Chair cable

Bsand

Bsand

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ive seen footage of Boarders slideing it but has anyone ever built a kicker and tryed to slide the chair cable. pics mabe?
 
The technical term is "haul rope" and due to the fact that it is braided steel fibers it would be extremely difficult and dangerous.

I think someone has been playing too much amped.
 
I just watched that video, looks like chairs were removed (the grips would really fuck you up) and it wasn't that rad at all.
 
Haul ropes are spliced together, not just welded end to end. When chairlifts are constructed or new haul ropes are strung, the overlap is usually pretty damn long.
 
I heard they did it at timberline when the snow piled up enough. How shitty would you feel if you grinded the cable and like, frayed it, and then the next year it broke and people died? cuz i think i'd feel pretty bad about it.
 
I heard they did it at timberline when the snow piled up enough. How shitty would you feel if you grinded the cable and like, frayed it, and then the next year it broke and people died? cuz i think i'd feel pretty bad about it.
 
Right, a haul rope is a heavy duty rope core, with wire strands wrapped into large cable strands, which are then wrapped around the core, and when the haul rope is spliced (or married) it's typically over a distance of several hundred feet.
 
Yeah, but you'd be the lucky owner of the toughest and sharpest skis ever. You could use your skis for so many things (saw, shovel, hammer, shooting range target...). They'd be like lightsabers or something.
 
Chairlifts are actually really cool. The ones that aren't detachable (back home anyway) are not really solidly in the cable. There is this little machine that pulls the cable together to make a little "basket" then the chair/clip is just put in there, then the basket is let out and it pinches it. And yeah, the cable ends are spliced together, to the ends of the cables sorta overlap for a pretty far length.

And I think you would get in trouble building a HUGE kicker right beneath a chair lift.... and sliding it wouldn't be cool, at all.

 
no they have a shot in last months transworld snowboarding, its so legit, it was after an avalanche pretty much engulffed a chair and it was probably about 10 ft up pretty fuckin sweet
 
Transworld Snowboarding had a picture of a guy in Russia sliding on a lift that had been taken down by an avalanche.
 
^^ serious its been done by snowboarders! But they do 50 50 slide on it, otherwise they hit an edge and fall. For that reason its impossible for skiers, unles you wanna do a onefooter on it... so yeah...
 
jp walker does it in a movie i have called technical difficulties.its pretty sweet but he only 50/50 it so i dont know if skiers could do it
 
Basically Im too lazy to read everything, but I know in a recent Transworld they had a picture of a guy sliding the cable of a chairlift after an avalanche. (He was only like 10 feet off the ground) pretty dopeee
 
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I have slid and switched up a black plastic culvert with ribs on it, so i'm sure some little bumps wouldn't be that bad. ^that picture should help my argument
 
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