Lesson learnt If the chair starts moving super fast backwards just jump the fuck off cause it's better to break your legs than it is to have your entire body bent like a pretzel.
Yes and no,as far as jumping off the chair,it depends on how many feet a person is above the ground 2nd,all the chairlift operator has to do is press the E-BRAKE button in.
Exactly. I doubt they could have gotten much money for the lift, even back in 1990. It was probably going to get scrapped anyway, although they had multiple other Riblets at the time, so I'm sure they kept useable parts as spares.
Except that this exact same thing has happene multiple times and killed dozens of people when they fucked up.. even with modern safety protocol and devicea, when not maintained the shit still can pop off….
@@Z-Ack I think in the last 40 years there have only been 12 deaths relating to ski lifts and not every case was caused by the lift itself. Rollbacks are incredibly rare, especially if the resort is properly maintained. I work as a lift attendant and every one of our lifts are checked multiple times a day to prevent potentially hazardous issues
Some scary tests, but never the less. By the controlled catastrophic scenarios, finding the crutches of the chair system where all hopefully ruled out to further the safety and emergency equipment to prevent such events. Excellent example of amazing engineering (:
@@austins.3313 The basic principles behind a fixed chair lift will always remain the same unless the laws of physics change. Doppelmayr participated in this test, so that makes your argument invalid.
@@craigbosko2229 Well there's a video of this very thing happening at a ski lift in Georgia (I think) It's on youtube. Several people get slug off, a few more are in the path of the chairs and get clobbered by them.
@@HKPSG1Shooter it was 100% human error, the emergency braking system was overriden by the operators prior to the rollback. The brakes could have been activated manually during the incident but the staff failed to do so. Ski lifts have extensive safety mesures and equipment, this should never happen by itself
TheGameShack Yeah I am glad that there at least some Riblets left. Resorts have even started replacing their quad chairs like Squaw Valley's Siberia Express.
Yeah, I think I have heard about that Chair 1. I ski at Squaw Valley, and I remember their old yan double, the Cornice II chair. That lift went right over a giant cliff before you reached the top. Sadly it was torn down in 2013 and I never rode it as it almost never operated but it was a cool chair
I'VE WATCHED THIS VIDEO MANY TIMES,1ST TIME AT SUMMIT AT SNOQUALMIE, WASHINGTON STATE,2ND TIME AT STEVENS PASS, WASHINGTON STATE, I'VE SEEN IT AROUND 8-10 TIMES AND THE 1ST TIME WAS IN 1994.BRINGS BACK ALOT OF MEMORIES.
Can't properly test for rollback unless uphill line is loaded! Oh, ok, they loaded the chairs. I guess this lift was to be replaced anyway, got some age on it. I worked chairlifts in Perisher, Australia, late 79's and to this day had not known such things could even happen, never came up in our training.
Kudoes to the civil engineers that designed the towers, I expected more overdimensioning in the steel elements, welding or underdimensioning of foundation blocks
It makes me sad they changed the name of this beautiful lift she ran good a little extra info the top terminal was replaced by YAN(lift engineering) around the late 1980s. As it was an awesome lift it’s sad it didn’t move on somewhere else in stead of being absolutely destroyed
"That lift is as out dated as 240p...." he says. Well, what else are they supposed to use for a test like this, you dimwit? PLUS that video was made in 1990, OVER 25 YEARS AGO. But, yeah you're right, they shoulda just torn it all down instead of trying to learn something. Narrowminded dickheads like you who pretend to "know it all" make me want to vomit.
Is this the same narrator that does the funny "Turbo Encabulator" video? 4:52 Holy, that's multiple fatalities right there and it took those dudes a while to get out of the way of the flying concrete! Also, 1990 seems like a different world to today. It'd be interesting to see what a modern instructional/experimental video looks like. Just clearer with more graphics probably.
I worked as a lifty a couple seasons. We had a roll back one time and it whipped a couple people off. I guess a couple people got injured pretty bad. It was only three or four chairs, luckly it was stopped before it got totally out of control.
Riblet made a great lift for many many years. Sadly they sealed their fate by not investing and getting into the high speed detachable area. There is still a 1960s vintage Riblet lift running at Winter Park as of 2023, called Looking Glass. However- her days are numbered. Lots of other old Riblets still in use throughout the USA and Canada.
I don't know if that kind of thing is possible on a detachable, the chairs already detach, although the deceleration/acceleration might have a hard time keeping up, causing some minimal damage.
it is possible but it wouldnt be as bad as the stations tires are driven off the haul rope mostly so the tires would just spin up and then the chairs would just go faster through the station although i dont know if attaching works in reverse.
How about an American Stealth bomber buzzing the Italian alps, cutting a cable car wire with it's tailfin, killing a gondola full of people? Yeah, that actually happened.
ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-WmTLCfB44NA.html Probably safety and liability reasons. But the linked video shows you what it would be like if they were nearly touching the ground.
If anyone doesn’t understand the incident, Yan was a company that went bankrupt because of an incident where 8 people were killed due to a faulty chairlift/s falling off due to the grip. They shut down all the Yan chairlifts, and destroyed this one.
