Simple. T-Bars carry two skiers, while J-bars only carry one. Due to manufacturers and resorts catching on to the idea that T-Bars had double the capacity of J-bars for only the cost of a bit more wood or plastic at the bottom of the carrier, J-Bars are pretty rare. Just about all left standing were either made by Hall or Borvig, or were homemade, as the one-skier model didn’t pair well with the springbox carriers used by Mueller and Doppelmayr.
Here are two examples that show the difference. Both were manufactured by Hall. https://liftblog.com/lords-prayer-bromley-vt/ https://liftblog.com/j-bar-cockaigne-ny/
Page 163 of the 2017 Dopplemayr – Garaventa World Book shows a photo of the Beehive J-Bar at the Osler Bluff Ski Club, which was replaced in the summer of 2016. Admittedly, one would need to be local to a surface lift to know it had been replaced, to know the manufacturer who did it , and then to know whose year book to look for it in.
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what’s the difference between a J-Bar and T-Bar?
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Simple. T-Bars carry two skiers, while J-bars only carry one. Due to manufacturers and resorts catching on to the idea that T-Bars had double the capacity of J-bars for only the cost of a bit more wood or plastic at the bottom of the carrier, J-Bars are pretty rare. Just about all left standing were either made by Hall or Borvig, or were homemade, as the one-skier model didn’t pair well with the springbox carriers used by Mueller and Doppelmayr.
Here are two examples that show the difference. Both were manufactured by Hall.
https://liftblog.com/lords-prayer-bromley-vt/
https://liftblog.com/j-bar-cockaigne-ny/
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There don’t seem to be any modern j-bars out there. The “platter” has sort of replaced them.
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Page 163 of the 2017 Dopplemayr – Garaventa World Book shows a photo of the Beehive J-Bar at the Osler Bluff Ski Club, which was replaced in the summer of 2016. Admittedly, one would need to be local to a surface lift to know it had been replaced, to know the manufacturer who did it , and then to know whose year book to look for it in.
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