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Buck Hill Minnesota J-Bar Problem

Started by Lift Kid, Jan 28 2006 11:47 AM

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#1 Lift Kid

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Posted 28 January 2006 - 11:47 AM

Buck Hill's J-Bar Deroped Friday night around 9:05 pm. The lift is fairly old. It has no warning system at all. The only controls are a very small start and stop button in the top control shack and a stop button at the bottom loading area. The lift does have deropement detectors but no warning system or drive of any kind.

Here's what happened:

A "J" was swung when a person got off. The "J" hit the sheave assembly at the top station. The "J" did break and the cable came off the sheaves. The crews did get it running again!

Pictures:

Where the rope came off Attached File  j_bar_problem.jpg (705.45K)
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Pictures of the Lift: Lift Line (Down) Attached File  J_bar_line_2.JPG (2.3MB)
Number of downloads: 38 Attached File  J_bar_line1.JPG (2.21MB)
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The Control Shack (Top) Attached File  J_bar_shack.JPG (2.19MB)
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The Drive: (Top) Attached File  J_bar_drive.JPG (2.09MB)
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#2 Lift Kid

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Posted 03 February 2006 - 09:12 PM

OK, The lift had another problem this Friday. One of the "J's" got swung into the spoke of the Bullwheel.

This lift is planned for removal this summer because it has so many problems.

This picture shows kind of what happened. Yes, that red line is a "J". Attached File  j_bar_problem2.jpg (690.41K)
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It makes me so mad that they continualy close this lift as it is one of my favorites.

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Posted 07 February 2006 - 08:38 AM

Surface lift deropements are very common, especially if they are at all neglected. It's always sad too see a favorite lift get pulled!
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#4 madtexan

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Posted 07 February 2006 - 01:03 PM

View PostLift Kid, on Jan 28 2006, 02:47 PM, said:

Buck Hill's J-Bar Deroped Friday night around 9:05 pm. The lift is fairly old. It has no warning system at all. The only controls are a very small start and stop button in the top control shack and a stop button at the bottom loading area. The lift does have deropement detectors but no warning system or drive of any kind.

Here's what happened:

A "J" was swung when a person got off. The "J" hit the sheave assembly at the top station. The "J" did break and the cable came off the sheaves. The crews did get it running again!

Pictures:

Where the rope came off Attachement attachment

Pictures of the Lift: Lift Line (Down) Attachement attachment Attachement attachment

The Control Shack (Top) Attachement attachment

The Drive: (Top) Attachement attachment



We have a combination J-bar that was built in the 60's. By "combination" I mean it is a Hall/Mueller/Home-Built lift. Ours deropes occasionally due to customers skiing WAY out of the ski track. This lift has two Chevy truck rearends as gearboxes with Mueller line equipment, Hall J's, and 8" well casing as towers. The most problematic issue we have with this lift is that it has aluminum bullwheel liners chew the punch-locs and rubbers that hold the J's in place. We re-space an average of 10 J's a week because of this setup. I wish our area would decide to remove this lift. I would take a carpet over this lift any day.

#5 Lift Kid

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Posted 07 February 2006 - 05:53 PM

If you have some pictures, I would really enjoy seeing them!

#6 Lift Dinosaur

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Posted 08 February 2006 - 06:43 AM

Does anyone know the Manufacturer of that J-Bar? It looks to me like the cable is WAY LOW in the bullwheel liner and is a canidate for deropement.
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#7 Jonni

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Posted 08 February 2006 - 09:39 AM

My first reaction to who the manufacturer is would be a Stadeli, or C/S, but I'm not sure.
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#8 Lift Kid

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Posted 08 February 2006 - 02:55 PM

I am not sure either. I have had the chance to look really well at it but still I can't find the make. It does derope very often several times a week.
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