Zip Line Research Paper

I was ecstatic to show my brother what my friend and I had made! We had used it many times, and it always worked magnificently. I was not aware of anything that could go wrong at the time, in fact, I felt that nothing would go wrong. As I prepared to show my brother, nothing but positive outcomes of what was to come crossed my mind, but the opposite happened of course. This is the all-out favorite mistake I have made. It was the second to last day of summer until I went into the fifth grade. I was at my friend’s house and we wanted to end the summer with a hanging-ganging bang for our buck. After a long while of pondering what we should do, I concluded we should make a zip line. While James and I had no idea what we were doing or even instructions to do it, we were set on making a zip line, so the building commenced.
We fumbled around in his garage until we found some suitable supplies. First, we found a pulley and some rope, along with a log for a handle. We put these things together and made a bottom-of-the-line zipper. Next, we make the line, and we did so by locating an industrial steel cable in his garage and tying it to two trees. We …show more content…
The zip line was going to be tested, but who would do it was the main question. It ended up being me, and at first I was not happy about it, but when I zipped, I was psyched to go again. To save time, (and I forgot exactly how long we were actually zipping), I’ll say we were zipping for a couple fast-flying hours of fun. It is important to know that we zipped for so long, we began to become tired of climbing the ladder to the top of the zip line and tried to ride the zip line back up by running and jumping on it, weakening the handle. After, my parents sent my brother over to get me. This was the calm before the storm. I was ecstatic to show my brother the zip line. In fact, I was so excited to show him that I didn’t question anything, not even if the zip line handle was