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[Bergstrom]

Linken chairlift after a storm. Cable down. Call the insurance company!

Toboggan evac. by ski patrol of a spinal injury.

Ski patrol's car #9, Russian 4wd Lada, possing below the gondola. A doppelmyr a la 1995.

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[SkiBachelor]

On of the forum members that recently joined works at that ski area. Well that's if all those are from the same ski area.

[Duck]

...and here are the images, right side up...

-Iain

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[Bergstrom]

Duck, on Jan 20 2005, 05:16 PM, said:

...and here are the images, right side up...

-Iain
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Yep, same ski area. Narvikfjellet AS in Narvik Norway. www.narvikfjellet.no I'm the ski patrol director and a liftmech.

Thanks for squaring away the pic.s I was in a hurry and just wanted to get something out there. We have a few months with no sun and a few with daylight 24 hours a day. The light is very special here and makes for some great pic.s We have a chairlift, gondola and 3 t-bars. That sounds kind of whimpy by you step off the lift at 1002m and can ski right down to the fjord at sea level. The range is called fagerness fjellet.

[Kicking Horse]

Do you think you could get more pics of the gondola and some of the t-bars?

Thanks

[Bergstrom]

Kicking Horse, on Jan 26 2005, 11:50 PM, said:

Do you think you could get more pics of the gondola and some of the t-bars?

Thanks
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Sure. The gondola is a Doppelmyr from 1985. 4 sets of 3 cabins. (6 pers per cabin) fixed clamps. Hmmm. Is clamps the right word? It's the pride and joy of the resort. It looks and run great. It replaced an old gondol that you physically shoved the 2 person cabins that rested on a skid on to a running cable. It ocasionally dipped through the trees and finally gave up the ghost when one of the masts just fell over. It turned out that the good folks that offered there saturdays and sundays to build the masts didn't bother to mix the cement in the middle of the mast. Just plain bags of cement in the middle of a properly mixed ring of cement. Needles to say, the current gondola is a fine piece of machine that looks half it's age.

The chairlift is a mueller from the early eighties, also fixed "clamps". It is typical for the small resorts northern Norway and Sweden, like the one metioned in the accident at Abisko (Norwegian girl killed at Swedish resort).

The t-bars are staedli and mueller. They are....well...t-bars.

I'll get some fresh pics with more focus on the lifts and less on the action in the foreground.

[Kicking Horse]

k thianks.

the correct word that we use is fixed grip. But Clamp is good enough. I think we all know that it means. :)

[Bergstrom]

Kicking Horse, on Jan 27 2005, 11:01 PM, said:

k thianks.

the correct word that we use is fixed grip. But Clamp is good enough. I think we all know that it means. :)
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Thanks. I don't think they make a english-norwegian dictionary for mechs. What is the opposite then? What we'd call tilkoblingbar. I have to start learning the english for this stuff. It's bad enough that most the stuff is in german and there are lots of different names from place to place in norway.

Here's a bad scan of the resort. Lengde = length, Høyde = hight, t-krok = t-bar, stolheis = chairlift, and gondolheis = gondola I think you can guess the rest. We are beginning to get some sunlight again and fresh pic.s are on the way.

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