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Posted 26 January 2005 - 06:49 AM

Haha, okay, oops. Good to know! :thumbsup:

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Posted 26 January 2005 - 03:14 PM

If you look at the top terminal of the Alpha lift, its got the same drive terminal as the Poma Alpha fixed grip lifts today, placed behind the turnaround. The haul rope runs right out the back of the terminal
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Posted 26 January 2005 - 03:30 PM

I donno about you guys, but i really like the Alpha/Falcoln, more than the newer POMA terminals. In fact, all of the older deatcahble terminals are cool... there all different, unlike newer terminals, which are all identical, Especailly since the Lietner-Poma merger and Dopp-CTEC-Partek merger, i have the feeling that all we are gonna see from now on are the UNI-gs and whatever poma's design is.

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Posted 26 January 2005 - 03:38 PM

Even though Doppelmayr CTEC will only manufacturer the UNI-GS here in North America, you can still order the UNI-G or MCS terminal if you wish from Doppelmayr of Europe.

I also presume that you can even order the L-P terminals over in Europe to North America if you wish.
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Posted 26 January 2005 - 03:46 PM

Poma's current design is called the Omega, keeping with the Greek alphabet trend

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Posted 26 January 2005 - 03:49 PM

floridaskier, on Jan 26 2005, 05:14 PM, said:

If you look at the top terminal of the Alpha lift, its got the same drive terminal as the Poma Alpha fixed grip lifts today, placed behind the turnaround. The haul rope runs right out the back of the terminal
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Are there many of the alphas that have the drive at the base like the Coney Glade at Snowmass? It looks kinda wierd compared to the others that I've seen.
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Posted 26 January 2005 - 03:54 PM

Siberia Express at Squaw Valley and the HSQ at Hunter I know have it set up that way.
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Posted 27 January 2005 - 04:57 AM

Kicking Horse, on Jan 25 2005, 11:29 PM, said:

I thought you said last year that outrigger was suppose to be running this year?  <{POST_SNAPBACK}>


Apparently management reversed their decision because not only is the lift not in running condition, it's not even on this year's trail map. But as I said in that post you quoted, lift maintenance was told last season to bring the lift back up to speed. Who knows. Eskimo has never had that big of a line when I've been there, and Outrigger is kind of unnecessary at this point.
Discovery could be an original install; Heron went out of business in the early 80s and that may have been their last lift. The bottom terminal (which I forgot to photograph :bangin: ) is a Heron modified with hydraulic tension and Yan depression sheaves.
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Posted 27 January 2005 - 10:50 AM

Outrigger would be a good lift to do the testing on.... just like they did with the riblet double.
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Posted 28 January 2005 - 06:53 PM

It might even be more entertaining- it is a Yan, after all :aaskull: :devil:
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Posted 29 January 2005 - 07:50 AM

liftmech, on Jan 28 2005, 09:53 PM, said:

It might even be more entertaining- it is a Yan, after all :aaskull: :devil:
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Posted 01 February 2005 - 01:04 PM

liftmech, on Jan 27 2005, 06:57 AM, said:

Apparently management reversed their decision because not only is the lift not in running condition, it's not even on this year's trail map. But as I said in that post you quoted, lift maintenance was told last season to bring the lift back up to speed. Who knows. Eskimo has never had that big of a line when I've been there, and Outrigger is kind of unnecessary at this point.
Discovery could be an original install; Heron went out of business in the early 80s and that may have been their last lift. The bottom terminal (which I forgot to photograph :bangin: ) is a Heron modified with hydraulic tension and Yan depression sheaves.
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I thought that Heron went out of business in the late '70s. Wasn't that why copper had to have Yan reengineer and install pitchfork, the old molly hogan?

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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"

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Posted 01 February 2005 - 03:12 PM

Outrigger does seem to get in the way most of the time. And since Eskimo is Winter Park's newest lift, it probably isn't going to need a lot of down time. There is no reason to keep Outrigger. But do some testing on it!!! :devil:

The falcon/alpha lift design was their high speed lift. But once they compacted it into an improved terminal, there became no need for the expanded terminal.

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Posted 01 February 2005 - 03:33 PM

I presume the reasony why the Colorado SuperChair doesn't have an Alpha drive is because its motors were too big to fit into the Alpha terminal and so the lift had to be a vault drive. The American Flyer at Copper is the same way too. I personally think that both the vault and Alpha terminal designs were available at the same time.
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Posted 01 February 2005 - 03:39 PM

Thats what I thought since the Falcon and the Colorado at Breck were installed the same year but are different drive configurations.
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Posted 01 February 2005 - 10:47 PM

Wait- I thought the Falcon was at least one year older? It has the older chain configuration and had the older carriers as well. The terminal was named the Falcon after that lift, and there are at least a few around older then '86. The Flyer and Colorado are twins- fraternal at least since the Flyer is a much bigger lift. That aside, you could buy either terminal for at least one year (1986) because of the three '86s I know of, two have the vault and one (WP's Pioneer) has the Alpha/Falcon combo.
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Posted 01 February 2005 - 10:49 PM

poloxskier, on Feb 1 2005, 02:04 PM, said:

I thought that Heron went out of business in the late '70s.  Wasn't that why copper had to have Yan reengineer and install pitchfork, the old molly hogan?
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No, Copper had Yan do the redesign because they were already there building A-lift. We have service bulletins (for lifts we no longer have- go figure) from the Heron-Wright Company dated June 1981, so they were around at least that long.
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Posted 01 February 2005 - 10:50 PM

Everything I have ever seen indicates they were installed the same summer. I'll do some digging to se what I can find.
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Posted 01 February 2005 - 10:55 PM

If so, it would be odd that one lift has the older equipment configuration and carriers. Perhaps Poma had a lift left over. Out of curiosity- does the Falcon have solid sheaves or spoked ones? I didn't notice the one time I rode it. The spoked sheaves are 420mm versus the 450mm solid sheaves, and the 420s wear out faster according to WP's mechanics. They also were not available on detachables after 1985.
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Posted 01 February 2005 - 10:57 PM

I'm about 95% sure that they are solid.

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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"





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