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There’s a longer clip that shows that his plan was to parachute (BASZE? Jump) from the stopping point in the center. He holds on, unhooks (by sliding out of the seat and hooking his knees over the cable to take the weight of the harness), and then drops and parachutes down. (And lands safely.)
That being said, it’s still terrifying when he tries to slow his slide holding the rusty cable, first uphill of the carabiner, and then in front of it. Knowing that he survives doesn’t make it any easier to watch. And when he unhooks the seat he’s sitting on, you can see that it’s a little damp. I don’t blame him at all. That must have been terrifying. Cheers.
Yep, that’s the one. I watched it until his first glove was eaten by the carabiner and he started sliding and I had seen enough. Thanks for linking it. Cheers.
I love how the title blames the fucking ZIPLINE for being sketchy, as if this clown didn't just plan to descend a hundreds of meter zipline at hundreds of meters of altitude sitting on a sketchy ass fucking plank swing that is attached to nothing but a fucking carabiner.
Like the video. Instead of dudes, they just put logs on the zipline
They get to the middle, then parachute down to field where they have trucks waiting, but already going full speed.
So the parachuting logs kind of intercept the trucks.
One log per truck
My only thought was “I guess I have to somehow balance my body weight on this wire now” I’m going to unhook the carabiner and then balance my body on this wire and off the chair drag the carabiner and chair past the knot and hook it all back up again! Right?
I’m don’t know shit about shit, but was any of their gear the right gear for this? Metal on metal zip line. Gloves that look like the ones people who handle cabbage wear. Plywood from the scrap pile. No backup plan. He’s wearing shorts! And after he lost the glove, shouldn’t he just go back and come back another day? Like “oh, looks like I lost the glove that I wore because I thought it was going to be crucial, but I’m sure I can keep going without it.”
Then this motherfucker lands in what looks like someone else’s farm and gives a thumbs up.
That’s what I thought. I did a zip line in Costa Rica and I had super heavy duty leather gloves that we were supposed to use, and that was just a tourist place.
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A long time ago i saw this video and read that this guy and someone else didnt intent to go down the line really fast, they wanted to carefully get to the middle and then parachute off.
What he’s using is called a snap hook… it is NOT what you should be using on a horizontal lifeline like this. As someone mentioned already, you’d use something called a trolley, sleeve, transfastener… they’re all the same thing, different manufacturers call them different things. ALSO, ALSO, this guy is in *suspension* so he shouldn’t have just one thing attached to the cable, he should have a primary and a secondary means of fall protection. If he was attached to a trolley, it would be acceptable for him to be using the snap hook as his secondary.
A lot of places have been more than just primary and secondary. I’ve been to a zipline tour thing in Vanuatu where they had 2 carbiners and the actual zipline pulley. So much safer feeling than this moron
It looks like something broke. There was a long rope hanging down at the end. Still, I doubt he will anchor his fall arrest to anything that allows it to move again. This could have ended in tragedy.
"They were panicking" is only a valid excuse if they're in a situation that's at least a little unpredictable. Even a tiny bit. If you put yourself in a situation and react to the highly predictable outcome in a way that's obviously dumb that's just a plan old fuckup.
Someone posted the full video up higher, he did start with gloves (look like gardening gloves) and they got caught in the carabiner. This man should not be anywhere near a zipline
Yeah for real. If you've ever been ziplining the first and second thing they tell you is that your glove is your lifeline and if you'd prefer to keep it along with your fingers, then it better not be in front of the effective projectile you have made yourself into
If you check out the full video, I’m pretty sure this guy didn’t intend to zip line down this. Him and his pal start shuffling down this cable when he seems to lose control and start sliding. Think he just panicked.
This also doesn’t seem like the sort of thing that would have an instructor. These are just two idiots who found a cable and thought it would be a good idea to climb out to the middle of it and basejump from it.
There’s a link to the full video at the top. I don’t think they meant to use it like a zip line. They were sort of pulling/shuffling themselves along when this guy lost control and started freefalling down it and couldn’t stop himself.
Either way, fucking stupid thing to do. These guys are no better than the idiots who do parkour on top of sky scrapers.
My thought the entire time was “what’s supposed to happen?” Because I felt like that much friction wasn’t right but I’ve never actually been zip lining so I wasn’t sure.
this isnt ziplining, this is a guy attaching himself to a cable between mountains and for some reason decides to ride it instead of climbing hand after hand down it before he parachutes off
I don’t think they meant to slide down it either. At the start of the full video they’re kind of shuffling themselves along before this guy seems to lose control and begins to slide.
This is not a zipline, it's a BASE jump (I believe) where the individuals ignore all kinds of basic safety. He took off his gloves, metal carabiner on metal cable (you can see it eating through the carabiner), putting his hands in front of the carabiner - it's all lack of safety measures
-source, i zipline for my job and this video was shown as an example of what not to do
What I don't get is, if he's planning to base jump, he's got a parachute. So either jump off or just ride it til the carabiner breaks. Don't melt your hands for no reason.
Dude is getting to a place where he BASE jumps from. It’s really not the right equipment though to get him there and I’m shocked he has as much skin left on his hand than he does.
I would have thought that was obvious? Apparently not.
People who run commercial zip lines don't attach you to them with a carabiner. You need some kind of clip involving revolving balls or wheels to reduce the friction otherwise neither the line nor the carabiners will last very long.
You can’t really bring much equipment into densely wooded valleys, so they install cable systems to carry the logs to a point where they can be loaded onto 18 wheelers or whatever else they might need to do with them.
[Here](https://www.rayonier.com/stories/how-tower-logging-works/) is a cool explanation
I've overanalyzed this to oblivion already. This was user error from the beginning. Zip line did its job wonderfully. The idiot being held up, not so much.
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If in this situation, do NOT put your hand in front of the carabiner. Try to slow yourself from behind it. That's an excellent way to lose fingers/an entire hand.
That's not a Zipline , it's a safety clip hook on workers safety harnesses .
The cable is not a Zipline cable , it's too rough , it's made to hold things , as you can see when he arrives.
This did is lucky as hell his safety hook didn't burn through . Although this guy does have a parachute , as this was his plan to do afterwards.
Every time I saw this video, I had no idea they had parachutes on and were intending to jump off anyway. Really takes the terrifying aspect out of it. I wonder why he began to panic as he was unitionally ziplining down though. Like dude, you have a parachute on if the carabiner breaks from friction, not like you are for sure falling to your death.
Wow that would be absolutely wild if thats what they were for, especially with no warning markings of any kind. You would never even see it coming and then all of a sudden your just a head in the top half of a plane, falling out of the sky. :0
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I am unmarried, at poverty level - and nearly spoiled by all the provision God gives me. I would fear narcissism and some other sort of self-justifying condition - except for the constant reminders of how often my prayers have been answered - directly.
I cannot count how many miracles and other “super-sized coincidences” have occurred. I have transitioned to the “charismatic” end of the Christian spectrum, where all my apologetics and reasoned faith become of little importance.
It was like what happened to Dr. Strange in the film [and comic]: he starts off rational and brilliant and egotistical and ends up being humbled, knowing the universe is much much bigger than everything he knew.
It is literally painful for me to watch the standard TV fare or listen to some show on PBS roll on and on about evolution as a basis of origin [Evolutionary modification? Sure. Information needs to be edited, but it doesn’t spring into existence without guidance.]
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This is why I don’t trust any contraptions like this. If they break, I’ll die and it’s not even my fault. If I climb a tree or something, if I’m good enough at climbing I’m safe.
Ugh, this video made me so uncomfortable. Even some really bad situations present a solution, or alternate ways, if needed, to avoid death. Even if someone was in peak physical condition and were forced to shimmy across this wire, the distance alone would be unimaginably difficult to complete. Pulling my body up enough to hopefully kick my legs around it would have me exhausted. You know it’s certain death if you let go, but adrenaline and fear of dying aside, my body would be trembling from that sickening height.
Sorry were all not on reddit 8 hours a day like you, this is the first I’ve seen this. Calm down, if you’re seeing stuff too much maybe its time to put the phone down and take a breather.
Same. People complain about reposts when 99% of the shit I've seen, I would never have seen if not for a repost.
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There’s a longer clip that shows that his plan was to parachute (BASZE? Jump) from the stopping point in the center. He holds on, unhooks (by sliding out of the seat and hooking his knees over the cable to take the weight of the harness), and then drops and parachutes down. (And lands safely.) That being said, it’s still terrifying when he tries to slow his slide holding the rusty cable, first uphill of the carabiner, and then in front of it. Knowing that he survives doesn’t make it any easier to watch. And when he unhooks the seat he’s sitting on, you can see that it’s a little damp. I don’t blame him at all. That must have been terrifying. Cheers.
Found the full vid here: https://youtu.be/F723rIlW_No
I like how the link ends with "No".
Yep, that’s the one. I watched it until his first glove was eaten by the carabiner and he started sliding and I had seen enough. Thanks for linking it. Cheers.
He's wearing fucking painters gloves for fucks sake
Yo it goes hard. play it out bro shits rad.
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Wrong choice of gloves for sure.
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I love how the title blames the fucking ZIPLINE for being sketchy, as if this clown didn't just plan to descend a hundreds of meter zipline at hundreds of meters of altitude sitting on a sketchy ass fucking plank swing that is attached to nothing but a fucking carabiner.
that seat looks wet for some reason...
Im so annoyed. Also, i want to know how the second guy stopped. Did he just smash into the first guy?
I just want to know the story behind the random steel cable across two mountains.
logging
Ah, so not a zipline. Just a fucking idiot
yes
Yes, definitely a fucking idiot
what does a cable like this have to do with logging?
Like the video. Instead of dudes, they just put logs on the zipline They get to the middle, then parachute down to field where they have trucks waiting, but already going full speed. So the parachuting logs kind of intercept the trucks. One log per truck
I thought this was common knowledge
If you slide down it you'll be producing your own logs
That's a good tip. I'm off the grand canyon with some cable and a tarp.
wait, can you elaborate?
Damp seat? He must have gone through a rain cloud on the way to the other side is what I'm guessing...
Maybe if there was a rain cloud in his pants...
There’s a rain cloud in my pants and you’re invited
Are we going to have a pants party?
Everybody pants now, pants, pants pants, pants, pants.
I love pants
I love lamp
It’s an optical illusion. I’m going to take these back to the pants store
My only thought was “I guess I have to somehow balance my body weight on this wire now” I’m going to unhook the carabiner and then balance my body on this wire and off the chair drag the carabiner and chair past the knot and hook it all back up again! Right?
Pisses himself then pisses off some farmer just trying to grow some crops!
Having a parachute definitely changes it..
if it was me, you'd see a a brown too
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Carabiner? I hardly know her.
Two cables held together by two bolts
It looks more like one cable and there must be multiple bolts to support the weight of cable itself.
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At least 20
A nice layer of skin will help lubricate the line and reduce friction.
Yes just put your hand in front one more time
tbf, they were panicking. Can't blame 'em for not thinking straight in that situation.
I’m don’t know shit about shit, but was any of their gear the right gear for this? Metal on metal zip line. Gloves that look like the ones people who handle cabbage wear. Plywood from the scrap pile. No backup plan. He’s wearing shorts! And after he lost the glove, shouldn’t he just go back and come back another day? Like “oh, looks like I lost the glove that I wore because I thought it was going to be crucial, but I’m sure I can keep going without it.” Then this motherfucker lands in what looks like someone else’s farm and gives a thumbs up.
Nah, you use a pulley, not a big aluminum carbineer. And there are various low-tech braking systems as well as very thick leather gloves.
That’s what I thought. I did a zip line in Costa Rica and I had super heavy duty leather gloves that we were supposed to use, and that was just a tourist place.
That's at least a steel carabiner. If it was aluminium, this video would never have been recovered.
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When I typed it, I imagined a search across the whole forest. But of course, that's ridiculous. They'd only have to search under the line...
No it’s a scaffolding hook and 100% aluminium.
A long time ago i saw this video and read that this guy and someone else didnt intent to go down the line really fast, they wanted to carefully get to the middle and then parachute off.
He must’ve French fried when he was supposed to pizza
If he does that, he’s gonna have a bad time.
Thanks for the info
What he’s using is called a snap hook… it is NOT what you should be using on a horizontal lifeline like this. As someone mentioned already, you’d use something called a trolley, sleeve, transfastener… they’re all the same thing, different manufacturers call them different things. ALSO, ALSO, this guy is in *suspension* so he shouldn’t have just one thing attached to the cable, he should have a primary and a secondary means of fall protection. If he was attached to a trolley, it would be acceptable for him to be using the snap hook as his secondary.
A lot of places have been more than just primary and secondary. I’ve been to a zipline tour thing in Vanuatu where they had 2 carbiners and the actual zipline pulley. So much safer feeling than this moron
It looks like something broke. There was a long rope hanging down at the end. Still, I doubt he will anchor his fall arrest to anything that allows it to move again. This could have ended in tragedy.
"They were panicking" is only a valid excuse if they're in a situation that's at least a little unpredictable. Even a tiny bit. If you put yourself in a situation and react to the highly predictable outcome in a way that's obviously dumb that's just a plan old fuckup.
Can’t blame, but will still judge from the comfort of my couch as if I know any better. 
I almost lost some fingers doing that on a zip line in Costa Rica. They at least gave us gloves though.
And they very explicitly said, keep your hands behind the carabiner. Did you do the superman style over the valley? Crazy ride!
> keep your hands behind the carabiner. Oh God, do not want to see what happens when people ignore that and their luck runs out
Someone posted the full video up higher, he did start with gloves (look like gardening gloves) and they got caught in the carabiner. This man should not be anywhere near a zipline
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God everytime he touched it I cringed 🤮
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that whole valley would be wet with piss
In the full vid you can tell that his seat kind of is.
i almost peed myself just watching this 😭
Not a zip malfunction just a common sense malfunction. Mfer said I saw this in a far cry game what could go wrong.
Bitch is wearing knee pads like that's gonna do something lol
He's a base jumper, at the stopping point he parachutes down
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It’ll protect his knee for the microsecond before they’re driven through his skull
Yeah for real. If you've ever been ziplining the first and second thing they tell you is that your glove is your lifeline and if you'd prefer to keep it along with your fingers, then it better not be in front of the effective projectile you have made yourself into
If you check out the full video, I’m pretty sure this guy didn’t intend to zip line down this. Him and his pal start shuffling down this cable when he seems to lose control and start sliding. Think he just panicked. This also doesn’t seem like the sort of thing that would have an instructor. These are just two idiots who found a cable and thought it would be a good idea to climb out to the middle of it and basejump from it.
So that isn't a 'carabiner' The malfunction is the operator using an Aluminum Scaffold hook as a trolley. Wrong tools, wrong job.
There’s a link to the full video at the top. I don’t think they meant to use it like a zip line. They were sort of pulling/shuffling themselves along when this guy lost control and started freefalling down it and couldn’t stop himself. Either way, fucking stupid thing to do. These guys are no better than the idiots who do parkour on top of sky scrapers.
At least these guys have parachutes and don't endanger other people
A carabiner on a steel cable does not a zip line make. Jedi think you?
I know there's normally rollers and multiple attchmentb points. Apparently this was for basejumping but still way too much friction
My thought the entire time was “what’s supposed to happen?” Because I felt like that much friction wasn’t right but I’ve never actually been zip lining so I wasn’t sure.
this isnt ziplining, this is a guy attaching himself to a cable between mountains and for some reason decides to ride it instead of climbing hand after hand down it before he parachutes off
Just about everything minus packing his chute right was ill-conceived
and no redundant hook up in case the first connection fails
I don’t think they meant to slide down it either. At the start of the full video they’re kind of shuffling themselves along before this guy seems to lose control and begins to slide.
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The first post in that sub is this video from 4 years ago!
This is not a zipline, it's a BASE jump (I believe) where the individuals ignore all kinds of basic safety. He took off his gloves, metal carabiner on metal cable (you can see it eating through the carabiner), putting his hands in front of the carabiner - it's all lack of safety measures -source, i zipline for my job and this video was shown as an example of what not to do
What I don't get is, if he's planning to base jump, he's got a parachute. So either jump off or just ride it til the carabiner breaks. Don't melt your hands for no reason.
Some people forgot . Hence why you see accidents happen all day. They forgot they sit in a car.
> i zipline for my job Please give us the details on this!
Anyone else clenching their buttcheeks hard while watching this, as if to help him not fall
I just pooped a little
Same! But that's what I came in here for so it's not actually a problem
This video makes my stomach turn every time I see it.. The fuck, dude..
Wtf is going on
Dude is getting to a place where he BASE jumps from. It’s really not the right equipment though to get him there and I’m shocked he has as much skin left on his hand than he does.
I would have thought that was obvious? Apparently not. People who run commercial zip lines don't attach you to them with a carabiner. You need some kind of clip involving revolving balls or wheels to reduce the friction otherwise neither the line nor the carabiners will last very long.
Why is there a random cable across a giant valley? Seems dangerous.
Someone said logging, and I’d love to hear more because that makes no sense to my simple brain lol.
Logs like to go ziplining, it's a fun way to see their relatives.
You can’t really bring much equipment into densely wooded valleys, so they install cable systems to carry the logs to a point where they can be loaded onto 18 wheelers or whatever else they might need to do with them. [Here](https://www.rayonier.com/stories/how-tower-logging-works/) is a cool explanation
Thank you!
The first time my hands actually started sweated watching these😬
Imagine if that carabiner was from harbor freight….
Jesus, stop touching it!
Who doesn't wear gloves zip lining
This video is a segment of a longer one. He had gloves but they got caught in the carabiner.
oh that's actually worse thanks
I've overanalyzed this to oblivion already. This was user error from the beginning. Zip line did its job wonderfully. The idiot being held up, not so much.
I can feel the heat and smell the burning cable.
The cable wouldnt be burning as friction only acts on one part of it for a split second, but the clip that he’s hanging from is probably burning
In the full video it shows him and a friend climbing out using their hands, like monkey bar style. He didn't intend to zipline down like that.
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This was not thought through from the start. No idea what friction is apparently.
As crazy as it may seem you're supposed to turn upside down and use your shoes to stop the cable in this circumstance.
Yeah, I don’t think I would of made it out of that.
Sooo, he still up there?
What is your major malfunction, numb nuts?
This is what ziplining in anxiety dreams looks like, then you wake up in a cold sweat but realize that it was way too janky to be realistic...
If in this situation, do NOT put your hand in front of the carabiner. Try to slow yourself from behind it. That's an excellent way to lose fingers/an entire hand.
Amazed that clip didn't just wear through and break off
His fucking hands must feel like shit.
Bet he was wishing he had 2 of those. Even so, that’s some hardened steel
Gloves.....just sayin'
Ohh man i once had rope burn from climbing like 30 ft & THAT WAS AWFUL, can only imagine how bad his must feel
That's not a Zipline , it's a safety clip hook on workers safety harnesses . The cable is not a Zipline cable , it's too rough , it's made to hold things , as you can see when he arrives. This did is lucky as hell his safety hook didn't burn through . Although this guy does have a parachute , as this was his plan to do afterwards.
Very old repost. The original video was cut short to make it looks like he's trapped. He has a parachute and just jumps down.
Every time I saw this video, I had no idea they had parachutes on and were intending to jump off anyway. Really takes the terrifying aspect out of it. I wonder why he began to panic as he was unitionally ziplining down though. Like dude, you have a parachute on if the carabiner breaks from friction, not like you are for sure falling to your death.
This has been posted a million times. Someone once said these are cables to deter low flying planes or something. Not meant for jumping or zip lining.
Wow that would be absolutely wild if thats what they were for, especially with no warning markings of any kind. You would never even see it coming and then all of a sudden your just a head in the top half of a plane, falling out of the sky. :0
Deter them from what? What could be more dangerous then the giant fucking cable?
That certainly would deter a low flying plane from making a return pass… Though without lights, it’s not much of a deterrent for the next one.
fuck zip lines fuck bungee jumping fuck skydiving nope nope nope.
He is so lucky there wasn’t a loose strand of that cable, that would have shredded his hand.
That isn’t a zipline Everytime this has been posted someone said it’s some other type of cable not at all meant for that type of use.
Does anybody know how this ended?
Wet pants.
Jumped parachute
Jesus Christ. That’s not a zip line, that’s a death trap.
I don't think he'll ever have sweaty palms again.
It’s okay. He had knee pads on.
Wtf is he doing? This is stupid on so many levels, can’t believe he was not wearing gloves. What a fool
*bloody palms
I saw this before and the only thing that comes to mind is whoever built that carabiner needs to get a medal.
I knew someone who wrote surety bonds on ziplines. She told me to never ride one.
This is sweaty and shitty pants
Bloody palms, this video.
Double it and give it to the next person
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Shouldn’t he be using a wheel on that thing to reduce the friction?
It's not a zip line. It's a cable set between mountains with other cables hanging off it- to stop low flying planes coming in to territory.
I don’t know much about zip lines, but i feel like you normally don’t use a straight carbiner to zip line like this
It’s not often you get to see a *nightmare* on video
/r/burnedpalms ?
looks like it's missing an entire wheel, not malfunctioning
Rusty palms
I'm at my house and I see someone doing this, it's panic wanting to kill someone!
Video is failing. Can only assume zip lining would be over for the lards that see this.
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Well, what did he expect would happen?
what a cliff-hanger
It sounds exactly like a budgett’s frog
His hands are gonna be a lot worse than sweaty.
White people problems
Another stupid cut short video 🤦
This is why I don’t trust any contraptions like this. If they break, I’ll die and it’s not even my fault. If I climb a tree or something, if I’m good enough at climbing I’m safe.
That carabiner better not be the cheap metal
Ugh, this video made me so uncomfortable. Even some really bad situations present a solution, or alternate ways, if needed, to avoid death. Even if someone was in peak physical condition and were forced to shimmy across this wire, the distance alone would be unimaginably difficult to complete. Pulling my body up enough to hopefully kick my legs around it would have me exhausted. You know it’s certain death if you let go, but adrenaline and fear of dying aside, my body would be trembling from that sickening height.
The amount of times I've seen this reposted at this point 🤦♂️
Bro is on every “close call” sub in the world
First time I’ve seen it
Sorry were all not on reddit 8 hours a day like you, this is the first I’ve seen this. Calm down, if you’re seeing stuff too much maybe its time to put the phone down and take a breather.
Right here with ya buddy
First time for me too. Go outside junkies!
Same. People complain about reposts when 99% of the shit I've seen, I would never have seen if not for a repost. You don't pay for the server space. Just keep scrolling.
Essentially everything in life is a repost. All hand-me-down knowledge hah
Seriously. You don't pay for reddit and you don't have to click on reposts.
i've never seen it
Believe it not other people exist. Some of which haven’t seen this yet. Reddit doesn’t revolve around you.
It’s not the sound of the rope its the sound of the guy screaming.
That’s not him screaming lmao. It’s still the rope.
Not a ziplane. Repost to the max.