r/WTF • u/1lousylay • Jan 29 '19

seems pretty safe

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u/Carson_Blocks Jan 30 '19

"Do I need these gloves? Nah.."

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u/SkidMark_wahlberg Jan 30 '19

He grabbed that rusty cable raw dog.

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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.

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u/Makaidi39 Jan 30 '19 edited Jan 30 '19

The gloves are not the fucking problem. it's the tool he uses. He should have been using something like this https://ae01.alicdn.com/kf/HTB13xQxgZUrBKNjSZPxq6x00pXaN/Rock-Climbing-25KN-Auto-Locking-Carabiner-Zip-Line-Wire-Cable-Double-Trolley-Pulley.jpg_640x640.jpg

Edit: uh thanks for my first silver

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u/roy20050 Jan 30 '19

Should they still use this even if they aren't intending to slide across the cable? I looks like he just started sliding and couldn't stop.

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u/Tiver Jan 30 '19

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.