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I suppose you could look at it this way. If they had the machinery to SLOWLY set the haul rope with the chairs on it to the ground, then do the Bullwheel replacement, and then get the haul rope back up onto the sheaves and Bullwheel, you're saving the amount of time it takes to pull all the chairs off and then put them back on the haul ropeIs there a reason why they were dumb enough to leave chairs on in the section that they dropped?
I suppose you could look at it this way. If they had the machinery to SLOWLY set the haul rope with the chairs on it to the ground, then do the Bullwheel replacement, and then get the haul rope back up onto the sheaves and Bullwheel, you're saving the amount of time it takes to pull all the chairs off and then put them back on the haul rope
If this was a planned thing, I'm sure the mtn ops folks at Bolton were in cohoots with the folks at Dopp before they did this and mutually decided that this was ok to do
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