It IS very expensive, maybe £100+ per metre for the thickest (unless they decided to do it for the prestige), and you're right, the point may not be worth proving at that price, but I don't think we should lose sight of the fact that we may have a very sexy product here and be able to obtain some big sponsorship and grants. Once the website is up, and if we get it right, we can approach any number of potential sponsors with quite a degree of cred. I keep thinking of £100K lottery grant for the Millenium Bluestone project... we're going to do something much more spectacular, and so far we're only thinking of an expenditure amounting to a lorry load of timber. £3K to buy rope in exchange for a mention would be cheap publicity for a lot of firms.
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