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Thread: Gondola cable snaps
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08-14-2019, 08:10 AM #251
Fembots with machine gun jubblies.
"timberridge is terminally vapid" -- a fortune cookie in Yueyang
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08-14-2019, 08:11 AM #252
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08-14-2019, 08:18 AM #253
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08-14-2019, 09:13 AM #254
It’s obviously not the squirrels because they’d die when the rope snapped...
That leaves sharks with laser beams on their heads as the only logical culprit.
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08-14-2019, 10:19 AM #255
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08-14-2019, 10:41 AM #256Registered User
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How about puppies? I have some puppies that could tear up anything.
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08-14-2019, 10:52 AM #257Registered User
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From experience, for most of us, this is the most likely answer. Get a litter of puppies with no supervision near anything known as a cord/rope/cable and that thing will be in pieces within minutes. I could easily put together a 6" dia haul rope from all the cables and wires my dog went through in the first 6 months of his life.
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08-14-2019, 12:11 PM #258
I feel like you could pretty safely sever the rope with a method like this:
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08-14-2019, 12:24 PM #259
Say they get their insurance cheque, and the police give the go-ahead to get back in there, what sort of lead time is there for 30 gondola cabins and a new haul rope install? Back in action next summer?
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08-14-2019, 12:24 PM #260
That's funny. In the interview the GM gave a day ago on radio, he said they cannot say "conclusively" that someone did this.
Mouintain FM Radio interview with General Manager
https://www.mountainfm.com/audio/sea...ment-incident/
Ever since then, every news and blog has been repeating the RCMP and operator media script from the morning of the incident, before experts or forensic engineering types had even had a chance to look at all the data.
I never said it was the wind. I said it might have been a confluence of events possibly precipitated by the wind. Here, I'll link it for your reading enjoyment:
Exhibit 1 (aka "My Retarded Ramblings on Mechanical Conspiracy Theories")
https://www.tetongravity.com/forums/...27#post5732127
Exhibit 2 (aka "Bogus Environmental Hypothesis from Sly Unassuming Weather Meters in Places No One Looked")
https://www.tetongravity.com/forums/...29#post5732629
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08-14-2019, 12:40 PM #261
Wuttabout lightning?
Go that way really REALLY fast. If something gets in your way, TURN!
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08-14-2019, 12:41 PM #262
So... So far, all we have learned in this thread is that Puregravity does not have an engineering or economics degree.
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08-14-2019, 12:47 PM #263
False flag. While you guys are arguing about angle grinders China just slipped an LNG pipeline into Howe Sound.
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08-14-2019, 12:47 PM #264
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08-14-2019, 01:35 PM #265Registered User
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08-14-2019, 02:27 PM #266
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08-14-2019, 03:19 PM #267
The only other notable incident where a vandal tried to sabotage a ski lift was in Val Nord. The culprits were unable to cut through the main cableway.
https://www.facebook.com/meteopyrene...type=3&theater
I think the image on the bottom right is the main cable and it is clear that the cords came apart under tension. The nice clean cut on the left was probably not cut under tension.
Although there was multiple cables cut at the resort in this incident, indicating that they had lots of time, they were unable to cut the main cable with a rotary saw.
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08-14-2019, 03:31 PM #268
Global News
https://globalnews.ca/news/5761722/r...ola-vandalism/
"The company, which has never known of any threats or disgruntled employees remains baffled."
Also shown on video is the same cable type and size, looks like a used rope sample on a picnic table nearby, but is not rope that was in use:
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08-14-2019, 03:51 PM #269
Fuckin cheap asses probably bought ryobi and coy don’t finish the job. DEWALT flex volt would have got the shot cut no problem.
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08-14-2019, 03:53 PM #270
That cable was clearly cut by sharks with fricken lazer beams on their heads.
watch out for snakes
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08-14-2019, 05:42 PM #271
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08-14-2019, 05:49 PM #272
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08-14-2019, 06:06 PM #273
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08-14-2019, 06:24 PM #274
I've seen decent sized cables snap in construction. Albeit not the size of those but they snap pretty damn clean and really fast.
Whomever did that was either really dumb and lucky or really smart and lucky. I'd be more concerned with cable on the other side of the riblet that I didn't cut. I think the doing it at the very top would be the safest.Hello darkness my old friend
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08-14-2019, 06:24 PM #275
Jaws had no trouble biting through a tram cable under full load. The aftermath was quite devastating though..
Go that way really REALLY fast. If something gets in your way, TURN!
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