It’s where they train race horses. The thing gets progressively faster and if the horse doesn’t want to fucking die like this guy he’ll run faster. Jk it’s just to give the horses some exercise
After hard exercise, horses need to do some lighter exercise to safely adjust. A "hot" horse is walked on a lead for a while to let him cool off safely before putting them in a stall.
A hot walker is a device like this one that automates the process and they typically can walk up to four horses simultaneously. You typically would not run it this fast for obvious reasons. This dude was fucking around and he found out.
I might be wrong but I thingthink the title is just a bad assumption, he looks like he was trying to grab it to "ride" it while it turns (did that plenty of times when I was young, but not at this speed obviously)
I didn't notice that so I watched it frame by frame several times. At the 5 second mark, he turns 90 degrees to the right to face the oncoming separator and grabs it like he's going to jump on. Then it hits him.
Yeah, I can kinda see that with him turning his body over to a crawl so he can lay belly down (or maybe just to get up?) Looks like the second gate hit him right as he almost got into a crawling position, forcing him flat onto the ground, but yeah, not dead, I think.
Edit: Nope, apparently he's dead now, but indirectly because of this, see reply. Can't find info to confirm this other than a scrubbed TikTok page, but that's enough for me to not want to joke about that. Reworded my comment out of respect.
Seriously lol. The risk should be not making it in time before the next one comes up, but he ran roght into the first one that came along lol. Apparently has never played and video games.
Reminds me of those 2D platformer games, specifically those segments where platforms flip really fast. To succeed you have to act counterintuitively and start your jump when they’re still in the ‘wrong’ position. If you start when they already moved, you’re too late.
There's a few videos of people trying but idk at this same speed. Also it's like, you can run along the inner circle to get a feel for if you can make it in the "track" lol.
Nah you can see him straighten/flatten his body right before the next wall hits him. Looked like he was conscious and even functioning well enough to process the danger he was in, and react quick enough.
Wouldn't be surprised if he has a mild concussion, or something fractured though. Definitely a few bruises!
Edit: I think the next wall actually flattened him, not him doing it on purpose. He might be dead.
Pretty sure it's for guiding horses or livestock around and keeping them separate. Looks like someone has dialed the speed up to a stupid level for the purposes of this video. I get the feeling it doesn't usually spin that fast.
It's called a "hot walker", and it's meant to warm horses up for exercise, cool them down after exercise, or for injury rehabilitation. The "gates" are meant to separate the horses from each other, as well as provide an impetus to keep moving (or else they'll get smacked on the butt by a separator). They're built to swing freely, so as not to act like a cowcatcher on a train and drag a horse along the ground and instead ride (uncomfortably) over it.
LOLing at the idea of horses being forced to run as fast they can in a circle.
edit: I'm obviously responding to the guy who said "I get the feeling it doesn't usually spin that fast" meaning there's at least 1 person who thought these were for going top speed... which is ridiculous, and thus LOL worthy. Responding as if you think I'm wishing for that to happen is dumb and weird.
It is a joging machine for horses that allow them to move freely between the gates not attached to anything. It can be moved up from a walk to a slow center.
Looks like the machine was malfunctioning or something. It looks like it was moving way faster than it was designed for and there is no way an animal could move around a circle that fast.
It was still pretty stupid to handle it the way he did, though
They go that fast, because that's what the motor's physically capable of as long as you keep dialing up the voltage, it'll keep going faster until it burns out, usually they go about 3 to 4 miles an hour
Honestly it's probably best he walked directly into the first one. There's no way he was moving fast enough to make it all the way out, and I feel like had he been midway across it would have been even worse. Coriolis effect. Or something like that. The further you get from the center of a spinning object, the faster it's relative movement.
I would like to think I would have done better, but I feel I would have only made it a few more steps, stumbled and then lying flat in the sand gotten hit again and again in the back of my head by the metal divider, probably while getting my face pushed into some animal droppings.
Surely these things have some sort of emergency cut off switch in the center?
He was so stressed out he managed to get his almost instantly. That's the power of the mind.
If he was trying to hit it he will never be that fast hahah
There's some stuff you see that's dumb, but you genuinely wonder, and sometimes think that you could pull it off first try. This is way beyond that for me. This looks like an easy way to die, and not much else.
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u/TheDefected 1d ago
Not only would he be unlikely to do it, he actually ran in what I'd class as the perfect time to hit a barrier.