bonner1040
Branched out member
- Location
- Boston
I did a tower job once, replacing a 350' 1/4" steel safety cabe with an updated 3/8" one. As usual I was instructed to take all the scrap material to the scrap yard and bring the boss back the money. Lucky for me @ $.10/pound no one missed that 350' cable.
I have put it to good use a few times. My buddy has been hounding me to send him the video from the time we used it at his parents house. I dont have any professional experience setting zip lines but I have done my share of recreational ones.
I know, I know, this and most of my zip setups are fraught with danger and things I could do better/safer.
I am lucky to have not broken my damn neck though this day. Although I guess the car (double sheave pulley) could have slipped under the rope the first time and Nick (my friend, not me) could have gone splat on the termination tree! Now I use a wood block with a hole drilled in it that the cable runs through, anchored to a similar, but improved brake system. The cable for this one is terminated at one end with cable clamps and just wrapped around a tree a bunch of times at the bottom! More recently I have been using preforms which is a way better solution.
Watch it in 720!
http://youtu.be/XoZQaJNAA-c
Filmed with Contour Roam 1, swivel mount, and Kask Super Plasma Helmet.
I have put it to good use a few times. My buddy has been hounding me to send him the video from the time we used it at his parents house. I dont have any professional experience setting zip lines but I have done my share of recreational ones.
I know, I know, this and most of my zip setups are fraught with danger and things I could do better/safer.
I am lucky to have not broken my damn neck though this day. Although I guess the car (double sheave pulley) could have slipped under the rope the first time and Nick (my friend, not me) could have gone splat on the termination tree! Now I use a wood block with a hole drilled in it that the cable runs through, anchored to a similar, but improved brake system. The cable for this one is terminated at one end with cable clamps and just wrapped around a tree a bunch of times at the bottom! More recently I have been using preforms which is a way better solution.
Watch it in 720!
http://youtu.be/XoZQaJNAA-c
Filmed with Contour Roam 1, swivel mount, and Kask Super Plasma Helmet.
