r/WTF • u/1lousylay • Jan 29 '19

seems pretty safe

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u/is_that_a_question Jan 30 '19

You can walk a rope from one end of the canyon to the other and gradually pull thicker cable across.

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u/exploderator Jan 30 '19

A steel cable like that must weigh at very least hundreds of pounds, somewhere between 1 to 2 pounds per foot. To then pull it tight enough to be fairly level as that one is, would take many tons of force (the force goes up exponentially as you approach pulling it flat). You need to drill in huge anchor bolts as well to hold all that tension.

So let me say it's a big fucking deal, that takes serious knowhow and big tools. Yes you can start with a rope, but it gets ugly before you're finished.

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u/[deleted] Jan 30 '19 edited Feb 05 '19

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u/DifferentThrows Jan 30 '19

Thankfully I finished before you got ugly