Swiss Boat Lift / Ascenseur ŕ bateaux de Suisse
Boatlift Damsau (EWZ)
River Limmat
A boat lift without rails and powered by human energy
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Un ascenseur à bateaux sans rails et mû à la force des bras !
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The boats are pulled on multiple
large rollers. Of course the boats have flat hull. |
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The rollers.. |
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The winch with the cable.
The winch can be operated by two men. |
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The winch. Guess what is
this pulley beside the winch ! |
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The strange pulley beside
the winch. Look at the little hole under the pulley... |
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In fact it is a mobile pulley
which must be fixed on the little square between the rollers.... |
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There is a little tooth on
the square... the pulley must be positionned on the square with
the tooth into the little hole of the pulley. The pulley fixed
on the square is used to pull the boat in line with the rollers! |
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Elektrizitätswerke de Stadt Zürich (EWZ) |