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[liftmech]

Midway up. Apparently it didn't always, but when 1-chair was removed and the Colorado went in, the most logical place to put the bottom terminal was where 5-chair's bottom was. So, Breck being Breck, they (in conjunction with Riblet) designed an angle tower and moved the bottom half of the lift by a few degrees to make room for the new SuperChair. It's not especially noticable by looking u the line, but there it is. The sheaves are angles like the T-bar someone mentioned earlier.

[liftmech]

ccslider, on Mar 20 2004, 01:53 PM, said:

Ah, a yo-yo lift: one that loads both ways.  Two types:
V - load station in the middle with two top terminals at either end.
^ - two load stations at either terminus with a common unload station somewhere in the middle.

I think Deer Valley has one of ^ yo-yos.  Any others out there?

Chair 3 (Baker), Chair 1 (Hyak); both Murray-Lattas.

The top terminal of C-3, showing (kind of) the unloading platforms on both sides of the tower.

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[crazyskier91]

Where did chair 1 run? And do you know if there ever was a chair 3? Finally do you have any pictures of the turn on chair 5?

[ISMrider]

When went to Snowbird this year i noticed that the New HSQ Baldy Express made a slight turn. It was very odd and it looked lift the towers were broken. The wheels were not stright up and down but at a angle with the pole. I dont have a picture but it was very weird. Anyone eles know what i am talking about?

[floridaskier]

It's not broken or anything, it's there on purpose. It has 3 towers, 2 8-sheave towers with an 8-sheave depression tower in the middle. It turns about 4 degrees to the right by having the sheaves angled a little bit to one side on tow tower. The Canyons has this same system on it's parking-lot Cabriolet

[coskibum]

these don't show it, but they are of chair 5 @breck

[KZ]

The new hss at Moonlight Basin has a turn i belive. I think cameron posted it from a clipping from sam.

[floridaskier]

Have any other companies besides Riblet and CTEC built lifts that turn like that (without any stations or bullwheels or anything,just sheaves angled sideways)?

[liftmech]

I believe Staedeli and Doppelmayr both have done that on their surface lifts.

[floridaskier]

How does the Doppelayr T-bar at Breck turn? Is it bullwheels or angled-sheave towers, or something else?

[crazyskier91]

It is a large bullwheel. You don't feel the turn much you just are dragged along. Poma has made lifts that turn on sideways sheaves, the snowfalke @ Breck is the perfect example.

[liftmech]

Grant, you've given me an idea for a new thread. It will be in the ski resort general section, entitled 'old lifts' or something similar. I think it would be here to discuss lifts that don't have a turn in them somewhere.