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paulz
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# Posted: 24 Apr 2026 03:28pm
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I’ve decided on the final route for cabin to shop rope through the trees and down the hill, see mock up. My plan was/is to attack a milk crate and pulley stuff up and down. But I got to thinking about ski chair lifts, why not just haul my ass up and down too?
It’s about 250’. I have a 12volt cable winch but probably has 50’ at most. How far do ski lifts go between poles?
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gcrank1
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# Posted: 24 Apr 2026 03:50pm
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From the look of it the getting down would be the easy part.......lol
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darz5150
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# Posted: 24 Apr 2026 06:39pm
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Necessity is the Mother of Invention they say!
Keep us posted!!
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darz5150
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# Posted: 24 Apr 2026 06:46pm
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https://youtu.be/0ZMP6ZD8X9k?si=ethqurK9HUoGNbaJ
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DRP
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# Posted: 24 Apr 2026 09:16pm
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I've thought about the tow rope for bringing logs down the mountain. Suspending a load is a whole other animal. look up zipline methods?
An aunt had something similar to one of these;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9L1TbbL6qN4
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paulz
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# Posted: 25 Apr 2026 08:28am
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Thanks guys. I’ve been dreaming of two schools of thought. First one, I have trees 1-2 foot diameter trunks I could winch a cable 10’ off the ground probably tight enough to hang a seat from. Second and more appealing is the cart and tracking in DRPs video. Coming up with 200” of tracking is another matter..
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Fanman
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# Posted: 25 Apr 2026 08:47am
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If you're hanging weight from a generally horizontal cable there's going to be some serious tension or some serious sag. Just look at a ski lift counterweight.
OTOH if you're just using a cable to pull something along the ground, the tension is only what you need to pull it along the incline.
I remember seeing a ski rope tow in the 1960s; it was just a tractor on blocks with one tire removed; the rope wound around the wheel as a pulley on the uphill end.
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gcrank1
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# Posted: 25 Apr 2026 10:37am
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Oh The Horror! OSHA
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toyota_mdt_tech
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# Posted: 25 Apr 2026 07:55pm
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Quoting: darz5150 Necessity is the Mother of Invention they say! Keep us posted!!
No, laziness is the mother of invention. I say if you can do a job burning less calories, its efficient, not lazy.
A golf course where I grew up had a rope pull to help people walk up a steep incline and aid in pulling their club pull cart too.
It was just a loop of rope, wrapped several times at the drive motor and a 5 minute timer switch at the bottom. You just turn the timer on, grabbed rope and aided in your climb. Going down wasn't even an issue, that was easy.
The motor and pulley system was contained in a small house/enclosure with small openings for the continuous rope loop.
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