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#41 liftmech

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Posted 17 May 2014 - 03:44 AM

Can't say I knew we had a camera up there :blush:
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#42 liftmech

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Posted 17 May 2014 - 03:58 AM

New lift location.

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Posted 17 May 2014 - 04:39 AM

How do those riding the summer park lift access the lift during the summer?
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Posted 17 May 2014 - 10:47 AM

I don't know. Definitely not via American Flyer. The roads down from the top of Union Creek lift might be a potential route. But it might be best to wait for Copper to make further announcements.
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Posted 18 May 2014 - 12:41 PM

Same way they always have-- the bus. We've run these camps for years, it's just that they've always used vans to shuttle the campers from the bottom back up. They take a bus fro the base area to the park itself then ride in the vans. The lift is to eliminate the multiple shuttles.
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Posted 25 May 2014 - 10:14 AM

Took these at Shawnee Peak after they took down the towers and return of Rabbit. The first two i snagged from their facebook page.

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Posted 25 May 2014 - 05:05 PM

I was in Breckenridge last week and they have the haul rope spooled up and the pilot rope being retrieved.
Next step will be to pull test the tower foundations and prep the cross arms to be flown out. Some will have the sheave assemblies removed as they are too heavy for the KMax that will be coming.
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#48 liftmech

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Posted 25 May 2014 - 05:29 PM

That spool rig looks really familiar.
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Posted 25 May 2014 - 07:00 PM

No word on if they will also test the tower tubes to make sure they could carry the weight of high speed six pack crossarms and chairs?
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Posted 26 May 2014 - 12:08 AM

View PostDonaldMReif, on 25 May 2014 - 07:00 PM, said:

No word on if they will also test the tower tubes to make sure they could carry the weight of high speed six pack crossarms and chairs?

Tower tube widths are somewhat standard. I doubt there will be any testing, just an engineer running the numbers, and signing off on it.

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Posted 26 May 2014 - 07:00 PM

View PostDonaldMReif, on 25 May 2014 - 07:00 PM, said:

No word on if they will also test the tower tubes to make sure they could carry the weight of high speed six pack crossarms and chairs?

Read Dino's post.

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Posted 28 May 2014 - 03:17 PM

Removal of the Adirondack Express high speed triple at Gore Mountain has begun to make way for the new high speed quad. The chairs are off. The jagged cut up pieces of metal here prove that the lift is being scrapped, not relocated.

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Posted 28 May 2014 - 09:52 PM

Those jerks.
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Posted 29 May 2014 - 08:25 AM

View PostLift Dinosaur, on 25 May 2014 - 05:05 PM, said:

I was in Breckenridge last week and they have the haul rope spooled up and the pilot rope being retrieved.
Next step will be to pull test the tower foundations and prep the cross arms to be flown out. Some will have the sheave assemblies removed as they are too heavy for the KMax that will be coming.
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Don't pull too hard :wink:

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Posted 30 May 2014 - 05:18 AM

View Postsnoloco, on 28 May 2014 - 03:17 PM, said:

Removal of the Adirondack Express high speed triple at Gore Mountain has begun to make way for the new high speed quad. The chairs are off. The jagged cut up pieces of metal here prove that the lift is being scrapped, not relocated.



Damn. They just cut the carriers up? Very surprised they didn't sell them, I imagine there are quite a few people in that area who would have wanted one.
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Posted 30 May 2014 - 12:22 PM

From a closer look at it. It looks like these are just the hanger arms. They said on Facebook that you should stay tuned for information about the chairs.

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Posted 02 June 2014 - 10:43 AM

View PostNate214, on 10 May 2014 - 07:04 AM, said:

Another picture of the Sky Trac Bullwheel on Kachina PeakAttachement kachinab5.jpg

Here is a news video I saw on Facebook today.
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Posted 02 June 2014 - 02:50 PM

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Here is a news video I saw on Facebook today.
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Yup they came and shot that last week. Just seen it on facebook also. The Spider excavator showed up and is supposed to get to work at the top and work down.

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Posted 03 June 2014 - 11:38 AM

The haul rope is off the Adirondack Express.

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Another picture of haul rope removal.
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Bottom terminal deconstruction
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