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Spruce Triple - Sunday River, ME

Jully

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Reuse the chairs themselves? They were in fine shape. Maybe some of the sheaves or bullwheels? Even the drive itself even if the terminal was taken down. Wasnt that drive recently retrofitted or even new?
 

machski

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Reuse the chairs themselves? They were in fine shape. Maybe some of the sheaves or bullwheels? Even the drive itself even if the terminal was taken down. Wasnt that drive recently retrofitted or even new?
I think the drive had been overhauled in the not too distant past. The chairs will not be reused, they dropped those and let them tumble when they dropped the rope. In fact, at least one chair was still on the hill this winter, just above where the line crosses upper risky. My bet is entirely new (aside from the loading carpet). I assume the physical counterweight pit will be filled in and the frame box taken down as that is still standing.

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