Ever hung from a door?

[Wise Old Owl]

Interest thing nobody here said no. So on your first attempt hookup a tripod and digital video recorder....... then post the results on youtube.

[JCINMA]

Interest thing nobody here said no. So on your first attempt hookup a tripod and digital video recorder....... then post the results on youtube.

And then give us the link here.

I've only used door frames for grip strength training (rock climbing), and I'm surprised that the frames have held. What I use now is a board screwed in with 4 screws to the studs above the door, and that can easily hold me. With the dynamic training I put on there, I have probably put close to 1000lbs of force on it.

I say that if you can, screw into the studs above the door.

[Cold Butt Stephen]

Interest thing nobody here said no. So on your first attempt hookup a tripod and digital video recorder....... then post the results on youtube.

For the record, I may not have said it in so many words, but if I wasn't clear, I'd say no.

[Just Jeff]

Interest thing nobody here said no. So on your first attempt hookup a tripod and digital video recorder....... then post the results on youtube.

That's b/c we all enjoy a good laugh at someone else's expense.

I also suggest that you post the video here...there's a reason I've never hung from a door frame.

[rjcress]

I am hanging right now (posting via iphone) with my head end clipped to a strap. About 8 inches from the clip is an overhand knot. I opened the closet door, draped the strap over the door on horizontal as close to the hinged side as possible, with the knot on the back side of the door, and closed the door. The knot is too big to pull through the gap.
In fact my son's foot end is connected to the same strap (with two 75 LB accessory biners holding our suspension lines. 2 total, not 2 each).
I'm pushing 200, my son is almost 60 LB.
No odd noises or excitement so far. Hoping no issues overnight.

Didn't seem like a bad idea at the time

[Nizned]

Heh heh.. I don't think I'll try strap to the door, I can see movement in the hinge just by putting a little pressure on it with my hand. I need to come up with something to put 'against' the door frame (I'll have my pullup bar on one side of the room, then something else in my closet door).
Hmmm.. Maybe a 2x4 going diagonal in the top corner of the frame, since the force won't be straight on. The closet door is perpendicular to the main door (imagine an L with a door at each end.

[rjcress]

FWIW, no drama overnight hanging from the knot jammed in the top of the door.
My kids have been using that for a couple of weeks.
Last night is the first time I put my weight on it in addition to one of the kids.

[oldgringo]

I agree with Cold Butt.

For those that are going to do it, anyway, only hang on a door you own. Own, as in, you're the one who pays for damages.

[Bubba]

This is my set up at work. The doors and frames are pretty heay duty so I was not worried. I tied a knot in the webbing, opened the door, slid the webbing through and then closed the door.
I am pretty heavy so I would not do in my house because it is an older house and the doors and frames are not as robust as some of the newer houses.

THIS thread shows a guy hanging from a doorway at work.

It looks like quite a sturdy door, but I'd probably chance a set up like that on any reasonably well fitted door.

[larrybluhm]

Before I moved last summer, I was living in a 100 year old cottage and regularly hung from a small tied loop of 5/8" tubular web around the upper hinge of the open bedroom door. Four large screws held the hinge to the doorframe and it was mostly shear loaded. The other anchor was a sizable eye screw well placed in the opposite corner of the room. Never a problem - including being subjected to occasional horseplay and buffoonery.