Start with the rope fiber samples and the hoist’s load-and-stop book. It is the source used to make a decision about when to retire the main rope without cutting the only heavy route to the lower workshops; it is not the decision itself. The rule only works if the source describes the conditions at the eastern hoist chamber above the deep cart line.
The latest count is 56 test lifts completed under load; the prior file listed 58. A new complaint or proposal has been entered under a dated docket. The difference is a signal to check, not a verdict about who is right.
The disputed point is practical: The examiner has found no failed fibers; the crew argues that a rope can pass a bench test and still behave badly under a stop. One side relies on the posted total, while the other points to a pale strand showing through the outer twist near the lower drum.
The risk of reading the file too broadly is that an entry becomes a conclusion. Dara Vek checked the rope fiber samples and the hoist’s load-and-stop book against the field notes. The method is to start at the shift handoff, where an official total can lose its context; it confirms the entries, but not every interpretation attached to them.
Next: The next trial will record a full stop with a stone load matched to the heaviest routine cart. A useful update will publish the method, exceptions and review date with the number.
