No, that’s not a typo for Burning Man. What do you get when you take a hundred feet of plastic sheet, weld up a big ramp, modify a car into your own personal high speed winch, and put it all near a lake? You get some serious air time.
A group of French water sports enthusiasts decided to build this fantastically ill-advised super slip and slide. They built a giant ramp alongside an old farm house heading towards the lake. At the bottom is a large ramp they welded together out of steel. Now you can just slide down this slip and slide.
But they weren’t content with just that.
They jacked up an old car and replaced one of the wheels with a bare steel rim to use as a winch. Using some high strength cable they strung it across the lake, wrapping it around another steel rim on an axle to use as a massive pulley. Bring the cable back across the lake, hook it up to an inner tube and get ready for the flight of your life!
Safety? Really, what could possibly go wrong here?
Nice.
Don’t have a lake at your disposal? A leak proof water blob is kinda fun too.
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Pat & Mat – Skokani – Czechoslovakia 1982
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvJylqiCNVw&w=420&h=315%5D
Adam & Jamie – California -USA 2011
http://www.discovery.com/tv-shows/mythbusters/videos/adams-super-slide/
Shiittttt.
Someone needs to say it-guess I’m the first…
I guess if you need something insane done-give it to a frog. They seem to have insane sh!t down to an artform.
Gentleman (and women) I salute you!
Not your usual French “water sports” enthusiasts.
And when the lake freezes over you get this act of genius: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4GXNN2x-W0
Also this is how lots of ski areas started here in the US, string some rope on the pulleys, jack a truck up and have someone run it as a rope tow.
“T’as failli me tuer putain!”
translate to: “You almost killed me. …” L.O.L.
But he was volunteer… why does he complain?
Maybe they reeled it a little faster than he expected?
That is one proper water slide!
Evolution in action! Machinery doing for mankind what medicine has thwarted for years!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJimrQSISF0 Here’s a proper way to do it. With some proper music and filming.
regarding the music… each to their own, I guess.
agreed
That video doesn’t show the part where they MAKE IT THEMSELVES
That’s the shortest HAD title I’ve ever seen.
So, any stupid stunt youtube video is enough to be an article on HaD. You´re reaching the Jackass level, dude …
No, it has to be something you hacked up yourself. A car wheel as a winch so you can FLY with some plastic sheeting = definite hack. Colin Furze knows.
Axle. Axel is from Guns ‘n Roses.
No, that’s Axl. You’re thinking of Axel Foley.
Better than a group of German “watersports enthusiasts”.
Fetchez la vache!
My french is awful, does that mean “get the cow”?
Yes, it’s a quote from Monty Python & The Holy Grail.
The car setup looks like something from the Red Green Show.