Actually it is very easy to cut. Picture a chainsaw but without the bar and chain; its called a line saw and has a metal cutting disc that would only take a few minute to cut the cable.Its a bigass cable. 55mm diameter, and I think somewhere around 4km long. That wouldn't be the easiest thing to cut. More than $2 million to replace the last one.
Apparently they may have someone on security camera.
Actually it is very easy to cut. Picture a chainsaw but without the bar and chain; its called a line saw and has a metal cutting disc that would only take a few minute to cut the cable.
Cutting the cable isn't the hard part. Avoiding the recoil whiplash and falling debris without dying is the hard part.
Thats kind of what I thought.My first thought is the same as yours, but when I think about it, the ends would move straight away from you really fast. There'd be danger of whiplash everywhere else though.
Exactly this. After working with cables and heavy equipment for many years, you learn how unpredictable a loaded cable can be when it breaks. And that cable would have had some load on itCutting the cable isn't the hard part. Avoiding the recoil whiplash and falling debris without dying is the hard part.
Exactly this. After working with cables and heavy equipment for many years, you learn how unpredictable a loaded cable can be when it breaks. And that cable would have had some load on it
Its a bigass cable. 55mm diameter, and I think somewhere around 4km long. That wouldn't be the easiest thing to cut. More than $2 million to replace the last one.
Apparently they may have someone on security camera.
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Seems so on paper, but you could get 80% through it and have the rest of it stretch then blow strands in all different directions before finally totally snapping.My first thought is the same as yours, but when I think about it, the ends would move straight away from you really fast. There'd be danger of whiplash everywhere else though.
When you cut a loaded cable, it can whip like a cracking bullwhipSeems so on paper, but you could get 80% through it and have the rest of it stretch then blow strands in all different directions before finally totally snapping.
Seems so on paper, but you could get 80% through it and have the rest of it stretch then blow strands in all different directions before finally totally snapping.
That's a visual...Somehow this guy did it twice without being decapitated.