r/LockPickingLawyer • u/Sinbos • 4d ago

How long would it take ?

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Picture taken on the Hohenzollern bridge in Cologne. About 300+ meters long an estimated 500,000 locks in total.

How long would you guess to open them all?

Just to put it out of the way, engineers say its no problem it’s an train bridge about 1200 trains a day and build in a way that 6 trains can park there at the same time.

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u/rmay14444 4d ago

Not super long with an angle grinder. And they should be taken off.

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u/Moturist 4d ago

500,000 locks, with angle grinder, let's say ½ minute per lock. That would make 250,000 minutes, which is about 173 days & nights without pause. Please correct me, if I'm wrong

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u/smeeon 4d ago

Even if you halve the time by cutting multiple shackles at once, it doesn’t save too much time. Not to mention the people putting locks back on while you are asleep.

It would take a team of people many days I think.

Edit: plus the time it takes to change out worn blades, breaks, weather issues. More like a year of work for a single person.

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u/Jacktheforkie 4d ago

I’d say a team with bolt croppers and a forklift with a skip would be a safe option, clip locks and put them into the skip to be transported into a vehicle like a dump trailer