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Mountains Don’t Move Themselves

March 1989 Issue

News Tools for Snowmaking Measurements

"You can't do the job without the right tools!" my grandfather, a master carpenter, used to repeat over and over as I would go about the boyhood rituals of building a treehouse.

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Analyzing the productivity and efficiency of a snowmaking system is also difficult without the right tools. How can the operating expense of snowmaking be contained or reduced without a solid understanding of how the system is performing? How can significant capital improvements be justified without first targeting any major areas of inefficiency that might exist?

Over several years of testing and demonstrating Snomax Snow inducer, the Snomax team has had to be able to respond to the perfectly natural “Don’t snow me; show me!” reaction of the typical, skeptical snowmaker to the claims of Snomax. This meant being able to provide careful measurement of operating parameters. Many of the tools developed are just plain common sense for any snowmaking operation.

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