Detachables swing by strong winds

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#1 Skiing#1

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Posted 07 September 2007 - 11:51 AM

I watched two videos from Youtube.com and I never see the chairs swing by the strong wind before. I am surprised the grips are strong to hold the haul ropes. I wonder the grips hold strong all the times or accident to get off? Any history?

http://youtube.com/watch?v=6-5ks3JLl-g

http://youtube.com/watch?v=ouE-ywvGup8&...ted&search=

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#2 Kicking Horse

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Posted 07 September 2007 - 11:54 AM

Skiing#1, on Sep 7 2007, 01:51 PM, said:

I watched two videos from Youtube.com and I never see the chairs swing by the strong wind before. I am surprised the grips are strong to hold the haul ropes. I wonder the grips hold strong all the times or accident to get off? Any history?

http://youtube.com/watch?v=6-5ks3JLl-g

I did post this link in another topic!

As for the 2nd video that's some crazy shit.

Jeff

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#3 Skiing#1

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Posted 07 September 2007 - 12:02 PM

Kicking Horse, Oops, I am sorry...I didn't know you posted first ones. What name of the topic you put it?

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#4 liftmech

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Posted 13 September 2007 - 04:53 AM

It takes a great deal of force to peel a grip off, allowing for situations as filmed here... I agree with Jeff, that is definitely crazy.

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#5 Lift Kid

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Posted 13 September 2007 - 01:14 PM

I'd worry more about the cable twisting than the grip.

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Posted 13 September 2007 - 08:43 PM

Now it kind of makes me wonder what a LE grip would be like in that wind. Would it hold on, or would it come off. Those appear to be Agamatic AG-104 grips, which are pretty reliable single position grips.

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#7 Skiing#1

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Posted 14 September 2007 - 12:13 PM

skierdude9450, on Sep 13 2007, 10:43 PM, said:

Now it kind of makes me wonder what a LE grip would be like in that wind. Would it hold on, or would it come off. Those appear to be Agamatic AG-104 grips, which are pretty reliable single position grips.

What is LE grip?

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#8 skier2

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Posted 14 September 2007 - 12:55 PM

I think he's referring to the Lift Engineering grip (Yan), although I could be wrong

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Posted 15 September 2007 - 05:09 AM

He is, and I understand that aside from the Whistler incident (which was not wind-related), those grips did function well.

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Posted 15 September 2007 - 05:34 AM

Do you have pictures of LE grips and Agamatic AG-104 grips? Can you post these pictures? I would like to see them. Thank you.

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#11 Lift Kid

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Posted 15 September 2007 - 08:11 AM

There are some pictures somewhere on the forums. If I find some, I can post links here.

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Posted 20 September 2007 - 04:27 AM

Yan Type 11

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Posted 23 September 2007 - 04:35 PM

Skiing#1, on Sep 15 2007, 07:34 AM, said:

Do you have pictures of LE grips and Agamatic AG-104 grips? Can you post these pictures? I would like to see them. Thank you.

The AG-104 is the grip that's on Peruvian Express. You posted a few pictures of that.

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Posted 26 March 2008 - 05:41 AM

Posted february 2008

http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZtcFa2lB1lc

Any idea what is a name of the ski resort?

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#15 Skiing#1

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Posted 06 October 2008 - 10:38 PM

The several chairs are swining. Wow.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MYmniEupIQ...feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-5ks3JLl-g...feature=related

I noticed the bubble chairs tend to swing than the chairs without bubbles. Are any chairs without bubbles swining yet?

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Posted 07 October 2008 - 09:52 AM

Skiing#1, on Mar 26 2008, 02:41 PM, said:

Posted february 2008

http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZtcFa2lB1lc

Any idea what is a name of the ski resort?

This shows the Sochers-Ciampioni chairlift at Selva Gardena Italy, a part of the famous Sellaronda.

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#17 Lift Kid

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Posted 07 October 2008 - 02:19 PM

Skiing#1, on Oct 7 2008, 01:38 AM, said:

I noticed the bubble chairs tend to swing than the chairs without bubbles. Are any chairs without bubbles swining yet?

Obviously, yes. Enclosed carriers such as bubbled chairs, gondola cabins, tramway cars, etc. will indeed have a tendency to be affected by wind. They are not very aerodynamic and have a lot of surface area for the wind to push on. However, regular chairs will still swing if it is windy, but I don't think it would really ever reach the intensity of those in the videos, but I could be mistaken. Unfortunately, I have not seen a video of this.