PSA: Don’t trust a shitty pull up bar. Almost died today because I’m an idiot

[hopetobereborn]

I recently built a 9ft pull up bar frame out of steel pipe and joints from Home Depot so I can exercise outdoors. I’ve been using it for the past couple weeks, and it was perfect. Very simple design- two long poles with perpendicular bases, and the pull-up bar connecting them.

Today, I was using my rings to do face pulls at the end of my workout, and one of the vertical poles snapped at the joint. I fell and knocked my wind out and narrowly avoided the rest of the structure as it fell towards me.

I’ll be designing something a lot stronger this weekend.

Don’t be a cheap dumbass like me. Build it right or you could fuck yourself up. I feel super lucky to be un-injured

pictures that I posted in the comment section

 

[thomaslowrens]

@hopetobereborn What if the bar was robust and it was your superhuman strength that caused it to break?

 

[hopetobereborn]

@thomaslowrens Great theory. I just recently start taking creatine- I’m seeing muscles I never knew I had. I better build version 2.0 out of titanium

 

[theoutlander]

@hopetobereborn Be careful don't pull up too hard or you will pull the earth out of its orbit

 

[angelbelle]

@theoutlander I know the earth orbits in an ellipses and not a perfect circle, but that would make a fun idea for a comic. Like an origin story.

Hell, maybe that's why the earth is in an ellipses. Maybe Atlas shrugged? Hah!

 

[apmaster]

@angelbelle Dot dot dot, eh, Morty?

 

[thomaslowrens]

@hopetobereborn Use carbon nanotubes for safety.

 

[jeanjacq]

@thomaslowrens Carbon nanotubes have incredible tensile strength but have poor strength in compression. So basically, it would be very strong if you attached the bar to a bunch of nanotubes and hung it from the ceiling. But it would be a poor choice to build up from the ground or to make the bar itself from.

 

[thomaslowrens]

@jeanjacq I FAILED AT SCIENCE, PEOPLE WILL DIE FROM MY ADVICE!

 

[tobycurry]

@thomaslowrens Can confirm, just spent thousands of dollars building carbon nanotube pullup bar and I died.

 

[thomaslowrens]

@tobycurry Should have made carbon nanotube ring straps instead. RIP.

 

[dawn16]

@tobycurry RIP in peace

 

[rirala]

@jeanjacq Non-Mobile link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_properties_of_carbon_nanotubes

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[intensityof10cities]

@jeanjacq So you can't break it from pulling but you can from pushing? Nice.

 

[christianlady2000]

@thomaslowrens thats really the only solution

 

[cornerstoneeg]

@christianlady2000 Don't inhale them, though

 

[kitrrnkoyr]

@cornerstoneeg Then you'd have to start injecting whey for your body to heal fast enough

 

[dawn16]

@kitrrnkoyr Injecting whey gives me strong!

 

[pandarine]

@thomaslowrens CARBON NANOTUBE TRANSISTORS

 

[niki37]

@pandarine I miss Netlinked Daily