Trickline webbing break tested - including damaged webbing

Trickliners bounce on two-inch webbing like it's a trampoline at pretty high forces. We are going to find out how strong their little trampoline is on this episode of How Not to Trickline. Hi, I'm Ryan Jinks and welcome to my garage. This is Olga Henry and Dylan Loosberg, but he likes tight lines. It's ironic. We are going to break test some trick lines in this episode. Olga's been writing Tricklining 101, a free textbook for slackline.com. Slackline.com has How Not to Highline, Bolt Busters, Bolting Bible. It has lots of stuff including tricklining now. So, let us show you what we're going to break and how we're going to do it. So, in case you've never seen this before, this is the Slack Snap machine. It is two 10 to 1s, with my original Amsteel backup. That's a special information. That goes to a Costco winch and when we push the button, the whole thing gets pulled as you can see how that works. What we have installed here is our 995 5th sample and we have a ratchet that we had to install upside down. Normally, the handle is downward and it goes under, in this case, the bar or over in case you rig it in the park. And we're going to test this good piece of, what is this? Surfer line. Surfer line. I don't know my surfer line webbings. Wow. Who donated this? When people donate gear, it really, really helps. If you donate money, it also really, really helps. All of it goes back into the channel. 200% of your donations goes back into research or the website and free resources because it's all free on slackline.com. Let's start breaking something. Since I don't know how this ratchet is going to break, the soft shackle is attached to the pin because this loop is too long. Normally, you can girth hitch a tree or girth hitch whatever. And this side is a good sewing loop that you can see is attached like that. So we don't know if this is going to break, the webbing is going to break or the ratchet is going to break. So Dylan is very, very excited about this test so much so that he insists on standing right next to it. And since we don't put the plexiglass on top because it could affect the quality of the filming that we do, he's just going to hold it. I don't think that's safe. You should have less fingers because if you only lose the tips of your fingers, you can still trick line, right? I mean, yeah, as long as I have my pretty face. Yeah. Leave in the comments below how we can get great camera footage and be safe about this. But in the meantime, Olga and I are going to be in the kitchen while I push the button. Good luck, buddy. That's warm. Olga screamed. That's great. Yeah. Oh yeah, it is warm. So the webbing broke. Shocker. Yeah, this was like this. It's wrinkly too. Look, it's got wrinkles. Oh, it was where the bar was touching. Yeah, that's what Dylan said. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Look how wrinkly it got. Like it has like permanent wrinkles. Yeah. It didn't have that. It's like after being pregnant. It changed the weaving like a lot. You can feel it. You can see it. 27.5 kilonewtons. What? Or 6,200 pounds of force. That's incredible. For fun, these guys play with 15 kilonewtons of tension or like their peak forces are when balance. So they have a two to one. I wouldn't call that a safety ratio. They just have a ratio of two to one. Okay. So this is the same setup now for our next sample, except this is a mild deterrent where you would hesitate to use it, but you might still do so. Would you guys trickle in on this? Yes. I would not. I would not trickle in on this. You would not trickle in on this? Well, let's find out who's more sketchy then. All right. Wow. Holy cow. Holy cow. Whoa. It did so many things. Oh, yeah. See how it tore? Yeah. It did so many things right there. Wow. What is that? Whoa. That tear didn't do anything. I mean, look, the problem still is there for the most part. This side, look at this side. So that's where the tear was. It definitely broke at the tear, but it didn't rip it just sideways, but it went all the way back. Look at the way this. This chunk is a result of the tear, not a result of the bar, correct? Yeah, that's kind of what I'm. I want to set up one without the bar just to see what it's going to do. Hold on. It went higher. It was higher. Oh, my God. How is this possible? 64 higher. So little tears make your webbing stronger. All right. It's true. Trickle out on ripped webbing. That's the best. OK. Sample 997 is a worse tear. And guess what we're about to do? This should make it above 40 kilonewtons based on our linear theory of it gets stronger. This is a three ton webbing, by the way. So to break above 6000 pounds is breaking above MBS. The weird thing is people are playing with one and a half tons. It's just like the safety ratio is incredibly low. So interesting from a highlining perspective. Let's pull. This didn't rip so much long ways. This has more of a tear. Yeah, that's the first tear we got. Like that. Like that's kind of how I would expect it to go. But it's still wrinkled. You can see. But here where it crosses the bar, it's fine. So what's the number? Our number is 26. So full strength, basically. All right. Let's put a worse, a worse one in there. All right. What do we got here? So we have gotten to the territory of not usable for a trick line anymore. I would not use this because there's obviously some strands that are separating from the slack line and it's eating into nearly at least a quarter of the slack line. OK, let's find out if it's stronger. All right. Wow, it broke. Shocker. I am curious about this. What are the chances? That's insane. That's pretty satisfying. So 23. 23. It's only like eight more dead Isaacs than you normally use. Wow. Five thousand still. So you would still be. Oh my goodness gracious. Uh, you'd have a safety ratio of one point five. Now, I just had a thought that will that'll add another branch into your video is the cyclical loading, obviously, I think is the is the is the determining factor and like why that took like five thousand pounds to bust that tear like that. I would never trick line on that. I would never. That would bust for me. Why? Why isn't it great? Like if we never get to this, like under 20 kilonewtons, why do they actually break and realize some sort of cyclical loading reason? Because I know for a fact that I would bust that trick line. It might take a few sessions, but it would bust on me. And I never get even anywhere close to five thousand pounds. So, wow. Well, that's good to know. You can't just take a yeah, a slow pull test for, you know, the way it is. I guess we'll have to do some human testing. We'll put you on some shit webbing and you're just going to have to. Yes. Well, we'll be nice. We'll do it over grass and not concrete. OK, here's our next sample. What's going on? So if you guys can see those like hairy strains are warp strains which go along the whole trick line and they hold the force. They look really hairy and like not strong, but this is what holds the force of a trick line. So and we're missing this sideways strains are called wefts. Weft, W-E-F-T, I believe. That's if Elmer Fudd said left. And that's what holds the weave together. Yeah. So it's like I can pull that. But you can see those. Yeah, those like sideways ones. Yeah. Interesting. OK, so let's find out. Let's just find out what happens when we break this. What's the breaking strength of Ryan's ears when all this screams on every break test? Oh, my God, a few more. Hold on. Hold on. Don't tell us the number yet. A few more break tests and we have my new wig. So it broke. I don't know. It did its thing. Imagine this lock line on this fluffy thing instead of like the the hardcore this, you know? I don't know. Let's see. Is it safe to guess a number? Guess a number. Put in the comments below your guess. Yeah, it's 26. It's stronger than the last one. Oh, fifty nine hundred pounds of force. No, because all the fiber is going this way. We're still there. OK, so now now we need to just cut 25 percent with a knife and see what happens. We got to make this thing fail below. Below super good enough. Let's cut some webbing in case you're wondering why we skipped to 1001 as a sample. I broke the line scale, too, for number 1000. I cheated and moved the number ahead. That'll be that's in a whole nother episode. It was 110 kilonewtons. It was pretty rad. These go up to 30 kilonewtons. They're awesome if you want them embedded in your slack lines and they go up to 30 kilonewtons. Is it all about what these are breaking at? Anyways, so 1001 is where we're at. This sample, we're going to cut this about 25 percent because we're cutting the warp fibers, not the wheat and the weave fibers. But it's this the ones that give it the strength is what we're cutting. I think that is going to cause a problem. Now, what it's going to do is tear this, but you still have one and a half inches of full strength webbing. So this actually might hold. It's kind of fun cutting this. So that's about one finger long. That's scientific. Finally, something that will actually impress you guys. That literally just tore. It ripped like a piece of paper. Oh, my God. Well, that is what you guys trick line at. That's not that high. Thirty two hundred pounds of our 50 percent of MBS. Yeah. So you don't have to cut it halfway through to lose half your strength. I wonder if we just cut a little if that would if that would start the paper tear. Yeah, just that maybe one more because that's tiny. Let's see. To measure the finger. Let's do it. One more strand. Oh, it's bleeding. OK, let's let's pull that. OK, what's your mind saying right now? I still don't understand why us cutting it starts it so cleanly and it breaks at such a lower tension than when it's just a natural scuff. And it tore almost what that look at a little bit more than the other one. It's around what the other one was. And we cut it so much less. It is a little bit more. Yeah, it is. It's a little bit more, but it's still like the discrepancy between those two tensions makes sense to me. Like it's a little bit more, but not crazy. But I think like people should not be scared of the fuzziness because like this fuzziness just like comes from it happens. Yeah. And it's actually like maybe just we lost like one strain over here or something. Yeah. And like this is just. Or we can tell people just a trick line on really nice webbing and not take the risk. Yeah. Nah, we shouldn't conclude that. Okay, so we're going to cut even less to see if we can completely confuse everybody from fuzzy versus a knife. One? One and a half. Like that. Oh, heck yeah. Oh, man. I don't even see it. It's right here. So if this was a normal thing and you used it, it would look like because there's two kilometers on it right now. It would look like some things you see. Yep. Like that. It's like one and a half. Want me to do another one? Or just like. It might be not even a full one, but I want to see what it. That's a full one. We got one for sure. Let's just see what happens. Twenty seven point one. Six thousand pounds of force. So basically MBS. I think we just actually replicated what a typical scuff in a trick line looks like. It looks really bad because it's all frizzy and it looks like a mess, but it's actually only one or two strands, which seems like it's not as big of a reduction as I thought. I thought it was originally. So one or two strands is super good enough. If you're cut 10% through, that's not. Yeah. Super good enough. So we found what actually like what strains look like. They're like this. They're really pretty. And those are like the ones that go from side to side. But nothing's holding them in place anymore. Once the sides of those weavers go. We cut just the ends here that cinch everything together. And once those are cut and nothing's holding it. This is what's happening. That's really cool to undo that. Yeah, it's pretty satisfying. And so you have those fibers are holding all the weave together. But actually, this is the cinch side. And how something is woven is how stretch is applied. It's also how they do after the treatments afterwards that also affect it. We're going to have all that included in the tricklining textbook that Olga is working on. So check it out on slackline.com. You can trickline on fuzzy webbing if you have a death wish. Therefore, you shouldn't trickline. You should. They think you should trickline. Smash that like button. Cheers. And you can see paint. Like it goes in and out of the webbing. Yeah, so it's like it's in and out. And it's actually like really, really hairy like this.