Lower terminal with drive and tensioning.Lift overview.Top return bullwheel.Unloading area and operator house.Fixed bullwheel.Looking down the lift line.Tower 1.Load station overview.Another view of the unload.
This lift seems like its been having lots of issues lately. Yesterday I was at Copper and the the rope tripped the sheaves on tower one, and the liftie was telling me that that t’s are breaking almost every day. Is it normal for things like this to happen on T-Bars? Does it happen on platters too? Is it just an issue with Doppelmayr’s surface lifts?
To your first point, that was a misload where a fallen rider wouldn’t let go of the T until it was stretched tight. When he finally let go it slingshotted the T to where it got hung up in the assembly on T-1. To the second, the liftie was misinformed. There are broken Ts occasionally from the wind getting them hung up in the top terminal, but not as often as he thinks. These aren’t issues with the lift (or any Doppelmayr surface lifts) but rather isolated operational problems.
Lake Louise’s old Summit lift would have the typical problem of when a rider would let go, the platter would wrap around itself instead of retracting normaly due to wind and how it was let go, as a result making it unusable for the rest of the day until it could be untangled after the lift closed. I miss this thing :(
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This lift seems like its been having lots of issues lately. Yesterday I was at Copper and the the rope tripped the sheaves on tower one, and the liftie was telling me that that t’s are breaking almost every day. Is it normal for things like this to happen on T-Bars? Does it happen on platters too? Is it just an issue with Doppelmayr’s surface lifts?
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To your first point, that was a misload where a fallen rider wouldn’t let go of the T until it was stretched tight. When he finally let go it slingshotted the T to where it got hung up in the assembly on T-1. To the second, the liftie was misinformed. There are broken Ts occasionally from the wind getting them hung up in the top terminal, but not as often as he thinks. These aren’t issues with the lift (or any Doppelmayr surface lifts) but rather isolated operational problems.
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Lake Louise’s old Summit lift would have the typical problem of when a rider would let go, the platter would wrap around itself instead of retracting normaly due to wind and how it was let go, as a result making it unusable for the rest of the day until it could be untangled after the lift closed. I miss this thing :(
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