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unusual facts about Wire rope


Swing yarder

A swing yarder is a mobile piece of heavy duty forestry equipment used for pulling logs from the woods to a logging road with cables.


CASAR

CASAR Drahtseilwerk Saar GmbH is a Wire rope producing company based in Kirkel, Germany.

Saxonburg, Pennsylvania

Founded in 1832 by John A. Roebling, who is known for the design of the Brooklyn Bridge in New York, and for innovation in producing wire rope, the community was initially called "Germania", which was soon changed to "Sachsenburg" and eventually anglicized to Saxonburg.


see also

Casar

CASAR, German wire rope manufacturer, part of WireCo Worldgroup

Falko Traber

1999: Re-enacted the feat of his ancestors as a culmination of his previous work, crossing the Zugspitze with a bicycle on a 12 mm wire rope 600 meters high.

Newthorpe, Greasley and Shipley Gate railway station

Directly to the North of the station sidings served the Wilkins Wire Rope Company later known as the Birnam Products subsidiary of Tinsley Wire Industries which, as of 2009, is owned by Magna International, manufacturing car seats.

São Paulo Railway

At each section the wagons were attached to a steel wire rope with the help of a special fitted brake van called Serrabreque (transl.: Hill Brake).