Bridge swing

[Morrisey]

After studying You Tube for a week and a crash course in physics and geometry we decided to to give this bridge swinging mullarky a try...

I must own up to wee-ing just a tiny bit!

Anyhow heres the footage:

http://www.youtube.com/user/b3tarev3?feature=mhw5

 

[goan]

I want a go! Looks awesome!

 

[diehardlove]

that is fucking awesome i need a go too

 

[jonks]

Wow, that looks awesome!!

One question... how did you get the rope under the viaduct from one side to the other?

Sorry if thats a noob Q

 

[turkey]

Brilliant.

 

[bollockmaster]

Hi, there's a viaduct at conisbrough near doncaster that's a good 40ft higher than that. I think there's a video or 2 of folk abseiling down it on youtube. Just thought you might fancy a bash at that one like. Not me though, scared of heights lol.

 

[digital_me]

One question... how did you get the rope under the viaduct from one side to the other?

Tie a weight to one end, and throw it really f*cking hard, I'd expect.

 

[heightlover]

thats brilliant i need to sort out some rop and do a bit more research as really want to do this. had a little attempt on a 13ft train bridge by my house shown here (bad filming by a mate and also dark) and this was still good fun lol
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBHf9YKt9eE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdmLpy_sdiA

 

[Morrisey]

Wow, that looks awesome!!

One question... how did you get the rope under the viaduct from one side to the other?

Sorry if thats a noob Q

Abseil down one side of the bridge, have someone drop one end of a rope down from the opposite side, tie this to the abseil rope and the person on the bridge hauls the rope up. Tie both ends together and you have created a loop around the bridge, add a Krab to the loop and attach your rope from the swing to it and you can then proceed to pull it under the bridge!

 

[Styru]

Looks fun -

quick cautionary tale - years back we used to do the same off a bridge (similar height) in Warwickshire.

We too rigged in a similar way, with the ropes across the span - great until some prat green laneing in daddys 4x4 twatted his way across the bridge at speed.

Wrecked quite a bit of kit - thankfully no-one over the side at the time - oh, and did one hell of a lot of damage to pa-pa's beloved 4 x 4

 

[morse]

looks like you had a fun day. this is definetely on my to do list for this summer!

 

[morse]

does anyone know of a good bridge near manchester?

 

[jonks]

Abseil down one side of the bridge, have someone drop one end of a rope down from the opposite side, tie this to the abseil rope and the person on the bridge hauls the rope up. Tie both ends together and you have created a loop around the bridge, add a Krab to the loop and attach your rope from the swing to it and you can then proceed to pull it under the bridge!

Im with you! So actually if you cut out the abseiling part, you could just drop a length of something cheaper like paracord from each side, tie together at the bottom, walk back up, and tie the ends at the top together to create a loop round the bridge with paracord, and just use that to pull your rope under?

 

[Morrisey]

Im with you! So actually if you cut out the abseiling part, you could just drop a length of something cheaper like paracord from each side, tie together at the bottom, walk back up, and tie the ends at the top together to create a loop round the bridge with paracord, and just use that to pull your rope under?

You would need a fair few metres of paracord but yes you could.

On a serious note. As Scot states in the other thread, if you aint confident in what you are doing then don't take the risk.

Get it wrong and its "half a day out with the undertaker" as good old Fred Dibnah used to say.

 

[diehardlove]

morrisey thanks alot for your kindness, if it means il get a invite to the next swinging session il bring my dress,thanks alot again mate very very kind of you wanna come.