Talk:Chairlift

message: The photo captioned "A chairlift in Bad Hofgastein, Austria" is actually of a detachable chairlift; maybe it should be changed. --129.22.36.156 20:37, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: This article claims that chairlift normally refers specificaelly to a fixed-grip chair, but in actuality, the term chairlift is used generically for both fixed and detachable lifts. Pimlottc 21:06, 19 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The carriers (chairs) in this picture are actually known as a "bubble chair" because they have a Plexiglas cover attached to the safety restraining bar that, when lowered by the passenger, will shield the passenger from the elements.  This is a specific style which is not found on most lifts.  Maybe the photo caption should be modified to reflect this, since this photo is clearly not of a generic type of carrier.  You are correct however, that this is indeed a detachable chairlift. Parcanman (talk) 21:12, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Fixed vs. detachable

message: This section says that both loading and unloading is supervised by an operator, however many European chairlifts do not have an operator or attendant at the unloading area, so this could be misleading. Parcanman (talk) 21:40, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I have only been to a handful of European ski areas and they all had unload operators.  In the U.S. and Canada, virtually every area has an operator at the unload.  The exceptions are those monitored by video at some very small areas.  —EncMstr (talk) 04:25, 26 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Collision

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message: There seems to be some dispute whether to include this text
: Fixed-grip lifts are usually shorter than detachable-grip lifts due to rope load; the maximum vertical rise for a fixed grip chairlift is  and a length of about , while detachable quads and "six-packs" can service a vertical rise of over  and a line length of .
It seems reasonable to include it to me as every long chairlift I know of is detachable.  It could be that some economic bias is a factor, but I have heard from ski area operators (all in Oregon) that a high speed chair costs three times the price of an equivalent fixed grip, so I would expect that if there were any need for low lift capacity, a long fixed grip would be installed.  But I don't know of any.
It makes sense to me that the denser chair spacing of a fixed grip would load the rope more and impose a more restrictive overall limitation.  But I haven't been able to find any sources to that effect.  At least that aren't mirrors of the this article's long-standing content.  —EncMstr (talk) 00:25, 17 January 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: I live in an area (Dolomiti Superski) with 460 lifts, and I can assure you, that the length is not a reason for fixed-grip or not. Once upon a time detachable lifts did not exist. Several fixed-grip chair-lifts here are or were over 2 km long. Nowadays more fixed-grip chairlifts get substituted by detachable gondolas than detachable chairs, but the main reasons are comfort, speed and (less relevant) capacity per hour; length or altitude of the lift is not an issue. We even have detachable chairlifts with less than 100 m.  The chair-spacing is determined only by the speed of the lift: the faster the rope goes, the bigger the gap between chairs.--Sajoch (talk) 08:44, 17 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  fixed grip limitations 

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message: I would propose removing the section Modern Chairlifts. There are no citations for these claims and many chairlifts at a variety of resorts continue to be installed as fixed-grip lifts, not limited to simply beginner terrain. Yobbin (talk) 15:58, 24 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Section# Modern Chairlifts