Comprehensive Phantomjay, thank you for your thoughts an effort. This photo wasn't a usual cable car pylon, just a wee ski lift up a tiny grassy slope, most of the cable car systems went up really steep slopes and had several very large towers that were all on the piss or sloped, would that make...
Thanks everyone for getting the physics minds working on this, here is a pic of a small chair lift pylon, my walk yesterday unfortunately did not go near any of the bigger cable cars, some of which are the same - off vertical pitch (Sorry photo posted at 90 degrees -couldn't figure out how to...
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Sorry no pics and I'm quite annoyed now that I haven't taken one. I walked under the Maiskogel cable car lift yesterday, pylons and concrete base of vertical by 10 -15 degrees, today went up the 3 Kitsteinhorn lifts to summit, on steeper slopes, pylons again 10 -...
I am in Austria on a walking holiday, Why are the pylons on ski lift's not vertical? I only have A level physics but surely centre of gravity and gravitational force must put tremendous pressure on the back of the pylon, as it will naturally want to lean fwd. My friend says this is just good...