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[liftmech]

As a longtime Riblet fan/fixer-upper, can I defend them in saying that I like their towers? I know a lot of you think they're ugly, but I have found them to be some of the better designs from that era. The loop around the tower (the 'halo') was used primarily for guidage, but I've found it to be useful as a catwalk- and most companies didn't have catwalks until the late 1980s. Also- Riblet's last tower design was modern, yet distinctive. It had lifting frames like everyone else, yet it didn't look like everyone else's. From a distance, you can't really tell Doppelmayr from CTEC from Poma these days. Thanks for letting me vent my opinion.

[SkiBachelor]

Check out the lower terminal of this pulse gondola. Great lift engineering at its best!

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[Allan]

Wow, that is amazing... and steep :) There's so many sheaves!

[liftmech]

Wow! That's one steep lift! Where?

[floridaskier]

Insane. who built it?

[SkiBachelor]

Probably in Switzerland or Austria. I don't know the manufacutre.

[KZ]

wow

[edmontonguy]

that'd be kinda crappy to have to walk all those stairs though. and it seems to lack capacity

[vancouverguy]

Notice how short the loading platform is. If it's an FG, it would have to run pretty slow.

This post has been edited by vancouverguy: 26 November 2003 - 05:17 PM

[Tinel]

SkiBachelor, on Nov 6 2003, 11:30 PM, said:

Here is a picture of a Von Roll HSQ. Now the funny thing about this lift is that it's the terminal that Doppelmayr uses so much over here in North America. But Von Roll might have designed it right before Doppelmayr merged with them.

This is not a von Roll-product. This lift is from "Doppelmayr Thun". They bought von Roll 1996 but until 1999 the were writing von Roll on their lifts! (Please excuse my English, I am from Switzerland!)

[vancouverguy]

That's odd. I wonder why they don't swich over and just use the Doppelmayr trademark.

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[edmontonguy]

i thought funitels were robust but this is overkill

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[SkiBachelor]

Remember that Poma funitel with that wacky electricity tower in France, that is just like this one pretty much.

[KZ]

interesting

[edmontonguy]

its a funifor which is basically as you can see a bicable funitel

[ski europe]

edmontonguy, on Nov 27 2003, 09:24 PM, said:

its a funifor which is basically as you can see a bicable funitel

They have two cabins, which drive on their own!(?) It doesn't have poles(?) !
They just built a second one in Italy, which does have Poles(?)! We (www.alpinforum.com) didn't find out how the new one works, yet!

[floridaskier]

How many people fit in that car?

[ski europe]

Have a look at : www.hoelzl.it ! It is also in English! Check out the "Funifor"
I will try to get some more pistures!

[floridaskier]

lift-world.info has some good stuff abotu funifors

[SkiBachelor]

Here is a shot of the built in chair rail system in a Doppelmayr UNI-G terminal. The chair rail is no longer needed.

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