This Is What Happens When Tower/chair/tree Meet

Started by Allan, Jan 25 2004 03:22 PM

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#1 Allan

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Posted 25 January 2004 - 03:22 PM

See pics below

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#2 vancouverguy

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Posted 25 January 2004 - 04:43 PM

I'm having problems with it as well...

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#3 Allan

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Posted 25 January 2004 - 06:30 PM

I know the internet's being stupid for me...

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#4 SkiBachelor

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Posted 25 January 2004 - 06:43 PM

This same thing happened with Willamette Pass' triple chair twilight about 5 years ago.

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#5 liftmech

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Posted 25 January 2004 - 06:49 PM

Ugly! I've heard stories of trees hitting the line, but I've never seen any shots of the damage. When old C-5 at Crystal was finally removed, the crew that was doing the demo cut the haul rope before releasing tension, and the result looked somewhat similar as the rope wrapped momentarily around tower 21... I didn't have my camera that day or I'd have a picture of it :(

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#6 Bill

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Posted 25 January 2004 - 06:53 PM

The Eskimo video has video of trees hitting the haul rope.

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#7 Kicking Horse

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Posted 25 January 2004 - 07:04 PM

but nothing like that.

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#8 Allan

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Posted 25 January 2004 - 07:12 PM

This was a BIG tree. And a big wind storm - it took one of the old racer buildings that was near this tower and blew it 100 feet away.

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#9 KZ

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Posted 26 January 2004 - 06:28 AM

wow, thats some crazy stuff. How long ago did it happen?

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#10 SkiBachelor

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Posted 26 January 2004 - 02:51 PM

Here is another image of a CTEC Quad and a tree. :)

Image from SAM Magazine.

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#11 floridaskier

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Posted 26 January 2004 - 04:25 PM

Ouch

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#12 Dr Frankenstein

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Posted 26 January 2004 - 06:09 PM

Ouch!

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#13 Allan

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Posted 26 January 2004 - 06:18 PM

That looks worse than ours :)

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#14 Eric

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Posted 26 January 2004 - 06:19 PM

ouch, poor chair.

Is that why it doesn't exists anymore ?

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#15 Allan

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Posted 26 January 2004 - 08:16 PM

Granite? No - it continued to run for 5 more years after this tree. There's all sorts of incidents on that chair over the years... Multiple gearbox failures, multiple electric motor failures, tower 3 got pulled over by rigging for a splice job. Many trees on the line. It was an early Mueller though... guess they were just working out the bugs, well not the trees and tower falling.

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