Context: the Manly Daily wrote:
"It took about eight hours to set it up and get it under tension and then a day to de-rig it all. The cliffs are 85m high and the lowest point of the rope was 35m below that. The ropes, which were two-800m 11mm static ropes tied in the middle, were under 1.5 tonnes of tension with a breaking strain of 3.2 tonnes.’‘ |