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Are you talking about the Angel Express of Sunshine Village.

If yes, I remember to saw a chair miss the chain

Yeah that tyoe if terminal i don't know the true name but that seems to be its nick name

FloridaSkier said:

Push it.

A recap:
The chain system we are talking about is referred to as a 'passive' cadencing system, meaning the chain goes roundy-round without regard for chair spacing. If a chair comes in ahead of schedule, fine; if not, it misses the teeth. As Dr Frankenstein said, when that happens, one simply pushes the chair into the teeth and all is well. There are many variables in chair spacing, all of which are fodder for another topic.

SkiBachelor, on Nov 27 2003, 01:11 PM, said:

This is not the same lift.
The lift shown on the picture is the first high-speed quad in the east. It's at Mt-Sutton, in Quebec

Correct me if I'm wrong but on the issue of how the carriers on the quicksilver when it was at breck I think it was brought arround and loaded on the cadence chain and then was let go onto a downward sloped rail with out tires and it just relied on gravity to acclerate the chair and then grab the line. Im not certin of this but I remember the chair feeling like it was falling before it caught the rope and it was incredibly rough when it took off. I also think that it may have been counterweighted in the bottom station. If anyone has more information about it please let me know, last time I didnt pay enough attention to the lift it self and am kicking myself for not getting pictures before they tore it out.

On the Issue of the chair spacing with cadence chains, It can also happen with tire banks. The Riva Bahn at Vail had a problem the first season that it was open in that the chairs entered the bottom station and one of the chairs lost contact with the tires and caused a 4 chair pile up in the loading area. Aparently the lift op wasnt paying enough attention to the chair as the chairs piles up right in front of the shack! The chair was closed for 6 hours while the chairs were spaced back out properly. The big problem was that there was a USSA race that was going on and I was set to race in about 15 minutes. The ended up using sleds to take everyone up to complete the race. I would have thought that the chair was new enough that it would automaticaly detect problems like this and automaticaly stop the chair.

That happened with the pine marten express when i was on it. I sat down after the lift came to a stop and then the lift started to move again except our chair. The chair behind us got pretty close and for the rest of the day they had to push carriers through that section of the terminal. It was the spot right inbetween where the chair leaves the chain and the tires take over.

I've seen that happen before too. It was wierd at Vail because the chairs piled up on the tire banks right at the load line.

First "high-speed quad" indeed.

You guys are talking about a twelve mile-per-hour detachable clothesline.

This is the first "high-speed quad".

Emax, on Aug 17 2007, 03:18 PM, said:

You always make my day, Bud!!

I was just on Quads few days ago at the Oregon Dunes. It was a BLAST!