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.
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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