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[Limelight]

Lift for sale on Ebay. Can't tell if its a Riblet or Murray-Latta. The seller says its from Mt Baker, but didn't say which lift. He said his got a few of them.

Ideas??

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[Peter]

100% Riblet.

[Limelight]

Thanks man!

[Peter]

I have a Riblet chair from chair 4 at Mt. Baker. They accidentaly gave me a M-Latta post and a Riblet Chair, I got home and realized they didn't fit, so I had to go back.

Oh, and I got mine direct from Baker for $35. They were selling all the chairs from c3 a couple months ago for cheap, too.

[Limelight]

Any idea which chair this one came from?

[SkiBachelor]

From the chair's color, I would say it's from the Summit at Snoqualmie. However, he could just be using this image as a place holder image since people don't really know which lift that is from. I always thought Baker's chairs were all black.

[Peter]

Yeah, when I got mine it was black. The seller could have painted them red after they got it. I painted mine dark green.

This post has been edited by Skier: 16 June 2006 - 09:04 PM

[Limelight]

I going to take a look at them today, I'll let you know what I find out.

[wally]

Skier, on Jun 16 2006, 09:21 PM, said:

I have a Riblet chair from chair 4 at Mt. Baker. They accidentaly gave me a M-Latta post and a Riblet Chair, I got home and realized they didn't fit, so I had to go back.

Oh, and I got mine direct from Baker for $35. They were selling all the chairs from c3 a couple months ago for cheap, too.

What's the reasonable price range for a chair off an old lift?

[Peter]

I would say the average now is about $100. And they sell fast, too. Baker sold theirs from Chair 3 within a few days.

[WBSKI]

i missed the batch but i got on the waiting list if 3 ppl dont pickup

[hyak.net]

If any of you have a riblet double and no seat pad, there are a bunch of old seat pads laying below the Keechelus load station where they replaced about half this season. Some are broken in the middle, but some look like they could be useable. FYI

[liftmech]

Baker's chairs were painted 'circus red' until the late 80s or early 90s. Doing carrier inspection, when I had to remove paint to investigate possible cracks, there was always red paint underneath the black.

FYI- if you got any of chair 3's carriers they are a hybrid Riblet/Murray-Latta style. We bought a bunch of used Riblet carriers from Superior Tramway in 2000, cut off the chair heads from the old M-L carriers, and had M-L weld them onto the Riblets. We had gotten tired of repairing the M-L carriers; seems we got a bad batch on that lift only as the ones on chair 4 never had any problems.

[Limelight]

Can you tell by the picture if that could be one of those chairs?

[liftmech]

I can, and it's not.

[Limelight]

Well I stopped by and picked that riblet today. Very nice guy and his got at least 40 of them in his back yard with another 40 or so comming. These are all off the Multorpor chair at Mt Hood Ski Bowl. In fact you can see the pile of the chairs on this site in the pictures section.

Here they are before he picked them up.




He said he'll do a group discount of anyone wants one. I guess he's been shipping them as far as Florida!

This post has been edited by Limelight: 22 June 2006 - 07:32 PM

[SkiBachelor]

Did you ask him why he listed the chairs from being from Mt. Baker?

[Limelight]

SkiBachelor, on Jun 22 2006, 08:46 PM, said:

Did you ask him why he listed the chairs from being from Mt. Baker?

He said some of them were used at one time on Mt. Baker, but they ended their career at Ski Bowl.

[poloxskier]

When the multipor lift was rebuilt did they replace the carriers or did they just remove some?

[SkiBachelor]

Multipor was a brand new lift when it was installed so it doesn't make any sense on why these carriers would have come from Mt. Baker. However, when the Upper Bowl lift at Mt. Hood Ski Bowl was rebuilt, Mt. Hood Ski Bowl reused some of the old lift parts like the drive and Now it could be that the carriers on the Cascade lift did come from Baker.

The reason why the Multipor lift had all those extra chairs sitting in the woods was because the lift got a new drive terminal that was located a few hundred feet ahead of the old one and those extra chairs were no longer needed.