SAM Coverage
Lifts & Ropeways
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Problem Picker
Heavy work chairs, slippery tower ladders, 40-ft extension ladders are now gathering dust (or snow) at Okemo in Vermont. Last October we committed ourselves…
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Wire Rope Inspection
In the Fall issue of SAM, we presented some thoughts on the inspection of wire rope by Howard Anderson, Engineering Coordinator of the Western…
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Lifts 1976
New lift construction in 1976 was down—down to 78, the lowest since 1957 when 77 were installed. To match the number of new areas…
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Counterweights Need Watching Too
Are you taking your ski lift counterweight for granted? That innocuous looking block of concrete dangling precariously from a tension sheave mounting frame is…
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Rope Tows
It is some time since SAM has run an article on rope tows—those work-horse devices that got our industry started. Those classic arm-killers of…
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Rigging
Cat skinning and lift rigging have nothing in common, except that there’s more than one way to do both jobs. Any reasonably good rigger…
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Grips
Coming to grips with GRIPS — The start of a continuing study of grip technology, including Part One of an inventory of grips still…
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Lifts 1975
It will not come as any surprise that lift construction was down again in 1975. In the past, a great snow year such as…
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Poured Socket Connections
Failure of a poured socket counterweight connection is obviously a concern of ski area lift maintenance personnel — as well as of lift inspectors…
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NSAA Insurance Computer
Early in the 1974-75 ski season, a detachable grip gondola cabin rolled bakward out of the upper terminal at the time of detachment from…