Rope bridge

[beenthere]

This feat must have had a high pucker-factor. Pretty amazing that they crossed it with a road grader.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=372967746087504

[Peter Drouin]

No way Rope, steel cable  :D

[drobertson]

Major pucker factor! gives me the willys just thinking about it,   david

[beenthere]

I'd go along with that... I couldn't translate and was told rope. They may call cable "rope" too.
  But steel cable would only make sense.

That was a long ways down if something failed.

[Offthebeatenpath]

Although loggers generally say cable, the term "wire rope" is used often in industrial applications, which then sometimes gets shortened to just "rope".  That said, there is synthetic rope that is stronger than wire rope (cable) for its diameter with the same amount of stretch.  I highly doubt, however, that the bridge in the video is fiber.  Cool video beenthere.  I wonder what Turkey's version of OSHA would say...

[Ianab]

I wonder what Turkey's version of OSHA would say...

Their what?  ??? :P :D

I'd say that bridge is a LONG way from any OSHA office.  :D

Of course we would think nothing of driving over the Golden Gate bridge etc, which build on exactly the same principle, just scaled up a bit.

Ian

[Magicman]

Since he was crossing a stream instead of a road, he wasn't chicken.   ;D

[beenthere]

 :D :D :D
But by looking at the countryside, makes one wonder why they were crossing that bridge as the other side doesn't look that inviting.

[JohnM]

:D :D :D
But by looking at the countryside, makes one wonder why they were crossing that bridge as the other side doesn't look that inviting.

I was thinking that too, BT.  What on earth needs to be graded over there?! :D

What do one of the graders weigh, roughly?  Anyone know?

[LaneC]

I was thinking that too. I would not want to go over there. Did you notice the little white poof of smoke when he floored it? haha He was trying to get to the OSHA man! I agree with the post about the "wire rope" If he would have gone in that water he probably would have surely drowned.

[justallan1]

You wouldn't catch me doing it!
This does remind me of a great story though.
A few years ago my younger brother was going hunting somewhere he wasn't familiar with so he had left real early so he could be set up before light. He's driving along in the dark and came up to an old suspension bridge that was real rickety, with boards missing, cross ties broke and gone and a couple sections that had no side rail. He told me every second that he was on the bridge he was about half scared to death, every foot that he drove brought on new boards popping and busting. I think he said he finally just hit the gas and went for it.
Well, he got across and went hunting and was on his way back when he came up to a detour sign right near where this bridge was.
He said they couldn't of made a nicer road if it were paved, not 50 foot downstream from this old bridge. OOPS!

Allan

[PC-Urban-Sawyer]

If I remember my Navy terminology correctly, a wire cable was referred to as a rope and a fiber cable was called a line.

On the old minesweeps (MSOs) I think we used two and one-half inch mooring lines to tie up the ship to the pier and one inch wire ropes to tow the heavier minesweeping equipment behind the ship.

Herb

[gspren]

If I remember my Navy terminology correctly, a wire cable was referred to as a rope and a fiber cable was called a line.

On the old minesweeps (MSOs) I think we used two and one-half inch mooring lines to tie up the ship to the pier and one inch wire ropes to tow the heavier minesweeping equipment behind the ship.

Herb

  My brother was on a MSO, USS Dynamic, I think.

[pigman]

He's driving along in the dark and came up to an old suspension bride that was real rickety

She might have been old and rickety, but someone thought enough of her to marry her.

[thecfarm]

I was rooting for him.

[justallan1]

 :D Good catch, Pigman. You just gave me a great laugh.
I guess I shouldn't of fixed it.

Allan

[Rockn H]

I think I'd have waited for the dry season and used the road to the right.  ;D

[Brucer]

Technically, what most folks call a steel cable is actually a "wire rope". A "cable" is made from several "ropes" twisted together. Sailors and knitters worry about this distinction. The rest of us usually don't  (unless we live with sailors or knitters :D).

[SwampDonkey]

I hope it wasn't nylon rope, I'd rather use poly or no less than a linen rope. Nylon will rot in the summer sun, and just one summer. 

[WmFritz]

What ever kind of rope it's made of, it looked about at maximum capacity.   :D
I wondered if it would climb back up, after it reached the middle. Any bit of tire spin and Mr. Operator  was going for a swim.