Ropeway conveyor

A goods lift, also called load cable car, is a cable car, which is usually only approved for the transport of goods, such as ore or food.

Transportation of building materials

Cableways are temporarily erected, about the construction of ropeways, railways, transmission towers, huts, inter alia, in the inaccessible terrain (mountains ), for the disposal of construction waste and the delivery of construction materials. So dikes were built in the Dutch Delta Plan project by using cable cars, while stones were thrown from the cable cars directly into the sea and so built the dams.

Supply in the mountains

They can also be erected permanently, eg for remote mountain farms or shelters. Often make material ropeways be the only access to high-altitude farms and pastures when the creation of an access road or access road would be too costly. In these cases, a ropeway also serve the passenger transportation for a limited circle of users ( residents ).

Avalanche blasting train

Another use for material ropeways are avalanche blasting cable cars, which charges shall be promoted to the artificial triggering of avalanches to the desired location.

Loren cable car

Material ropeways are also used to convey material that is mined at a reservoir to a distant loading or processing plant. Such systems are usually referred to Loren cable car. With them, sometimes considerable distances over rough and difficult terrain to be overcome. Through them, the use of road transport vehicles is avoided or are partially reduced high investments for the construction of rail-based transport routes. A special feature of Loren cable cars are the protective bridges over other roads. They are designed to prevent overturning or crashing Loren inflict greater damage. Most material ropeways were built in the first half of the 20th century in countries that have not had sufficient traffic routes.

1943: the former Linbanan Boliden Kristine Berg

The approximately five-kilometer ropeway glues - Nussloch

Built in 1963/64, material ropeway Resita in Romania

The opened in 1939 ropeway Bulembu - Barberton at its highest point

The 96 km long and from 1943 to 1987 operated Linbanan Boliden in Sweden Kristine Berg served the transport of ore ( copper, lead, zinc, silver and gold ores ) and was the longest cableway in the world.

The 76 km long COMILOG material ropeway transported 1957-1986 manganese ore from Moanda in Gabon to Mbinda in the Republic of Congo.

The 75 km long Massawa - Asmara cableway in Eritrea served from 1938 to 1941 the supply of the Italian Army and was in its time the longest cableway in the world.

The 75 km long ropeway Mariquita - Manizales in Colombia, which was built in the years 1915 to 1922 for the transportation of coffee, was in its time the longest cableway in the world.

The 42 km long Kalklinbanan transported 1941-1997 limestones in Sweden and was for two years the longest cableway in the world.

The 35-km long ropeway Chilecito -La Mejicana in Argentina served from 1905 to transport ore from the Sierra de Famatina in more than 4600 meters above sea level and was in its time the longest cableway in the world and until the construction of Meridabahn in 1958 as the funicular with the highest mountain station. She overcame a difference in altitude of 3528 m, which was not surpassed until today.

The 20 km long ropeway Bulembu, Swaziland and South Africa between Barberton served from 1939 to 2002 for the transport of asbestos to the station of Barberton and in the opposite direction of coke for a power plant. She was the longest cableway in the world without stopover.

The 17- km long cable cars Savona - San Giuseppe in Italy has been in operation since 1912. The two Lohr tracks adjacent can carry up to 420 tons of material per hour inland from the port of Savona. The plant is currently the longest -standing mountain railways.

The ropeway Feldmoos - chli Titlis served from 1979 to 1986 the supply of 1429.9 meters higher in site. She had to move each one suspension cable and pull cable to a single vehicle with a gross weight of up to 3.8 tonnes over a total length of 4675 m. Here, the longest ever realized Spanfeld was crossed by 3467.1 m.

The modern, just 1.8 km long ropeway Vicat cement factory crosses the Isere, a highway and several streets to provide a cement factory with limestone.

The Agethorster cable car of the cement plant Alsen near Itzehoe was with a length of 13.5 km one of the longest industrial cable cars in Europe.

Construction cableway

Bauseilbahnen (for example, vehicles, plants, gravel, cement) used to transport building materials at construction sites in the high mountains. The construction project « Linthal 2015" is currently the largest Swiss construction projects in the energy sector, in which the largest hydroelectric power station in Switzerland is produced. These two Bauseilbahnen were built that can carry a load of material of up to 30 tons, in exceptional cases up to 40 tons per hanger.

Other transports

The car ropeway Bratislava transported the VW plant in Bratislava cars Einfahrstrecke. You may be the only use of a goods lift to transport high-value goods.

Cable paths and wooden cable car

Cable paths have a similar function, but they are primarily for Heueinbringung in steep terrain and are operated by hand. The same applies to wood for wooden cable cars.

Drive

Are powered ropeways usually by a gasoline engine, diesel engine or electric motor. Larger material ropeways are mostly designed as a two- wire orbits, with a supporting cable for each direction and a circumferential tension cable that moves the Loren. Many small paths consist of a single supporting cable, on which the load on a roller attached. The role is pulled either pulled from the top with an auxiliary cable or drained or diverted up from below with an auxiliary cable. The auxiliary rope is wound onto a particular wire rope drum which is rotated by the motor.

Danger to air traffic

In mountainous regions, there are, due to the topography, thousands of cableways. These tracks represent a major risk to aircraft, especially helicopters and hang gliders dar. Many of these cables are not marked on any hazard map and therefore increase the risk of collision. In Switzerland, the Swiss Air Force for many years a free demo days are no longer required material ropeways in order to reduce the risk for civil and military aircraft.