MythBusters

Rod, you'll have to stop getting into the turps so early - LOL!
Gerry

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.

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

Why not download them from the net.. all the episodes are on Limewire, or Torrents.

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.....
NickR

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

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.

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...

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.