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[SkiBachelor]

I guess as stories get passed on by one another, some people decided to make changes to them to make them more exciting. Sorry for the mistake everyone and now I know this story was a lie.

[vons]

While at Bever Creek this summer I learnd that due to the 7 Year or mod requirment for load tests, BC had invested in a tractor trailor filled with trash bins which they use ( filled with water) to load the lifts. BC's lift department payed for the trailer and bins by renting them out to other resorts and still does.

[Mike]

vons, on Oct 22 2005, 09:43 AM, said:

While at Bever Creek this summer I learnd that due to the 7 Year or mod requirment for load tests, BC had invested in a tractor trailor filled with trash bins which they use ( filled with water) to load the lifts. BC's lift department payed for the trailer and bins by renting them out to other resorts and still does.

I heard that beaver creek also put corks installed from the inside of the garbage cans so all they have to do to drain them is hit the cork with a hammer as the lift is running to drain the buckets...much cleaner than the alternative way to drain them!

[Aussierob]

We used to use the buckets with corks but had too many problems. Lots of leaks and broken buckets. We now use standard garbage bins and empty them by tipping them off. Just need the all rubber clothing.

[Allan]

Aussierob, on Oct 24 2005, 12:35 PM, said:

We used to use the buckets with corks but had too many problems. Lots of leaks and broken buckets. We now use standard garbage bins and empty them by tipping them off. Just need the all rubber clothing.

Oh so that's where all our buckets came from!! We just put garbage bags in them and fill em up!!

[Lift Dinosaur]

chuckm, on Oct 18 2005, 03:46 PM, said:

Hey guys, i was at the original silver bullet load test at the boat in 86, yes we did use beer (coors light) we did the load test and unloaded the lift that evening after a successful test. The coors people counted every single keg ! so unless they did it again with beer in the last 19 years- that info is not correct

Nice call CM. Its always good to have "on-site" info.Hope to see you again this winter.

[skiPhreak]

It must take a lot of garbage bins to do a load test especially on a long FG quad that could be almost 1000 bins on a 3000' lift

[Shawn]

We use cardboard boxes with garbage bag's inside of them. We use a hole saw in the back of the box and when we are through just poke a hole in the bag and when the boxe's get back to the bottom they are empty. So far we have re-used the boxe's three times and will be doing two more load test's this fall.

[liftmech]

Same here. We've had some boxes for ten years at least- as long as they don't get too beat up during the test we just fold them up and re-use them.