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News New Gondola Transportation - Disney Skyliner -
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cosmicgirl
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This vlogger is really putting in an effort to be on top of things! He has posted Skyliner updates for the past 3 days.
Exciting times!
For those who can't watch the video: it seems they pulled the haul rope on the DHS line overnight and did the first slow test run with a cabin bracket.
Edited to add: it's dark so you can't see if the bracket is moving on a temporary rope or the 54mm "real" one.
And more news from Adam Onthescene:
Exciting times!
For those who can't watch the video: it seems they pulled the haul rope on the DHS line overnight and did the first slow test run with a cabin bracket.
Edited to add: it's dark so you can't see if the bracket is moving on a temporary rope or the 54mm "real" one.
And more news from Adam Onthescene:
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cosmicgirl
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Could you tell if the thickest cable on the right is actually the haul rope yet to be installed, or is it somehow connected to those lamps?
In the video I posted above you can see the bracket moving, but you can't actually see the girth of the rope it's on, so it may have been one of the temporary ones. The rope running through the sheaves in your pictures still looks thinner than a haul rope to me.
Clamman73
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It’s beefy. It’s all the way to the station on both sides.
cosmicgirl
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Great, thank you! The additional pictures help
.I could be off, but to me it looks like they've completed the part over the parking lot in both directions and the rope is hanging downwards between the trees so they can do the splice. This matches with the location of the spool we saw a couple of days ago.
Once they splice it, is there a "break-in period" before they start hanging gondolas?
Horizons '83
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- In the Parks
- No
Looking like August/September of next year. Maybe earlier.
DznyGrlSD
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- In the Parks
- Yes
thank you for the quick response. Hopefully by marathon weekend 2020 it'll be fully functional for me to try!
flynnibus
Premium Member
WIth that said, what that guy video'd is probably just the hanger on the rope why they rope is being PULLED right? Not the rope being driven by the stations at all. He keeps saying 'ride test' - but sounds like it is just pulling through, but with the arm clamped to the rope while it's being pulled?
cosmicgirl
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I watched some of the Big Sky live stream over the weekend (thanks for the link, @Lift Blog!) and what you describe matches what I saw there. They stopped pulling for the day when the hanger had come back off the mountain but I couldn't see where the pull rope ended and the haul rope began, so I didn't know what the significance was.
Thanks to @Clamman73's pictures we know that the haul rope wasn't up all the way yet this morning, so it can't have been a ride test.
Lift Blog
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No but they probably still have wiring, adjustment and alignment to do in the stations. Of course this happens to be the busiest month of the year getting all the new ski lifts commissioned.
Correct, the grip was probably attached manually away from the stations. Looks like the haul rope was was winched around from the splice area.
flynnibus
Premium Member
How do they get the rope slacked enough to be at ground level for splicing? Take it off a tower or something?
flynnibus
Premium Member
Here's a still from the video posted above with a decent close up of the gondola wrap. It is clear from the photos that it was done onsite.. which I found interesting.
And at least at that distance... looks quite opaque. Not the typical 'screendoor' print.. but could still be.
And at least at that distance... looks quite opaque. Not the typical 'screendoor' print.. but could still be.
I assume that is how it works, if you watch the cable splicing video you can see that they are working right near the base of a tower, so they must have the cable off a tower or two.
flynnibus
Premium Member
The idea of pulling the cable.. and then where the bracket was attached really made me consider how much 'extra' cable there might be on the spool just to make the pull function (cable needed to run the line, but not actually installed as part of the line..). Then I started thinking about how the system handles slack or not... then thinking about the fixed cable length to actually splice. Then started thinking about how much travel the tensioning system must be able to handle or not for a slack rope vs a loaded rope, etc. It gets interesting to think about the parameters they must work within
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ABQ
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It's totally a guy