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  Chairlift, Home Chairlifts - StairLiftsUSA.com
A chairlift is a chair attached to a track that is attached to the staircase in your home.
Chairlifts can be used for carrying you up and down the stairs, and can also be used for moving laundry, groceries, and other items.
Wheel chairlifts work a lot like home chairlifts, but have a platform for a wheel chair to sit on instead of a chair such as on a chairlift.
www.stairliftsusa.com /chairlift   (205 words)

  
  Chairlift - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A chairlift, also known as a fixed-grip chairlift, is a type of aerial lift, which consists of a constantly moving loop of steel cable strung between two end terminals and generally over intermediate towers.
The lifts are usually powered by an electric motor, often with a diesel engine for backup in case of flouts (which are fairly common since ski resorts tend to be in remote areas).
Fixed-grip chairlifts are already less common-place at most major ski areas in North America, replaced by the faster Detachable chairlift.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chairlift   (393 words)

  
 Detachable chairlift - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A detachable chairlift or high-speed chairlift is a type of aerial lift, which, like a chairlift, consists of numerous chairs that are connected to a constantly moving steel cable that is strung between two terminals over intermediate towers.
Detachable chairlifts are far faster than their fixed-grip brethren.
In this type of chairlift the chairs move at the same speed as a detachable lift's, even through the terminal, and skiers are already moving on a belt of carpet-like material when they meet the chairs.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Detachable_chairlift   (360 words)

  
 Travel information: Funicular, chairlift and nostalgic tram   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The idea to develop a chairlift in the Prague ZOO was contemplated as early as in the 1960s.
The chairlift was owned by the Prague ZOO and operated by the Central Bohemian Amusement Park.
In 2000 the chairlift was used by 149,525 fare-paying passengers.
www.dp-praha.cz /en/di-lan2.htm   (127 words)

  
 Arthurs Seat Chairlift
THE owner of a coastal chairlift which collapsed south-east of Melbourne - injuring 18 and trapping 65 - is investigating whether salt had corroded concrete at the base of a support pole.
Mr Hudson earlier said the chairlift would be closed while the investigation was underway, but also that it may never reopen.
Responding to reports that the chairlift would be closed for at least six months, Mr Hudson's spokesman Howard Bull said the owner would like to see it operating as soon as possible.
www.ches.ws /tassie/arthurs_seat_chairlift_accident.htm   (718 words)

  
 Settlement reached over chairlift collapse. 01/08/2005. ABC News Online
The operator of Victoria's Arthurs Seat Chairlift has reached a confidential settlement with 15 people who were hurt when the facility collapsed two-and-a-half years ago.
In total, 18 people suffered numerous injuries when a pylon collapsed on the chairlift on the Mornington Peninsula, south of Melbourne in January 2003.
Slater and Gordon lawyer Barrie Woollacott says he is representing 15 people who were involved in a class action against the operator of the chairlift.
www.abc.net.au /news/newsitems/200508/s1427165.htm   (178 words)

  
 Chairlift   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The chairlift is a ride that potentially has the most excitement from a rider's standpoint.
I believe up to 4 stations are possible with the Chairlift, but you'd be hard pressed to keep guests happy rotating 12 chairs through that many stations.
A chairlift, like the other transport rides, is covered, which provides a good place to go to in times of rain.
robsrct.tycoonplanet.com /original/chairlift.html   (203 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Australian chairlift collapse injures 18
Eighteen people were injured and 65 other trapped for hours after a chairlift at a beauty spot in the Australian state of Victoria collapsed.
But the owner of the chairlift said that the situation could have been much worse if the emergency braking equipment on the popular tourist attraction had not kicked in.
About 70 people were aboard the chairlift, which is 950 metres (yards) long and rises 225 metres (740 feet) above the ground, when the incident occurred at 1420 (0320 GMT) on Friday.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/asia-pacific/2624005.stm   (429 words)

  
 SKI RESORT TRAGEDY PROMPTS CHAIRLIFT INVESTIGATION
The Ministry of Municipal Affairs determined that both the failed grip and the grip with a steel insert were unsafe and required that ski resorts discontinue use of all lifts that employed the grips.
The chairlifts had to be operational before the next ski season the following November or the resorts risked a loss in revenue that could extend through the busy Holiday ski season.
The purpose of a detachable-style chairlift is to enable passengers to board and unboard the chairs at a comfortable pace while maintaining a constant cable speed so passengers quickly reach the top of the slope.
www.algor.com /news_pub/cust_app/skilift/skilift.asp   (1969 words)

  
 BBC News | SCOTLAND | Chairlift to make final journey
A chairlift in the Scottish Highlands is to make its last journey over the course of the weekend, marking the end of an era spanning over 40 years.
The White Lady chairlift on the 4,084ft Cairngorm mountain has served ski-ing enthusiasts but is to be demolished to make way for an Alpine-style mountain railway.
An employee of the chairlift company said demand to take to the slopes had risen dramatically since the 1960s.
news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/uk/scotland/newsid_1274000/1274516.stm   (301 words)

  
 eBearing News - Nova Scotia Ski Lifts Plagued by Bearing Failures
Two weeks ago, Ski Wentworth's (Wentworth, Nova Scotia) Doppelmayr chairlift was operating at full capacity on a Sunday afternoon when a major pulley wheel bearing failed at the top of the mountain.
The chairlift at Ski Wentworth was made by Doppelmayr Seilbahnen (Wolfurt, Austria) and is 13 years old.
This is the second major chairlift bearing failure this winter at Ski Wentworth, said the Nova Scotia Department of Labour.
www.ebearing.com /news2001/news176.htm   (336 words)

  
 VILLAGE CHAIRLIFT AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
The lift could cost anywhere from $4 to $7.5 million, depending on how fancy the chairlift is. These costs are for a detachable high speed chair.
Chuck Toeniskoetter of TBH Partners says a chairlift expert told him that we could build a simple fixed grip lift for $1.5 million, a lot less than the detachable lift.
Another committee of the CDC is investigating a little park between the South parking lot and the highway.
www.bvri.org /liftcdc.html   (1423 words)

  
 Chairlift project yet to take off -DAWN - National; May 13, 2003
The 2.5km-long chairlift would be installed between Children’s Park, F-8/2, Margalla Hills and Makhiala Peak in Pir Sohawa.
They would also determine the suitability of chairlift with regard to rope length, engineering, exact alignment and security restrictions apart from other aspects.
The official said that the CDA had earlier dropped the proposal to install a chairlift between Shakkarparian-Zero Point and Rawal Lake, keeping in view technical, commercial and recreational viability of the project.
www.dawn.com /2003/05/13/nat5.htm   (472 words)

  
 Mt Buller chairlift derails after two days of extreme winds
The Mt Buller chairlift, built in 1981, has 12 supporting towers and is 880 metres long.
Two lift attendants were performing routine start-up and safety procedures at 8.40am when it is believed a chairlift wrapped around a 10-metre supporting tower, causing the top section of the structure to topple.
The incident came a day after 38 people were stranded on the chairlift at the Royal Melbourne Show after winds forced the lift's cable to come off its pulley.
www.natives.co.uk /news/2003/09/26char.htm   (371 words)

  
 Mt Hotham / Australia: Summit Quad Chairlift incident   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
There was an incident at the load station of the Summit Quad Chairlift on Tuesday morning that resulted in a partial derail of the cable and injury to a young woman.
At this stage she is being treated in hospital in Melbourne and her condition is reported as stable.
At this stage the Summit Quad Chairlift will not operate until such time as the cable is repaired and until Worksafe give their clearance.
ropeways.net /programm/seite.php?wert=418   (176 words)

  
 The Little River Canyon - Chairlift Section   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
But in direct contrast to the hellish Suicide section is the relatively placid Chairlift section, which is also about six miles.
The Chairlift section would make a good transition for a paddler trying to make the move from the Hiwassee/Nantahala grade rivers to bigger water like the Ocoee.
Putin at the base of the old chairlift -- park at the overlook at the top of the chairlift and carry (or drag) your boat to the river down a trail near the overlook.
members.aol.com /gratefuled/little/little.htm   (531 words)

  
 Chairlift operator now uncertain of his future - National - www.theage.com.au
The operator of the Arthurs Seat chairlift said he felt he was sitting on a time bomb.
Richard Hudson would not say if he planned to continue running the chairlift after last Thursday's accident, which put a woman and her son in hospital.
Police and WorkSafe are investigating last week's incident and have not ruled out a link between the January 2003 incident when the structure collapsed, injuring 18 people and trapping 65 others for several hours.
www.theage.com.au /articles/2004/03/22/1079939581069.html?from=storyrhs   (332 words)

  
 Boarder Zone User Gallery - Tower foundations down for new T.C Chairlift   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Treble Cone announced this week that tower foundations are down for the new chairlift and all is going to project schedule in preparation for the coming ski season.
The chairlift installation worth $5 million in total has taken the work of contractors Doppelmayr and Mangatua Contracting, Jack Samuel Fencing, Delta and Treble Cone staff.
Area Manager, Jackie Van der Voort, says ‘the scale of this new chairlift installation is huge and has a large impact on the growth of the ski area.
www.boarderzone.com /user-galleries/showphoto.php?photo=509   (383 words)

  
 Anacapri: Mount Solaro - Cetrella - Chairlift
The chairlift station is quite near Piazza Vittoria and allows you to reach the top quite quickly while you enjoy a splendid view of Anacapri and the gulf of Naples.
The small church of Santa Maria a Cetrella can be rather defined as a hermitage, since, besides the chapel and the sacristy, you find the cells, the wide and well-equipped kitchen, the service rooms and the small garden used by Dominican and Franciscan friars who retreated there in the past centuries.
at the chairlift station) for it is only occasionally open at weekends thanks to the work of a group of anacapresi (people living in Anacapri); it is more likely to be open on May and September Sundays, when services are celebrated.
www.capri.net /salsa/lang/en/page/tour7.html   (482 words)

  
 MySpace.com - Chairlift - Brooklyn - Folk / Electro / Pop - www.myspace.com/chairliftmusic
Maybe Chairlift didn't exactly flee the People's Republic seeking musical asylum, but it did relocate to Brooklyn.
To call the act indie rock or synth pop is to miss entirely the richness and depth of its music.
At times, Chairlift recalls a more measured Yaz; at others, it's as though Anne Dudley of Art of Noise is behind the scenes, offering up tastefully subtle beat and tone suggestions.
www.myspace.com /chairliftmusic   (1004 words)

  
 BBC - h2g2 - How to Survive a Chairlift Ride   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
But the chairlift is another story for beginning skiers.
It is easy to be intimidated by a chairlift, but once you have the hang of it, you won't give it another thought.
For example: sitting on their poles; swinging their skis; cleaning their skis with their poles; stretching, turning around to talk with the person in the chair behind them; or, most impressively, talking on a cell phone while reading a map and eating a candy bar.
www.bbc.co.uk /dna/collective/A241084   (1306 words)

  
 Major Summer Ski Area Investment in New Zealand   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
At Treble Cone, near Wanaka, a new Dopplemayr fixed grip quad chairlift is being installed in the Saddle Basin area.
At Queenstown's Coronet Peak, workers are installing a new Greengates Express six-seater chairlift that will replace the triple chair and giving skiers a quick ride to the top of the mountain in just 4.5 minutes.
In addition to the new chairlift developments, other ski areas have also enhanced their facilities for the 2005 season.
www.firsttracksonline.com /news/stories/111110764888323.shtm   (424 words)

  
 Baby Thunder Chairlift
We believe the evaluation of the proposed chairlift in the EA is flawed because it improperly analyzes the need, it does not adequately address the cumulative effects, and it ignores or unjustifiably minimizes adverse environmental consequences.
We believe the Baby Thunder chairlift proposal should be evaluated at the same time as the other Snowbird/Little Cottonwood Canyon projects, so that the Forest Service and the public can appreciate all of the impacts on the affected environment and how it can used and enjoyed.
We believe that approval of the Baby Thunder chairlift cannot be given until that master plan is reviewed and analyzed under NEPA; approval of the Baby Thunder chairlift now constitutes the "segmenting" of projects that the courts have consistently condemned.
www.saveourcanyons.org /archive/business/thunder.html   (3714 words)

  
 The Advertiser: No charges over chairlift collapse (archived)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
WorkSafe today said it had received legal advice that prosecutions against the operator would fail as it could not be proven the company failed to inspect and maintain the pylon foundations.
Howard Bull, a spokesman for the chairlift's owner-operator, Richard Hudson, said he was delighted with the decision and felt vindicated.
A WorkSafe spokesman said all of Victoria's 30 rope-tow chairlifts had been inspected since the Arthur's Seat incident and given the all-clear.
www.theadvertiser.news.com.au /common/story_page/0,5936,6522036^1702,00.html   (367 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Forty-two people were stuck dangling from a malfunctioning chairlift for hours Sunday at a mountainside amusement park, Ghost Town in the Sky, authorities said.
The chairlift is one of the main ways for tourists to get to the top of the mountain and its amusement park.
There was always a bus that took a road up, the tram, & the chairlift, which remains as the reason I haven't returned there in years.
www.coasterbuzz.com /2003-29-530459.htm   (903 words)

  
 Nut Chairlift, The - Stanley - Discover Tasmania
The Nut, rising 152 metres from the sea, dominates the headland that the fishing village of Stanley shelters behind.
No exertion is necessary when the chairlift takes you to the top for a seagulls view of the historic town and the east and west along the coast.
Please note the chairlift will not be operating from 07 July 2004 until 18 August 2004.
www.discovertasmania.com.au /home/index.cfm?siteid=161&display=product&productid=1146   (202 words)

  
 Herald Sun: Arthurs Seat chairlift remains shut (archived)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
A VICTORIAN chairlift closed after two accidents would remain shut until its owner could prove it was safe.
The popular Arthurs Seat attraction on Victoria's Mornington Peninsula was closed after part of the chairlift collapsed in January last year, injuring 18 people and trapping 65 others in their seats.
A separate police investigation was continuing into allegations the chairlift had been tampered with prior to the second accident, Mr Sheers said.
www.heraldsun.news.com.au /common/story_page/0,5478,9981605^1702,00.html   (349 words)

  
 Thredbo | Things to Do | Summer | Activities
The scenic chairlift is open 365 days a year.
The Kosciuszko Express Chairlift is 1.8km long and rises 560 vertical metres.
The ride takes 15 minutes one way and offers spectacular valley views as you are lifted to the closest access point to Mount Kosciuszko.
www.thredbo.com.au /thingstodo/summer/activities.asp?ref=2   (65 words)

  
 Safety check on chairlift - www.theage.com.au
Safety inspectors yesterday checked the Arthurs Seat chairlift - only a day after its reopening - after Worksafe was told that passengers had been scared when a canopy on one of the chairs hit a pylon.
The popular chairlift on the Mornington Peninsula reopened on Monday, almost 12 months after support pylons collapsed, injuring 18 people.
Operator Richard Hudson said two of the 838 passengers who went on the ride on Monday reported the incident.
www.theage.com.au /articles/2004/01/06/1073268035700.html?from=storyrhs   (160 words)

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