This Leitner-Poma T-Bar replaced a much older Poma platter is the same alignment.Bottom terminal by Leitner.Lower station below the Inverness quad.There are two official unloading area and this one’s one tower below the top.Top return bullwheel.View down from the summit station.This lift has two stop gates near the top.Skytrac operator controls.Summit unloading area.A T with Mt. Washington in the background.Towers on this lift were manufactured by Skytrac in Utah.A hold down tower.View down the steepest part of the line.There’s an option unload about half way up.An angled tower.Mid unload.View up the line.Tower 6.Tower 5.View up the track.Tower 3.The first tower is a half tower.Drive station.
UPS- Little Horse and KBRA are the same. Towers and terminal structures from Salt Lake, moving parts and springboxes from Italy. Not sure of bullwheels. Seems to be in line with the current chairlift setup where grips and some carriers come from Europe (as well as any Direct Drive machinery) but the rest is designed and built in Grand Junction. I don’t believe you can order anything from Leitner or Poma separately, as in completely from Europe. GJ and Salt Lake do a great deal of domestic fabrication for LP and SkyTrac.
Borvig had an early partnership with Leitner aside from the one that went all-out in the 80s. Pretty sure all Borvig T-Bars and platters utilized Leitner springboxes. J-bars, being impossible to make with springboxes, were made 100% by Borvig.
Here’s a Borvig T-Bar: https://newenglandskihistory.com/lifts/viewlift.php?id=441
Why do mountains keep replacing platter lifts? First Burke and now this. Platters are faster and more comfortable. They may not have the capacity but does it really matter being next to an HSQ?
1: The old GMVS Poma was an aging contraption with key parts dating back to a T-Bar installed on Lincoln in the late 50s. I’d be surprised if it ran any faster than this lift, and present/future reliability was likely a key issue
2: The old Poma started at the halfway point and continued to the summit, unlike the current T-Bar which parallels the Inverness lift for nearly the whole slope. This eliminates the need for two lifts to reach the summit, and its midstation makes the GMVS T-Bar redundant.
A clarification- there aren’t two stop gates, there’s one. The other (on the return side) is to stop the lift in the event a T doesn’t retract, so that we can fix or remove it before the T gets tangled in tower machinery or a ladder. We call it the ‘high bar’.
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How many Leitner T-Bars are in the US currently?
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Also this one, but it has some Skytrac parts: https://liftblog.com/little-horse-cooper-co/
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It looks to have more than “some” Skytrac parts. The sheaves and carriers look to be only Leitner components.
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UPS- Little Horse and KBRA are the same. Towers and terminal structures from Salt Lake, moving parts and springboxes from Italy. Not sure of bullwheels. Seems to be in line with the current chairlift setup where grips and some carriers come from Europe (as well as any Direct Drive machinery) but the rest is designed and built in Grand Junction. I don’t believe you can order anything from Leitner or Poma separately, as in completely from Europe. GJ and Salt Lake do a great deal of domestic fabrication for LP and SkyTrac.
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Platter lift with Leitner parts:
https://liftblog.com/easy-rider-ski-bluewood-or/
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Borvig had an early partnership with Leitner aside from the one that went all-out in the 80s. Pretty sure all Borvig T-Bars and platters utilized Leitner springboxes. J-bars, being impossible to make with springboxes, were made 100% by Borvig.
Here’s a Borvig T-Bar: https://newenglandskihistory.com/lifts/viewlift.php?id=441
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Why do mountains keep replacing platter lifts? First Burke and now this. Platters are faster and more comfortable. They may not have the capacity but does it really matter being next to an HSQ?
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1: The old GMVS Poma was an aging contraption with key parts dating back to a T-Bar installed on Lincoln in the late 50s. I’d be surprised if it ran any faster than this lift, and present/future reliability was likely a key issue
2: The old Poma started at the halfway point and continued to the summit, unlike the current T-Bar which parallels the Inverness lift for nearly the whole slope. This eliminates the need for two lifts to reach the summit, and its midstation makes the GMVS T-Bar redundant.
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A clarification- there aren’t two stop gates, there’s one. The other (on the return side) is to stop the lift in the event a T doesn’t retract, so that we can fix or remove it before the T gets tangled in tower machinery or a ladder. We call it the ‘high bar’.
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Correction the towers are the only thing Skytrac manufactured, everything else is Leitner and was imported from Europe.
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