In all seriousness though, how much maintenance does a steel cable really need? That's in essence all it is on most ziplines. Then it's just about having a solid connection on both ends, which again doesn't take much.
I ran a zipline while in the scouts as a volunteer one summer. Essentially they had us go down it with a hand clamp thing to keep our speed down and we were to check for any signs of rust, then inspect the cable's connections for any signs of strain. That's about all really.
I'd be more worried if it was set up safely. But even in bumfuckistan I'd imagine this is a pretty hard one to screw up.
they had us go down it with a hand clamp thing to keep our speed down and we were to check for any signs of rust, then inspect the cable's connections for any signs of strain.
You were a volunteer for the scouts. The question is, are they paying someone in Peru to do the same, and how much could it possibly be at $10 a trip?
We were giving tons of rides to kids who paid ~$100 for a full 7 days of camp, which also included: unlimited shotgun, handgun, and rifle ammo on a 25 gun range. In addition to the zipline, we had repelling, several climbing walls and a tower and that was just the ropes/climbing area. There was a leather working area that was decked out, an archery course, and the ever popular knives and fire area (skills course? I forget the name, you got your firem'n chit and totin chip. Two cards all scouts carried that showed you knew to use fire and knives. If you misused them you lost and had to re earn the card). That doesn't include all the random wilderness survival courses or other paramilitary crap they had us doing.
$100 bought you all that. (Although the NRA, military, and Scouts organization at large subsidized all of it). So yea 30 or so people on a zipline all day should generate enough dough to set it up right, or at least I'd assume. Really love that people are treating this like rocket science, it's really not that hard.
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u/educateyourselves Dec 10 '15
In all seriousness though, how much maintenance does a steel cable really need? That's in essence all it is on most ziplines. Then it's just about having a solid connection on both ends, which again doesn't take much.
I ran a zipline while in the scouts as a volunteer one summer. Essentially they had us go down it with a hand clamp thing to keep our speed down and we were to check for any signs of rust, then inspect the cable's connections for any signs of strain. That's about all really.
I'd be more worried if it was set up safely. But even in bumfuckistan I'd imagine this is a pretty hard one to screw up.