Monarch Mountain, located near Salida, Colorado, is in the process of replacing the haul rope for their Garfield chairlift. Garfield has ferried skiers up Monarch since 1969. The resort shared a ...

Crews from Aspen Skiing Co. and its contractors are on the homestretch this week of the massive undertaking of replacing the thick wire cable of the Silver Queen Gondola at Aspen Mountain. The cable, ...

Wire splicing and soldering is a basic skill that any DIYer can master—but it all starts with a solid connection between the two wires. That’s where the Lineman splice comes in. Connecting two wires ...

Mathematics is unpicking the secrets of a centuries-old nautical skill called splicing - joining two ropes together end to end by interweaving their strands 1. Chris Leech of rope and fibre ...

The mooring and towing of oil rigs and huge ships rely on the strength and durability of thick ropes and the splices that join those ropes. Yet the mathematical models used to evaluate ropes have long ...