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[Skidude]

Which one has the best looking lifts. I like the way older Hall chairs look, but I also like the GraventaCTEC high speed lifts.

[SkiBachelor]

You're missing some of the biggest aerial lift manufacturers on the list, like Doppelmayr and Lift Engineering.

This post has been edited by SkiBachelor: 05 January 2006 - 08:30 PM

[Kicking Horse]

So Cameron,

Why don't you add them?

[poloxskier]

I really like the GravCTEC high speed lifts, but I also really like the Simple designs that LE used on many of their lifts.

[SkiBachelor]

Because it's not my poll. :)

[liftmech]

I think if a lift is well-maintained and has a clean coat of paint, it looks good. Some might be more aesthetically pleasing than others, but as a recent photo of a newer Poma detachable shows, cleaning and painting helps a great deal.

[Zage]

I think all new European lifts look the best because we don't have a lot of the same designs here in North-America.

[Peter]

I love the Doppelmayr UNI-G, especially this one at Beaver Creek.

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[Lift Dinosaur]

 SkiBachelor, on Jan 5 2006, 09:30 PM, said:

You're missing some of the biggest aerial lift manufacturers on the list, like Doppelmayr and Lift Engineering.

....and LEITNER.

[iceberg210]

Yeah where is Yan??

Anyway I've always liked the halos on the old Riblets as well as their vault drives. Just looked like what a lift should in my mind, complex.

Also Yan for the oppisite reason that his designs were so simple and purposeful.

[spunkyskier01]

i love leitner high speed quads

[aug]

There was this old lift on Mt. Hood that went from Govt. Camp to Tmberline Lodge. It was called the"Skyway" (pronouned skiway) . It was built in the early 50's . It utilized city busses suspended by track ropes. The drive axles on the bus had sheaves on them . The haul ropes wrapped around the drive sheaves. There were two busses that traveled on one track. If you have seen pictures of this contraption you will agree that this was a cool looking lift although not very practical . It ran for two or three years untill the company went bankrupt. Its major drawback was that the conventional bus ride up the Timberline road was about ten minutes and the Skyway took about 20 minutes. The bus ride on the road cost about 5 cents vs. $2.00 for a ride on the Skyway. I will try and find some old pictures and put them on later.



check out the skyway photo at www.historicphotoarchive.com/caps4/00373.html

This post has been edited by aug: 15 January 2006 - 07:38 PM

[SkiBachelor]

There is actually already some pictures of this lift on Skilifts.org on the Timberline page. If you go down to the removed lift area of the Timberline page, you will see the link. The lift was built by Roebling and from some of the information that I've read about the lift, it was built a year or two before the current road that takes you up to Timberline.

http://skilifts.org/or-timberline.htm

[aug]

 SkiBachelor, on Jan 15 2006, 08:16 PM, said:

There is actually already some pictures of this lift on Skilifts.org on the Timberline page. If you go down to the removed lift area of the Timberline page, you will see the link. The lift was built by Roebling and from some of the information that I've read about the lift, it was built a year or two before the current road that takes you up to Timberline.

http://skilifts.org/or-timberline.htm

the old road is called west leg and was contructed when the lodge was built. the newer road is called timberline road or east leg road and was finished just after the skyway was opened leading to the demise of the skyway.

[Whistler]

I've always liked Meuller Lifts. They are (were) quite plentiful here in British Columbia.

[Limelight]

Riblets are damn sexy looking!

[Carl]

OK, that one wins!

OMG, I've never heard of such a thing! Awesome!

Carl

[poloxskier]

That would have been an interesting one to ride when it was still in use. I tried to find some remnants of it when I was at timberline years ago but wasn't able to find anything because I didnt have much time.

[Bill]

Cameron and I found the foundations and what was left of the steel beams.

Look in the big wide patch that heads down to Government camp.

[poloxskier]

I unfortunately didn't have enough time to hike down the former line when I was there last, maybe at the end of the summer I'll swing by and check it out. Is the building that was the lower station still standing?

This post has been edited by poloxskier: 05 April 2006 - 09:24 PM