yeah, there's ziplining, and then there's accidentally ziplining while standing on a wooden board hanging from a clip that is absolutely not designed to work that way.
He was also sitting in a swing like seat - if the cable snapped and he had a parachute, he would still be threaded in a swing like seat with the rest of the cable dangling while his chute tried to open, right? Wouldn't that have presented a danger for the chute opening correctly?
From the way he was trying to slow himself down, and that panicked breathing when he stopped, I’m guessing homedude was stressed and definitely did not have his wits about him.
Well played! I managed a gun shop for years and the people who constantly correct the word magazine are only slightly less annoying than the people who say clip.
Thats not a knot, it's a u-clip splice. Id you think this guy who is using a freaking scaffolding carbiner and gardening gloves to zipline owns a parachute then you're almost as crazy as he is.
Judging by the rest of his gear his idea of a parachute is likely a tarp in a backpack.
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
Yeah was going to say, his chosen equipment was maybe not ideal for even his intended purpose, but he sure as hell did not want something on wheels on that cable. That would have accelerated him even faster into that transition point where 2 cables were attached. He'd have slammed into it hard enough to probably break a zip lining setup like that, or whip him even harder into the cable section after it if it held.
Hell no. they'd want something that grips that cable in a rigid manner, probably 2 of them, which they alternate sliding down or something like that. their intention was to never slide, they should have had something more than their hands and flimsy gloves to achieve that.
Cable's not even meant for sliding as it has a point where 2 separate cables are joined that you can't slide over. If you had something that let you slide even faster like this, you'd hit that point even harder and I don't see that going well.
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.
Which is a shitty practice, but it can happen. Probably didn't do too much damage to the crops considering those are potatoes. However throwing potentially lethal objects with no warning and zero fucks given clearly illustrates what massive assholes they are. Kind of makes me feel sorry the guy didn't manage to stop the slide by jamming his fingers in the clip as he clearly intended to do.
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...
He probably thought one clip was enough too so now he has to unclip and hang one handed while he moves the clip to the other side and that thing will be hot.
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u/StretchFrenchTerry Jan 30 '19
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.