Back in my day we got pulled across a river in the snow to get to school!
Upstream both ways?
No, they made me swim on the way back.
I dream for a day where we find a proper middle ground going back to fun, dangerous, and adventurous childhoods, but also have our digital advancements and niceties.
These look like shit pulleys that would jam easily.
Also you don’t just roll across and have to pull yourself?
Looks like mum on the right can do that but God knows how her kids are hanging on. Kid in the middle can barely reach the rope. Kids on the left seem to be holding up the show.
I seem to recall an alternative setup that used two ropes-- one above and one below. That generally enabled all four limbs to potentially help propel themselves, also taking pressure off the body strap and pulley.
I really don’t like how peoples’ feet dangle with this setup…
Not sure. If you’re sitting in the loop you can’t really use your feet against another rope to propel you. It would be very difficult (impossible)? to keep them both at the correct high as the ropes sag with tension. So if your weight is resting on the top rope it’s difficult to have a second one floating in just the right place.
With no pulley sometimes there’s two ropes one for your hands and one for your feet.
Agree. And I think the one I saw was more like the below, with no body strap:
https://www.rappler.com/moveph/152804-students-rope-bridge-iligan/Statistically, I would guess the body strap version is safer, yeah.
Btw, saw this comment at the Evil Empire talking about OP’s photo:
fun fact: I’m from a small town near this place, and apparently kids did end up in the river from time to time, but there were no serious incidents (btw the rope was actually made from iron, and in winter it would freeze. fun times i guess).
