power tower how far down?
I'm sure it's down to bedrock, as with many of the other rides. I don't know how deep that is, but it's my understanding that it's around 20 feet or something like that. Any geologists familiar with that area out there?
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Jeff
Webmaster/Guide to The Point
"And he says 'I'm goin' crazy up there at the lake...'"
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Jeff
Webmaster/Guide to The Point
"And he says 'I'm goin' crazy up there at the lake...'"
While we're here...anyone who remembers, please confirm this: I vaguely remember when a PT worker used to post here. He said the compressor room is actually housed beneath the superstructure of PT itself, and when you board the ride, you're actually walking on its roof. As for elevation: from my Queen of American Watering Places knowledge, since the peninsula has been developed, any substantial elevation changes have been removed.(There used to be three distict regions on the peninsula in pre-amusement park days.) Therefore, footer depth is pretty much dependent upon whether there are any rifts in the bedrock itself. Jeff, wasn't MF's footer depth much shallower while Magnum's was deeper?
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-Dave Kochman
Pittsburgh
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-Dave Kochman
Pittsburgh
I think the PT crew members, as well as Wagonboy, have stated that the compressors are under or around Corkscrew's lift.
I don't know how much deeper MF's footers might be. The official site says five feet, but they looked a little deeper when they were big empty holes! The land around Magnum is a little higher in elevation I think compared to the area around Permieter Rd., so if you count that I'm sure the footers are deeper.
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Jeff
Webmaster/Guide to The Point
"And he says 'I'm goin' crazy up there at the lake...'"
I don't know how much deeper MF's footers might be. The official site says five feet, but they looked a little deeper when they were big empty holes! The land around Magnum is a little higher in elevation I think compared to the area around Permieter Rd., so if you count that I'm sure the footers are deeper.
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Jeff
Webmaster/Guide to The Point
"And he says 'I'm goin' crazy up there at the lake...'"
The only thing I know for certain is that the concrete building beneath Power Tower is, by my estimate (as seen from Corkscrew during construction) about ten feet from the top of the floor slab to the top of the foundation wall at the perimeter of the ride. I don't know how thick that floor slab is.
I *think* the compressors for Power Tower are located in that large building with the large vents on the roof, behind the queue. But there is something in the "basement" below the ride. I think the large opening I remember in the foundation structure must be the pass-through for the air plenums between the compressor building and the tower basement.
I remember being surprised at how large that building was, especially since I don't remember ever seeing much excavation. And yet, the structure is totally buried beneath the midway...
--Dave Althoff, Jr. *** This post was edited by RideMan on 4/26/2000. ***
I *think* the compressors for Power Tower are located in that large building with the large vents on the roof, behind the queue. But there is something in the "basement" below the ride. I think the large opening I remember in the foundation structure must be the pass-through for the air plenums between the compressor building and the tower basement.
I remember being surprised at how large that building was, especially since I don't remember ever seeing much excavation. And yet, the structure is totally buried beneath the midway...
--Dave Althoff, Jr. *** This post was edited by RideMan on 4/26/2000. ***
According the S&S Sports Power web site FAQ on the required foundation for their standard rides. (NOTE: the term "Standard Ride" - their standard ride is only approx. 210 feet high while the Power Tower is definitely not a standard ride and is well above that at 300 ft. high)
"This will vary a little bit, depending on the local soil conditions, and on the wind and seismic design criteria or regulations. We will provide engineering assistance to each buyer for each specific site. But the foundation is NOT a disproportionately expensive or difficult part of purchasing an S&S ride. We will provide the embeds which are set into the concrete pad. Just as an example, a standard ride foundation will often be 44'X44'X4' thick."
Obviously Power Tower's foundation is much thicker than 4' feet but this points out that the foundation is not necessarily as thick as what one might think it would have to be.
Chris DeFouw
cwdefouw@netwalk.com
White Water Landing Crew '87
"This will vary a little bit, depending on the local soil conditions, and on the wind and seismic design criteria or regulations. We will provide engineering assistance to each buyer for each specific site. But the foundation is NOT a disproportionately expensive or difficult part of purchasing an S&S ride. We will provide the embeds which are set into the concrete pad. Just as an example, a standard ride foundation will often be 44'X44'X4' thick."
Obviously Power Tower's foundation is much thicker than 4' feet but this points out that the foundation is not necessarily as thick as what one might think it would have to be.
Chris DeFouw
cwdefouw@netwalk.com
White Water Landing Crew '87
Well, I remember on many of my hundreds of rides on Space Spiral, during the speil the ride op mentioned that the foundation for Space Spiral goes 30 feet underground to the bedrock. Given that Power Tower is slightly shorter, I would think that the foundation most likely goes to about the same depth.
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Neil
By popular vote, the official start of the
millennium has been moved to
May 13, 2000
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Neil
By popular vote, the official start of the
millennium has been moved to
May 13, 2000
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