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[vons]

I was bored and did a google surch and found a site for a company called Gimar Montaz Mautino they only build Fg chairs, both detachable and fixed platter lifts> the platter lifts look like poma nock offs. the web site is Gimar Montaz Mautino

[SkiBachelor]

Thanks Vons, I remember seeing some of these pictures back in the day and thinking that these lifts might have been built by Von Roll, but I guess they arn't.

[Dr Frankenstein]

They built detachable chairlifts, few years ago, but they stopped.

[ODDfreakPERSON]

WEIRDEST LOOKING CHAIRS EVER

it like a double chair but with a seat coming out each side, ahhh, weird

[Mike-Europe]

In the attachment you can see one of the few detachable quads they built.
It's located in Val Thorens and was constructed in 1989. It is quite long (2.4km)
and has a capacitiy of "only" 1500 pers./h.
The rights of the photo belong to http://www.ski-3vallees.net/

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[Dr Frankenstein]

ODDfreak (like this chair) PERSON said:

WEIRDEST LOOKING CHAIRS EVER

Center Poles. I like them. Few months ago, I posted a GMM in the trivia, you remember?

[floridaskier]

It's like a double-centerpole quad chair...Interesting design

[crazyskier91]

Very strange chair design, how fast do they go?

[iceberg210]

The quad chairs look like they were doubles and then somone added a seat on each side as an afterthought.

Have they ever installed a chair in the US or north america for that matter?

[crazyskier91]

If they have i've never seen one.

[Dr Frankenstein]

I don't think.

Crazy skier said:

Very strange chair design, how fast do they go?

Chairlifts: Not mentionned. Probably 2,3 m/s
Skilifts: 2,5 (fixed), 4,5 (detachable)

[crazyskier91]

I was just wonderin beecause it says they only have a 1500 person per hour capacity so I was wondering if they ran slow.

[Dr Frankenstein]

Mike was talking about the detachable. Not all GMM lifts.

[crazyskier91]

Still don't highspeed quads have a better capacity than that? ;)

[Dr Frankenstein]

Normal capacity: 2400. Extreme capacity: 2800.

For some reasons, some lifts have smaller capacities (Beginner lift, cheaper, don't need a higher capacity, etc.)

[Mike-Europe]

The capacity depends on what the ski area owner wants.
The lift I presented above is in a not very frequented part of the ski area. The same as the following fixed grip quad. It was also built by GMM but in 2000 and has a capacity of 2000pers./h. The rights belong also to www.ski3vallees.net.

There are high speed six person chair lifts with a capacity of "only" 2400 and on the other hand there are some lifts like the one in the second image with a capacity of 4200 pers./h (this HSS has double loading). So you see the constructors are building what the areas want to have.

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[Mike-Europe]

Sorry, the second image didn't work. Here is the HSS with 4200 pers./h

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[liftmech]

crazyskier91, on May 24 2004, 09:19 AM, said:

Still don't highspeed quads have a better capacity than that? ;)

It's not the speed, it's the carrier spacing. 'Standard' capacity on a quad is 2400 PPH, which spaces the carriers at 100', The Pioneer lift at Steamboat, on the other hand, still runs at 1000 FPM but the carrier spacing is 200', meaning it only carries 1200 PPH.

[crazyskier91]

Yeah I guess that does make the difference.

[SkiBachelor]

Do you mean Winter Park John, because there isn't a HSQ at Steamboat called Pioneer? :)