Over at Makeprojects Jeff describes how he designed, built and installed an 100-foot long wood and steel pipe funicular for the purposes of “people/firewood/beer moving” at his family cottage.
And despite Jeff’s wood and steel pipe funicular looking about as safe as one can expect a homemade wood and steel pipe funicular to look, it’s apparently safe enough for Jeff to allow his young daughters and wife to ride it, thereby suggesting . . .
- a) it’s remarkably safe.
- b) Jeff’s daughters and wife have a death wish.
- c) Jeff is not a very good husband or father.
Let’s hope it’s the first. Take a look:
Luckily for anyone else who’d like to build one for themselves, he’s included a handy step-by-step how-to:
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I’m sorry. It is not a funicular. It is an inclined lift, a cable winch vehicle.
The difference are defined by law or legal requirements.
But it is a nomenclature problem like the difference between a cable-car and a gondola.
Apparently this is common enough in cottage country there’s a company specializing in it. See: http://www.inclinedelevation.com/
This is quite common in the Northwest around area lakes. The vertical from cabins/homes to docks can be prohibitive and taxing by foot (stairs), so these inclined lifts are often installed. Especially in the inland Northwest, these are quite popular.
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