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[vons]

Her is pdf of BMF ropeways. This company has just entered the detachable chairlift and gondola market this last season. They are currently offered in Europe.

downloadbmf ropeways this is a big download !

This post has been edited by vons: 13 June 2009 - 03:52 PM

[boardski]

Interesting lifts, they look a lot like Doppelmayrs. I happend to notice the seats flip out and not up like the Poma chairs from the 80's, hopefully there is some type of latch so people don't get dumped off by sitting too far forward in their chair. Otherwise to the non-engineer eye, they look like nice-looking lifts. What does B.M.F stand for anyway, I didn't happen to see that on their website??

[Bogong]

BMF = Bartholet Maschinenbau AG. (I have no idea where the 'F' comes from)

Website: http://www.bmf-ag.ch/en/

This post has been edited by Bogong: 14 June 2009 - 02:29 PM

[Snoqualmie guy]

From the pictures they look alot like Doppelmayr.

[sseguin613]

I'd always buy and install a Doppelmayr. It also helps that I live within 45 minutes of the Doppelmayr plant in St.Jerome so I guess I have a local loyalty to the brand.

[vons]

They do look very similar to a doppelmayr product.

I think the grip is interesting. The grip is an over center design in which the springs providing the grip force are unloaded in the open position making it easier to service than most over center designs which are usually loading the springs in this position think Doppelmayr DS or DT grips

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[Kicking Horse]

Very interesting... I wonder what kind of pricing they have...

[vons]

a second pdf bmf CLD-6 construction

This lift is the first Detachable by this firm. I guess it had some cadence issues at first so much so that part of the skin was removed to get at the mechanism I don’t read Italian so I hade to estimate from the photos in Funivie.org

link to forum and source of pictures funivie.org

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[Kicking Horse]

vons, on Jun 15 2009, 05:42 PM, said:

a second pdf bmf CLD-6 construction

This lift is the first Detachable by this firm. I guess it had some cadence issues at first so much so that part of the skin was removed to get at the mechanism I don't read Italian so I hade to estimate from the photos in Funivie.org

link to forum and source of pictures funivie.org

Panels were removed due to "strong" winds.

" on January 23, with strong winds (tips on 200 km / h), the station of the chairlift has suffered several damages:"

[vons]

Thanks for the translation

I must have fat fingers I keep hitting extra keys

[seilbahnbilder.ch]

BMF is a Swiss constructer. BMF stands for Bartholet Maschinenbau Flums. "Bartholet" is the Name of the founder, "Maschinenbau" means "mechanical engineering" and "Flums" is the name of the village, where the firm is located.

BMF has already built many installations in Switzerland, mostly fixed grip chairlifts and surfacelifts. The new chairlift in France was their first detachable ropeway they built with their own technology. There was at least one 4 seater gondola they built by using old parts of a dismantled Von Roll gondola.

They are also quite active in South America, where they built many fixed grip chairlifts chairlifts and surfacelifts by using parts of dismantled installations in Switzerland.

Here some pictures of installations they built in Switzerland during the last years:


^^ Fixed grip cabriolet gondola


^^ Surfacelift


^^ Fixed grip double


^^ Fixed grip double


^^ Monocable tram

[Keymech]

seilbahnbilder.ch, on Jun 17 2009, 01:16 PM, said:

BMF is a Swiss constructer. BMF stands for Bartholet Maschinenbau Flums. "Bartholet" is the Name of the founder, "Maschinenbau" means "mechanical engineering" and "Flums" is the name of the village, where the firm is located.

BMF has already built many installations in Switzerland, mostly fixed grip chairlifts and surfacelifts. The new chairlift in France was their first detachable ropeway they built with their own technology. There was at least one 4 seater gondola they built by using old parts of a dismantled Von Roll gondola.

They are also quite active in South America, where they built many fixed grip chairlifts chairlifts and surfacelifts by using parts of dismantled installations in Switzerland.

Here some pictures of installations they built in Switzerland during the last years:


^^ Fixed grip cabriolet gondola


^^ Surfacelift


^^ Fixed grip double


^^ Fixed grip double


^^ Monocable tram

Any pics of the grip?

[skierdude9450]

Cool to see some pictures of the new Marmottes Express at Val d'Isere. The grip seems very similar to the LST grip shown below. LST is another fairly new lift construction company out of Germany. However their grip is a double position grip, whereas I'd assume that the BMF grip is a single position grip, since it's located in France.

[seilbahnbilder.ch]

This type of grip was originally developed by WOPFNER, an austrian cablecar manufacturer that went out of business during the nineties. Both LST and BMF bought a licence that allows them to use this type of grip. But while LST is still using the original "WOPFNER-GRIP", BMF has envolved the original plans.

This post has been edited by seilbahnbilder.ch: 21 July 2009 - 06:49 PM

[Andoman]

skierdude9450, on 21 July 2009 - 05:29 PM, said:

Cool to see some pictures of the new Marmottes Express at Val d'Isere. The grip seems very similar to the LST grip shown below. LST is another fairly new lift construction company out of Germany. However their grip is a double position grip, whereas I'd assume that the BMF grip is a single position grip, since it's located in France.

Cool, I'd like to see more pics of the terminal if you have them.

[vons]

The grip is an over center design but unlike other two position grips, the springs are unloaded in the open position. Picture shows grip in the open position.

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[skierdude9450]

That seems odd. I thought that double-position grips weren't allowed in France.

[seilbahnbilder.ch]

Now they are. This is because of the new EU law, which was enacted about two years ago.