See...in no remote way has this...any of these ideas, entered my head! Now that i have read them, Im lit angry I cant see a glow in the dark puck on black ice with black lighting! 😂😂😂 Im like.....why has this not been tried before?! Lol
The Zamboni company doesn't want people to refer to ice resurfacers as Zambonis for fear of losing their trademark, in the same way that "aspirin" and "escalator" did.
the ice maker and zamboni are 2 completely different machines, a zamboni has a grinding device that takes off about a cm of ice and then has a little bit of water that it spread's down to make the ice brand new again. the ice maker just holds water and spays it down.
I work at an ice rink and there some differences. One: after the ice has been painted white with a layer of ice on top, we flood it with the hose; then, as seen in my next point, we place the ads, and do a few more floods. Two: we only paint the circles, creases and team logo. The advertisements and lines are made of a type of fabric that we lay down. Three: for those saying it'd be a pain to do this all the time, it's only at the beginning of the season you do all this. We also put down a special floor over top of the ice, just if we have something else going on that doesn't include skating. I love my job. It pays great, the hours are reasonable and my bosses are absolutely AWESOME.
You get paid well? Shit hire me over there this video was made in 2007 and they're way ahead of our ice rink... we use the mist "wand" but walk it back and forth, when we paint it's all by hand with shitty brushes everything takes ages we do all the convertions as well and get paid minimum wage
It's kinda sad that the entire video is made in Victoriaville, a small town in Quebec where the Victoriaville Tigers play, and that at the end of the video, they show the Bell Center in Montreal.
Everytime I see a Zamboni I just can't help but think of Deadpool "tell me where your fucking boss is.. Or your gunna die!!..... In 5 minutes! LMFAO I love that part.
This year at the Arizona Coyotes game during Halloween one of the Zambonie Drivers was dressed as deadpool, i started to make that joke, and when I paused five rows back I heard someone finish it
Man this video was awesome to watch. I've been a hockey fan since I was 9 years old, (24 years) and this is the first time I got to see exactly what goes into creating an ice rink.
This video only shows them making ice. It is the same as when people would put water into ice trays and put in the freezer. They did not show anything of what goes into making an ice rink, only how they sprayed water and painted it. There is a lot more to making an "Ice Rink" then what they shown. It is all in the cement floor and the piping going back to the room where all the compresses are. This video was just a drop in the bucket.
This answers so many questions I've wondered while watching games. It's very interesting that they have to repaint everything. I always wondered about the stanley cup logo that they put in each playoff team rink.
That requires a lot less water than I imagined. I had no idea all of those logos were hand painted every time they redo the rink. I am thoroughly impressed right now haha.
I helped put ice down on a rink years ago. We used a fire hose. Most rinks look white, but on major ice surfaces they use paint called TV Blue. TV cameras get a bad reflection on ice painted white. The guys who painted our ice were true artists. They were testing some new paint before painting the ice surface in Lake Placid before the 1980 Olympics. Our logo was an angry Bear. The guy who painted it did so freehand.
also when you focus on doing your job i doubt you smile, they really have to focus doing this, one wrong move can ruin pretty much everything they made up to that point
The place I worked at in rural Massachusetts had a rig that was set up so that a crew would just roll it down the length of the rink and the misters would evenly coat the surface layer by layer. We'd roll it back and forth once to get the initial layer, then a few more times with the white mixed in, paint the lines and logos and everything, and then pass over a few more times with clear water to solidify everything. After that it was just a matter of fixing any spots that were missed or over iced. All in all the process took a full day
People I read a lot of you comments, they only show the laying down of water on a cold floor that then turns to ice. This in not how you make a hockey rink. This video is how the get the ice on the floor and paint it, that is all. To make a hockey rink you have to start with the cement floor and all the pipes in it. There are compressors and a chiller and so much more then what they show. Don't get me wrong, it is a nice video , just titled wrong.
@TheWitchOvAgnesi According to an article I read they cover the ice with homasote, 530 four- by eight-foot, one-inch thick insulating boards that are laid over the ice before the basketball floor is put down.
They should call this video "How It's Made - Hockey Ice" They didn't show anything about how the rink is made and they rarely ever have to defrost the ice , they have special boards that insulate the ice and you can lay down carpet and convert the arena for concerts and events , We do it all the time at West Ed
There is also another system, for portable rinks. Very similar, minus the concrete pad. They lay a pipe system down for the coolant, and spray layers until the pipes are covered. Then, proceed the same as above.
Im going to try this out when we install ice in aug. We just use a hose, it sucks. We have to wrap rope around it so it wont melt into the ice, or have a few people constantly moving it around. Just using the zamboni is a good idea.
Yes they cover with rubber mats and floor boards like any other arena. There's plenty of videos on RU-vid that show the process too. It takes about 2-3 hours for a good turnover crew.
You could paint the concrete. You don't have to scrape anything when it's change of season time. You just turn the refrigeration off and let it melt and drain away. At most you would just run a water vac over it to help it dry faster or use squeegees.
This is the old-fashioned way of doing it. Nowadays, they use large, seamless slabs of wood that have the markings on them. They just bolt the peices into the bare cement and frezze over it. The ice is 1/4 an inch thick.
@MikeDegen8 actually the whole rink is done by the same compressors and you cant melt sections... all we do is paint the logo on thicker ice then the rest of the paint markings and shave the logo out with the machine when its not needed anymore!!
For whatever reason, I was just picturing a swimming pool that they froze over. Here I was thinking I was skating on like 3 feet of ice and it was just concrete 😂
Look up American Airlines Center Timelapse. They do Dancing With The Stars on Ice (or something), PBR, Mavs game and a concert, 4 events 6 days in 4 mins. Pretty crazy!
If there is a fire hydrant in the area and depending on the regulations in the city you live in you may be able to contact the local fire department to use a fire hydrant as a water source. They attach a meter to it determine the amount of water you use then charge you for that and a service fee. People do this when they want to fill a swimming pool.
This is interesting! I didn't know they painted the ice; I thought it was naturally white. Perhaps this is how Sonja Henie painted it black, without splashing the paint on her when she skated.
Wow! I always wondered how they did that. They have to do this for every game, too. What if they have both a matinee B-ball game AND an evening hockey game??
Either they melt the entire rink and redo it or maybe they use the Zamboni to shave the ice down to remove the painted area. Likewise when they want to add a graphic they shave the ice down to the depth desired, paint the graphic and refill the area and level it out.
@Ozyman73 That is correct. It would be too costly and take too much time to manually melt down the ice. Especially at places like MSG where there could be a concert one day, then a Rangers game the next.
@Grillinnap This is a good video. But idk how valid this is. Maybe some arenas do this. But i know for a fact Madison Square Garden doesnt. They use tiles of ice that they bring in and just place down for every game. Once the game is over they shovel off the ice and put on the wood for the basketball court. One the tiles the logo and the lines and everything is all painted on already.
what was left out of this video is that if the team doesn't have a dedicated place of their own and have to share it (like most teams do), this process may be repeated more than once a week.
Actually, every big arena has special insulated pieces that go down over the ice for things like concerts and other special events while the hockey season is still going. Possibilities are endless in big arena's.
That's a lot of math... first two layers = 4mm thick. Next three layers brings it up to 10mm or 1cm, which took 40 minutes of just driving to do. Hand painting looks like it could take 2 hours, depending on how many people are there. Takes 1 1/2 days to flood the ice up to 30mm or 3cm and freeze over at -7 to -9 degrees C, making the finished ice 40mm or 4cm thick (a little over 1 1/2 inch) over the course of 2 days. This is what you can learn on RU-vid when you get bored.
