zip wires?? info

[penfold]

Word of advice dont let anybody on with a harness full of hardware. The whole thing tends to go downhill quickly if they clip a tree on the way down (eh pete mctree?)

[ratcatcher]

 

Here's one of the first test runs; lobbing my 8 year old over it....

 

great clip, his mum (?) thought it was fast, has she been on it

 

kids were made to be test dummies,lol

[Stephen Blair]

I wouldn't bother with the eBay package, you don't need the 2 big bottle twist things!

You will only have about 2 feet to work with tensioning.

 

You would be buying the kit and then having work around it for the zip line.

Wire rope like that is buttons, and you don't need the inserts as long as the bend radius isn't too tight.

An Aldi puller for tensioning, you should get about 8-10ft, a dozen bull dogs and get 100m of 10mm. Get some old tyres, cut some holes and feed the wire through, thats a good cushion for stopping.

[ratcatcher]

I wouldn't bother with the eBay package, you don't need the 2 big bottle twist things!

You will only have about 2 feet to work with tensioning.

 

You would be buying the kit and then having work around it for the zip line.

Wire rope like that is buttons, and you don't need the inserts as long as the bend radius isn't too tight.

An Aldi puller for tensioning, you should get about 8-10ft, a dozen bull dogs and get 100m of 10mm. Get some old tyres, cut some holes and feed the wire through, thats a good cushion for stopping.

 

 

I get an idea of what your saying, which I like as Im a tight git, but could you expand a bit as Im not up on the tech names of items

 

when you say aldi puller, do you mean a hand winch?