Eric Mac - @ericmacccc donated the Edelrid Megajul belay device and we tried and tried to break it. Ropes seem to break in the brake first. These are on our SlackSnap chart samples 920-923 on our website. No affiliate links, no sponsors, just donations! Live life high... safely. It's all FREE at https://www.SLACKLINE.com/
2020-09-02 13:31:00 +0000 UTC View Post
LEAVE LESS TRACE! This is a story about how we can make less of an impact if we are going to make one. We put a lot of thought into this project and were able to remove 20+ bolts and install only 6 bolts on the Lost Arrow Spire tip that services everyone's needs, climbers and highliners. We did it all by hand with an amazing team. Bobby Hutton, Alonso Rodriguez, Kyle Lovett, Greg Kommel, Nick Day, Ryan McBurney. This was quite an expensive project so donati...
2020-08-26 13:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post
We expected bolts to twist in the glue, break the bond and fail much lower than normal if we pulled sideways. Well…….. Just watch. Lots of stuff in the Bolting Bible and these break tests on the BoltBuster data sheet… all on our website. Live life high... safely. It's all FREE at https://www.SLACKLINE.com/
2020-08-19 13:30:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Arrrrr! We tested hooks. Aid climbing hooks. I guess we can’t take granite for granite. Some hooks broke, some wires broke, and the rock kept breaking. These are on our SlackSnap chart samples 966-976 on our website. Email passthepitonspete@hotmail.com if you want the book “Hooking Up”. Dynamometer is LineScale2 https://www.linegrip.com/linescale-2/ &...
2020-08-12 13:31:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Live life high... safely. All the info is FREE at https://www.SLACKLINE.com/ 4 different pulleys tested with low stretch polyester and high stretch nylon webbing = 8 longlines rigged in a day! It was crazy to get 1kn when pulling without multipliers, 0.6kn when pulling with 1 multiplier and 0.3kn when multiplied twice. It’s like two steps forward and 1 step backward. Dynamometer is LineScale2
We pulled a set of TCU Climbing cams out of granite cracks and broke rocks, slings and wires. Samples 938 to 949 on our Slacksnap chart is on our website and these slipped as low as 5.5kn and broke as high as 15.85 which is a huge range. The axial would get bent and make the lobes look all messed up! Dynamometer should have been LineScale2 if we didn't break it... found at https://www.linegrip.com/line...
2020-07-29 13:31:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Clean holes before installing glue in bolts! We did break tests that contradict that but you should still do it. Jim Titt’s article on glue in bolts http://www.bolt-products.com/Glue-inBoltDesign.htm which is also in our Bolting Bible which is on our website including the BoltBuster chart. Live life high... safely. It's all FREE at 2020-07-22 13:31:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Keeping you awesome Patrons in the loop! Didn't post this last Saturday and won't do the next 3 Saturday's. It has nothing to do with shear burnout and the MBS of my stamina! haha. Its my busiest season painting, Juno coffee is at the crux of being a startup.... and we got a really special project we are doing that we will of course make an episode! Also working on DummyDropper, our newest break test machine! We will be posting 2x a week in 4 weeks. I appre...
2020-07-20 01:18:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Hunter Campbell @camp_316 donated a nylon Goldline twisted rope that he pulled out of a cave and believes was installed in the cave in the early 60s or early 70s. Never saw sunlight or water. 9.8kn to 13.8kn was our range. Lots of stuff on slacksnap chart, these tests were samples #924-#929… all on our website. Email passthepitonspete@hotmail.com if you want the book “Hooking Up”. Live life high... safely. It's all FREE at 2020-07-15 13:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post
We pulled 3 slacklines with the new Infinity ratchet system from Spider Slacks and Slack Inov. Wow, that’s a lot easier than pulleys but it struggles with fat webbings and fat loops. This can be used when rigging giant highlines and can be left in the system or used with a separate piece of webbing and a linegrip. https://spide...
2020-07-11 13:30:00 +0000 UTC View Post
We pulled a set of TCU Climbing cams out of granite cracks and broke rocks, slings and wires. Samples 931 to 937 on our Slacksnap chart is on our website and these broke between 7kn and 18kn if the cam didn’t come out which is a huge range. The axial would get bent and make the lobes look all messed up! Dynamometer we broke is LineScale2 https://www.linegrip.com/linescale-2/ No affiliate links, n...
2020-07-08 13:31:00 +0000 UTC View Post
We tape 6x 50m pieces of webbing so we can rig a 275m highline at Elephant Rock. We add soft thimbles designed by https://aki-slacklines.de/en/. Filmed by Siva Rupa and Bobby Hutton Live life high... safely. All the info is FREE at https://www.hownottohighline.com/
2020-07-04 13:31:00 +0000 UTC View Post
We break test 6 very different climbing cams in the CamCrusher adapter for the SlackSnap machine. Samples 910 to 919 on our Slacksnap chart is on our website and these broke between 8kn and 16kn with the slings breaking first, usually, then the wire. The axial would get bent and make the lobes look all messed up! Live life high... safely. It's all FREE at https://www.SLACKLINE.com/
2020-07-01 13:30:08 +0000 UTC View Post
As long as your big highline is high enough, you can rope swing off any of them now. You don’t need a rock off to the side for an exit. In line rope swinging opens up all sorts of new spots to fly through the air. Music used was Hero In Peril by Audionautix and Iron Bacon by Kevin MacLeod Live life high... safely. It's all free at https://www.slackline.com
2020-06-27 13:20:52 +0000 UTC View Post
You asked, we finally did it! We tested 3 of each amazon knock off carabiners. Xinda, Favofit, Ayamaya and Big Wall Traverse brands (@Sam_Moritz donated the Traverse biners). Some are UIAA rated, some are not, some say they are… and are not. They all broke super good enough but we should support the name brands who are actually innovating. Will not link to these carabiners as I do not want to support them more than I already have brought attention to them. &nbs...
2020-06-24 13:31:00 +0000 UTC View Post
We built a full anchor and broke it, over and over again on our Bolt Buster concrete slab and then again on our slack snap machine. I think I like quad anchors now! Special surprise 103KN test at the end! Chart at 16min46sec if you want to skip to that.
Live life high... safely. It's all FREE at https://www.slackline.com/
2020-06-20 14:55:19 +0000 UTC View Post
No road closures, no bird closures, no hiking, no climbing. Welcome to Elephant Rock! 30m & 50m and & 275m Live life high... safely. Its all free at www.slackline.com
2020-06-17 13:30:00 +0000 UTC View Post
We used a climbing sling with a sliding x on 2 bolts, then eliminated one to shock load the anchor, while I was on the highline. Making highlining dangerous again! With Bobby Hutton and Tj Gillick Music used was from http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1200011 Live life high... safely. It's all free at 2020-06-13 13:31:00 +0000 UTC View Post
We give you lots of tips on how NOT to use cams and a few tips on how to do it. We break our first cam break test at the end! Live life high... safely. All the info is FREE at https://www.hownottohighline.com/
2020-06-10 13:31:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Terry Bolts or ⅝” zinc plated wedge bolts with chain were installed everywhere at the fruitbowl in moab utah before being replaced with glue in bolts. Many highliners were curious how strong they were so we tested them! With Matheus Waeny and Nick McPherson. Live life high... safely. All the info is FREE at https://www.hownottohighline.com/
2020-06-06 23:07:21 +0000 UTC View Post
We built a full quad anchor out of 6mm accessory cord that is only 6kn strong... and were getting 32kn. SlackSnap chart on website. Live life high... safely. All the info is FREE at https://www.hownottohighline.com/
2020-06-03 13:30:43 +0000 UTC View Post
We love the button knot for our soft shackles but there is an easier way and it is just as strong. Michael Melner shows you how to make the easy soft shackle with an overhand knot and we break test a 6mm and 5mm afterwards.
Live life high... safely. All the info is FREE at https://www.hownottohighline.com/
2020-05-30 14:51:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Here is the Climbing Anchor section from the Bolting Bible explaining in detail all the options for how you can configure climbing anchors. Leave us comments or message us about how we can make this section better in the Bolting Bible as we update it every winter. Live life high... safely. All the info is FREE at https://www.hownottohighline.com/
2020-05-27 13:31:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Brian Tuor said that our results in the crux monster episode (https://youtu.be/82UW2U1czqk) were not accurate because the hang frames changed the forces. We test the geometry on my Bolt Buster concrete slab in this episode.
Live life high... safely. All the info is FREE at 2020-05-20 13:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Peter Hoburg donated RockLock magnetron carabiners to see if they broke higher than the similar RockLock Screw Gates… they did. See why! You can buy the magnetrons at https://amzn.to/3cfbKZr and the screw gates at https://amzn.to/2zkO5YZ . It helps us out if you use those links if you are going to buy them! What else do you want to see...
2020-05-16 13:31:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Can someone hang onto 2 to 3kn? We did human testing! We also tested the forces when people jump swing. Want to know how to haul people back up? We cover that too. This is a full value episode. This is NOT part of GGBY but at the place GGBY is held. You can learn about that festival at https://ggbygathering.org/. @whiskey.throttle1 @thehomiehome @sylvanslacks @Spencerseabrooke @...
2020-05-13 13:30:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Alonso Rodriguez and his team rigged California's longest highline to date at 600m long and after a few sends and a lot of stoke, the wind destroyed it. Broken webbing, BFKs cut through, and bent bolts. Hear about their story on this episode.
Team was @alonsorodriguez143 @christiansaupe_ @kristenslackoff @cintrotrex @_ahoptimist_ @gregdoesmath @mcburney_ryan @novamishka @kieranablood @venturing_aiden @poli.quintero Hope
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2020-05-09 13:30:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Benjamin Schuldt donated some 60cm mammut contact slings (https://amzn.to/2W8PAm7) made out of dyneema, which is very slippery so when one side breaks of a leg of a climbing anchor when a girth hitch or clove hitch is used it isn't very redundant. Yann Camus from https://www.youtube.com/user/ycamus came up with a combo that might be more redundant....
2020-05-06 13:31:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Tree forts are a thing of the past. Tree nets only take some climbing rope and a TON of paracord and a TON of time! Please don't fall out of trees! I buy my paracord at https://amzn.to/2yk164V
Do a tandem base jump with Andy at https://www.basejumpmoab.com/
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2020-05-02 15:53:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Andy Lewis (@sketchyandylewis) is getting more responsible but sometimes he still does sketchy things. Sylvan Christensen (@sylvanslacks) droned over a 1/8" or 3mm Technora 12 cord that Andy got from his super bowl project attached to a taped open carabiner and hooked the chain on the Witch tower in Moab Utah... THEN ANDY SCOOTED ACROSS IT!!! The next day he BASER jumped out of a plane and landed on the tower next to it, "The Warlock" with Joshua G. (@joshua_wild_skies). Of course...
2020-04-29 13:30:59 +0000 UTC View Post