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[Bill]

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The Miner’s Basin chairlift is being taken out this summer and the 2-person chairs are for sale for $250 per chair.
We’re also selling the cable for $20 a foot and aluminum shivs $100 each.

Please email Lorna at mainoffice@skicrystal.com to purchase one today. Call 360-663-3003 with questions.

The 161 chairs will be available on a first-come, first-serve basis only. Payment is required to confirm order. No chair number preferences will be taken.
Chair details: 3 1/2 feet wide, 2 feet deep, 9 feet tall and 80 lbs.

[texasskier]

It was probably time to remove it, I've hardly ever seen it run. I wonder why they aren't selling it as a whole?

[Peter Pitcher]

texasskier, on 06 March 2011 - 05:42 AM, said:

It was probably time to remove it, I've hardly ever seen it run. I wonder why they aren't selling it as a whole?

Well I can tell you why they are not selling as a "whole". It is not worth a nickel as a whole. If they can sell it as advertised, $200 a chair probably at least 150 chairs equals $30,000 and $100 sheave or shiv (there are probably 200 sheaves on an old Riblet) thats another $20,000 and if they can sell the rope for $20 per foot(there is at least 8000 feet of rope) thats another $160,000. They could still scrap out the towers and cross arms and get more than twice as much as the lift cost in the first place. The real question is "are they that good at marketing legacy trivia that they can actually get $20 a foot for old ski lift rope?" If they can do that they have to be considered a genius and inducted into the "Ski Lift Hall of Fame

[liftmech]

I'll be curious to see how many people pony up $20 a foot for a well-lubed chunk of haul rope. Chairs, yes. Even sheaves, as long as those old tapered bearings have been flushed of all the grease in the hub. But haul rope? We'll see.

Peter-- for your numbers there are 161 chairs on that lift, and it's around 4500 feet long if I recall correctly.

I wonder what they're doing with the rest of the lift-- beer fund? Anyone need a 1962 Western TV-60 gearbox? An old dead Sabina drive?

[Lift Dinosaur]

It'll probably only cost them $19.95 per foot to cut 8000' of rope into 1 foot chunks...
...or maybe they'll just spool it up and torch you off a chunk when you show up. Yea, that's it!
Dino

This post has been edited by Lift Dinosaur: 08 March 2011 - 07:10 AM

[Outback]

Lift Dinosaur, on 08 March 2011 - 07:08 AM, said:

It'll probably only cost them $19.95 per foot to cut 8000' of rope into 1 foot chunks...
...or maybe they'll just spool it up and torch you off a chunk when you show up. Yea, that's it!
Dino

Sounds like a profit to me Mike!

I will build lifts for food.....anybody cooking?......concrete only?......profiles?......demo?......ropes?

Wake me when it's over.