A rare Carlevaro & Savio Italian lift with even rarer tubular towers, Bonanza opened in 1965.Like many of Pico’s older lifts, the drive terminal is located inside a themed building.Portal tower 1.Drive station controls.Tower 2.The top terminal with counterweight tensioning.View down the line.Upper terminal seen from the side.
I’ve always wondered whether or not these towers were C&S, I’ve never seen them on a C&S lift before. They seem similar to Graffer’s towers, another Italian brand.
those towers kinda remind me of borvigs tower design, I thought they where made like that to be unique, i did not know that they helped mitigate deropement incidents. How come other lift manufacturers have not done this if it mitigates deropements?
I find it interesting that this lift and Outpost have different styles of hanger arms. This lift’s hanger arms are slightly diagonal whereas Outpost’s are vertical, or perpendicular to the top of the chair bail frame. After doing some research, it seems like the vertical style is/was more common. There was also a third style of hanger arm that was much longer, though I could only find one lift that had them, the old Castlerock Double at Sugarbush. Here’s a photo from chairlift.org of that lift showing its long hanger arms: http://www.chairlift.org/pics/sb/cr4.jpg
Those are most likely Stadeli sheaves you see. Tenney Mountain has some Stadeli sheaves as their main summit lift as well. You can tell the difference in branding, as Doppelmayr has their logos labeled on the sheaves they manufacture, and Stadeli does not.
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I’ve always wondered whether or not these towers were C&S, I’ve never seen them on a C&S lift before. They seem similar to Graffer’s towers, another Italian brand.
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those towers kinda remind me of borvigs tower design, I thought they where made like that to be unique, i did not know that they helped mitigate deropement incidents. How come other lift manufacturers have not done this if it mitigates deropements?
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I find it interesting that this lift and Outpost have different styles of hanger arms. This lift’s hanger arms are slightly diagonal whereas Outpost’s are vertical, or perpendicular to the top of the chair bail frame. After doing some research, it seems like the vertical style is/was more common. There was also a third style of hanger arm that was much longer, though I could only find one lift that had them, the old Castlerock Double at Sugarbush. Here’s a photo from chairlift.org of that lift showing its long hanger arms: http://www.chairlift.org/pics/sb/cr4.jpg
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the counterweight looks like a crusted marshmallow
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Interesting to note this lift is the only non surface lift with no auxiliary diesel at killington and pico.
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Some of those sheaves look like Doppie
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Those are most likely Stadeli sheaves you see. Tenney Mountain has some Stadeli sheaves as their main summit lift as well. You can tell the difference in branding, as Doppelmayr has their logos labeled on the sheaves they manufacture, and Stadeli does not.
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We’re losing this classic to a Magic Carpet next season.
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With the loss of this lift, we’re down to even fewer lifts that sport any Carlevaro Savio parts:
>Outpost at Pico, which remains entirely original apart from an operator house
>2 at Greek Peak, which remains mostly original albeit replacement Borvig chairs, although the terminals have been swapped and modified
>Snowdance at Nashoba Valley, which is relocated but original apart from replacement CTEC chairs
>Ego Alley at Mt Snow, which uses C&S towers from the previous G2 with new crossarms and sheaves
>Beatrap at Mt Snow, which has a C&S single mast tower with sheaves, and an old concrete mast from the original chairs top terminal
>Top Flight at Butternut, which reused the former C&S towers with new cross arms and sheaves added
any more Im missing?
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