Crazy Mine

Attention! Demolition. A small Berkwerk somewhere in the wilderness of North America. Here is still drilled, blown up and toiled. But more and more workers are missing. Not due to early retirement or lack of work. This mine is completely turned off. The 20-year anniversary of Hansa Park was invested heavily. The additional park area bought a year earlier - in 1996 - now dominates the new Pirate Land and the Crazy Mine. This, now fourth roller coaster of Hansa Park, comes from the German roller coaster-forge Maurer Sons, and is more commonly known under the type designation "Wild Mouse". For the Crazy Mine single vehicles are used, which stand out above all by the chassis of conventional roller coasters. To traverse the standard very compact routes, the trains need axes with a high turning radius. The Minenloren offer for max. 4 people space.

The layout of Crazy Mine is kept very tight. After the 15-meter-high lift, the mine car passes six horizontal 180° turns with a radius of just 3 meters. A 270° turn carries passengers back to the other end of the course parallel to the lift. Here, even a miner is waiting to load our train with rocks. And then fully occupied it goes into the first drop with about 8 meters difference in height. After the following 180° turn a so-called "Bunnyhop" is used, which hides well in a wooden house, and thus ensures a good thrill. Shortly through the adjacent mountains through and at the end there is a final descent with associated on-ride photo.

The Crazy Mine is clearly one of the most themed rides in the park. The winding tower is the big landmark of the roller coaster. From up there you can see the whole plant. The courtyard has been decorated with several authentic items from the old gold rush times. A small group of musicians of miners sits on the veranda and plays for entertainment old classics from the Western time.

It requires a high degree of security to let 7 individual cars travel in such a small space. The brake test checks the functioning of the safety system. The route is divided into block segments. Only one car may travel in one block. The beginning of each block consists of the so-called "block brake". Will now a second car drive into a used block this is immediately braked and held in the brake. In Crazy Mine this situation is called a "safety shutdown". Should it ever happen that a car is too fast, all block brakes will be closed immediately, without exception, to prevent another car from slipping through the system. The brake test forces a safety shutdown. In the main control room, where the computer watches over the roller coaster, individual blocks are successively marked as occupied by a technician. Now it is up to the computer to detect the occupied block and perform a security shutdown. With a loud bang close the compressed air operated brakes. The car stops in front of the occupied block. The technician checks how well the brakes have reached. If the car has come too far at the end of the brake come to a halt, the brake is taken under closer scrutiny. Causes may be clogged compressed air lines or abraded brake pad. This process is repeated for each individual block segment to ensure maximum safety.