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[Skiing#1]

Look at the video...



I never see a long distance loading and unloading in that video before. The lift is in Italy I guess so. Most lifts have short distance loading and unloading.

Interesting?

[Lift Dinosaur]

It looks to me like they have just used man made material to replace snow no the loading and unloading ramps. Stabilize the skier, keep them from sliding past the load position , and make them unload at the correct time-at the break over point.
And no more ramp maintenance for the operator!
Dino

[Peter Pitcher]

This lift seems to be rather slow, perhaps around 350 fpm or even slower

[SkiLiftsRock]

Good for beginners

[nathanvg]

Peter Pitcher, on 06 December 2012 - 05:55 AM, said:

This lift seems to be rather slow, perhaps around 350 fpm or even slower

In Europe most fixed grip lifts run slowly so that they don't need lift ops to "bump" the chairs durring loading.

[backyard lift]

Dampens the chair swing nicely. But you don't see many snowboarders loading...they would tend to drag the chair sideways on this stuff.