SAM Coverage
Lifts
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Safety Control Circuits
What constitutes the safety control circuit of a chairlift? What criteria must it meet? What safety capabilities should it provide? What other functions are…
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New Products
Evacuation device Grand Distributors, Inc., 600 River St., Grand River, OH 44045, have developed a lift evacuation device called Evacu-Lift which avoids abnormal and…
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Idea File
Patrol designs rescue cannon Mt. Ripley is an athletic facility of Michigan Technological University and the ski patrol is made up primarily of Michigan…
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Changing Times
Remember the good old days? No environmentalists screaming at you; no mounds of environmental impact reports when you wanted to expand your parking lot…
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Your Chairlift Purchase
Buying a chairlift, like other major purchases, means making decisions. As the magnitude of the purchase increases, buyers tend to build up fear that…
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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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New Products
No-bolt sheaves of Austrian manufacture are offered by Lift Consultants, 1355 Joliet Place, Detroit, MI. 48207. Instead of bolts to secure the two sides…
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Idea File
Slow and discrete adjustment of the guide sheaves at bullwheels is sometimes a problem. This can be solved by modifying the bullwheel guide sheave…
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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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Report
The ink was barely dry on the documents that conveyed the stricken giant, Mt. Snow, when its new, action-oriented owners, the Sherburne Corporation (Killington)…
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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…