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Chair cable

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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?
Mar 14 2007 8:51PM
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kenevil
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how the fuck are you supposed to do that?
Mar 14 2007 8:53PM
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Bsand
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low chair big jump
Mar 14 2007 9:02PM
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ijibgoremtn
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lets see those vodeo's
Mar 14 2007 9:04PM
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Bsand
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i only could find a little of it it starts at 49 seconds
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1404458084001505962&q=snowboard
Mar 14 2007 9:36PM
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WeK
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i cant wait for a skier to nut on that
Mar 14 2007 9:41PM
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breckfreeskier
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Yah never seen anything like that before
Mar 14 2007 9:43PM
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Digital_Dave
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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.
Mar 14 2007 11:35PM
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bp.lando
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COOL BOARDERS!
Mar 14 2007 11:36PM
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SHastatahoe
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Yeah, I dont think it would work.
Mar 14 2007 11:36PM
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Digital_Dave
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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.
Mar 14 2007 11:38PM
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actchill
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better question


why have i never seen where the lift cable ends, its like a seamless weave
Mar 14 2007 11:39PM
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Digital_Dave
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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.
Mar 14 2007 11:42PM
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Casey
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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.
Mar 14 2007 11:44PM
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Casey
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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.
Mar 14 2007 11:44PM
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Silence
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i would hate to nut on a haul rope.
Mar 14 2007 11:44PM
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Love_Wins.
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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.
Mar 15 2007 2:12AM
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BigShanks04
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hahaha, hilarious visual
Mar 15 2007 10:45AM
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Tucks
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how about jump into a chair or air off a mid station
Mar 15 2007 3:54PM
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Holte
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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.
Mar 15 2007 4:01PM
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Wis_Skier_23
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cool but i doubt it would work
Mar 15 2007 6:17PM
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49566738265
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not that amazing, he just tapped it like a jib
Mar 15 2007 6:22PM
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poofartpee
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first time ive seen something like that
Mar 15 2007 6:55PM
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japie99
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its almost impossible! You will catch an edge
Mar 15 2007 7:02PM
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R.Fahey
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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.
Mar 15 2007 7:10PM
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Sholte
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im pretyy sure its impossible
Mar 15 2007 7:17PM
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kj_hud
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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
Mar 15 2007 8:19PM
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Love_Wins.
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Which issue is that, and what page?
Mar 16 2007 1:35AM
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GatoGordo
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Transworld Snowboarding had a picture of a guy in Russia sliding on a lift that had been taken down by an avalanche.
Mar 16 2007 10:35AM
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japie99
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^^ 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...
Mar 16 2007 3:31PM
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kj_hud
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not the one i saw...i think
Mar 16 2007 5:14PM
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BoomSkier
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i can do it in Jibberish, does that count?
Mar 16 2007 5:20PM
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babujib
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shaun palmer did it once
Mar 16 2007 5:26PM
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SnowMedic
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he is a fag. thats was once really good.
Mar 16 2007 6:54PM
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japie99
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serious you ahve seen boardslides?? Show me coz i have only seen 50 50s!
Mar 16 2007 7:09PM
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skiierman
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Lil' John could...
Mar 16 2007 7:16PM
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DopeSauce
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Thats insane!
Mar 16 2007 8:12PM
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Albino
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which hill? iv tried at breck, but never works
Mar 16 2007 8:50PM
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RudyGarmisch
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Only works on the mammoth level.
Mar 16 2007 8:55PM
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Albino
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must try that. thanx
Mar 16 2007 9:15PM
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bigwhite.steeze
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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
Mar 16 2007 9:41PM
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emopoppins
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i think this was first done in coolboarders
Mar 16 2007 10:23PM
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babujib
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naw dude shauns the originator of the freestyle snowboarding hes definatly a G
Mar 16 2007 11:06PM
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SnowMedic
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ya he was,  but he is an ass if yo ever meet him you will know.
Mar 17 2007 12:03AM
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Redstar
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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
Mar 19 2007 5:09PM
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Bigwoods
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hopefully not you
Mar 19 2007 5:13PM
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ronalddregan.
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Mar 19 2007 5:30PM
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dweezileast
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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
Mar 19 2007 6:12PM
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Love_Wins.
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That is a fuckin' SICK shot.
Mar 20 2007 1:20AM
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Sholte
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haha sooo true
Mar 20 2007 1:22AM
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inthewoods
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That's in my ski resort, chile..haha, that chair sometimes gets covered up with snow, so its easier to rail it
Mar 20 2007 2:32AM
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