How to pull a large JCB digger up a mountain..........

[Wacky Racer]

Having just recently returned from a very interesting and informative trip down Honister Slate mine in Borrowdale, Cumbria, came across this YouTube clip:-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqdIN_h1zFg&fea...

Just a thought...What would have happened to the passing cars far down on Honister Pass, if the steel cable had snapped?.....

[skip_1]

It would have bounced over the pass and kept going

ETA: That a 14 or so ton excavator is nothing to some steel cables.

Edited by skip_1 on Friday 27th March 19:00

[a boardman]

did you do or see the via ferrata that they do,

thinking of going up to have a go before I go to Italy to do the dolomites via ferrata

[Wacky Racer]

a boardman said:

did you do or see the via ferrata that they do,

thinking of going up to have a go before I go to Italy to do the dolomites via ferrata

Hi Andrew...

Errr, no, they weren't doing the trip up Fleetwith Pike the day I was there due to poor weather, but I think I would have given it a miss anyhow after slogging up a snowbound Helvellyn the previous day....

Some footage here though:-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnAd_nZ87OE

[Ron Burgundy]

skip_1 said:

It would have bounced over the pass and kept going

ETA: That a 14 or so ton excavator is nothing to some steel cables.

Edited by skip_1 on Friday 27th March 19:00

What he said, the strains and stresss and swls would have been worked out prior to the event

But then again never say never!