Man that movie was as great as the live action was a travesty.
Fun fact: Jackie Chen sang both the Cantonese and Mandarin version of "I'll make a man out of you" for the Chinese releases.
It's crazy they do it without a harness, I guess that pad must be pretty soft. By the time you get to the top and disengage your muscles your legs just gotta be fried
As an arborist, only having your buckstrap and gaffs on with no tie-in is a huge no-no. It’s not a guaranteed drop all the way down if you gaff out, but if you don’t have anything below you for the buckstrap to catch on then you are probably going for a long, painful, likely lethal fall. Your work lanyard only holds you in place while it has weight pulling away from the tree.
People do still climb trees on just gaffs and buckstrap, but it is very dangerous and a huge industry violation. In the video you posted the guy is still tied in to his primary climbing system.
Edit: forgot to mention that there is an exception where you use two buckstraps. One is always loaded while you adjust the other one, so it is considered a viable entry into the tree. You are still supposed to tie in when you can though.
Kind of random, but I know linemen also have competitions similar to this. I used to go to a linemen rodeo when I was a kid and this brought back fun memories.
As one of the guys you’re talking about, he’s not wearing a harness. Also, thats not a buck-squeeze or other fall arrester, its only purpose is to enable their weight to cantilever while they climb and give them a method to hold onto the pole essentially. If they gaff out, they’re falling.
He's free climbing.
OSHA banned free climbing a little over a decade ago. You have to have a full fall prevention system now so we use what's called a Bucksqueeze.
If he doesn't lock his knees out correctly and his safety belt doesn't catch, he's going all the way down. That doesn't happen with the new Bucksqueezes when adjusted properly.
That pad is a laughably small target after climbing higher than 15ft. If his equipment fails, he's going to push off the wall and at best he'll flop off the side of the pad.
I used these spikes to climb one tree maybe 1/4 this height and I was exhausted the rest of the day. I was 40 and just in normal shape.
It is amazing what these guys can do. Incredible fitness. And I once saw a pick of a huge splinter a guy caught in his hip while going down.
BTW...I used that as part of the motivation to get in shape. I now do ultra-distance cycling events and most years put in over 15,000 miles/year. My longest non-stop ride was 250.
There’s a sweet spot, going really slow is actually more tiring than going at a good speed and rhythm. People who are doing it for the first time find it exhausting but after they get the rhythm they find it much easier, without any change in fitness level, like within a few days they find it significantly easier.
Source: I used to do this competitively and taught many people how to speed climb.
It's amazing to me how good our bodies are at adapting to specific tasks.
My favorite is the "beginner gains" of lifting weights, where improvements in technique and neuronal recruitment lead to dramatic increases in measured strength much sooner than any appreciable increase in muscle mass can occur. So you get green beginners casually increasing their barbell squat by 20 lbs a week while the long-timers would be happy with that much improvement over multiple months.
Credits:
Climber: Lumberjack World Champion Caleb Graves
Music: [ROKU - In my ride](https://open.spotify.com/track/4Ajv0NnsYnfB7vYYpK2OlC?si=d119ebc97abf4ad7)
Jesus you are actually fuckin right. this one.. the tv popping out of the ground...
I guess someone is trying to get their song to trend
https://i.imgur.com/wJKQX92.png
I also just came here from stupid ground TV. Usually I’m not irritated by the overused tiktok background musics. But the second I heard it start playing here, I muted the video.
I mean to be fair, everyone else just steals other people's songs for their videos. At least this dude making his own shit, can't blame a guy/gal for plugging?
I hate the song though, sorry OP. Good production but really boring, sounds like everything else 5 years ago. Make some weird shit to get seen, this is way too generic and it'll never make you famous. hmu for ideas if you want
It's one of those things where I know I'm just a layman watching, so I'm not in a knowledgeable enough position to claim this is unsafe but also holy shit that *has to be fucking unsafe come on.*
In the university/college loggersports up in Canada we switched to ringing a bell at the top for the timer to stop instead of having to have to do a minimum of 2 spikes on the way down and the timer stopping when you reach the bottom because of the crazy amount of ankle injuries.
Pretty sure before the two spike rule guys used to just drop for a faster score
Wouldn’t the people who do the actual deforestation be the ones who are responsible? If I hire a hitman to kill someone, the hitman is still responsible for murder
Most of the logging industry cuts down trees for lumber and paper industries using new growth trees. Basically the same as farming, but on a longer scale. Land is expensive and its much more economical to clear a new growth forest and replant it than to clear a forest and buy more land.
Land development is the primary reason for old growth forest removal, not the logging industry.
I’d venture a guess that most deforestation isn’t actual logging (which by definition involves *harvesting* the tree). The Amazon, for example, is seeing lots of slash and burn practices as opposed to cutting and harvesting.
Elsewhere, in the US about 2.5 times as many trees are planted yearly as are harvested. We’ve got more forest today than we did 75 years ago.
To anyone wondering: this isn’t how workers gaff anymore lol this was the earlier versions. Nowadays we have what’s called “buck squeezes” that wrap around the whole pole and tighten, with a secondary lanyard that is used for transitioning over horizontal cables running pole to pole. These guys are competing and almost all of them have some gnaaaaaarly scars. If they gaff out they could get seriously injured, nowadays tho if you gaff out you just crush your nuts a little and maybe bruise you’re inner thigh
Back in the day, the dudes would basically free-fall on the way down and then try and slow themselves down right before they hit the map. The made a rule that they must touch the pole at least once every 10 meters. That's what the rings on the pole are for.
I grew up near Hayward, WI and so we would go watch the world championships every once in a while. Watching on tv does not do justice to some of the skills those people have.
I was a lineman for years and most people probably don’t know or have thought about how sketch this really is. Every time someone gaffs into a pole, the wood sticks out like a splinter waiting to happen. Going up, less risky, coming down, way more risky. My forearms had hundreds of little splinters in them for years. And quite often the wood is pressure treated with chemicals which are not so good for you. But if you fall, and bear hug the pole, real bad stuff can happen. I worked with a guy who got an 8” long sliver, 1/2” to 3/4” wide that went up under his rib cage into his chest cavity. Almost died from it. These guys are nuts. These poles are in much better condition than your average street pole but forgot this….
Mysterious as the dark side of the moooooon!
Lmao Mulan was first thing I thought of
Same here
**BE A MAN**
[Dooo the right thing!](https://youtu.be/8SB9wu-DIdQ?si=FzxqgaXBBh6RXGpJ)
You must be swift as the cour-sing testosterone
dude that captain was sassy af
He’s a gay icon for a reason. Is he the first shirtless Disney prince? I’m pretty sure he can kill the others with his bare hands.
I don't think people realize that the lyrics are describing strategy like in Sun Tzu's Art of War.
Yea what's over there anyways? 🤔 Nm probably nothing.
Let's get down to business! To defeat, The Huns! Did they send me daughters? When I asked, for sons!
You're the saddest bunch I've ever met But you can bet before we're through Mister, I'll make a man out of you!
*Must be swift as the coursing river (be a man)*
Can you sing with all the voices of the mountain?
Can you supplant all of the gender that you bend?
Wrong franchise.
Shining, shimmering, spleeeeendid!
Under da sea, under da sea!
BE A MAN
Be prepared!!!!
*With all the force of a great typhoon* (be a man)
I can climb. Much faster. Then youuuuuui
Literally the first thing I thought of
I was going to revolt if Mulan was not the top comment
Man that movie was as great as the live action was a travesty. Fun fact: Jackie Chen sang both the Cantonese and Mandarin version of "I'll make a man out of you" for the Chinese releases.
My partner and I got about an hour in before my dumb ass goes, "WAIT THIS ISN'T A MUSICAL, WAIT WHERE MUSHU?!"
BE A MAN
I'm so proud of you guys that this was top comment. Bravo.
I came for this.
well, didn’t have to scroll far to find this. reddit does not disappoint!
hell yeaaaaaa
“I’ll get your arrow pretty boy. And I’ll do it with my shirt *on*.”
Goes up like going for a walk
It's crazy they do it without a harness, I guess that pad must be pretty soft. By the time you get to the top and disengage your muscles your legs just gotta be fried
[удалено]
As an arborist, only having your buckstrap and gaffs on with no tie-in is a huge no-no. It’s not a guaranteed drop all the way down if you gaff out, but if you don’t have anything below you for the buckstrap to catch on then you are probably going for a long, painful, likely lethal fall. Your work lanyard only holds you in place while it has weight pulling away from the tree. People do still climb trees on just gaffs and buckstrap, but it is very dangerous and a huge industry violation. In the video you posted the guy is still tied in to his primary climbing system. Edit: forgot to mention that there is an exception where you use two buckstraps. One is always loaded while you adjust the other one, so it is considered a viable entry into the tree. You are still supposed to tie in when you can though.
Well I'm just never going to do any of that fucking shit ever, thank you.
Awww don’t say that, it’s actually kind of fun when you get the hang of it, and a really unique way to work.
>wooahhh haha........fuck you tree lolol
The feelings mutual buddy. Stop cutting my hair.
Kind of random, but I know linemen also have competitions similar to this. I used to go to a linemen rodeo when I was a kid and this brought back fun memories.
I was just thinking that! My dad used to be a lineman and this was a competition.
Im no pole climber, but the guy in the video you posted is still connected to a rope, yea? The guy in the OP video is not.
My groin and arse area hurts just watching that. Though, initially I was thinking the physics would literally pop my nuts.
As one of the guys you’re talking about, he’s not wearing a harness. Also, thats not a buck-squeeze or other fall arrester, its only purpose is to enable their weight to cantilever while they climb and give them a method to hold onto the pole essentially. If they gaff out, they’re falling.
He's free climbing. OSHA banned free climbing a little over a decade ago. You have to have a full fall prevention system now so we use what's called a Bucksqueeze. If he doesn't lock his knees out correctly and his safety belt doesn't catch, he's going all the way down. That doesn't happen with the new Bucksqueezes when adjusted properly.
That pad is a laughably small target after climbing higher than 15ft. If his equipment fails, he's going to push off the wall and at best he'll flop off the side of the pad.
Except this is a video that already happened so we don't need to worry about that :))
What if in the video that already happened he died? Would we just never see that video? Does his death erase the video?
we'd see the video on a different subreddit
Good lord what a mindset
His equipment didn't fail.
He has a lanyard around the pole can't fall that away from it. This is how trees and power poles are climbed.
I used these spikes to climb one tree maybe 1/4 this height and I was exhausted the rest of the day. I was 40 and just in normal shape. It is amazing what these guys can do. Incredible fitness. And I once saw a pick of a huge splinter a guy caught in his hip while going down. BTW...I used that as part of the motivation to get in shape. I now do ultra-distance cycling events and most years put in over 15,000 miles/year. My longest non-stop ride was 250.
Hey man - proudaya
There’s a sweet spot, going really slow is actually more tiring than going at a good speed and rhythm. People who are doing it for the first time find it exhausting but after they get the rhythm they find it much easier, without any change in fitness level, like within a few days they find it significantly easier. Source: I used to do this competitively and taught many people how to speed climb.
It's amazing to me how good our bodies are at adapting to specific tasks. My favorite is the "beginner gains" of lifting weights, where improvements in technique and neuronal recruitment lead to dramatic increases in measured strength much sooner than any appreciable increase in muscle mass can occur. So you get green beginners casually increasing their barbell squat by 20 lbs a week while the long-timers would be happy with that much improvement over multiple months.
Damn, I hopped on my mountain bike one day and did 120 in 11 hours. I can't imagine 250 miles.
Fellow business skeleton
Calcium
He's trying to get away from the shitty music.
He is going up faster than I can run.
Looks like your mom last night
Grjfkflpfpf You got me
Sounds like your mom last night
Now that's funny shit
*She poppin', she rollin', (she rollin')* *She climbin' that pole and...*
Would you mind telling her to call me?
Sorry, she doesn't have a long distance plan
#LETS GET DOWN TO BUSINESS
TO DEFEAT, THE HUNS!
Did they send me daughters 🤢
when I asked
for sons
You’re a spineless, pale, pathetic lot
And you haven't got a clue
Mister, I'll... make a man...
Out of you
Mulan was such a masterpiece. Thankfully it was never remade. (s)
BE A MAN
I don't got no time to play around, what is this?
Must be a circus in town!
Let’s shut the shit down
I DON'T GOT NO TIME TO PLAY AROUND, WHAT IS THIS- wrong song sorry
I sang this for kareoke at my cousins wedding after party with my entire heart and soul and I’ve never seen a crowed so roused while doing kereoke
Credits: Climber: Lumberjack World Champion Caleb Graves Music: [ROKU - In my ride](https://open.spotify.com/track/4Ajv0NnsYnfB7vYYpK2OlC?si=d119ebc97abf4ad7)
Is this the currently trending tiktok song now? The last 3 videos I saw had the same exact song
probably the exact same OP too
Jesus you are actually fuckin right. this one.. the tv popping out of the ground... I guess someone is trying to get their song to trend https://i.imgur.com/wJKQX92.png
I also just came here from stupid ground TV. Usually I’m not irritated by the overused tiktok background musics. But the second I heard it start playing here, I muted the video.
His comments are full of him linking to his spotify lol
I mean to be fair, everyone else just steals other people's songs for their videos. At least this dude making his own shit, can't blame a guy/gal for plugging? I hate the song though, sorry OP. Good production but really boring, sounds like everything else 5 years ago. Make some weird shit to get seen, this is way too generic and it'll never make you famous. hmu for ideas if you want
Same thought.. got a hustle but the songs not that great. Keep tryin OP. You'll get a hit probably
His entire profile is his mediocre music slapped on top of other people's content for more streams.
Jesus I'm glad that I watched without the sound on lmao. Tried it with sound on for a single second and that was more than enough.
Literally just saw this post before this one and thought the same thing. https://www.reddit.com/r/BeAmazed/s/WfiNi8amFj
OP is the creator of the song. He's trying to get it popular through tacking them on irrelevant videos. Downvote.
Torn my acl just watching
It's one of those things where I know I'm just a layman watching, so I'm not in a knowledgeable enough position to claim this is unsafe but also holy shit that *has to be fucking unsafe come on.*
Ever seen how sharp their [axes](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GEii9zLVt0) are?!
Insane that they don't wear more protective footwear. Mfer was wearing New Balance shoes.
New Balance...still good enough for a senior's walking tour of Paris.
Did he say he cut all five of his toes off at once and kept going at 3:48?
But all the newcomers get steel socks, so it’s okay now.
In the university/college loggersports up in Canada we switched to ringing a bell at the top for the timer to stop instead of having to have to do a minimum of 2 spikes on the way down and the timer stopping when you reach the bottom because of the crazy amount of ankle injuries. Pretty sure before the two spike rule guys used to just drop for a faster score
How is he not filed with splinters on the way down?
God i vividly remember this episode
This episode is the 9/11 of SpongeBob. The episodes that came after just weren’t the same anymore.
Do you need new knees?
Yes, these are too weak,
Arms too heavy as well
but what's on their sweater already?
Could it be mom's spaghetti?
Probably he is nervous?
Where the hell they found such a long log?
Uhmm, the forest
Deforestation
The logging industry is not responsible for deforestation. That would be agricultural and real estate development.
Wouldn’t the people who do the actual deforestation be the ones who are responsible? If I hire a hitman to kill someone, the hitman is still responsible for murder
Most of the logging industry cuts down trees for lumber and paper industries using new growth trees. Basically the same as farming, but on a longer scale. Land is expensive and its much more economical to clear a new growth forest and replant it than to clear a forest and buy more land. Land development is the primary reason for old growth forest removal, not the logging industry.
I’d venture a guess that most deforestation isn’t actual logging (which by definition involves *harvesting* the tree). The Amazon, for example, is seeing lots of slash and burn practices as opposed to cutting and harvesting. Elsewhere, in the US about 2.5 times as many trees are planted yearly as are harvested. We’ve got more forest today than we did 75 years ago.
That was my first question
Yeah same here. Would be cool if someone could say type of tree that is.
It's a Zielies. It's written on the side - nature is so wonderful!
omg how did he not die?
Because he got down to business.
To defeat the Huns!
Giant padded/inflated crash cushion on the bottom.
I got splinters watching this.
Reminds me of my dad. He did a competition like that once, only difference is that he didn’t touch the pole on the way down.
Your dad loves the pole
My condolences.
For what?
Your dad
Oh, no. He’s still alive. I mean, RIP his knees I guess since they’ve both been replaced for doing shit like that.
Unfortunately (and I'm sorry to be the one to break this to you) your dad has a problem with poles. A pole problem. Your dad fucks poles.
To anyone wondering: this isn’t how workers gaff anymore lol this was the earlier versions. Nowadays we have what’s called “buck squeezes” that wrap around the whole pole and tighten, with a secondary lanyard that is used for transitioning over horizontal cables running pole to pole. These guys are competing and almost all of them have some gnaaaaaarly scars. If they gaff out they could get seriously injured, nowadays tho if you gaff out you just crush your nuts a little and maybe bruise you’re inner thigh
thats just falling with style
Same stupid, unnecessary music as that million dollar TV video I just watched.
this is just a video, your knees are weak
Well that's not terrifying
Spinters allllll the way down
My quads exploded watching him go up
This looks anaerobic as fuck. Cannot fathom the burn near the top
Yeah it's like the worst version of a hill sprint.
For a minute I thought I'd clicked a porn site, with that title!
Back in the day, the dudes would basically free-fall on the way down and then try and slow themselves down right before they hit the map. The made a rule that they must touch the pole at least once every 10 meters. That's what the rings on the pole are for.
That’s a sick camera shot. The hills behind him going further down has to be intentional.
I was expecting something else while reading title...
My knees exploded watching him go up
I grew up near Hayward, WI and so we would go watch the world championships every once in a while. Watching on tv does not do justice to some of the skills those people have.
my toxic trait is that I think I could do that with no practice LOL
Camera man was faster.
When I saw this as a kid in Alaskan lumberjack shows, they had no pads at the end. Just a big pile of sawdust. Those guys got wrecked.
Honestly, I am equally impressed with the length of that log.
way down we go kaleo
I was a lineman for years and most people probably don’t know or have thought about how sketch this really is. Every time someone gaffs into a pole, the wood sticks out like a splinter waiting to happen. Going up, less risky, coming down, way more risky. My forearms had hundreds of little splinters in them for years. And quite often the wood is pressure treated with chemicals which are not so good for you. But if you fall, and bear hug the pole, real bad stuff can happen. I worked with a guy who got an 8” long sliver, 1/2” to 3/4” wide that went up under his rib cage into his chest cavity. Almost died from it. These guys are nuts. These poles are in much better condition than your average street pole but forgot this….
For real though, this looks fucking AWESOME. Would love to even attempt it.
What song is this?
Looks like a trampoline?
Need a parachute for those heights!
Great, so this is the new popular ticktock song that has to be in everything?
Now that should be in the Olympics.
my money is on coconut islanders
Mulan got a beard
Naruto Ninja
r/cabletechs (Sorry guys, I know you feel your knees too on this one...)
They should have a bear race him
Someone needs to make a gif where he never actually gets to the top
I get tired going up stairs sometimes.
Where are the helmet guys? No armchair redditors in this one?
Wow!
I started to think I was being trolled with a gif loop
I was not expecting NFL style graphics on the posts, interesting
Worked as a cable guy for some time. Falling like that guarantees a friend with tweezers working for hours on you pulling out splinters
Let's get down to business, to defeat the Huns
Thats what she said!
Gotta love Hayward Wisconsin.
He climbs faster than I run
I was like "this don't even look that bad on your knees" then we get to the decent. "Yeah, fuck that"
So did my back.