I believe Sheehan is the only lift that uses those chairs with an alpha drive. After riding Sheehan last spring I can say that I really like this chair style. They are very comfortable, the bar is nicely weighted, and vibrations are kept to a minimum. Here’s the video I recorded of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmFFCLDgEHo
I don’t Aspen has ever had a Yan out of its four mountains. The tower head looks like a normal Poma, Yan towers have the sheave assemblies installed in a different place on the tower along with where the tower connects to the tube. Interesting that this lift didn’t recieve a Delta terminal, was the Delta used only for larger installations?
Yes. So is L-lift at Copper and the similar-vintage Pomas at Purgatory. The one you show wasn’t available in the States (although it did make it into the maintenance manuals; I have a few drawings that didn’t make sense to me until I joined remontees-mecaniques and saw the lifts in France).
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Once the Shadow Mountain Double is Replaced, this will (I believe) be the last Lift in the aspen merger left without bars, correct me if I’m wrong
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What is this chair model? I’ve never seen it before.
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Was an early poma carrier design, also was seen on https://liftblog.com/double-suicide-six-vt/, can’t think any other chairs that had them.
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THAT DOES NOT LOOK LIKE A POMA.
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The only part that doesn’t look poma is the carriers. The drive and return were used on later poma lifts, like https://liftblog.com/villager-stratton-vt/
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These were the chairs that predated the POMA Arceaux/Falcon carriers. They’re a POMA design from the 1970s.
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They are much more common in France. I know that Suicide Six in VT has them on their double chairlift, as does Middlebury (also in VT) on their Sheehan double.
Suicide Six (1978): https://liftblog.com/double-suicide-six-vt/
Sheehan @ Middlebury (1984): https://liftblog.com/sheehan-middlebury-college-snowbowl-vt/
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I believe Sheehan is the only lift that uses those chairs with an alpha drive. After riding Sheehan last spring I can say that I really like this chair style. They are very comfortable, the bar is nicely weighted, and vibrations are kept to a minimum. Here’s the video I recorded of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmFFCLDgEHo
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I find it interesting this lift does not have the poma lifting frames
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They were probably an option from Poma that they chose not to opt for. At the time lifting frames were still seen as a “luxury”.
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I don’t Aspen has ever had a Yan out of its four mountains. The tower head looks like a normal Poma, Yan towers have the sheave assemblies installed in a different place on the tower along with where the tower connects to the tube. Interesting that this lift didn’t recieve a Delta terminal, was the Delta used only for larger installations?
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Did Delta ever make it to North America?
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Yah a few can be seen a copper mountain and their is one on the east coast but I forgot what the name of the resort is called
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It’s the Mountain Top Triple at Berkshire East, MA. Originally installed at Ski Rio, NM as the Bravo lift in 1982 and relocated in 2009. https://liftblog.com/mountain-top-berkshire-east-ma/
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Needles at Purgatory is a prime example of a Delta model as well
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Wait a minute…isn’t this a Delta?
https://liftblog.com/d-hunter-mountain-ny/
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Yes. So is L-lift at Copper and the similar-vintage Pomas at Purgatory. The one you show wasn’t available in the States (although it did make it into the maintenance manuals; I have a few drawings that didn’t make sense to me until I joined remontees-mecaniques and saw the lifts in France).
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I stand corrected- looks like at least one did make it over here :)
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Every time I see the French lift site thingie I think of macaques.
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