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Started by Kicking Horse, Oct 01 2008 06:16 PM

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#61 Petz

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Posted 08 April 2009 - 11:06 AM

This are two videos from the old single chairlift "Gletscherlift Hohe Mut" in Obergurgl, Austria. The lift had been build by the vienna company Wolf & Switzeny and was later rebuilt by the tyrolean Wopfner company, abadoned in summer 2008.
The first video shows the liftride:

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=YjK3N_3tn6s

In the second video you can see the machinery during running. Have partly used the nightshot function of the cam to make dark areas visible:

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=a6bs7ldBJno

This post has been edited by Petz: 08 April 2009 - 11:09 AM

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#62 Lift Dinosaur

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Posted 09 April 2009 - 06:01 AM

Thanks for the post Markus.
The lift looks to be quite steep. Do you know the length and vertical rise?

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Posted 09 April 2009 - 07:44 AM

View PostPetz, on Apr 8 2009, 03:06 PM, said:

This are two videos from the old single chairlift "Gletscherlift Hohe Mut" in Obergurgl, Austria. The lift had been build by the vienna company Wolf & Switzeny and was later rebuilt by the tyrolean Wopfner company, abadoned in summer 2008.
The first video shows the liftride:

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=YjK3N_3tn6s

In the second video you can see the machinery during running. Have partly used the nightshot function of the cam to make dark areas visible:

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=a6bs7ldBJno


nice videos. thanks!

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Posted 09 April 2009 - 10:55 AM

View PostLift Dinosaur, on Apr 9 2009, 04:01 PM, said:

Thanks for the post Markus.
The lift looks to be quite steep. Do you know the length and vertical rise?

Dino
Hi Dino, the vertical rise was 605 meters, the length 1525 meters. Only the upper part of the lift had been rather steep. Based on the steep grade (max. 75 %) and the short chair hanger arms i could touch the lower part of the ropewheels on support towers with my hand as you can see in the video too - new version of ropewheelsurfacetesting.... :w00t:
The lift had been built by Wolf and Switzeny in 1954, Wopfner reworked it in 1975.
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Posted 14 April 2009 - 06:55 PM

As promised. a Video of the VX in high winds.


Avg wind speed of 55mph. Gusts to 65mph. That morning before I started the lift there was a gust to 91mph. Can you guys guess the Line speed during most of the video???


http://www.youtube.c...h?v=r6Owx7lsX8Q
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Posted 05 May 2009 - 01:48 PM

Check out this video made by Whistler Lift Ops staff in their Accom:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1k9onMbRyh8...feature=related
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Posted 05 May 2009 - 01:50 PM

http://www.facebook....gid=48614328010

Here is a good use of facebook for a lift ops communication/training page
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Posted 05 May 2009 - 02:13 PM

View PostLuvPow, on May 5 2009, 02:48 PM, said:

Check out this video made by Whistler Lift Ops staff in their Accom:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1k9onMbRyh8...feature=related


That was a cool video.
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Posted 15 May 2009 - 07:07 AM

The first short video from a full working model GLD built in france can be seen here:

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=tQDp1Gtgz88
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Posted 16 May 2009 - 07:19 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zEpL8BiU1A...feature=related

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Posted 31 May 2009 - 03:26 PM

This is a video of a genious and very large (28 meter) model chairlift built by Tino near Bremen / northern Germany in 2006.
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#72 Kicking Horse

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Posted 29 June 2009 - 08:51 AM

I dont recall seeing a link to this video anywhere on the site.

http://www.youtube.c...feature=related
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Posted 29 June 2009 - 08:13 PM

View PostKicking Horse, on 29 June 2009 - 08:51 AM, said:

I dont recall seeing a link to this video anywhere on the site.

http://www.youtube.c...feature=related

That is an interesting and informative video. I guess I'll have to change the way I have been pronouncing "Poma".
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Posted 09 July 2009 - 05:28 AM

View PostKicking Horse, on 29 June 2009 - 08:51 AM, said:

I dont recall seeing a link to this video anywhere on the site.

http://www.youtube.c...feature=related


Cool vid! I'm glad that a project that involved actually seems like it's paying off for those who use it.
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Posted 21 July 2009 - 07:19 AM

Uploaded a video of the Atomic Express at Mont Saint-Sauveur starting up.

Check it out on youtube below

Atomic Express startup sequence
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Posted 01 August 2009 - 06:07 AM

What a beautiful sound hearing that old thing spool up :) Thanks for posting!
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Posted 03 August 2009 - 04:37 PM

first person to name everything that could go wrong in this video wins a cookie...


http://www.youtube.c...h?v=5ZhO3NVgeGU



http://www.youtube.c...feature=related

This post has been edited by Kicking Horse: 03 August 2009 - 04:46 PM

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Posted 04 August 2009 - 08:11 AM

View PostKicking Horse, on 03 August 2009 - 04:37 PM, said:

first person to name everything that could go wrong in this video wins a cookie...


http://www.youtube.c...h?v=5ZhO3NVgeGU



http://www.youtube.c...feature=related



What does go wrong? You don't hang onto the chair and jump! In the first video, with the empty chair, look how much that swings!

By the way, what lift is this? It appears to be a Doppelmayr modified Yan high speed quad, but the only ones I can think of like that are like the Christmas Express and Frenchman Express lifts at Sun Valley.
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Posted 04 August 2009 - 09:03 AM

Wow! Too many things to list here. I wonder how the folks at Sun Valley would feel about what their operators are doing when nobody is watching, especially from the inside of the chair? Goes to show how important good training and supervision is...

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Posted 11 August 2009 - 10:07 AM

The Leitner single chairlift Ortisei - Rasciasa / northern Italy will be
abadoned in september 2009.
Based at bad maintenance in the last time the lift meantimely is in absolute
unacceptable technical condition as you can see here, nevertheless the lift has
to run until 30.08.2009:

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