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Cleared a thousand feet of hoistway cable today and the weight number on the scale was a real shock.
It was 2,300 pounds of old steel (which is a lot more than I guessed, you know, just looking at the spool), so now I'm curious if anyone has a good rule of thumb for eyeballing cable weight before you have to move it.
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drewgonzalez4h ago
My last spool was way heavier than it looked too, man.
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the_xena3h agoMost Upvoted
That thing was like 50 pounds.
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jamesf4152m ago
It's a common trick with dense materials. Drewgonzalez is right, steel always seems lighter until you actually have to lift it. I've seen the same thing with old copper wire, where a small bundle ends up being crazy heavy. Our brains are just bad at guessing weight by sight alone.
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