Learned to rappel yesterday!

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Yesterday a friend of mine taught me how to rappel. We started on the steep sides of the local gravel pit and ended by rappelling out of my workshop attic. Good fun. Climbing up the sides of the gravel pit was a good workout too.
Now we're looking for a higher spot to come down.

Any climbers on here?

 

[Rodi]

Sounds like fun!

 

[FrankenSigns.biz]

Looks mighty dangerous...

 

[fmg]

looks great fun

 

[Craig Sjoquist]

Great way to develop confidence, safety standards and keep your health go for it

 

[CanuckSigns]

You need a batman costume...

 

[signmeup]

You need a batman costume...

I know right? We were big fans of the Batman show when we were kids so this was kinda funny for us. I had one friend who jumped off the carport wearing a cheap Batman suit that didn't fit... good times.

 

[signage]

You need a batman costume...

Don't you mean Robin:ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:

 

[signage]

I know right? We were big fans of the Batman show when we were kids so this was kinda funny for us. I had one friend who jumped off the carport wearing a cheap Batman suit that didn't fit... good times.

See his friend is batman:Big Laugh

 

[SignManiac]

Minus well jump out of a perfectly good airplane next

 

[signmeup]

Minus well jump out of a perfectly good airplane next

Minus well! They have skydiving about 5 miles from my place...

 

[signmeup]

Hey... I could rappel out of a helicopter!

 

[Salmoneye]

I have been able to repel for years; women, money, customers with vision, luck... Like I am coated with Teflon!

 

[Farmboy]

Try Australian next time. It'll work better at the gravel pit. I hope your using a belay.

 

[signmeup]

We used a tree for a belay

 

[iSign]

use a tree for that "something higher" you were looking for. I've rapelled out of 100 trees, up to 180 ft. tall... but you need climbing spurs, and a D-ring belt with a flip line... but you can scale a huge old conifer with no limbs for the first 100 feet... makes a great rappel!

 

[tcorn1965]

I did this one year in summer camp down an 80 foot cliff...30 years later and still a fond memory

 

[round man]

That brings back memories of my billboard painting days,....One of us, either the boss or me would have accidentally dropped a tool pr brush and somebody had to go down and get it,...when you are six or seven stories up on a wall there is only one way down,...somebody had to rappel down and then slide back down the falls from the roof to return,..i can still remember the way those old manilla and hemp ropes would burn my bare hands and crotch if I got into too much of a hurry,...glad to see you guys using the right gear I suppose its alot easier that way,....

 

[Tifosi]

I had to hire a window washer at one point to install a banner on the side of a 100+ year old library. The terrain was too rough for a lift so I had him rappel off the roof and hang the banner for us. It made me really want to learn how to do that!!!

 

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I had to hire a window washer at one point to install a banner on the side of a 100+ year old library. The terrain was too rough for a lift so I had him rappel off the roof and hang the banner for us. It made me really want to learn how to do that!!!

There's probably a climbing club near you where you could learn. It's not very difficult.