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[KZ]

Mammoth will be holding another scrap sale with items from their boneyard and this year their shop up for bid/sale. I'd like to get some stuff, but I don't see it happening. Check it out:


SKI AREA PLANS MAMMOTH SCRAP SALE TO CLEAN UP AND CLEAR OUT


MAMMOTH MOUNTAIN, CA - Last summer's "Boneyard Sale" at Mammoth Mountain was such a success that the ski area has decided to hold one again, with one notable addition - a sale at the Garage as well.

Over the first two weekends in October, Mammoth Mountain will open the Garage (October 2 and 3) and "Boneyard" (October 9 and 10) storage area to the public for viewing and purchasing old materials stockpiled over many years of ski area operations. From 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday and Sunday, shoppers can enter the normally closed areas to peruse huge stacks of ski area machinery and scrap for that hard-to-find certain something they can't find anywhere else.

The event is expected to draw customers from a diverse cross section, including ranchers, artisans, machinists and maintenance personnel from other West Coast mountain resorts. Old ski area operational equipment will be available at reasonable rates, with all offers considered. Proceeds from the sale will benefit a local wildlife rescue organization.

This is a rare opportunity for anyone interested in potentially useable machinery, vehicles, motors and metal scrap of all types and sizes. "A lot of the machinery still has value for the right person or business. We're hoping to attract smaller snow area operators and other users of aging equipment with materials like Pisten Bully tracks and tillers and a rebuilt LMC snowcat engine," explained John Walline, Mammoth Mountain's Snowcat Maintenance Manager. Other items available at the Garage include a loadermount snowblower, a 1967 Jeep 6X6 truck, a 2.5 ton 4X4 plow tuck with a blade and various engines and parts.

Mammoth's outside material storage area, better known as the Boneyard, will also have ski area scrap materials of all sizes, shapes and weights for sale. Most of the items are made of metal and are perfect for sculptures, garden art or as ski area keepsakes. Available pieces include old chairs, heavy cable and spools, metal grates, lift towers, and structural supports.

Mammoth Mountain Ski Area has been working on cleaning up and sorting all old materials stored around the resort for the past few summers. "Mammoth has a lot of old equipment and parts sitting around that we haven't been using. We would like to see them put to their best possible use, rather than cluttering up the environment," explained Greg Dallas, Senior Manager in charge of Garage Operations for Mammoth Mountain. "We recognize the relationship between our environment, the Town and the Mountain. It's important for all of us to pay attention to how we're using the land."

Both the Garage and Boneyard will be open to the public on sale days only, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. The Garage is located downhill from Main Lodge on Highway 203, across from "Sledz" snowpark. The entrance to the Boneyard is also downhill from Main Lodge at the Chair 10 parking lot and shuttle stop. Directional signs will be posted on sale days and parking will be available.

All interested buyers should bring their own trailers or make special hauling arrangements for large purchases since deliveries will not be available. For more information please contact Mammoth Mountain's Department of Environmental Programs at (760) 934-0773.

[liftmech]

Lift towers as sculpture... hmmm....

[iceberg210]

To bad its in California.

[KZ]

Its only about 9 hours or so away :)

Just take 80 to reno and 395 down.

[iceberg210]

Right,

The discription didn't really sound to me like they had any full lifts just parts but is that just me?

[snowboardguy]

what are they doing with the old chair 17?

[KZ]

Im sure they have enough parts for an enite lift, you would just have to talk to them about it. They have replaced a lot of yan triples and doubles over the past 7 years, and they have sold a few, but the rest are just sitting there. As far as 17 goes, they are probably going to try and sell it as the article says "We're hoping to attract smaller snow area operators" so that would be start up resorts and the likes. Maybe email them if you want more info.

[liftmech]

You could probably piece together a lift from their boneyard- you could almost do it in ours and we haven't torn out a lift in a while. The only thing you'd have to be careful of is that the bullwheels and crossarms match, guage-wise- Yan had many 11' lifts and then switched to 12'.

[Patrick Sullivan]

I snooped around the boneyard of ski area out here, 3 Thiokols, 1 Bombardier, 2 Sno-Cat tuckers, 2 Mueller T-bars (complete), 10 Borvig triple chairs, 120 Mueller Center pole chairs, 11 snowmobiles (3 Arctic Cats, 4 Polaris's 3 Skippie Doos...[ski doo] and an Evinrude rotary engine!!! rare!!!!)
2 reels of I think 29mm hemp cored cable, 4 complete hall 1405 towers, and 2 Hall double chairs along with a kissling gearbox, and almost an entire fleet of vintage 1970's snowmaking equip., including a failed homemade tower gun.
I have pics but do to the area's sign being in the pics I can't show em'.
The GM don't like people he don't know snoopin' round his private junk pile...except me....I've bugged him enough over the years...still trying to get a center pole chair off him....

[Patrick Sullivan]

no dude, not just the engine, the whole damn sled!!!I'm sure they scrapped it already though.

A funny story though, the same area had a 1972 Skippie Doo Olympique with a 340, the exhaust kept falling off, the only reason they kept it was to scare away Moose, Bears and other huge animals that stood in the middle of the trail...they ended up keeping the pipe off it for that purpose..LOUD AS ALL HELL!!!!!