Holy Shit!

[mcski]

Never go full bullwheel!

[hutash]

Me thinks safety checks in Georgia are not very thorough, possibly nonexistent.

[splat]

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.

[Fritz]

^^^i think they’re going backwards.

[yeahman]

Amusement park ride from hell. Vibes to the injured.

[GeezerSteve]

Me thinks safety checks in Georgia are not very thorough, possibly nonexistent.

Deregulation in action. MAGA!

[::: :::]

just got that sent to me by a friend and came to post it

where's zdashbo at? wasn't he in georgia?

[danmelon]

Just looked up the reviews of Gudauri on google out of curiosity

Who's the sick mag who posted this?

Not sure what the characters in the first review mean, but one star only...? Let me guess... hmm did it have something to do with the lift going in the wrong direction?

[splat]

^^^i think they’re going backwards.

Yeah, they were. This vid shows it better.
I saw people going up on the right side of that first vid, so I guess they never got off.



Another angle in Russian. There's a guy lying in front of the chair pile and blood all over chairs.

[Abol98]

I can't get over how far the person in the fluo jacket was tossed. Imagine if that had been a child?

[Lizhnik]

Another angle in Russian.

Georgian, not Russian.

[core2]

person in red jacket = dumb af

[LiveLarger]

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?

[Flyoverland Captive]

person in red jacket = dumb af

Looks like they had the bar down and were trapped.

[k2skier112]

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?

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.

[wyeaster]

just got that sent to me by a friend and came to post it

where's zdashbo at? wasn't he in georgia?

jesus i forgot. z-bo was talking about it at bbi alpental

[zartagen]

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.

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.

[NW_SKIER]

Don't worry about Zeebo. He's already home

[zartagen]

jesus i forgot. z-bo was talking about it at bbi alpental

I saw on IG that he was back home.

[wyeaster]

sweet! did he ride there?

[ex-powderbroker]

Fixed grip modern quads do....

this one was an old fixed right?

[grskier]

yeah, after watching that one, I don't need to watch the one with people.

Those are like 120 pound concrete disks.

[#######]

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.

I didn't watch the whole thing but another thought is the hydraulic tension failed in the drive terminal at the top, spraying fluid all over the bullwheel causing the E-brake to be useless.

[MTT]

That happened to KT-22 - Squaw in the early 70's it was very bad

[Game Over]

They say a worker accidentally put it into reverse.