There's something I've always wanted to try.

I want to see how many yellow sticky notes it takes to hold my body weight off the ground if we use them in perfect shear, in just the way the tape is meant to be used.

So what I've done is made a little sling and have that adhesive strip be pulling in perfect shear along the pull-up bar.

Shear is when you push one thing across another.

Watch what happens when I tr to shear this tape across the table.

(grunting) I'm standing on a footstool only 18 inches off the floor, so I can hang from this bar.

Ten slings.

Each one is going to have to support about 16 pounds.

I think it might work.

Da, da-da-da, da, da, da, daa... Da, da-da-da, da, da, da-da.

One foot off.

Pulling hard with my arms.

Two feet off.

I'm holding myself up with sticky notes!

There are exactly 20 sticky notes total holding my body weight of 160 pounds and one of them even came off, so it's even a little more than 16 pounds per sticky note sling.

That's almost eight pounds per sticky note itself.

This is incredibly robust.

Wow.

Oh, no.