sseguin613, on 11 August 2009 - 05:23 PM, said:
The last 30 seconds are the best, where the chair rounds the bullwheel and connects and smashes everything nearby. And in the middle of the video the guy wielding the drive, then it starts up. WOW. Quite the machine.
The chair you see first in the video and had been taken off the rope by the mechanics first hook at the damaged part off the protecting tube so they had to weld this. The left front part of the chair including the closing handle and foot plate had been torned off in this situation. The lift is 2412 meters long so it has an impressive machinery and a really great sound too.
This text i have posted as an answer in a technical discussion at funivie.org:
"The security was not ensured cause based at the heavy impact the hanger arms of the chairs got every 40 minutes when entering the lower bullwheel it can not be excluded that the hanger arms could get damaged by little tears and later break when loaded with passengers passing downhold sheave batteries
The pressure of the seats is so strong that i had hardly a chance to lead them manually in a nearly vertical position around the bullwheel which i tried.
It´s simply clear that the bullwheel rubber had to be exchanged still a long time ago but obviously any investment had been negotiated by the owner in the last time; this is in my opinion a negligent action and some other lift mechanics meantimely share this.
The lift mechanics in Ortisei told me that´s impossible to recut the bullwheel rubber cause it´s so damaged that parts brake out when they tried it last time.
If i would not personally know the cousin of the owner i would have informed the authority to close the lift immediately; so last saturday i gave some tips to pad up the steel lead tube along the machinery base to damp the chair impacts to a not dangerous amount."
The attached videocaptures show a bit better the heavily damaged bullwheel rubber.
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