Bigest Rope Swing Video
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I recently saw this sick video made right in my home away from home, Moab, UT. I am sure some of you have seen it... |
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Andrew - I'm the guy who organized this and I'm happy to answer any questions about rigging. Email me at bairdas AT gmail DOT com. |
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Thanks Austin- I will send you an email. But I am also curious about force applied to the rope. Anyone have any idea what kind of damage if any this causes to the equipment? |
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Andrewprime1 wrote:Thanks Austin- I will send you an email. But I am also curious about force applied to the rope. Anyone have any idea what kind of damage if any this causes to the equipment?Not any more than you would taking a minor lead fall, but they really aren't putting the rope(s) near to any limit of its safety, nor subjecting a participant to an injury as you might with a static system; this is a lot like a gravity trick with a clock's pendulum -- basically it is more like top-roping although you do get some points of disorder which will unload the rope and then load it again. Nylon recovers its resiliency, yes there are limits to any system and you want ropes in good physical condition and inspected, but nothing concerns me here with the system. The main point was protecting from abrasion, which was handled and the anchor was fine. |
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Set it up last week and did about 25 jumps on the system. Jumped on one line through a grigri with a back up line that was unweighted. Thought this would give us a softer catch and allow us to rap the main line and cut down on jump transition time. We protected the lines with fire hose. Very little appreciable wear to hose and none to ropes. |
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Holy cow that's awesome!! |