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Construction/Rumors / Re: SDC's 2013 Project

« on: March 29, 2012, 02:34:06 AM »

I went back and looked for footers of other wooden roller coasters. I have found the footers of El Toro at Six Flags Great Adventure to be similar to what is going on for the footers of the Bull here at SDC. Based on this photo here: http://www.rcdb.com/3183.htm?p=15335 you can see some similarities of the metal connection as our Bull here. So whoever is building this has taken notes from the Intamin ride at Great Adventure, so I am thinking it's gonna be wooden structured. When they get the bents in place it would have prefab footings that would bolt right onto the footers.

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Construction/Rumors / Re: SDC's 2013 Project

« on: March 27, 2012, 10:50:59 AM »

Here are some of my Photos I took Sunday including a close up of a Footer in place. The prefab footers they are using doesn't look like traditional wooden coaster footers as a traditional wooden footer would have flat metal sticking up out of the cement. These look more like sign footers with the round metal base sticking out of the footer. It is making me wonder if they're gonna be using a wooden structure for this or a metal structure for this one as the footers seem to suggest.

The thing that has me really excited for the ride now is that drop into the Valley. I am digging up some Topo Maps in the area to tell what the terrain is like around this coaster and to estimate the height of the valley drop there.

Anyone got any ideas about the structure being wooden or metal. I had thought it was gonna be Wooden Structured but the footers are throwing me off.

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Construction/Rumors / Re: SDC's 2013 Project

« on: January 21, 2012, 12:11:44 AM »

For some reason I love the idea of having the Coaster Go Underwater into Lake Silver and having it themed to Rube Dugan would be quite awesome!