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Despite what the OPs video suggests, there are no ropes used, rather steel cables. A rope's mechanical properties wouldn't be beneficial for a ski lift.
by scoot 5y ago
Despite what the OPs video suggests, there are no ropes used, rather steel cables. A rope's mechanical properties wouldn't be beneficial for a ski lift.
- anamexis 5y agoNo, rope is correct. Wire rope, more precisely. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wire_rope https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wire_rope
- Waterluvian 5y agoSo is “rope” just any cord or any material that’s been braided or wound from many smaller cords?
- johnwalkr 5y agoThe terms are largely interchangeable but “wire rope” is the engineering term for cable used to transmit forces. Depending on who you ask it may only strictly refer to wire rope made from multiple bundles of strands.
- scoot 5y agoYou're correct - a wire rope is a cable, but a synthetic rope is not. But "rope" generally refers to synthetic rope, not wire rope, so a rope is not a cable.
- johnwalkr 5y agoIt doesn’t matter much but for a ski lift, the engineering term always used is “wire rope”.
- marvin 5y agoMight also be a language matter on OP's part? For instance, I know that Europeans often use the term "windmill" for wind turbine, and get corrected that they're using the wrong engineering term. But for many European languages, the word "wind turbine" would be translated to "windmill", even going as far as labelling parts with the word. Never worked with wind turbines, but been curious about this for years since the language is so systematic. A documentary I recently watched had a Danish wind turbine marked as "Mølle 1" or something like that, translating to "Mill 1". I'd be surprised if Norwegians didn't use the word "kabel" (cable) to refer to the thing that carries ski lifts.
- Akronymus 5y agoWind turbine makes me think of turbines used to generate wind, rather than turbines powered by wind.
- anamexis 5y agoUnless you’re talking about ski lifts, where rope refers to wire ropes.
- scoot 5y agoExcept that it doesn't, hence "cable car" (in International English).
- anamexis 5y agoThe point is that if you're going to pedantically correct someone, they need to be wrong. No one is wrong when they say rope.
- Akronymus 5y ago"Seilbahn" in german. Literally translated as rope track. The material that a rope is made out of, doesn't really matter. What matters is it being built up of smaller fibers.
- fnord77 5y agoso we should call those things in San Francisco "Rope Cars"?
- anamexis 5y agoInterestingly, the steel cables used by the cable cars are actually wrapped around a sisal rope.
- stevenjgarner 5y agoThe jargon is contextual. In telecommunications the "wire rope" is called "strand".