This Buhler T-Bar was moved to Cottonwood Butte from another ski area to replace a wooden one.Top tension-return station.Return bullwheel.Top station above the unload.Unload area and operator house.Line gear.View down the lift line.Middle section of the line.Old wooden tower still standing for lighting purposes.Tower steel might be of Doppelmayr origin.Another old wooden tower.Lower part of the lift line.Doppelmayr spring box T.Looking up the lift line.Tower 1.Lower drive station overview.
Acccording to RM.net’s page on it, Buhler built a total of six this side of the Atlantic, five in 1965 and the last the next year. Does anyone know what happened to the other three? Further, does anyone know whether this is the 1966 machine or not?
the original t bar at bogus basin was installed in the 1950’s i believe. It had wooden towers much like the wood towers at cottonwood. Cottonwood has both wood and metal towers. I wonder if the wood towers were from bogus basin?
Buhler was a Swiss manufacturer so it’s possible that this T-Bar originally came from a European ski area. Their earlier lifts also used designs licensed from Doppelmayr so the towers and T’s may indeed be of Doppelmayr origin as Peter pointed out.
Also, the caption on the second photo says that the top terminal has the tensioning, but judging by the first photo I think it’s actually at the bottom.
Sorry, I take that back: This lift was not relocated from a ski area in Europe, but from another area in Idaho, according to the Cottonwood Butte spreadsheet page.
Sorry I should have been more specific, the Buhler came from Hitt Mountain, I don’t know where the original wooden towered one came from it’s possible it came from Bogus.
What I’m really curious about is what happened to the 1970 Riblet (double I presume) that was installed nearby at “North South Ski-Bowl” a ski area that shut down in the 90s. Here’s a newspaper article about it getting installed. WSU trained their ski team there.
Visted friends in Pullman in the early 70’s and after beers at the Rathskeller or maybe the Rock wound up at North-South night skiing on funky rented gear. Wasn’t Crystal Mt where I lived, but Good times were had.
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Is this the only Buhler lift operating in North America?
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Operating, yes. Copple Crown still has a Buhler T-bar, but its not operating.
https://www.remontees-mecaniques.net/bdd/reportage-tke2-t-bar-buhler-6015.html
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Acccording to RM.net’s page on it, Buhler built a total of six this side of the Atlantic, five in 1965 and the last the next year. Does anyone know what happened to the other three? Further, does anyone know whether this is the 1966 machine or not?
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the original t bar at bogus basin was installed in the 1950’s i believe. It had wooden towers much like the wood towers at cottonwood. Cottonwood has both wood and metal towers. I wonder if the wood towers were from bogus basin?
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I’ve never heard of Buhler before! Does anyone have any information about that manufacturer?
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There’s some information about them here: https://www.remontees-mecaniques.net/bdd/liste-6-34-buhler.html#page-1
Buhler was a Swiss manufacturer so it’s possible that this T-Bar originally came from a European ski area. Their earlier lifts also used designs licensed from Doppelmayr so the towers and T’s may indeed be of Doppelmayr origin as Peter pointed out.
Also, the caption on the second photo says that the top terminal has the tensioning, but judging by the first photo I think it’s actually at the bottom.
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Sorry, I take that back: This lift was not relocated from a ski area in Europe, but from another area in Idaho, according to the Cottonwood Butte spreadsheet page.
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It was from Hitt Mountain outside Cambridge ID.
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The old wooden towers resemble Bogus Basin’s old T-bar. It was removed a year after the Deer Point chair was installed, about 1959ish.
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Sorry I should have been more specific, the Buhler came from Hitt Mountain, I don’t know where the original wooden towered one came from it’s possible it came from Bogus.
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Wasn’t the original wooden T-Bar from Bogus Basin? I think it was homemade?
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According to Wikipedia this lift was relocated from the original Tamarack Ski Area in ID, just NW of the town of Troy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamarack_Ski_Area_(Troy,_Idaho)
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What I’m really curious about is what happened to the 1970 Riblet (double I presume) that was installed nearby at “North South Ski-Bowl” a ski area that shut down in the 90s. Here’s a newspaper article about it getting installed. WSU trained their ski team there.
https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=95JYAAAAIBAJ&sjid=TfgDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4657,3747952
And according to this other newspaper article, it was only 1360ft long with a modest 400ft vertical rise.
https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=-7plAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Io4NAAAAIBAJ&pg=5055,847048&dq=bowl&hl=en
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The double is still sitting there. I think the lodge is now used as a conference center.
https://i.imgur.com/fiJXfWI.jpg
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Visted friends in Pullman in the early 70’s and after beers at the Rathskeller or maybe the Rock wound up at North-South night skiing on funky rented gear. Wasn’t Crystal Mt where I lived, but Good times were had.
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This is definitely an interesting T-Bar. Never heard of Buhler but this is quite a gem.
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