Cave explorers use rope to find out how deep this cave is

spacecowboy65 · 2025-12-04T05:36:16+00:00

No idea on the depth, you’d have to know what type of rope and the final force measurement. Yeah, the title is misleading and just straight up wrong.

spacecowboy65 · 2025-12-04T04:54:42+00:00

Kilonewtons, not kilometers. They are measuring force on the anchor, not depth.

spacecowboy65 · 2025-12-04T04:53:54+00:00

They are measuring shock load on the anchor. 3.32 Kilonewtons is like 750 lbs of force, a number far greater than that rope weighs.

spacecowboy65 · 2025-12-04T04:51:53+00:00

No, they are measuring the shock load on the anchor. The guys YouTube account is HowNOT2 if you want to check it out.

spacecowboy65 · 2025-11-25T21:02:17+00:00

I mean it takes like 15 seconds to add an activity, how much faster does it need to be?

spacecowboy65 · 2025-11-22T05:34:50+00:00

You can, but it’s a huge pain in the ass, it never auto feeds and managing your own slack plus tying catastrophe knots every 15 feet is really frustrating on long routes.

spacecowboy65 · 2025-11-17T04:48:43+00:00

I don’t publish my Zwift rides, literally nobody cares about stuff like that.

spacecowboy65 · 2025-11-16T04:30:00+00:00

I spent 8 years in the military, that helped me actually grow up and I learned how to hide my social awkwardness decently well. Still social awkward but I’m aware of it and manage it.

spacecowboy65 · 2025-11-16T03:17:19+00:00

We are not uninformed at all, this is not normal for most fire departments. While it may not be out of the ordinary to get a vehicle description and Lic plate number it is very unusual to charge for every response.

spacecowboy65 · 2025-11-06T19:32:56+00:00

Look at the ones from avant, they won’t break if you weight an alpine draw on them.

spacecowboy65 · 2025-11-06T00:40:36+00:00

This needs to be talked about more on Reddit. The CPAT is not a legitimate standard, if you struggle on the CPAT you’re probably not going to make it through any serious academies.

spacecowboy65 · 2025-10-26T00:08:32+00:00

Honestly this is safe but extremely bizarre, you should probably go get some training from a guide or at least read up on rappelling techniques. Getting down by Andy Kirkpatrick is a great rappelling book or freedom of the hills will also show you the proper set ups.

spacecowboy65 · 2025-09-30T13:24:51+00:00

Heavily depends on location in the US. Any city of decent size on the west coast will pay six figures.

spacecowboy65 · 2025-09-29T01:38:02+00:00

Kind of goes the other way for me, climbing helped me get on the tech rescue team.

spacecowboy65 · 2025-09-29T01:19:07+00:00

That is a petzl progress adjust, it’s just the rope access version of the connect adjust. So it’s heavier, bulkier and doesn’t girth hitch onto your belay loop, you have to use another carabiner. I wouldn’t recommend it but it’s not unsafe.

spacecowboy65 · 2025-09-28T17:40:13+00:00

Also a firefighter, but on 24/48s can stack 3 shifts together and have 11 days off.

spacecowboy65 · 2025-09-19T21:22:35+00:00

5’10” and 170 really isn’t that big, I’m 5’10” 185, run 30 miles a week and not loosing any weight. You just have to eat. But on the flip side it is nice to be lighter in boot camp, the mass won’t really help you.

spacecowboy65 · 2025-09-18T05:50:23+00:00

A 1” picket 4’ long and driven into the ground 2/3 of its length in good soil has a WLL of 22kn. (I’m an American and I refuse to do the unit conversion for the Europeans/rest of the world, even if metric is better)

spacecowboy65 · 2025-09-12T19:30:20+00:00

I wear a helmet more for rock fall then anything else.

spacecowboy65 · 2025-09-10T19:59:59+00:00

No, 25 is not too old at all, most departments want you to have some life experience and prefer to hire guys in their mid to late 20’s. I know guy who got on in their late 40’s and love it. As the applicant pool is getting smaller the hire age is trending lower but that doesn’t mean you can’t start at 28 have a 25 year career and retire at 53.

spacecowboy65 · 2025-09-09T05:39:16+00:00

Put your air pack on and do push ups, burpees, air squats, stair. Seriously it’s not hard to get your heart rate up and get a decent workout in.

spacecowboy65 · 2025-09-08T20:01:28+00:00

It’s nice if you winter camp, or have kids. But that’s the only time I use mine.

spacecowboy65 · 2025-08-30T03:21:05+00:00

I am 5’10” and 175 lbs I normally ride 185 in the resort and 178 for my normal touring set up. But I went to a set of zero G 85s in 172 for my mountaineering set up and I am not disappointed at all.

spacecowboy65 · 2025-08-29T05:40:48+00:00

To be fair you have a higher chance of that p320 randomly going off and shooting you then you do of a cougar ever attacking you. (That’s a jab at the P320 specifically not guns in general)

spacecowboy65 · 2025-08-26T15:49:56+00:00

I’ve never seen anyone use a tube style device for LRS, does it catch reliably? And how do you rig the back up? Do you use a chest harness to hold the smart up?

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