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Stumbled across this amazingly nerdy website on ski lifts. Here's a great writeup of a new chair that was built to improve the link from La Tania into the 3 Vallees are this summer:
http://www.remontees-mecaniques.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=17890
Pah...your just showing off that you can read that French. 😀
The pictures of the construction of the pylon foundations on page 2 or 3 are interesting; I'd always wondered how they get the ring of bolts cast right and how the helicopter can drop the pylon straight onto the bolts - notice the shot up the inside of the pylon showing the guide cone.
Quite a few interesting pics on that website (and also on alpinforum.com too). Was looking on both the other day to see how the Pleney lift in Morzine is coming along. It is, but I'd like to see something more recent.
This was posted up on snowHeads recently. How they get the cables up the hill...
http://www.ischgl.com/de/active/skigebiet/baublog-fakten/baublog/anlieferung-tragseil-1-von-4_blog112173
The but I'd like to see is how them tension and join the cable....
It's very manual...
Cool video! 280' foot long splice!
How do they seal up the ends, so it can't come loose - solder?
they don't
tension makes the join tighter