This is the newest of three Borvig center pole quads at Swain.Riding up the line.View back down the line.Breakover towers near the summit.Unloading area.Top bullwheel.Tower 8.Middle part of the lift line.This lift replaced a T-Bar.Drive terminal.The entire lift line.
I’ve only ever seen bail carrier triples from Riblet. It’s pretty hard to have a center pole triple without the hanger behind the seat. While their later center pole quads had the hanger behind the seat, their earlier center pole quads and all their center pole doubles all had the hanger in the middle between the seats. Hall, Murray-Latta, and others were similar on their doubles. Thiokol, Dopp, and Heron had center pole doubles with the hanger behind the seat. I think Riblet was moving away from center pole chairs around the time they made the quads with the hanger behind the seat. Their bail carrier triples had been around for a while by then.
This season, a chair takes 14 minutes 11 seconds to do a full rotation, with no stops or slows. Therefore, based on my calculation, the operating speed is 320 feet per minute and the capacity is 1658 persons per hour
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Did anyone make a centre pole triple?
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Doppelmayr did make center pole triples, but most of them are in Europe. There were a few installed in Canada.
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Doppelmayr only installed a few CP triples in Canada, all of them being in British Columbia or Alberta.
Alberta:
Canadian Triple, Fortress Mountain (abandoned) – http://skiingbc.info/pages/lift-28121.php
British Columbia:
Village/Summit, Big White (relocated to Mt. Saint Bruno, QC) – https://www.remontees-mecaniques.net/bdd/reportage-tsf3-d-doppelmayr-4289.html
Easter, Big White (relocated to Mt. Saint Bruno, QC) – https://www.remontees-mecaniques.net/bdd/reportage-tsf3-a-doppelmayr-4288.html
Huser, Harper Mountain – https://liftblog.com/huser-harper-mountain-bc/comment-page-1/
Easter, Kimberly (retrofitted with Doppelmayr EJ chairs) – https://www.facebook.com/KimberleyAlpineResort/photos/a.10150095194788982/10150095195068982/?type=3&theater
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Swoboda built a few triples that were sort center pole, although with a Y-shaped pole:
https://www.seilbahntechnik.net/en/lifts/1912/datas.htm
https://www.seilbahntechnik.net/en/lifts/1932/datas.htm
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Did Riblet ever make a center-pole triple?
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I’ve only ever seen bail carrier triples from Riblet. It’s pretty hard to have a center pole triple without the hanger behind the seat. While their later center pole quads had the hanger behind the seat, their earlier center pole quads and all their center pole doubles all had the hanger in the middle between the seats. Hall, Murray-Latta, and others were similar on their doubles. Thiokol, Dopp, and Heron had center pole doubles with the hanger behind the seat. I think Riblet was moving away from center pole chairs around the time they made the quads with the hanger behind the seat. Their bail carrier triples had been around for a while by then.
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I hate how this chairlift rolls back when it stops. I wish it has footrests. Love the terrain park here. TOO SLOW!
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This season, a chair takes 14 minutes 11 seconds to do a full rotation, with no stops or slows. Therefore, based on my calculation, the operating speed is 320 feet per minute and the capacity is 1658 persons per hour
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