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Hmm Lift Operators Not Watching the line...
Started by Kicking Horse, Dec 24 2007 09:42 AM
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Posted 24 December 2007 - 10:23 AM
I have done that before, although I didn't get the running start and leap dramatically to the haul rope! But in my case the operator was on the carrier also. He was hanging onto the back of the carrier and the little girl he was holding was hanging off the front. They were stopped about 1 chairlength past the first tower at the load station. (that is how long it took for the ticket checker to notice that the operator had gone for a ride. As with almost all 'misloads', the situation should have never gotten to that point.
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Posted 24 December 2007 - 11:12 AM
Wow that Shawn really is a "do'er". That guy is a stud and had an awesome hairdoo !!! 
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Posted 24 December 2007 - 11:12 AM
Hang_Time.doc (22K)
Number of downloads: 90
Found this last year. For some reason, they didn't want to include it in our Lift Ops training manual.
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Posted 24 December 2007 - 11:46 AM
lift mistress, on Dec 24 2007, 01:12 PM, said:
Hang_Time.docFound this last year. For some reason, they didn't want to include it in our Lift Ops training manual.
Nice :)
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Posted 24 December 2007 - 11:51 AM
Well that made my day 
I have already printed off a dozen copies and delivered them to the lift houses..
Oh and should also mention that Shawn and I are not related.....
I have already printed off a dozen copies and delivered them to the lift houses..
Oh and should also mention that Shawn and I are not related.....
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Posted 24 December 2007 - 01:46 PM
It was a recreation. Notice the overhead shot of the girl and mom in the chair.
Being the stud lift op I was I would have NEVER let the girl try to load on the other side of mom. I have picked 'em up and moved 'em, got on the other side and loaded on the little girls side, just slowed it, many options.... On my first year (loading a double Yan) I had a hanger in the busy Xmas break. The little Girls, 8-9 yrs old said they've loaded by them selves before (I asked them) the load started fine but one girl didn't want to sit and stayed stiff to the end of the ramp. I pushed and pushed on her waist to get her to bend and sit down, I could tell she wasn't so I ran back to the controls about 18ft, ( I know I know I should have never left the controls, but being a stud I loaded full line for hours without so much as even 1-2 slows an hour) I had to dive and slide on my stomach to miss the next chair, it stopped with the little girls skis about 9 feet in the air. By the time I got up to her a guest was there also and she dropped into our arms. Man incident reports suck! I started using slows more on kids and let the ego suffer some when they complained I slowed the lift for them.
Being the stud lift op I was I would have NEVER let the girl try to load on the other side of mom. I have picked 'em up and moved 'em, got on the other side and loaded on the little girls side, just slowed it, many options.... On my first year (loading a double Yan) I had a hanger in the busy Xmas break. The little Girls, 8-9 yrs old said they've loaded by them selves before (I asked them) the load started fine but one girl didn't want to sit and stayed stiff to the end of the ramp. I pushed and pushed on her waist to get her to bend and sit down, I could tell she wasn't so I ran back to the controls about 18ft, ( I know I know I should have never left the controls, but being a stud I loaded full line for hours without so much as even 1-2 slows an hour) I had to dive and slide on my stomach to miss the next chair, it stopped with the little girls skis about 9 feet in the air. By the time I got up to her a guest was there also and she dropped into our arms. Man incident reports suck! I started using slows more on kids and let the ego suffer some when they complained I slowed the lift for them.
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Posted 24 December 2007 - 06:02 PM
Thats the Littlecat Double at Snowbasin, a Thiokol. Thats where I learned to ski (and years later spent a summer or two there) remember watching that episode of Rescue 911 when I was about 13 years old. That lift moves around 400 FPM as it is a beginers lift.
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Posted 25 December 2007 - 05:46 PM
I must say that's one of the funniest videos I have ever seen. Nice find. I'm sorry, I know that this was a real incident, but the logistics of it seem a little out there.
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Posted 26 December 2007 - 06:34 PM
Every once in awhile, I have lift operating dreams. Sometimes, I am such a hero, that some how I end up on the carrier, and have to hold on for the entire eight minutes. Oops!]
You have to hand it to them: they were such good sports that they kept skiing even after the incident! Of course, that was in the days of mullets--people didn't know how to sue back then.
You have to hand it to them: they were such good sports that they kept skiing even after the incident! Of course, that was in the days of mullets--people didn't know how to sue back then.
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Posted 26 December 2007 - 07:53 PM
The acting seemed a little over the top which made it funny to watch. But the liftie should of been watching a little closer, maybe he was deaf and couldn't hear the girl screaming. Who knows.
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Posted 27 December 2007 - 06:23 AM
I found this old Readers Digest joke, it's relevant and hilarious!
Our family took a ski trip, and I was knocked unconscious by the chairlift. I called my insurance company from the hospital, but it refused to cover my injury. "Why not?" I complained.
"You got hit in the head by a chairlift", the insurance guy said. "That makes you a moron, and we consider that a pre-existing condition."
Our family took a ski trip, and I was knocked unconscious by the chairlift. I called my insurance company from the hospital, but it refused to cover my injury. "Why not?" I complained.
"You got hit in the head by a chairlift", the insurance guy said. "That makes you a moron, and we consider that a pre-existing condition."
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Posted 27 December 2007 - 06:04 PM
k2skier, on Dec 27 2007, 07:23 AM, said:
I found this old Readers Digest joke, it's relevant and hilarious!
Our family took a ski trip, and I was knocked unconscious by the chairlift. I called my insurance company from the hospital, but it refused to cover my injury. "Why not?" I complained.
"You got hit in the head by a chairlift", the insurance guy said. "That makes you a moron, and we consider that a pre-existing condition."
Our family took a ski trip, and I was knocked unconscious by the chairlift. I called my insurance company from the hospital, but it refused to cover my injury. "Why not?" I complained.
"You got hit in the head by a chairlift", the insurance guy said. "That makes you a moron, and we consider that a pre-existing condition."
Ha! No way! Finally, somebody with reason speaks!
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Posted 27 December 2007 - 09:36 PM
Is a lift operator too busy to watch the people load than watch them away like 5 feet? Why doesn
t the mother let child go at bottom to be safe instead of hold her so long into high feet?
I looked for "Lift Operators" in this forum and I can't find it. Some said that kind of that job is bored at top than bottom, the lift operators always are busy. Search Box seems not working.
t the mother let child go at bottom to be safe instead of hold her so long into high feet?
I looked for "Lift Operators" in this forum and I can't find it. Some said that kind of that job is bored at top than bottom, the lift operators always are busy. Search Box seems not working.
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