How GIANT Wire Ropes are ACTUALLY Made

Step into the fascinating world of steel wire ropes with our latest video, where we dive deep into their strength, durability, and the incredible forces they withstand.
From suspension bridges like the iconic Golden Gate Bridge to ski resort lifts carrying eager snow enthusiasts, steel wire ropes are the unsung heroes of modern engineering. Discover the secrets behind their creation, understand the science of their strength, and gain a newfound appreciation for these essential components of our everyday lives.
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[@rodgeranderson4922]

That is exactly how the main support wires for the Golden Gate WEREN'T made.

[@iampotates]

🤓☝️ nerd ass

[@kaxtorplose]

LOL You tell em.

[@catsupchutney]

@@kaxtorplose I suspect the video is describing modern techniques, but the Golden Gate Bridge predates much of that.

[@krispoli22]

Love how you put that.

[@buckcheep]

Most suspension bridge cables are run a wire at a time on a pulley system. Then they are anchored and tensioned.

[@Erik_C_251]

I’ve seen a section of GGB cable at the Smithsonian in DC. They were not made like a wire rope. They were simply stretched between anchor supports up and over the towers, bound together and wrapped. Completely different method.

[@p38arover22]

Agreed. There is a sample near Fort Point. I saw it on a visit to the USA some years back.

[@dmmarks]

The Golden Gate bridge was constructed by weaving the cables in place by spinning wire ropes. The cables were not woven in a factory as indicated in the video. If I am wrong then will someone correct me.

[@chrisstaylor8377]

The bridge cables are not woven they are straight and bound together

[@steveskouson9620]

@@chrisstaylor8377 You are 100% correct! steve

[@imnewtothistuff]

No you're wrong. The Golden Gate bridge supported cables We're all laid parallel to each other. Only the final rap was woven, get your facts straight clown.

[@chrisstaylor8377]

The bridge cable and wire rope are completely different the bridge cable is not woven ,

[@judewarner1536]

Most of the early illustrations are of reinforcing-bar lengths for reinforcing concrete. Tiny wires are a small fraction of one millimetre. The wires for ropes for this application are NOT tiny, they are several millimetres in diameter and often shaped into half-lock and full-lock shapes, which when stranded with round wires exclude the gaps that would result from stranding only round wires. Basically, as pointed out elsewhere, more wrong than right.

[@frozenjoe6313]

During WW11 a veteran ironworker I worked with in the 1970s stated in the shipyards building ships smaller diameter steel cables were present, and available but no huge diameter cables were available as needed. My ironworker veteran buddy stated a master shipbuilder used big steel spikes driven into a huge hardwood stump anchored in concrete , the steel spikes at angles, then threaded the big steel strands over the steel spikes to weave the 2 smaller steel cables into 1 huge steel cable . A big truck was attached to the end and drove off, pulling the 2 cables through the splicing block and splicing 1 huge steel cable out of 2 smaller ones.. Its amazing what massive, heavy duty accomplishments were cleverly performed during the war effort.. This story sounds very unusual, but quite true.

[@andrewo763]

A lot of information about wire rope, not much about laying up multiple layers to form GIANT wire ropes.🤨

[@johnb9825]

Wow. Is there a difference between made and actually made?

[@jeffschlagel5632]

FYI this does not show you how the cables are made if that's what your interested in.

[@Kel_Pl]

Similar cables were used in Edinburgh's Forth Road Bridge and it lasted only 50 years. Its now closed with another one built beside it. Yet Forth Railway Bridge is over 120 years old and is doing just fine😂😂

[@p38arover22]

This video doesn’t really tell how wire ropes are made, more where they are used.

[@catsupchutney]

The video seems to jump back and forth in the process where the wire are drawn, wound, heated, quenched ... then drawn?

[@ovidiuciuparu6421]

0:37 let’s tart with the right terms first! Is not a wire rope. Is a cable…

[@rodrickdavidson6815]

Very boring too much talking, not showing how it is made. Very disappointing.😡👎

[@wtfmanicanthaveaname]

Want to see a catastrophic failure and HEAR what it sounds like when the internal cables (inside the outer cable) start snapping? You cant see whats happening until the collapse but you can sure hear it and its terrifying. Look up "Milwaukee stadium crane collapse. Crane operator went to jail, i think it was 4 people that died. Its the operators judgment call to fly the crane in winds too high for the lift that caused it. You can see 2 people in a bucket from another crane that were going to rivet the large section in place, get launched from the bucket when the falling crane hit the cable that was holding their bucket.

[@jacks5kids]

3:00: :The load bearing capacity of the rope increases exponentially with the diameter of the material". No it most certainly does not.

[@youremybiggestfan]

9:02 Big Thanks to Eddy Curry for testing all the wires. What would we do without you Sir? 😅

[@terrytytula]

The one question I have that you didn't answer is how new wire is joined to old when the spool's run out.

[@kaanosphere]

Might be something like butt welding.

[@duongnguyen-sg4xw]

very good👍

[@wtfmanicanthaveaname]

Ive never heard a cable referred to as a "giant wire rope" lol

[@walterhason269]

Why does the image on this video, combines two different processes, the end product could not be accomplished from that wiring set up.

[@olafzijnbuis]

At 00:57 What you show are in fact rods for use in concrete reenforcement. Why bother to do proper research.

[@user-yl3mp7um6k]

The wire ropes of the Golden Gate Bridge were woven in place on the bridge itself. It was not woven in a factory, get your sheet straight. This is total BS

[@chrisstaylor8377]

Befor you make these films mate get your facts right

[@joeyjamison5772]

Bridge in India collapses twice in 1 year. OK......

[@josephma1332]

You don't know anything about GGB main cables..

[@chrismac2234]

Another victorian invention still used today.

[@mackcullison6316]

I’m a material scientist. There is so much wrong with what they are saying…

[@Paul-dx6bj]

Like what?

[@Imbecile96]

Like your comment

[@mackcullison6316]

@@Paul-dx6bjBasically everything about the heat treatment and material science just ignore. It is poorly explained. Pearlite is used to make material really soft so it is easy to machine. Martensite and the others all pretty much have to do with the TTT chart, and microstructure.

[@ioanbota9397]

Realy I like this video so much

[@WarrenGarabrandt]

I like the part where he said wire ropes so many times it lost all meaning.

[@simontaylor2319]

I tought your country had!joined the rest of the world using metric measures rather than imperial?

[@user-hi7nk6ms1r]

A whole lot of confusing info and contradiction between video and narration text. a 3 out of 10!

[@jeffreywiltshire2951]

THEY ARE NOT WIRE ROPES THEY ARE CABLES

[@juliusbernotas]

Wire ropes absolutely are not made from rebar. That's a shit ton of unrelated stock videos stitched together

[@user-oi5fl6bk5b]

Absolutely pathetic, loaded with errors. Obviously a wire rope engineer was not employed to fact check. Definition of a wire rope, a group of wires helically laid ( a strand ) around a core, usually a smaller wire rope. 40 years in industry, started with Roebling.

[@vincentlussier8264]

It's gonna come down one day! Either by an earthquake or a hurricane!

[@Galactis1]

That is not how the wires were made.

[@alfiospuson7165]

Brao brao

[@johnjacobjinglehimerschmid3555]

Wouldn't it be cool if .... today's mfg'ers of consumer goods would put this much effort into making quality products that last instead of this throwaway mentality? I'd love to buy a washing machine, refrigerator, or dishwasher that would reliably last 30 years rather than having a dozen service calls in 5 years or replacement in 10. I wish software makers were this thorough as well.

[@ovidiuciuparu6421]

3:11 lol… Einstein… it took you forever to learn that or what?

[@moonshiner5412]

Why the annoying music?

[@JP-rf7px]

This is a very disorganized presentation!!

[@dimaantfrancis1656]

Cable is a thick Rope 😅.. call it wat u want… 😇 God has his own words for it also… We can argue all day 😂

[@PacoOtis]

You made this boring!

[@9ZERO6]

Lol. What is this garbage