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Chat & Social => The Bar - General Chat => Topic started by: spyke_boi on December 29, 2006, 03:54:31

Title: Go Disco Go Go!
Post by: spyke_boi on December 29, 2006, 03:54:31

Shame the driver's a bit of a [ed - prod with a sharp implement]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5sDhlKG77I

Title: Go Disco Go Go!
Post by: zacspeed on December 29, 2006, 08:33:43

My Vit wouldn't have got stuck as many times  :twisted:

Title: Go Disco Go Go!
Post by: Rich_P on December 29, 2006, 11:11:41

But at least he admits that it would help if he wasn't the most useless off-road driver.  :wink:

Title: Go Disco Go Go!
Post by: dreadnought110 on December 29, 2006, 11:17:14

Still think the funniest thing about that was that he left it on the top for the team to remove and flew of in a helicopter then realised he still had the keys :(bigshock):  :smack:

Title: Go Disco Go Go!
Post by: zacspeed on December 29, 2006, 22:20:52

The most alarming part of the whole video is the guy who's stood practicaly over the winch rope whilst it's being used to recover the Disco  :shock:
I'm no expert, but I'd assume that if the rope were to snap, that bloke would very rapidly become two smaller blokes?

Title: Go Disco Go Go!
Post by: Skibum346 on December 29, 2006, 22:43:39

Quote from: "zacspeed"

The most alarming part of the whole video is the guy who's stood practicaly over the winch rope whilst it's being used to recover the Disco  :shock:
I'm no expert, but I'd assume that if the rope were to snap, that bloke would very rapidly become two smaller blokes?

Interestingly, Mythbusters (Discovery Channel) recently tried to replicte this myth using various winch wires under various loads against a dead pig..

They didn't succeed until they wrapped a loop around the pig... one end anchored to a building or some such.... the other to their truck... then floored it!

Mythbusted... apparently...

Still... safety first and all that!

 :?

Title: Go Disco Go Go!
Post by: Mudlark on December 29, 2006, 23:15:19

Quote from: "Skibum346"

Quote from: "zacspeed"

The most alarming part of the whole video is the guy who's stood practicaly over the winch rope whilst it's being used to recover the Disco  :shock:
I'm no expert, but I'd assume that if the rope were to snap, that bloke would very rapidly become two smaller blokes?

Interestingly, Mythbusters (Discovery Channel) recently tried to replicte this myth using various winch wires under various loads against a dead pig..

They didn't succeed until they wrapped a loop around the pig... one end anchored to a building or some such.... the other to their truck... then floored it!

Mythbusted... apparently...

Still... safety first and all that!

 :?

When you've witnessed a steel cable decapitating someone you pay the steel cable much respect when you use it :shock:  :shock:  :shock:

Title: Go Disco Go Go!
Post by: dustymiller on December 30, 2006, 08:24:42

i agree
i once met a chap who lost his leg to a steel cable on a ship.
not nice