Skilifts.org / SORT Forum

DonaldMReif, on 04 August 2009 - 08:11 AM, said:

Well let's see here;

Derailment
Death
Serious Injurys
Un needed work on the lift tech dept
Damage to chair / rope / tower / sheave / sheavetrain / broken brittle bar / CPS faults /
Rope placement issues

I feel this is worth placing here as it's nice...

http://www.vimeo.com/3304458

First person to name the lift get's a cookie....

Another Nicely Done Lifty video.

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

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.

Petz, on 11 August 2009 - 10:07 AM, said:

A sideshow I put together tonight. Enjoy it.
some shots of a Drive terminal and control system...

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=Rd6VIyewwX8

Petz, on 11 August 2009 - 10:07 AM, said:

That would not be an acceptable lift at a Colorado ski resort.

sseguin613, on 11 August 2009 - 05:23 PM, said:

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.

While not seeing more of the lift, based on this video the only thing that I can see wrong with it so far is a new bullwheel liner is needed as mentioned above, and perhaps additional chair guards to keep the chairs straight as they travel around the bullwheel.

Jonni, on 14 August 2009 - 06:15 AM, said:

The bullwheel inlay had to be exchanged a long time ago and a chair guard tube will not only damage the clamp bearing when the pressure resulted from the damaged rubber is too strong but based on this pressure the chair hangers will not glide along the guard tube anymore.
A protecting guard tube is existing but the chairs had broken it two times (last sunday it happened again) so the damaged chair you can see at the beginning of the video excessively swung out of the station after being damaged by the broken guard tube and scarcely missed some waiting passengers.
Also some sheave battery bearings and pulley rubber inlays are more than ready for the scrap yard, heavy rope spin took place too.

Kicking Horse, on 11 August 2009 - 04:39 PM, said:

The first title card kind of gave it away, and the trees behind. I recognized this as a timelapse of the Mercury SuperChair instantly.

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This post has been edited by RyanNugent: 24 October 2009 - 05:04 PM

Now that I have had time to do some video work I will be uploading videos that I shot so far this season.

First off is Elk Camp High Speed Quad at Snowmass ramping up to 1130fpm.

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=yb2MDG_Z9Yg

Some videos to look forward to

Pre Operations Check of a Fix Grip Chairlift

Diesel Run on a Fix Grip lift and on a Poma Detach.

Aux hook up on a Poma Fix Grip Chairlift

Greetings,

Here is a AUX Run on a HSQ.

Enjoy

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=HxbazWDTmE4