I had to share this... A quote from the Mueller book supporting the use of centre pole chairs. "With bail chairs, passengers have to face away from each other in order to see the outside post approaching, and doing this, they may be thrown off balance after unintended bodily contact of their lower part of the back with their partner." So what... they're asses touch and they used to fall over?? hehehe :D
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60's Mentality
Started by Allan, Jun 12 2004 09:45 AM
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Posted 12 June 2004 - 11:26 PM
Thats pretty funny. I wonder if this was actually the case?
In my own experiences, loading a center pole chair is much more awkward than the regular chair. I always feel like im going to be nailed by the pole, but it has never happened.
In my own experiences, loading a center pole chair is much more awkward than the regular chair. I always feel like im going to be nailed by the pole, but it has never happened.
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Posted 13 June 2004 - 08:06 PM
It may have been the case back when the manual was written (late 50's early 60's) Yes CP's can be a handful - especially being the operator. I've seen more than my share of poles off backs & butts. And parents trying to lift their children onto the chair across & in front of the bar - that always ends up in a mess of people on the ramp.
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Posted 14 June 2004 - 05:35 AM
Not an official quote, but Riblet used to offer centre-poles as a cheaper alternative to their bail carriers. I think you only saved $10-$15 per chair, but if you had, say, chair 10 at Vail (250+ carriers) you're saving $2500-$3750 per lift.
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Posted 15 June 2004 - 01:47 PM
Just a guess- around $100-$200 thousand. Probably about $800,000 in today's dollars, considering they were always among the cheapest lifts to buy. Even fixed-grips are up over a million these days, unless you buy a bare-bones lift with relay logic for the controls instead of computers.
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Posted 20 June 2004 - 04:59 AM
I hate center poles. Like was mentioned above parents do have a lot of trouble loading kids on them. I will not ride the C lift at Breck to this day because of first getting wacked by the chair in the back because I couldn't get out in time and second getting lifted on tp the chair only to whack my head against the pole. :evil2: 
Whats worse is the lift operator wasen't paying attention so I rode up C sideways, with no bar, 25 feet off the ground for 10 minutes.
Whats worse is the lift operator wasen't paying attention so I rode up C sideways, with no bar, 25 feet off the ground for 10 minutes.
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Posted 20 June 2004 - 02:28 PM
I don't know i personnally like CPs. The Riblets at Brighton and the Yans CPs at Alta I have always liked for some reason ease of loading mabey for me at least.
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