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#1 skier14

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Posted 10 March 2007 - 10:32 AM

Its the last tower on Lift #7 Grewhawk (sun valley). Ever since i have worked there i have always wondered who made that tower (the one on the right side). I was thinking it might have been a YAN or Doppelmayr prototype that never made production.

The first photo is from lift 10 (tower on the right) and the second is a back side of it from lift 10.

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Posted 10 March 2007 - 11:02 AM

I think there is a similar tower on Yan's first HSQ at June Mt.
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Posted 10 March 2007 - 12:40 PM

Mount Snow’s Grand Summit Express built in 87 has 3 of those, the banana rotates on the round cross arm, See the pictures of the top two in the lift section.

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Posted 10 March 2007 - 12:58 PM

View PostLiftTech, on Mar 10 2007, 01:40 PM, said:

Mount Snow’s Grand Summit Express built in 87 has 3 of those, the banana rotates on the round cross arm, See the pictures of the top two in the lift section.


Were those lifting frames used for special sections of the lifts?

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Posted 10 March 2007 - 01:32 PM

View PostSVmech17, on Mar 10 2007, 03:58 PM, said:

Were those lifting frames used for special sections of the lifts?


I think that type of cross arm was used because the tower loading needed an 8 sheave and the Yan S-4 came in 2, 3 and 4 sheave assemblies, so to get a 6 or 8 he used a banana (it’s what he called it) with 2 - 3’s or 4’s, this type of banana moves so the sheave loading stays equal. The lifting frames on those seem much stronger than the other ones he used, likely for the heavier loads.

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Posted 12 March 2007 - 04:38 AM

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Posted 12 March 2007 - 09:14 AM

We still have several of those made by Lift Engineering. They are called a "rocking banana" The plateform rotates and the sheave frames rotate to evenly distrubute the load to all sheaves. We haven't had any problens with them and not a bad design IMHP.
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Posted 13 March 2007 - 06:04 AM

We also have some on an '82 fixed triple, so does Loveland on their #2 ('85? triple).
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Posted 13 March 2007 - 07:49 AM

View Postliftmech, on Mar 13 2007, 08:04 AM, said:

We also have some on an '82 fixed triple, so does Loveland on their #2 ('85? triple).


Liftmech- Yours have the box tube crossarm, not round pipe as I remember.

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Posted 14 March 2007 - 02:52 PM

This is an older style of banana tower.
Picture is from our chairlift gallery.
This particular tower was installed September 2, 1980 at Mt. Rose Nevada.
The lift is named Lakeview but has no view of any lake.

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Posted 14 March 2007 - 07:26 PM

View PostLift Dinosaur, on Mar 13 2007, 09:49 AM, said:

Liftmech- Yours have the box tube crossarm, not round pipe as I remember.

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Ah yes, you are correct. I had to look at the photos again.
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Posted 20 July 2007 - 05:07 PM

View PostRyan B, on Mar 14 2007, 02:52 PM, said:

This is an older style of banana tower.
Picture is from our chairlift gallery.
This particular tower was installed September 2, 1980 at Mt. Rose Nevada.
The lift is named Lakeview but has no view of any lake.


As someone who has skied at Mt. Rose all of his life, this is tower 16 and there is a dramatic view of Lake Tahoe to the southwest as one crosses this tower to the unload station (which follows this tower).





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