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Serephina posted:What arrests his fall at the end? Surely it's not just the other guy catching him, the angle is too steep? The safety line is anchored at multiple points, one gave way but the next one held. Or at least that’s what I’m guessing, not a rock climber
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Serephina posted:What arrests his fall at the end? Surely it's not just the other guy catching him, the angle is too steep? Partner, who is currently fixated on rock climbing, tells me it's the carabiner connection that's failing here. If you go through it slow you can see the carabiner just before the fall. Apparently, there's a right and a wrong way to tie yourself in there, and it's not hard to do it wrong by accident. That or the piton (spike hammered into rock face) pulled out. Rock climbing is for totally crazy people, if you browse the OSHA thread regularly I assure you that you will enjoy the documentary Free Solo. I will never get over the fact that they proved Alex Honnold does not have the ability to feel fear like a normal human does, it's the only thing that can explain him.  Just in case you thought the water matters:  Serephina posted:What arrests his fall at the end? Surely it's not just the other guy catching him, the angle is too steep? I am given to understand that the thickness of the line is not a good indicator of how strong the line is. Yes, the thickest lines are strongest, but you'd be amazed at how thin a rope that will stop you falling at terminal velocity can be. If the knot is strong enough (key point, that) at the connection point, a very skinny rope will hold up to the forces of your idiot frame being whipped into a pretzel just fine. ComradePyro fucked around with this message at 03:02 on Oct 24, 2022 |
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Serephina posted:What arrests his fall at the end? Surely it's not just the other guy catching him, the angle is too steep? When you fall, the belayer locks off the rope so that there's no more supplied, then you fall from however far you are above your last protection to that far below, hanging from the top protection. The rope is stretchy so that it isn't a hard stop. In the picture, it looks like he fell, then the top protection bolt also came out, so he fell further until the 2nd topmost protection caught him. He fell from rope going (belayer up to protection #1 up to protection #2 up some amount above that) to (belayer up to protection #1 back down to where he stops).
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Honestly, I think I made the right life choice to sit inside looking at pictures of rock climbers from my couch, rather than ever climbing a rock myself.
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My daughter has shown some real interest in rock climbing* and this page is making me break into a cold sweat. *and some ability. Yesterday I saw lift her foot to a new hold at her own shoulder level and crank on up like some kind of spider.
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The protection is almost certainly stuff placed in that narrow crack in the rock they're climbing up. If you place your protection badly then it can slip out, and then you're falling down to where your previous bit of protection was placed. Hopefully you placed that one better. Pitons permanently scar the rock (especially when you're taking them out), so they're generally not used if you have other options. Instead you have cams that expand inside the crack and wedge themselves against the sides, then you can release them to take them out more easily.
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Serephina posted:What arrests his fall at the end? Surely it's not just the other guy catching him, the angle is too steep? Edit how did I miss like eight posts on this. I don't think the rope broke, I think the anchor came out. He's lead climbing, not top roping. As you lead climb, you bring the rope along with you, and you slip it into gadgets that are anchored into the wall. You climb ten feet to the next anchor, slip the rope in, climb ten more, slip the rope in, and so on. It looks like the anchor holding the gadget came out of the rock wall as soon as he put weight on it. He's got ten feet of rope between him and the next anchor below him, so he falls twenty feet before his fall is arrested. The bottom dude standing on the ground holds the bottom end of the rops, so if the top guy falls bottom guy takes the weight and might shoot up a little bit, stopping the top guy's fall. I've seen climbers land rear end first onto the climber below them from a fall like this, causing concussions. Top roping is where you're tied to the ceiling or the top of the cliff. It's much easier. BigHead fucked around with this message at 03:52 on Oct 24, 2022 |
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sigher posted:What is it even supposed to do, clean the floors? What is this Walmart Zamboni thing? ilmucche posted:It doesn't look like a floor zamboni because it doesn't have the spinny waxer thing on the front It's a floor Zamboni* that cleans and slightly polishes the floor. That one looks like the type that has two brushes (usually more like sandpaper) spinning in a metal box directly underneath, like the blades on a lawn tractor. The edge is the red rubber strip that helps keep the water it's spraying from going everywhere. On the back you can see a red rubber squeegee attached to what is basically a shop vac hose to suck all the grimey water back up. Both the squeegee and the brush container thingy are raised up and not cleaning. *Technically if it isn't made by the Zamboni company it's a sparkling
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sigher posted:What is it even supposed to do, clean the floors? What is this Walmart Zamboni thing? I know Walmart has warehouses where stock is moved around by robots, but I don't know if that's one or if it's doing something else. Edit: did not refresh
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And they said practicing 29-point turns would be useless
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Captain Hygiene posted:And they said practicing 29-point turns would be useless i really appreciate that you bothered to count them
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Why would he just not reverse down to the much wider and easier to negotiate dirt road?
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The ford's been about 2 feet deep over the last couple of days due to heavy rains. If you'd think no one is dumb enough to still try to negotiate that in a car, you clearly haven't been subscribed to OG-Rufford-Ford-channel Tom Sunderland https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfUY17RwXIM But I've never seen a motorcycle send it that loving hard, Jesus Christ. 
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Foxfire_ posted:https://twitter.com/TheFigen_/status/1583775550006788096?t=Wa3q56LVbYB1bTmA1O0gug&s=19 I love the guy that got out of his car thinking, "drat, I gotta watch this unfold."
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Foxfire_ posted:https://twitter.com/TheFigen_/status/1583775550006788096?t=Wa3q56LVbYB1bTmA1O0gug&s=19 there's gotta be a better way
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Big wince at 1:43, luckily the lighter end failed first
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Clear land for grazing or farming or building structures? Are you serious?
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Shooting Blanks posted:But...why is he trying to split the rock? What else is he gonna split? Gotta split something!
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There's a big rock here. We better leave it alone because
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Mister Speaker posted:I've seen a video about these guys before. There's a whole science to it, almost. You can see the guy 'reading the rock' to see exactly how it's going to split. You can also tell from his safety sprint that it's really scientific, like he completely trusts that he read it right.
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Lol. He's a scientist hitting a rock with a hammer
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Original source, looks like it may be from a quarry: https://www.tiktok.com/embed/7035716153284529410
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Shoes are on. Alternately, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mOWSlGrAnk Wendigee fucked around with this message at 07:05 on Oct 24, 2022 |
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Foxfire_ posted:https://twitter.com/TheFigen_/status/1583775550006788096?t=Wa3q56LVbYB1bTmA1O0gug&s=19 All the best drivers repeatedly slam the front of their car into a rock face after trying to drive up a flight of stairs (???).
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i'd probably just back up down the stairs with someone to tell me how far i went on the end... but... guy did a good drive. shocked he didn't end up off the end when the back tire went out several times
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bizwank posted:Big wince at 1:43, luckily the lighter end failed first Looking at that again: it's not even the rope that failed...it took the loving towing eye out. That's basically not possible unless they somehow used the wrong towing eye and it didn't match the threading of the van. But then I have no idea how they screwed it in 
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Serephina posted:What arrests his fall at the end? Surely it's not just the other guy catching him, the angle is too steep? A little late to the party but that persons protection failed to protect them when they took the fall. A lot of climbing where I am doesn't use fixed protection and you place it as you climb. If it's not placed properly or is marginal it'll fail as you fall. Theres been more than a few people here who have zippered a full line of protection and hit the ground either dying or seriously maiming themselves. I have managed to end up with a rope wrapped around one of the pieces of protection and being the second up the cliff I had to untangle it so we could keep moving.
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That's what you get for trying to put your greasy hands on the glass to open a door, instead of the handle or frame.
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Testing your mom's NuvaRing is not for the faint hearted.
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Pfft, rock climbing is for chumps. True truckfucklers climb vertical I-beams with custom-welded sandals! https://www.instagram.com/reel/CkC5b5CJ9Xv/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
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Lol rookie mistake you can see right where the bead is not set and never wanna have your face anywhere near there or you get "the money shot" also he's using waaaay too much tire lube. When bored we used to gently caress around and put poo poo on the tire right at that spot and when it pops you can launch tire weights or whatever 30 feet into the air. Good times. On the subject of robots when I worked at a cafe located within a hospital we would take the trash down to a room in specific trash totes (Bio waste. Regular waste, and recycling) and robots would pick them up and take them down a long hallway. Then 10 min later would return with the totes empty. The janitors had a make shift break room down there and would be chilling talking poo poo waiting for their tote to return. All of them were funny as poo poo and i loved talking to them. The cool part was on busy days the robots would get bunched up and delayed and you chilled down there milking the clock for up to half an hour at times not doing poo poo. Only place I worked at where you got excited to take the trash out. Preoptopus fucked around with this message at 15:20 on Oct 24, 2022 |
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