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Thread: Holy Shit!
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03-16-2018, 09:34 AM #26Registered User
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Never go full bullwheel!
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03-16-2018, 09:55 AM #27
Me thinks safety checks in Georgia are not very thorough, possibly nonexistent.
I agree it is a constitutional right for Americans to be assholes...its just too bad that so many take the opportunity...iscariot
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03-16-2018, 09:57 AM #28glocal
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Those chairs coming down are downloaded with people. No comprender!
Were there so many gapers they didn't know to get off at the top?
Z-bo was skiing in Georgia last week. Hope he wasn't there.
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03-16-2018, 10:02 AM #29
^^^i think they’re going backwards.
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03-16-2018, 10:06 AM #30
Amusement park ride from hell. Vibes to the injured.
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03-16-2018, 10:08 AM #31
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03-16-2018, 10:18 AM #32
just got that sent to me by a friend and came to post it
where's zdashbo at? wasn't he in georgia?
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03-16-2018, 10:31 AM #33
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03-16-2018, 10:31 AM #34glocal
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03-16-2018, 10:41 AM #35
I can't get over how far the person in the fluo jacket was tossed. Imagine if that had been a child?
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03-16-2018, 10:44 AM #36Registered User
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03-16-2018, 12:01 PM #37Registered User
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person in red jacket = dumb af
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03-16-2018, 12:07 PM #38Registered User
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Wow, that was hard to watch.
How much has to go wrong before that happens?
One would assume that being able to deal with a power loss is part of the spec sheet?
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03-16-2018, 12:11 PM #39
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03-16-2018, 12:28 PM #40
At minimum, the regular stop brake would have to fail, as with the E-stop brake failing too.
A broken dive shaft or gearbox seems plausible.
A question for lift techs; doesn't a HS lift have the E brake on the bullwheel like a FG chair?
All things considering it wasn't as ugly as it could have been. It looks like the chair stopped eventually with people still on it, but not gradually like the light and heavy sides balanced.
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03-16-2018, 01:06 PM #41
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03-16-2018, 01:11 PM #42
All lifts should have 2 separate brake systems, one (at least) on the bullwheel and one on the flywheel on the other side of the gear box. One reason for this is in case of contamination of one brake surface, the other is less likely to have the same contamination. Each brake should stop and hold the lift on its own in normal conditions. Older lifts have drop dogs that will drop into the bullwheel spokes if it moves backwards, but some only have switches that drop the rollback brake when activated by a rollback.
As far as a power outage goes, the brakes are held open with hydraulics and should drop when power is lost (springs provide the braking force). The lift control system should also be run on batteries that will keep the lift safeties active when utility power is lost. Idk what happened here yet, but I know that the lift is a doppelmayr that should have these safety features.
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03-16-2018, 01:14 PM #43
Don't worry about Zeebo. He's already home
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03-16-2018, 01:14 PM #44
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03-16-2018, 01:15 PM #45
sweet! did he ride there?
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03-16-2018, 01:17 PM #46
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03-16-2018, 01:24 PM #47www.dpsskis.com
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formerly an ambassador for a few others, but the ski industry is... interesting.
Fukt: a very small amount of snow.
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03-16-2018, 01:48 PM #48
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03-16-2018, 01:53 PM #49?
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That happened to KT-22 - Squaw in the early 70's it was very bad
Own your fail. ~Jer~
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03-16-2018, 01:57 PM #50Head down, push foreword
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They say a worker accidentally put it into reverse.
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