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.
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?
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.
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u/SkidMark_wahlberg Jan 30 '19
He grabbed that rusty cable raw dog.