That's a really nice video Mendipmammoth! Interesting to watch and the end shots looked awesome!

Does anyone have any comments / suggestions / criticism on my cable cam so far?

have u finished it yet lol iv been looking at this topic and im eager to c the end result
i wanna build one of these lmao

everyone has been talking about steel cable and climbing ropes... why not just get static climbing rigging rope! Climbing ropes are dynamic (stretch) rigging ropes are static (dont stretch). should be able to get it from any climbing shop and it'll do the job nicely and probably cheaper than the metal cable. its what i'm planning to use!!

Dynamic is pretty expensive but a tusk job is the cheapest and is £65 for 50m! static is pretty cheap, easy to work with and robust! i have seen 50m reels of the stuff for under £50 or you can buy it by the meter which is more expensive per meter but might come out cheaper as 50m is twice as much as most people need! the best place to look is on industrial rope access web shops or ebay! just make sure you know your knots before you go using it as its so thick you'll need to be using knots like bow lines and italian hitches to work with it properly and securly.

Also anyone thought about lego ?....

Yeah we used to setup zip wires in caves with just normal caving rope.. which is static (doesnt stretch) and given a bit of intuition with bungee cords like Callum does then that seems like the normal sort of thing to do.

Dont know if you've seen this yet, but this is how the collective do it:


Looks like theyre either using dynamic rope and the stretch to slow it down, or setting static up between trees with a bit of play in it so that it sags with the weight of the person attached to it.. stopping/slowing your impact with the tree at the other end!