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happy
07-21-2005, 04:23 PM
The latest news is that the carpet next to the jump farm will be opening this weekend (saturday). It has been fixed and it's great timing with the hot weather.



Straw
07-21-2005, 05:47 PM
Yea!

I was thinking they weren't going to open it, and were just using it as a tease. Excited!

Can we ride up it, or do we have to be stationary while on the carpet?

Oh yea...will the carpet be only open on weekends? Or all the time?
freerider guy
07-21-2005, 08:09 PM
my guess is that it will be open all of the time and you will be allowed to walk up it but not ride seeing as how it is like 4 feet in the air.
derwood
07-21-2005, 08:09 PM
Dont expect the carpet to last too long.....ever go down a metal play ground slide in shorts?

thats what the conveyor will be trying to do all day.....ouch.....
Straw
07-21-2005, 08:21 PM
Dont expect the carpet to last too long.....ever go down a metal play ground slide in shorts?

thats what the conveyor will be trying to do all day.....ouch.....

Yea, with no snow to lube things up. That's a good point.
derwood
07-21-2005, 08:34 PM
Yea, with no snow to lube things up. That's a good point.
exactly...unless theyve lined it with ptfe or something...still gonna be hell on the belt and splice.
whistler110
07-22-2005, 12:06 AM
The carpet runs on a hard low friction plastic layer but they did talk about running water under the carpet.
wheeler
07-22-2005, 01:13 AM
What is this carpet you speak of?
thom9719
07-22-2005, 09:15 AM
What is this carpet you speak of?

basically a conveyor belt to take rider (in the summer) to the top of the jump farm.

Kyle,
motorp
07-22-2005, 11:56 AM
Some pics.
motorp
07-22-2005, 12:03 PM
The pics did not get through on my last post. Here they are.
Sol
07-22-2005, 12:07 PM
It looks like this, apart from the fact that it usually has a snow pack covering it, so it is actually a few feet of the ground in the summer.

http://www.sunridgeskiarea.com/sunridge/images/CarpetLift.jpg

http://www.magiccarpet.rmce.com/images/girl-loading.jpg

http://www.heejee.com/images/d.4009.jpg
mrraulduke
07-22-2005, 12:29 PM
it looks like one of those old fashioned shooting galleries.....with the ducks
Sgt. Pepper
07-22-2005, 12:42 PM
it looks like one of those old fashioned shooting galleries.....with the ducks

haha yeah :agree: