First, they use the thin threading rope to drag in a thick hemp rope. This, in turn, is used to drag in a steel hawser, by winch! Then the hawser is connected to the end of the cable and winched back! A single pull can be over a kilometre! This one was about 700 metres. There are two 132kV circuits of three cables each, so that’s six lengths of this stuff between Willington and Derby. The cost must be eye-watering!
That’s random! Some sort of roadworks, but can’t tell if it’s cable or pipe?!
I know this .. Roadworks every where round here!,
Or it could be a Giants yo yo …
Cable laying – or I prefer Giants Yo Yo.
It’s very big and probably holding up the traffic.
The needle for that thing must be fucking huge!
Great photo.
First, they use the thin threading rope to drag in a thick hemp rope. This, in turn, is used to drag in a steel hawser, by winch! Then the hawser is connected to the end of the cable and winched back! A single pull can be over a kilometre! This one was about 700 metres. There are two 132kV circuits of three cables each, so that’s six lengths of this stuff between Willington and Derby. The cost must be eye-watering!
Woah! That’s huge! Is it roadworks?
Yep – new high-voltage cables from Willington to Derby!