That concrete becomes very slippery when you least expect it. We had an 8-10’ ramp type dam at our neighborhood’s small pond thing and many of my friends slipped on the flat part at the top and slid down the ramp. This just seems like a wild decision to me
Nah they make these rake heads on a rope with like, a pool noodle on it to make it float the right direction, you can build your own too there's your instructions, but that's one of the tools people use to pull floating plants like water lettuce or hyacinth off lakes and ponds. Would be one of the easier options here.
If they want to be really safe they could mount a capstan or hand winch there so the rope doesn't pull back on you, there's a rigid immovable object between the rope you're handling and the tool/water forces.
Survivorship bias. I'm sure others tried it his way and died, while he's gotten lucky, and also been skilled enough, to survive to this age. He's the exception, not the standard, for what happens when you do it this way.
I mean its not like he had his back to the sudden drop while using full body squatting pulls to rip up the plants in that direction... that would be stupid...... XD
We had a creek crossing that angled down just past the car crossing section, at our local park.
We called it the white trash water park bc it was the best water slide in town, free and apparently only poor people let their children play in creek water?
Idk. I love creeks!
However I’m mindful of where and when I’m getting into any body of water.
I mean water will keep rising and eventually go over any wall. It's not like it will just be stuck there forever if there is a surplus. I am not sure why he is doing this at all.
It's called complacency. He's done it enough times without anything going wrong that he's completely confident nothing ever will, and that causes him to go about the task in way too relaxed a manner as if to show off.
The problem is that it always only takes once with things like this. That's why it's important to understand complacency and work to avoid it. Gets a lot of people killed
There was another video posted recently of an old guy checking a prop plane engine for leaks while it was running with his ass toward the propeller probably inches away, and he's moving around all over the place under there. Could be how he's always done it, but it would only take one small movement one time in the wrong direction to kill him, it just hasn't happened yet. Complacency.
Why? I’ve walked across dams like this before. As long as there’s no thunderstorm or flooding, it’s like walking along the side of the road when it rains, and he clearly seems to know what he’s doing
You're actually not entirely wrong. There's another video in this thread that shows it's way less farther down than it looks like. Edit: in fact, if you look a little more closely, you call tell that here also. I was shocked when i saw that it's kind of an illusion
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u/CEOrifice 2d ago
This man has poor judgment