The New Arizona Pipeline

The progress of our new curling club breaks new ground...of pipe that is. It's actually laying over 6 miles of pipe for the glycol fluid that will pump through the compressor and chill the ice. It's a tedious job that take teamwork of 12-15 people to lay each row.

A connection is made between two pieces and then dragged off the wheels to lay out and be carefully lifted over the metal "chairs" (aka metal floor brackets) that were hand laid before it by 6+ volunteers.

Then the pipe is stretched and carefully place in certain parts of the chair to keep the pipe straight.  When it's ready to go, the puller at the end shouts down the "soon to be ice" to start tying it down. Index fingers and thumbs go to work pulling zip ties in unison at many designated points in the pipe and clip off any extra zip tie to make it clean.

The excess pipe is cut, glued and secured to the out flow and return flow tubes called "headers."

We streamline this process to keep it continuous, only taking breaks when new players step in or the lunch/dinner food arrives. 3 crews of people were here today from 9 am - 10 pm, totaling over 30 generous volunteers.

We will be really close to finishing another milestone tonight thanks to all of these curlers that are putting their life on hold to build this club.  What a dedicated club!