Let me see if I can figure this out…
Outback from your reply it sounds like it would be prudent when buying a used 20 year old detachable, that the buyer should also include in their budget additional money to insure a trouble free operation.
I am assuming that one might want to ignore the new paint and "cooked" maintenance logs on a used lift and disassemble all of the accelerator gearboxes, conveyor gearboxes, drive gearboxes, auxiliary gearboxes, conveyer chain, bullwheel bearing housings, and grips and do extensive NDT and wear inspections on those components plus a haulrope ultrasound plus some maintenance training…rather than give the lodge a new coat of paint and the ski instructors new jackets for the upcoming season.
Well I hope I am on the right track, could there possibly be anything else that I could have missed pertaining to key components that one might want to pay special attention to?
Now I am wondering how much this all might cost?
Would it be reasonable to say the refurbishment costs might be in the range of 10% of the total project cost?
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Relocating Lifts
Started by highspeedquad, Mar 06 2005 04:36 PM
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Posted 12 March 2006 - 12:37 PM
Probably around that much, at least. One would also want to rebuild tower assemblies as well which takes time and effort. I would probably thoroughly clean the tension system, no sense having the dirt from the lift's former area clog up your pumps and valves.
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Posted 03 April 2006 - 06:37 AM
Regarding the old <Eagle> lift from Black Mountain/ Cypress Bowl. It was torn down the summer of 2001 and cut into little itty bitty pieces. There was nothing left to salvage. The towers were installed with out any type of lifting frame: if your familiar with MurryLatta, you realize that it would be very difficult to refit this type of tower. It was a double chair with wooden seats.
The electrical.. well .. this lift was installed in the mid 70's so it was state-of-the-art Solid State. If you've ever tried to trouble shoot that kind of nightmare .. you can appreciate the problems. It was also a Vault drive, you can imagine the reinforced concrete in 'ze bunkar'
We tried to sell the motor, motor control and some of the big peices.. but, as best I know most headed to the big scrap dealer. There was very little to keep.
The electrical.. well .. this lift was installed in the mid 70's so it was state-of-the-art Solid State. If you've ever tried to trouble shoot that kind of nightmare .. you can appreciate the problems. It was also a Vault drive, you can imagine the reinforced concrete in 'ze bunkar'
We tried to sell the motor, motor control and some of the big peices.. but, as best I know most headed to the big scrap dealer. There was very little to keep.
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Posted 03 April 2006 - 07:41 AM
You didn't sell any to Seymour? I was at Baker the the years before we tore out a Murray-Latta, and Cam came down to take a look and see what he wanted from the lift.
Is the bunker still there from the Eagle? We kept the one from Chair 4 as a storage facility, just drilled some concrete anchors into the walls and attached shelves and racks.
Is the bunker still there from the Eagle? We kept the one from Chair 4 as a storage facility, just drilled some concrete anchors into the walls and attached shelves and racks.
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Posted 04 April 2006 - 12:04 PM
We have fun with it too...there's a huge exhaust tunnel that goes about 200 ft away from the bottom of the shack (shack is on top of the old vault) and you can go down there and let out blood curdling screams and the people standing around outside can hear it but they don't know where it's coming from...I've never done this...just heard about it 
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Posted 04 April 2006 - 02:11 PM
The former Drive station on Argentine at Keystone when it was a Riblet was a vault and I think its now used for storage with the current Yan drive station built on top of it.
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"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"
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 05 April 2006 - 11:23 PM
Liftmech.. we didn't sell any of the pieces to Seymour at the time. We were so focused on tearing that thing out (we were actually building two quads that summer, in house.. ) that we weren't in the business spinning off junk that year.
As for keeping the vault.. it just wasn't practicle to keep it as we're in a Provincial park and I don't think there was much provision in keeping that structure around. There was an old (auxillary) diesel tank there <previously removed> and the park people just didn't want to see anything foreign remain in ground. The lift was also near a sensitive water table/ pond which made sense. It would have cost too much to re-engineer a giant mast for the future terminal anyways.
And the comment re: Lastchair_44, on screaming/ yelling down the exhaust shaft/ tunnel-- VERY funny. I can totally see it!
As for keeping the vault.. it just wasn't practicle to keep it as we're in a Provincial park and I don't think there was much provision in keeping that structure around. There was an old (auxillary) diesel tank there <previously removed> and the park people just didn't want to see anything foreign remain in ground. The lift was also near a sensitive water table/ pond which made sense. It would have cost too much to re-engineer a giant mast for the future terminal anyways.
And the comment re: Lastchair_44, on screaming/ yelling down the exhaust shaft/ tunnel-- VERY funny. I can totally see it!
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