Positionning a rope - photo 1 !

This photo and the next two ones can show you the way a hoisting rope is positionned so that it can fulfill it's future task. Here you can see the rope being torn around one of the shaft tower's wheels. I pitily cannot tell you the number of the shaft the photo was taken at. Anyway, it is clearly visible that at first a thin rope is positionned correctly around the wheel and that after this the rope is used to pull the heavy hoisting rope into it's correct position.

Special thanks to Arno Hoffmann for sending me the CD with the photos. If the - pitily unknown - photographer does not want the pictures to be published here, please send me an e-mail.