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Started by liftmech, Dec 26 2004 07:28 PM

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#21 KZ

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Posted 17 January 2005 - 07:41 PM

Some Mt Baker pictures off of Jeff's site. Looks like some nice snow up there.

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Posted 17 January 2005 - 07:58 PM

That's amazing how Mt. Baker gets that amount of people being located where it is.
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Posted 17 January 2005 - 08:00 PM

Look at the catenary in some of those lines. It's almost like a slow roller coaster ride.

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Posted 17 January 2005 - 08:08 PM

for what it is worth One of my friends took those pics. it was is first time taking pics of skilifts.

i should be getting the Sunlight pics up tomorrow
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Posted 17 January 2005 - 08:56 PM

The lift in the second pic has one heck of a loading ramp!
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Theres a place for all of God's creatures, right next to the mashed potatoes.

"You could say that a mountain is alot like a woman, once you think you know every inch of her and you're about to dip your skis into some soft, deep powder...Bam, you've got two broken legs, cracked ribs and you pay your $20 just to let her punch your lift ticket all over again"

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Posted 17 January 2005 - 09:27 PM

Liftmech, Care to comment and maybe identify all those? :)
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Posted 18 January 2005 - 08:27 AM

So the alien-looking terminal is the UNI-M? That's what I'm getting out of this discussion. What constitutes a UNI-G, then?
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Posted 18 January 2005 - 08:48 AM

UNI-G:

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Posted 23 January 2005 - 11:03 AM

I guess that's one way to handle the bypass key....

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Posted 23 January 2005 - 07:45 PM

Kicking Horse, on Jan 23 2005, 11:03 AM, said:

I guess that's one way to handle the bypass key....
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ahahaha!!! I've never gone to that extreme!! I find it just as easy to put a jumper across the wires in behind :)
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Posted 23 January 2005 - 08:11 PM

Well something was cuzing the Iron Mountain Tramway lift to stop. And that bypass key u gotta sit there and hold it. The colorado Tramway board told them that they could do it. (they were out there for the unannouced thingy they do the tuesday before i took the pic).

All the pics i took of that place suck. So i don't think i'll be posting them. I might put them on my server just to eat up disk / data tranfer.
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Posted 24 January 2005 - 10:10 AM

Allan, on Jan 23 2005, 08:45 PM, said:

ahahaha!!!  I've never gone to that extreme!!  I find it just as easy to put a jumper across the wires in behind :)
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That's cheating :devil: I use the crescent wrench method as well, unless I'm evacuating the line and will be removing the bypass soon.
Jeff- could you shrink the pictures down at all? It took forever to download.
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Posted 24 January 2005 - 10:33 AM

NWS, on Jan 17 2005, 10:27 PM, said:

Liftmech, Care to comment and maybe identify all those? :)
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Yup.
#1- Galena terminal of Chair 3- the drive side. Note the adjustable tower for the heavy side only. Old chair 2 was designed the same way. (1968 Murray-Latta with Riblet carriers- we put those on in 2000) A photo from March 1999.Attached File  Galena_3.JPG (24.64K)
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#2- Midstation Chair 1. Yes, Bryan, it's way off the ground. Ramp surface is 35 feet off the dirt. By March 1999 it was completely buried... (1952 Riblet) A photo from March 1999. Attached File  midstation.JPG (51.47K)
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#3- Tower 4, chair 2 (2001 Riblet, my summer project that year) A photo from right after the helicopter placed the cap. Attached File  T_4_new_C_2.JPG (59.53K)
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#4- Bottom of Chair 5 (2002 CTEC)
#5- More Chair 5
#6- Bottom of Chair 8 (1992 Riblet)
#7- More chair 8, from tower 3 looking down.
#8- Chair 8, tower 4-5 span. That is, I believe, the longest span at Baker. We had to bury the comline between those two towers because it would blow over the heavy side and trap cariers. There was no way to tighten it enough without actually pulling the towers together.
#9- Top of chair 8. T-19 and the top are adjustable. Patrol blows those shack windows out regularly as there is an avy slope right behind the photographer.
#10- Bottom of Chair 2. A unique terminal as Riblet had never built a height-adjustable combined drive-and-tention terminal before. The engineer on the project outdid himself designing it. It works great and was easy to understand and operate (although not to build).

The top terminals of old chairs 2, 4, 5, and 6 were all like the Chair 1 midstation- way up there. They were built before snowcats were as powerful as they are now, and as you can imagine there was soo much snow to build a ramp closer to the ground if you couldn't push it out of the way. Plus there wasn't the technology to build adjustable return terminals then. towers, yes, terminals, no.

Nice photos- makes me all nostalgic :cry:
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Posted 24 January 2005 - 11:01 AM

liftmech, on Jan 24 2005, 11:10 AM, said:

That's cheating :devil: I use the crescent wrench method as well, unless I'm evacuating the line and will be removing the bypass soon.
Jeff- could you shrink the pictures down at all? It took forever to download.
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i would if i could edit the post but i can't now......... Bill should have it set so we can edit your own posts all the time... and not within x amount of mins.
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Posted 24 January 2005 - 06:00 PM

They should be, let me look into it.
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Posted 27 January 2005 - 05:02 AM

SkiBachelor, on Jan 17 2005, 08:58 PM, said:

That's amazing how Mt. Baker gets that amount of people being located where it is.
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Not really, considering that the Vancouver metro area is one to two hours from the mountain. That's Coquitlam, Langley, Surrey, etc, with several million people right there. Not to mention Abbotsford, and then Burlington, Mount Vernon, Sedro-Wolley, and Bellingham on the south side of the border.
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Posted 03 February 2005 - 04:36 PM

Just a random picture I found on ebay of the summit terminal of the single chair at Snow King, WY.

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This post has been edited by poloxskier: 03 February 2005 - 04:37 PM

-Bryan

Theres a place for all of God's creatures, right next to the mashed potatoes.

"You could say that a mountain is alot like a woman, once you think you know every inch of her and you're about to dip your skis into some soft, deep powder...Bam, you've got two broken legs, cracked ribs and you pay your $20 just to let her punch your lift ticket all over again"

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Posted 03 February 2005 - 05:46 PM

I can't remember where I found this:

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This post has been edited by poloxskier: 03 February 2005 - 05:52 PM

-Bryan

Theres a place for all of God's creatures, right next to the mashed potatoes.

"You could say that a mountain is alot like a woman, once you think you know every inch of her and you're about to dip your skis into some soft, deep powder...Bam, you've got two broken legs, cracked ribs and you pay your $20 just to let her punch your lift ticket all over again"

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Posted 07 February 2005 - 08:19 PM

Here's a couple of photos i've compiled of the Grouse Mountain Tramways.
Starting off with tower #2 on the Super Skyride, as you can see, it's quite steep after this tower, and when they're runnig the tram at full speed, you lose your stomach.

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Posted 07 February 2005 - 08:21 PM

Another shot of the mighty tower #2

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