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Girak - European Lift Manufacturer

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#1 SkiBachelor

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Posted 23 February 2005 - 05:00 PM

Since Zage wanted to see some pictures of Girak's lifts, here you go. All I could find while I was over in Europe were its gondolas. The unique thing about Girak though is that it seems to build custom terminals.

Here one gondola, but I don't know the name of the reosrt though.

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Posted 23 February 2005 - 05:10 PM

Here is the Magic Mountain Xpress at Hirschenkogel. I personally think this is a very unique terminal design.

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Posted 23 February 2005 - 05:43 PM

Thanks Cameron. :thumbsup: The first gondola you posted is the Hahnenkammbahn at Kitzbuhel Austria. The Hahnenkamm is a famous ski run for downhill racing.
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Posted 23 February 2005 - 06:43 PM

I like the second terminal a lot. Those are great pictures. Do you happen to know when the gondolas were built? The first one has a chain cedence system, I would think that the second has a tire, but I wouldn't know. Any info on that?
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Posted 23 February 2005 - 06:44 PM

Hey one that I've ridden :---: . I didnt pay too much attention to the lifts when I was there, It's good to know the make of some of them.
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Posted 23 February 2005 - 06:50 PM

Bryan, I'm curious which one you rode, because I wasn't sure if there was a funitel at Kitzbuhel Austria. I was only in this town for like 20 minutes while my family and I ate lunch.
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Posted 23 February 2005 - 07:11 PM

I was refering to the Hahnenkammbahn. I didnt really pay attention to the lifts in Kitzbuhel except for the Graventa Quad with moving loading and the Single Chairs. I do know that the lift we rode out of town was a gondola with what looked like CWA cabins, that has been 7 or 8 years ago though.

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-Bryan

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"You could say that a mountain is alot like a woman, once you think you know every inch of her and you're about to dip your skis into some soft, deep powder...Bam, you've got two broken legs, cracked ribs and you pay your $20 just to let her punch your lift ticket all over again"

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Posted 24 February 2005 - 03:47 PM

How come the Hahnenkammbahn gondola (the one with red cabins) has a cadence chain and not tire turn-around?. It was only built in 1996, all lifts then had tire turn-around and the cadence chain was obsolet

These are the pictures from Lift-World. I use the last one as a background on my computer. :P

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Posted 24 February 2005 - 04:09 PM

Cost saving maybe?
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Posted 24 February 2005 - 04:31 PM

Maybe it had something to do with removing the cabins, adding cabins, etc, and it could be easier to do that with the cadence chain. If the one with the cadence chain was built in '96 then they difinitely had a reason, because the tire turnarounds started in the late '80's, right?
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Posted 24 February 2005 - 05:33 PM

No, a tire cadence system is a lot better for removing and adding cabins and carriers, that's why it's use on all the new lifts today. I just think that Girak never invested in designing their own that early.
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Posted 24 February 2005 - 05:45 PM

Ok, I didn't know, I might have been thrown off where someone said "in an active tire system it may take several laps to respace the carrier" and if they were removing the cabins a lot then it would seem that it would be difficult without a system to put them on already spaced.
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Posted 24 February 2005 - 06:35 PM

:huh: What weird and exotic terminals. How excellent!

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Posted 24 February 2005 - 06:36 PM

I wish that we had some terminals like that here. Is Girak still in business, and if not, when did they go out of business?

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Posted 24 February 2005 - 06:39 PM

I agree with highspeedquad. We need weirder terminals in my opinion

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Posted 24 February 2005 - 06:45 PM

They are either still in business or were bought out by doppelmayr. I forget which.

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Posted 24 February 2005 - 08:53 PM

Girak was actually bought by Garaventa around 1999.
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Posted 24 February 2005 - 09:07 PM

they ended up in the doppelmayr empire though in the end.

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Posted 25 February 2005 - 11:15 AM

Now they are Girak-Garaventa.

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Posted 25 February 2005 - 01:44 PM

When you say Girak-garaventa do you mean that it is just a branch of the Dopp group and they are still somewhat alive, just bought out? Or have they changed to the style of all modern Dopp gondis.

Did they make any other lifts?
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