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Zip line

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    Last night I finished setting up a zip line. The wire was up when we moved here, but didn't have a real pulley or way to hang on.
    I won the zip line seat assembly from instructables when my kayak won a contest. I got a double pulley zip line trolley on eBay, and just got it hung last night.
    Of course I had to try it out a few times first for saftey!
    Instructables prize zip line seat
     
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    Definitely gotta figure one of those out for myself, errrrr kids, ya kids, in the near future.
     
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    What's the diameter of yer zip line cable? Neat vid.... Good save by yer daughter- she almost knocked a stack ova!:rofl: :lol::thumbs:
     
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    We might have to do one here for the grandkids. That would keep em busy for a while... they'd love it... :yes: Thanks for the inspiration.
     
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    Actually she did knock a few splits off the end of that stack. To make a full cord of 16" wood on pallets I needed another four feet of stack so I cut a pallet in half and ran a cross stack on the end. I had to move the cross stack to the other end. Even I don't come close to the stack.
    The cable is 1/8", to keep the rider from hitting the end tree, I put the cable through 4 feet of corrugated drain pipe, it acts like a spring.
     
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