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#121 Snoqualmie guy

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Posted 14 September 2007 - 01:30 PM

An old Wench I found about a quarter of the way up Alpental. It looks as though it was used to pull logs from the bottom to cover a nearby creek. The builder appers to be Skagit.

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Posted 14 September 2007 - 05:44 PM

Does anyone know why this is setup this way?

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Posted 14 September 2007 - 10:52 PM

maybe they decided to build it then suddenly change something. Just a guess. Or could it do with doing work on the lift?
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Posted 14 September 2007 - 11:29 PM

A slight line turn?
Chair 5 at Breck is a similar setup but not exactly the same.
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Posted 15 September 2007 - 01:14 PM

I remember we had something similar to this posted a while ago, but I'm not sure what the overall purpose was for it. I think that it had something to do with maintaining a certain amount of tension on the line, but I'm not sure.
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Posted 15 September 2007 - 02:39 PM

maybe they had a mid unloading station there at one time?? :unsure:

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Posted 16 September 2007 - 07:58 PM

I'd say it's a slight turn too.

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Posted 17 September 2007 - 11:55 AM

Maybe an engineer had a little bit too much time on his hands and the company had a little too much money and viola!

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Posted 17 September 2007 - 04:09 PM

Don't think it was an unload station - retracting springboxes and sheave assemblies don't mix well. I would say a turn as well - that negative assembly is on the downhill side.
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Posted 17 September 2007 - 04:15 PM

:rolleyes: duh, I just noticed it was a t-bar! :bangin:

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Posted 20 September 2007 - 04:55 AM

View PostSnoqualmie guy, on Sep 14 2007, 03:30 PM, said:

An old Wench I found about a quarter of the way up Alpental. It looks as though it was used to pull logs from the bottom to cover a nearby creek. The builder appers to be Skagit.


Skagit has been building winches and yarders for a very long time. That actually looks like the drum portion of a yarder, removed from the wheelbed and with no tower. I wonder why the loggers left it there?
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Posted 20 September 2007 - 02:40 PM

My random, pointless picture. Just think it looks cool at 38,000.


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Posted 20 September 2007 - 02:44 PM

Another one..........

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Posted 20 September 2007 - 03:12 PM

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Posted 20 September 2007 - 03:26 PM

Sorry to go off topic, but how was it inspecting all those planes? (For those who don't know, Horizon Air had to cancel hundreds of flights last week because the same model had 2 landing gears fail in Europe.)
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Posted 20 September 2007 - 04:21 PM

View PostLimelight, on Sep 20 2007, 03:40 PM, said:

Just think it looks cool at 38,000.
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that it does! I love flying!

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Posted 20 September 2007 - 08:28 PM

View PostSkier, on Sep 20 2007, 04:26 PM, said:

Sorry to go off topic, but how was it inspecting all those planes? (For those who don't know, Horizon Air had to cancel hundreds of flights last week because the same model had 2 landing gears fail in Europe.)


Well, better. We've finished the inspections of most of the aircraft that fell under the inspection requirment. Most of them have returned to service, and I think only three remain. If I was on my work computer I could log into our live MTX database to see which aircraft are still out of service, and their return dates. We should be back up to 100% by next week. We're operating around 95% right now.

It looks as if there may have been other issues with the SAS Q400's that could have contributed to their accidents. From what I've heard, one was that they use different cleaning equipment over there that may have had a corrosive effect on the main gear hydraulic actuator arm. No idea if this cleaning process was approved or not, but Horizon does use a different (approved) process. We did not find any corosion on any of our aircraft.

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Posted 25 October 2007 - 07:19 PM

So my co-worker and I were out on line this week and a mountain chicken came after us! I've never seen them fly up as high as we were (around 45 ft.). Maybe he was protecting something? I know they're territorial, but damn! We tried to shoo him away a couple of times but he kept coming back for more! I took this picture of him with my cell phone the first time we encountered him..he came back for us yesterday but we didn't see him today.

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Posted 25 October 2007 - 07:26 PM

View Postlastchair_44, on Oct 25 2007, 08:19 PM, said:

So my co-worker and I were out on line this week and a mountain chicken came after us! I've never seen them fly up as high as we were (around 45 ft.). Maybe he was protecting something? I know they're territorial, but damn! We tried to shoo him away a couple of times but he kept coming back for more! I took this picture of him with my cell phone the first time we encountered him..he came back for us yesterday but we didn't see him today.



Haha that's great! We had one a bunch of years ago that would wait on the climbing road on Red and attack the maintenance guys on the sleds - then fly up to the next switchback and get them again! And then last season there was one attacking the guests on one of the runs!
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Posted 25 October 2007 - 07:48 PM

I've never heard of a mountain chicken! Good pic for a cell phone cam!





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