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[iceberg210]

One of the manufactures I didn't know about but have recently become aware of due to looking at other fourms and such is the European company Skirail. I was wondering if anyone had thier web address or new anymore about them.

Some of the photos I've found are from here
http://rmvalcenis.free.fr/photos/galerie/b...=hiver2004-2005

notice the odd chairs it seems as if they took a double frame and stuck a new seat on each side of it.

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[SkiBachelor]

Isn't that Von Roll?

[Duck]

That is a great looking lift. The only other place I have seen the Skirail name is here: Les Panoramics de Langres



Great looking cabins, and overall design and construction.

-Iain

[Zage]

The picture iceberg210 posted is a Girak if I am not mistaken.

[iceberg210]

Sorry guys the pic I posted was actually a GMM. I guess this topic should really be more about the varuios lift manufactures in Europe.

This is info on European lifts from another site I got. Guilliame ( the guy who wrote it ) was kind enough to give some of it in English as well.

Il y a principalement : / Mainly the following companies :
- Doppelmayr et Garaventa (qui employait le nom commercial CTEC en Amérique du Nord),
- Leitner et Poma ,
- Graffer et CCM en Italie,
- Gimar Montaz Mautino en France,
- Skirail en France, filiale de Poma.

Autrefois, il y avait aussi : / In the past, the following companies used to built also chairlifts :
- Von Roll (fait désormais partie de Doppelmayr),
- Agudio et Gradio en Italie, intégrés à Poma,
- Waagner-Biro en Italie, intégré à Leitner,
- Agamatic en Italie pour les télésièges débrayables seulement, filiale de .
Ces sociétés n'existent plus aujourd'hui / They no longer exist today.

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[iceberg210]

Well it seems as if Skirail and Yan had an agreement at one point to share designs etc here is a pic of a Skirail (not one of the ones that Yan shared designs on). The second one is one of thier coopertive efforts appartently

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This post has been edited by iceberg210: 05 March 2005 - 10:28 AM

[Duck]

In the second picture, is that setup essentially two parallel lifts, sharing towers?!

-Iain

[iceberg210]

Yep thats a double triple which were used for higher capacity before HS lifts came around.

[highspeedquad]

That is a very weird configuration. They do split up after about three towers, but that is still very unusual.

[ski_Lift_modeler]

neh. at sugarloaf usa there are 2 double doubles. haha

[pap73]

hello, desoler for my bad English translated with google, Internet site of gimar montaz mautino here
gmm-france

[chasl]

I believe at Whiteface in New York there is still a Hall double/double actually there are a few Hall double/doubles out there at least on the East coast.

[spunkyskier01]

actualy that lift has been replaced with a high speed quad, but belleayre mountain(bye hunter mt.) has one, and elk mountain pensilvania has a one with a double one one side and a quad on the other. but they are all over the north east

[floridaskier]

iceberg210, on Mar 5 2005, 02:26 PM, said:

Well it seems as if Skirail and Yan had an agreement at one point to share designs etc here is a pic of a Skirail (not one of the ones that Yan shared designs on). The second one is one of thier coopertive efforts appartently

Didn't Yan build a few lifts in Europe? Maybe these was under the Skirail name

I just noticed the first tower on the Yan/Skirail double triple lift. It's a double-half tower for the heavy sides only.
I wonder why they split off the towers higher up on that lift

[Lift Dinosaur]

floridaskier, on Sep 14 2005, 02:15 PM, said:

Didn't Yan build a few lifts in Europe? Maybe these was under the Skirail name

I just noticed the first tower on the Yan/Skirail double triple lift. It's a double-half tower for the heavy sides only.
I wonder why they split off the towers higher up on that lift

YAN did build lifts in France under the Ski Rail name. Most of the ones I know about were in Val d'Isere. In the photo, you can see that the lift is a bottom DTT-Drive Tension Terminal. Therefore, the rope is being pulled downhill, which puts more tension on the downhill side. YAN had many lifts in the US (A-Basin, Copper, Heavenly, Mammoth, etc.) with bottom DTT's where the first towers or mid-line towers had either split elevation or one-sided crossarms. This was due to line calculations involving bottom drive lifts.

[skiersage]

here is the translated version of eriks info:

There is mainly: : - Doppelmayr and Garaventa (which employed commercial name CTEC in North America), - Leitner and Poma, - Graffer and CCM in Italy, - Gimar Montaz Mautino in France, - Skirail in France, subsidiary of Poma.Autrefois, there was also: / In the past, the following companies used to built also chairlifts: - Von Roll (been part from now one of Doppelmayr), - Agudio and Gradio in Italy, integrated into Poma, - Waagner-Biro in Italy, integrated into Leitner, - Agamatic in Italy for the disengageable chair-lifts only, subsidiary of Ces companies do not exist today any more