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Submitted: Tuesday, Mar 27, 2007 at 09:04
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I feel asleep as they were getting to the nitty gritty so can someone tell me what happened to the pig/s when the cables were snapped ?
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Reply By: joc45 - Tuesday, Mar 27, 2007 at 09:05

Tuesday, Mar 27, 2007 at 09:05
Rod, you'll have to stop getting into the turps so early - LOL!
Gerry
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Follow Up By: Rod W - Tuesday, Mar 27, 2007 at 09:11

Tuesday, Mar 27, 2007 at 09:11
Only had one Cooper's
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Follow Up By: joc45 - Tuesday, Mar 27, 2007 at 09:12

Tuesday, Mar 27, 2007 at 09:12
That explains it!!
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Reply By: Member - Red60 (WA) - Tuesday, Mar 27, 2007 at 09:27

Tuesday, Mar 27, 2007 at 09:27
With the nylon rope - nothing but a bad case of rope burn.
When they switched to the steel cables the pig got bashed about but they couldn't cut the skin, let alone chop it in half.
Adam finally decided the only way they were going to chop it in half was to loop the cable around it and use the forklift to tighten the cable.

Just like a cheesewire. Yuk.
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Follow Up By: Rod W - Tuesday, Mar 27, 2007 at 09:31

Tuesday, Mar 27, 2007 at 09:31
Thanks Red60. So did they declare it myth busted?
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Follow Up By: Member - Red60 (WA) - Tuesday, Mar 27, 2007 at 09:55

Tuesday, Mar 27, 2007 at 09:55
Yup. They decided a snapped cable can kill you, but you'll be buried in one piece.
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Follow Up By: Alan H - Tuesday, Mar 27, 2007 at 15:02

Tuesday, Mar 27, 2007 at 15:02
I disagree with their conclusion on that one as I knew a bloke years ago in the UK who'd had his legs lopped off by a snapped tow cable just above the knees. Thereafter he got around on a couple of board things on the bottom of his stumps.
And a right bastard he was too who loved smacking anyone standing next to him in a bar with a big round arm swing!
Alan.
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Reply By: kingswoodwagon - Tuesday, Mar 27, 2007 at 09:28

Tuesday, Mar 27, 2007 at 09:28
Rod,

here is a link with every mythbusters myth on one page.

www.drivl.com/myths/

this page will put you to sleep for sure.

cheers
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Reply By: Truckster (Vic) - Tuesday, Mar 27, 2007 at 11:58

Tuesday, Mar 27, 2007 at 11:58
Why not download them from the net.. all the episodes are on Limewire, or Torrents.
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Reply By: Nick R - Tuesday, Mar 27, 2007 at 12:49

Tuesday, Mar 27, 2007 at 12:49
I fell asleep too, funny that as a kid I would be sent to bed at 8:00, now as an adult I struggle to stay awake that long!!!! at 33 I can't claim old age yet.....
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Follow Up By: gottabjoaken - Tuesday, Mar 27, 2007 at 14:59

Tuesday, Mar 27, 2007 at 14:59
It is all to do with attention span.

The silly buggers split the articles up into short segments because they think that you will lose interest after 25 second.

They don't realise that when the oldtimers kicks in, every segment seems like a new story and we can't work out what is going on, so we just fall asleep.

If they would just tell the story in one go, we would have a chance at getting it.

lol
Ken
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Follow Up By: Mr Fawlty - Tuesday, Mar 27, 2007 at 20:43

Tuesday, Mar 27, 2007 at 20:43
I agree Ken, gives me the iritts big time. That other show, what is it border patrol or whatever they spend 5 mins telling you what you are going to see then break for an add then tell you what you have seen and what you are about to see then break for another ad, ad infinitum...
I'll stick to Sesame st & Play school....
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Reply By: Member - Davoe (Nullagine) - Tuesday, Mar 27, 2007 at 15:12

Tuesday, Mar 27, 2007 at 15:12
well for allthe doom and gloom I know 2 people (VERY) relable sources who actually HAVE had a winch cable snapped and BOTH reported a simular thing One said it just fell to the ground and the other said it curled a bit as it fell to the ground
you dont get a heck of alot of stretch (stored energy) in a wire cable
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Follow Up By: Rod W - Tuesday, Mar 27, 2007 at 15:34

Tuesday, Mar 27, 2007 at 15:34
Yep, I have to agree with you there Dave. In two of several winching operations that I've done when the weakest link snapped everything just fell to the ground and minimal recoil. But one still has to be weary.
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Reply By: Peter 2 - Tuesday, Mar 27, 2007 at 19:09

Tuesday, Mar 27, 2007 at 19:09
I've witnessed what happens when a 4wd winch cable snaps, wasn't pretty, chopped about six 50 - 60mm dia saplings off clean about 600mm off the ground and then the broken end whipped round and flayed across the arm of a bystander who was hiding behind a tree. When it hit him it shredded the arm of his drizabone and removed all the skin and flesh to the bone across the back of his hand from little finger to thumb.
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Reply By: Mr Fawlty - Tuesday, Mar 27, 2007 at 20:47

Tuesday, Mar 27, 2007 at 20:47
I was more impressed with the Oxy bottle having its valve knocked off, I saw that happen in real life once at Orange, Oxy bottle being carried on a forklift slid sideways and snapped of the valve on the tyne of the forklift, the bottle launched and flew into the sky and went about a hundred yards before crashing through the roof of a building...
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Reply By: hoyks - Tuesday, Mar 27, 2007 at 21:16

Tuesday, Mar 27, 2007 at 21:16
I have it from a reliable witness that if you have a look in Pt Philip bay a few 100m of the pier where they were doing the final fit out of the ANZAC frigates there are quite a few argon bottles. Guys would line them up on the pier and snap the necks off to watch them go like a torpedo.

I think the testing was flawed as there was no load on the end of the cable to add movement following the snapping of the cable. The cable was also being cut while within its safe working load. Maybe if they put a spring loaded load on one end then winched it up to 4/5 of the braking strain then cut it to see what would happen.
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