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This is the way these guy make it, other my use an aluminum floor. In the old days the use to use pipes set in sand and sawdust. Time change everything. I use to put it down for Ice Capades.
No kidding. I dont think he realizes that every rink maker uses the white ice paint for one of the layers... but I guess for Brits or Aussies this is like magic or something?
I put down the ice floors for ice capades from 80 to 85. I was done a little different then this. We could put down a floor 60 feet wide and up to 160 long. We would make the ice using an everyday garden hose with a spray nozzle. It could take up to 24 hrs to make the ice. Two guys, one at a time would trade off for 8 hrs walking backwards spraying water. A little at a time slow and steady is how it is done. The stuff they use in the tube is the same as what we used, ethylene glycol as you would know it by Antifreeze or they may use propylene glycol it is less toxic.
But gotta say it's easier in the north during wintertime lol. When I was in elementary school we would make our own ice rink to the school by just spraying water into the rink during every break we had (during winter ofc) until there was thick enough layer of ice to skate on
"No one wants to tell a group of hockey players that their rink looks like an 80's cocktail" Me: but I want to skate on a rink that looks like an 80's cocktail :(
That's a lot of water for one hockey game. As a skater, and someone whom has worked at the Dallas stars/ Mavericks stadium, I've wondered how they did it. This video is the best demonstration.
I'd absolutely love to be able to go and skate everyday. I'm in Texas, and we are cold weenies. I don't mind it if I am out skating or going some sort of physical activity.
I'd hate to be in Michigan in a collage band. I about froze at the end of the football season here in Texas. As I said before, we here are wimps.l for cold.
Idk, but they did it here in Dallas for a stars game at an outdoor stadium recently. Temp was 40's I'm sure that was expensive, and it could have very well been in the 60's or 70s as the weather here flip flops so much.
The making of this nice rink is very interesting. However, one of fond memories is my brother calling me from this same stadium during a game. I could hear the crowds cheering and he was so happy to have prime front row seasonal seats every year. Sadly, he passed away unexpectedly a few months ago. I sure do miss him. As he would say ....Go Blue!!! University of Michigan.
Am I alone in randomly searching for exactly this due to unprompted curiosity? It was so random that I looked this up on my way home from seeing Jerry Seinfeld live 😂
Ok we get it flint has bad water. Now how about you go and remove almost 50-100 years worth of plumbing infrastructure and work on locating water for the entire population and changing the water source of the town. Because that's what their doing. It takes time to change an entire fucking populations infrastructure.
The is a bit different then when I did it for Ice Capades. We used 30 foot long floor sections, butted them together in the middle to make a floor 60 foot wide, we could go up to 160 foot long. We used garden hoses and sprayed the water on almost non stop for up to 24 hrs.
It also notifies you if there is a leak somewhere, as once the glycol leaks, then dries, it leaves pink powder where it was. If it was clear there could be a huge leak on the ice surface, and no one would know until the ice had a giant hole in it.
KiyokaMakibi pretty sure they’re talking about the coyotes in the nhl, could also be the golden knights but I think this video was probably before they were even thought of existing
Mr. Lonely the coyotes are really bad so their attendance is too low. The Vegas golden knights could get an outdoor game soon, probably a few years after the raiders play
The cooling mats to a decent job of retaining the water and you don’t lose a lot if you’re doing small layers. You can use liner also, basically a tarp.
Towards the end of the video did he say it was, "pitch perfect"? I've never heard that term before. Obviously , "Picture Perfect" makes sense and is used more commonly, but unsure if the other term is used in other countries more regularly. I know it's kind of a nit-picky observation and question. I'm just curious.
