We are happy to report that installation of the upramps are complete. You can see them here, one over the other, with their black belts ready to lift logs up to the highest points of the ride (which may turn out to be a challenge as we did some pretesting and all the dry logs did was slip on the belt).
It was insane getting these ramps in and I have to admit that I broke off many installed pieces getting them just right so the motors would actually move the belts. I had to completely take apart one of the ramps and rebuild it the opposite way to get it to turn properly. And yes.....once again....I broke the end of the trough off! Yikes!
After surveying the damage, and doing some repair here and there, it was time to bring out the logs and prepare them for construction. It was kind of nice to finally get an easy process for a change!
And here we are with phase one finished! Between phase one and phase two (which is mainly load buildings and lots of cool theming) we do a motors and pumps test. Power supplies are coming today and we will connect both motors and both pumps and fill the flume with water. The boats will be added to the attraction and we will run an hour-long test to work out any bugs. Here's hoping for a successful run tonight! Wish us luck!
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