the dude standing randomly at 00:32 got OWNED. he was right in the area where the slow loading chair dispatches onto the main, high speed cable. geeez. bleeeeweeeeee
Unrelated to the fails, I find the conveyor belt mechanism that brings skiers to the chairs quite interesting - never seen one of those. Wonder if something like that could be used to bring skiers up to speed with fast-moving chairs, allowing for the speed of a detachable chairlift but with the mechanical simplicity of a fixed-grip? Basically replace the complexity of a detachable lift with the somewhat lesser complexity and cost of the conveyor system, I think that would still be a net gain cost-wise.
I know that this comment is from a long time ago, but hopefully you might find this helpful. I think that this would be a pretty good idea for the beginning of a lift, but when you are unloading, you would need to go a lot faster to avoid getting hit by a chair, maybe it is possibly to do a detachable for the unloading station. I think that if we were somehow able to unload faster or even have an unload system with a conveyor (it would be more difficult for beginners, in my opinion), the lift could potentially go a lot faster if the system could handle it.
I’ve had a new skier put her ski around a board separating me and them so they dont slide into me, (some help that was) and by the time the lift had stopped, i had to hold the chair back so it wouldn’t run her over… luckily the chairs were light…
If you can't get on the lift properly, stay home. You aren't a good enough to be at a ski resort. Practice on the bunny hill first if you're afraid of the lift lol
Carpets are offsetting...I am an Instructor for 36 years, and for sure they need at least three lift operators on the upload station AND the download station...I ski in Italy often and even there where we ski daily and have these type of lifts, the plastic gets slick and shit happens...however without a lawyer in sight, we are on our own and expected to get ourselves up( they do stop the chair though!).
We don't have belt but we do got ice. The only way they will stop the chair is if it hits you. I slipped on the ice and couldn't get up. The chair hits me and he stops the chair while it's over me and he didn't do anything as I'm stuck under the chair. My friend had to pull the chair forward so I could get up.
Some of this were a lot of people who don't have common sense. The first guy should have either put himself down and then the operators would have stopped the lift after the chair with you guys on it would have passed him.
It's not that easy to make the correct decision when you only have two seconds to do so. Plus, it looks like he was trying the aim his butt at the empty space on the chair in order to get back on the chair. And even if he would have got down, the chair looks way too low, he would have just got hit with the skis and snowboards of the people that were sitting on the chair.
Ou le gars est peu observateur, car quand on se lance dans une nouvelle expérience et on se doit soit de voir comment les autre font, ou on s'élance aidé par qlq'un pour être écolé .... Soit le gars est totalement stupide ....
