Conrad
Member
I'm not quite sure what you mean by this. Partek built more than two lifts. Maybe it didn't come out right...did you mean just the East or something?
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What's your favorite current ski lift manufacturer?
- Thread starter Conrad
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I'm not quite sure what you mean by this. Partek built more than two lifts. Maybe it didn't come out right...did you mean just the East or something?
I should correct it to the last two. After I posted it I did some research and saw that they actually built something like 24, including one at Homewood.
And SkiLifts.org is back up and running.
Conrad
Member
Woo! That was a bit of a scare.
Yeah, you're telling me!
ss20
Well-known member
ss20
Well-known member
I just rode one Partek lift 3 hours ago and will see one again in 10 hours. I believe Leitner-Poma is next on the Doppelmayr list of companies to absorb. L-P just isn't producing, marketing, or developing like Dopp. Doppelmayr has the 3S technology and monorail-type trams. Poma has nothing like this. Doppelmayrs can be found in city transport systems and airports. I don't know of many L-P installs in a place besides the mountains. Conrad knows more about urban transport systems than I do...maybe he can chime-in.
Conrad
Member
I don't know about that, but here is a great video from Doppelmayr's urban transport branch of the company:
steamboat1
New member
I'm pretty sure the two triple chairs at Balsams Wildness are Partek.
4aprice
Well-known member
I'm partial to the Riblets and Hall Chairlifts. The Riblet center pole that you see out west with no safety bars. The towers had a ring around them to prevent the chair from bumping the towers. Camelback had an old Riblet triple with no bar. The chairs from that lift are still used for the Meadows Lift. The towers are still used on the Cleopatra Lift and some are set at an angle, on top there is an array of 5 towers and I saw one similar to that at Canyons in Utah on a Riblet double that I believe is gone now. There a few center pole doubles around the east, West Mountain has one.
Also fond of the old Hall doubles with the solid wooden slats and curved seats. Madonna and Sterling were that way, several at Gore and the old Sullivan Double at Camelback was one. Some good old pictures on Chairlift.org.
Alex
Lake Hopatcong, NJ
Also fond of the old Hall doubles with the solid wooden slats and curved seats. Madonna and Sterling were that way, several at Gore and the old Sullivan Double at Camelback was one. Some good old pictures on Chairlift.org.
Alex
Lake Hopatcong, NJ
Mpdsnowman
New member
Im going to take a photo of the lift plaques on each one...they are pretty nostalgic
ss20
Well-known member
Nice idea. Won't be too hard on Dopps, Pomas, and Yans. The other companies plaques can be a challenge to find.
Cool! Did they say what happened
Conrad
Member
Doppelmayr releases first (partially) solar powered chairlift:
http://unofficialnetworks.com/doppelmayr-builds-solarpowered-chairlift-116532/
http://unofficialnetworks.com/doppelmayr-builds-solarpowered-chairlift-116532/
Conrad
Member
Wow, thanks for sharing!
