ratty
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Winching on a pice of string.
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Goony means....OOH THIS IS JUST STUPID!Ratty doesn't know what you mean
vivnap
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yes, yes i was but at the time it seemed like a funny thing to do ! i didnt expect the loop to slip and i thought it took a lot longer to be strangled, it dont trust me. i nearly blacked out in what seemed about 6 seconds. mind you i was in me early 20s and would do owt stupid for a laugh.
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You can't physically hoist you're self off the floor with a single line looped over a solid object because the friction on the line means that you are attempting to pull more than you're body weight once you start to lose contact with the ground you no longer have anything to brace against and lose the ability to pull. It may be possible to climb hand over hand and as a result drag yourself off the floor but you'd need amazing upper body strength
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Thought it was abanning offence to have two user names Ratty & myself isn't that 2 usernames?
woods767
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So does anyone actually use a synthetic winch rope??? For winching i mean...not for constructing a gallows.:suspicious:
vivnap
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beg to differ, throw a rope over a steel lamp post tie one end round your neck, take other end in hands and pull, rope goes tight, pull again hand over hand and up you go. i think you will find you dont have to be that strong to get yourself up in the air unless you one fat fcuker which im not.
if i had a video camera and knew how to get the footage online i would do it again to prove how easy it is but this time i wouldnt make the loop a slip knot.
try it and see for yourself it is very easy and you dont have ta be that strong
woods767
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Go on then, put a prussic on it too somwhere so u dont come back down. Id watch that on youtube.
Pikey
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As I said it may be possible to do it hand over hand! but you have to be able to hold you're entire body weight on one hand as you climb and that takes a lot of upper body strength. I spent several years rock climbing and tried this manouvre several times. but whilst sitting in a climbing harness. and never managed to get myself off the floor. As well as you're own bodyweight you also have the friction of the rope to contend with which adds to the weight you're pulling down on.
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vivnap
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i used to be able to throw 25 KG 12 foot straight up onto the top racking at hillards (before it became tesco) when i was in me early 20s and was quite strong back then. dont reckon i could get 5KG up there now
the post was steel with a round post on top where the light attaches so this might have made it easier but i went up dead easy.
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hahahhaha so im gonna hang up a lamp post freezing me nuts off so you can bang one out pretending im choking ? heheheheh like i said i wouldnt use a slip knot ! :high5:
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When Winching I Tie an old flouresent coat that is usually soaked in water and mud its bloody heavy. I would imagine it would slow the energy out of a broken winch line quite well not that I've had one snap but t can always go wrong when you least expect it. Jai
