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[wolfmtnmikey]

http://www.spokesman...ory.asp?ID=8043

[skidv]

Here's the lift it happened on: Chair Five

[Lift Kid]

Yikes. Good thing it happened at night and not during operation. It also tells you that daily line inspections are a good to do. (to catch bad things like that)

[ewh5987]

I saw this the day after it happened. I didn't think that lift towers could snap in half like that.

[Limelight]

Anyone have pictures of the damage?

[FSJ]

Here is a picture. This is what a tube full of water (30-40') will do when it freezes. We have not heard yet how it was filled. The thought is that the water may have run down the comm. line or cable and entered through the cross arm.

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[Limelight]

Wow! So I'm sure you'll have the lift up and running in a few hours?

Are you going to try and replace the tower this winter/spring, or just wait for summer?

[SkiBachelor]

The tower has already been replaced.

[Peter]

Note the article was from November 30th

[Limelight]

Okay I see that now. Has this happened before?

[Callao]

That's a pretty good picture. Yikes!

[Lift Dinosaur]

Limelight, on Jan 20 2007, 10:33 AM, said:

Okay I see that now. Has this happened before?

Not to this extent of distruction, to my knowledge. There was an incident in the Midwest a few years back where ice expansion in a holddown tower at the bottom of a lift seperated the crossarm from the tower tube causing a deropement.The lift had been there for 30+years.
Dino