My friend Brad having fun on the zipline.

[DonaldRobertson]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPHTs_u7dfE

I'm hoping to have a video uploaded of me sometime soon on the zipline.

 

[easyphloem]

That looked like fun!


SZ

 

[theXman]

except for the slightly burned fingers from reaching up when he was nervous.

 

[DonaldRobertson]

He never actually touched the rope so he didn't burn his fingers. He did reach his arm up near the rope but never touched it. I don't think he got nervous at all. This is a guy that does all kinds of crazy stuff.

 

[Phil]

Craziest thing I've ever done was stand behind a horse and punch him in his nuts. He kicked me in the chest. It was a shame, he broke is leg and we had to put him down. True story. How high was that? Looked maybe 25'?

I've been wanting to setup a long zipline myself and am wanting to incorporate some type of braking system that could be operated by the user thats idiot proof. Any suggestions? I was thinking of something using roller blade or skateboard wheels in a vise type setup around the zipline rope. The harder you squeeze, the slower you go. Haven't thought much more about it than that.

 

[theXman]

Okay.

I'm seeing things.

at 0:01/ 0:16 clearly looks like two fingers or so hooked over the rope, especially with nice blue sky behind it and body in hung position off that one arm.

natural reaction is to grab when you first drop in a situation.

no big deal.
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how about water for a brake?

"adult" zipline at my house:

 

[JesseHuffman]

Zipline over my house
Watch the bigshot in the begginning...so cool how the music synced up with the shot.

Part one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiUJ1tfB0no
Part two
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLzxThu894U

I was in a weird place when I did this and know it wasnt the safest thing in the world. Dont try this at home kids.

 

[DonaldRobertson]

Phil, The zipline we were messing with that day was like 20 feet high or so.

 

[DonaldRobertson]

Xman, That's a really cool picture.

 

[Jamin_Mayer]

[ QUOTE ]
Zipline over my house
Watch the bigshot in the begginning...so cool how the music synced up with the shot.

Part one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiUJ1tfB0no
Part two
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLzxThu894U

I was in a weird place when I did this and know it wasnt the safest thing in the world. Dont try this at home kids.

[/ QUOTE ]

That video is a classic. I remember that.

 

[Jamin_Mayer]

But, Donald... Nice video. It kind of makes you want to go higher and further, doesn't it?

 

[zebhaney]

Here is a link to Sean O'Conor's Facebook Page and a recent 75 foot zip line. Check out the landing.

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1938168451292&comments

 

[DonaldRobertson]

[ QUOTE ]
But, Donald... Nice video. It kind of makes you want to go higher and further, doesn't it?

[/ QUOTE ]

We were wanting to make it longer and but there were no other trees in the area with a good spacing for a further distance so we had to stick with what we had available.