This very unique lift was the first quad chair in New England.Borvig drive terminal straight out of the ’70s.Monster counterweight.There are three towers just to get to the loading point.Split tower.View up the line with closely spaced towers.Top terminal.Circa 2001, center pole quad chairs were swapped for triple chairs.Looking down the line.Upper station overview.Upper part of the lift line.Lower lift line.
I’m glad to see the lift not go to waste but I can’t see how the management could justify the costs of refurbishing this vs. how much it is needed. The terrain on that part of the mountain is rarely open and there aren’t enough skiers there to ever justify running it.
Haven’t seen them. I think this is actually Borvig’s first quad, therefore the custom portals, but I could be wrong. All of the others that I know of have overhead drives.
I’m not sure what would cause a lift to be so incompatible with Partek chairs, especially narrower and lighter ones, that they’d have to custom-fabricate the old Borvig design; plenty of Borvig lifts have received Partek chairs with no problem (likewise with old Leitner lifts back in Europe built to the design that Borvig licensed receiving newer chairs of the design that Partek licensed).
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This lift is scheduled to be refurbished and brought back to service in the future.
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I’m glad to see the lift not go to waste but I can’t see how the management could justify the costs of refurbishing this vs. how much it is needed. The terrain on that part of the mountain is rarely open and there aren’t enough skiers there to ever justify running it.
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Anyone have pictures of the center pole chairs on this lift?
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https://www.newenglandskihistory.com/lifts/viewlift.php?id=436
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Are there other Borvigs with one side portal towers like that anywhere?
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Haven’t seen them. I think this is actually Borvig’s first quad, therefore the custom portals, but I could be wrong. All of the others that I know of have overhead drives.
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2 things: 1, when will this lift operate again? and 2, where the heck did they get the chairs from?!
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Maybe the chairs came from Partek? I don’t know for sure, that was an educated guess.
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I’m not sure what would cause a lift to be so incompatible with Partek chairs, especially narrower and lighter ones, that they’d have to custom-fabricate the old Borvig design; plenty of Borvig lifts have received Partek chairs with no problem (likewise with old Leitner lifts back in Europe built to the design that Borvig licensed receiving newer chairs of the design that Partek licensed).
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it likely will never operate again. No demand for it. Probably worth more for scrap.
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This is my home mountain and this season they are redoing the 747 lift and it will be running late this season
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