imnotsoho

imnotsoho t1_iyp2v2t wrote

Reply to comment by CvilleHokie605 in ZipLine Post by CvilleHokie605

If you go to a professional lumber yard you can get larger beams, how about just 2 6x6 stacked in line with the cable? Guy wire to rear from top and brace in front with a small launch platform. Instead of wrapping the cable, drill a hole and terminate the cable on the uphill side. How are you going to avoid hitting the tree at the bottom?

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imnotsoho t1_iymy6kz wrote

There was a book from the early 1960s, either "Fail Safe" or "Red Alert." US and USSR are the brink of nuclear war. When final talks came to ultimatums the Soviets revealed that they knew no one would win a nuclear war so they did not plan to launch warheads. All of their nukes were in the Ural Mountains and they would just detonate them in place. Nuclear winter would kill everyone within a year.

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imnotsoho t1_iy70uht wrote

David Carradine. Not watching porn, but wanking while hanging himself. Most of these don't make the news. Happens all the time, and will keep on happening unless we get past the embarrassment stage.

I have a cousin who was a fireman. Being up north the frequently went to scenes where a young couple died of CO poisoning doing what teenagers do. Sometimes they were still hooked up. Never made the news to warn other teens.

Some episodes of self involvement can be dangerous, we all need to know.

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imnotsoho t1_iy4lp35 wrote

I have read most of the answers here and this is how I think you should do this. Not sure what you mean by "open the outlet for that" but I am going to assume you mean a cover plate. You would need a vacuum cleaner where you can move the hose to blow air. Have a friend at one end blow air and you can test if the air is coming through the conduit where you think it should come out. If that works, make a "mouse out of a small wad of crumpled paper, tie it with light string - like cheap kite string and use the vacuum to pull it through the conduit. Use this string to pull a heavier string through until you have a pull rope that will be strong enough to pull your cable. It will probably be easiest to pull from the basement as gravity will be working with you instead of against you, however if the vacuum fits better at the other end use that for string, then you can pull cable either way. Bob's your uncle!

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