Bottom return station.View up the line from the base.Tower 1 at the base.Tower 2.View back towards the village.Unload area with exposed bullwheel.Poma control desk.View down from the summit.Inside the drive terminal.Drive motors inside a vault below the top station.Leaving the village.Riding up the very long line.A gradual breakover.Top station with vault drive below.Unloading ramp in winter.View down the line from Storm King.Looking down the line.Upper lift line.Lower lift line.First few towers.Top station adjacent to Timberline Express.
That was a stop gate bypass. The stop fate was a photo-eye setup, and if it was super windy and snow blew in front of it it would cause nuisance stops. We could bypass it until things improved.
You didn’t see a chair from the Eagle on this lift. I I never had to use one. I had two spares from when we shortened the lift and an original-style bail if I used both of those, which I did not.
The reason I asked that question is because I remember hearing on skilifts.org forums that whatever startup signal (in this case bell) was hooked up to a fire alarm/ automatic fire suppression system in the vault. I heard the drives and gearbox are still in the vault.
There was never a fire-suppression system in the vault. There was a fire-alarm style start alarm. The only things currently in the vault are the drives for the current lift; we removed and scrapped the drives and gearbox and sold both electric motors and the diesel.
Was it powered by two electric motors? I cannot imagine the motor in that image is making 1352 HP, maybe it was just cranked up on the amps? Judging by the forced induction I wonder. If it was that would be a ridiculously funny thing to have just kept around.
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What is the white mushroom button on the contol panel? I can only read the word “stop” on the legend plate…
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That was a stop gate bypass. The stop fate was a photo-eye setup, and if it was super windy and snow blew in front of it it would cause nuisance stops. We could bypass it until things improved.
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Ah, interesting.
Thanks for the reply.
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There’s some nice footage here showing the lift when it had chain contours and had to cross over the G-lift:
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Also triple-E and I lifts. Nice find! As an aside, the paramedic featured right at the end still works here, almost 30 years later.
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Forgot about this comment, thank you for a month of being hooked on Rescue 911 lol
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More here http://www.skilifts.org/old/tech_tb41maintenance.htm
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Here’s a video I made of the lift in March 2013:
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When on this lift I saw a competition chair from the eagle on this, why was that? BTW: that’s a nice control panel on pic 7.
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You didn’t see a chair from the Eagle on this lift. I I never had to use one. I had two spares from when we shortened the lift and an original-style bail if I used both of those, which I did not.
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Now if I think about it it was on pioneer at WP.
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It definitely was Pioneer since Pioneer had two Competition chairs for #44 and #75.
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What is the startup signal on this lift? bell or a gray fire alarm or buzzer?
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It was a fire-alarm-style bell.
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The reason I asked that question is because I remember hearing on skilifts.org forums that whatever startup signal (in this case bell) was hooked up to a fire alarm/ automatic fire suppression system in the vault. I heard the drives and gearbox are still in the vault.
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There was never a fire-suppression system in the vault. There was a fire-alarm style start alarm. The only things currently in the vault are the drives for the current lift; we removed and scrapped the drives and gearbox and sold both electric motors and the diesel.
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Was the new lift extended further up?
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No, it was built right on top of the vault from the old lift
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Was it powered by two electric motors? I cannot imagine the motor in that image is making 1352 HP, maybe it was just cranked up on the amps? Judging by the forced induction I wonder. If it was that would be a ridiculously funny thing to have just kept around.
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Twin 676-hp motors, yes. The cooling fans were almost the same size as the motors themselves.
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