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Wales Gets New (Temporary) Ski Lift

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Here are some pictures of our portable ski lift working yesterday. To give an idea of scale, the pull distance is just over 100m and the vertical is about 20 to 25m. The large person on the lift is me approx 80kg and the small one is my daughter, a lot less !

http://snowmediazone.com/the_zone/data/500/LlanSkiing3.JPG

http://snowmediazone.com/the_zone/data/500/LlanSkiing2.JPG
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Nice on skitow

Which is the "Llan" in the pics?
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
That looks great - quite a bit more vertical then the slopes @ halifax. Give us a shout if you plan to set it up again and Mrs NBT and I will try to make it over
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Cool. Where in Wales are you though??
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Could I ask where you brought that from? A google search has brought up nothing Smile
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Is this the same 'resort' that was featured on Wales Today this evening?
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Jonny Jones,
No, we are in North Wales. I don't think BBC Wales reporters get up here do they ? It is exactly the same lift though. Great little machine. Never was so much fun had with £6 of petrol.
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After all it is free Go on u know u want to!
skitow, Excellent. Where did you get it from or are you one of those dead handy peeps who made it themselves? Where abouts in NW you from? I'm from Pwllheli.
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I'm guessing here, but I reckon the tow is a Britonlift, made by Briton engineering in Huddersfield who now make snowflex, the dry slope matting system. AFAIK they're not making the rope tows anymore but do have spare parts
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nbt, Yes you are right, it is a Briton lift. I think they stopped selling / making them in about 2003 when they cost about £1800 I think. As I understand it the Briton comes from the founder of the firms name Brian Thomas who started making them in the 70's.

Shimmy Alcott, We live just outside Wrexham but the pictures are of a field near Llangollen, purely because the owner is a skier.
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russ_e,
Sorry I did not see your post. The answer is in the post above I guess. I don't think there is anything like this available in the UK at the moment. Maybe in other countries ?
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Nope no longer for sale, though I dont have 2k spare at the moment!
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Looks great!

What are the constraints on suitable locations?
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You know it makes sense.
altis,
The ideal location would be a very wide slope, so that you can have lots of different runs down and the snow will last longer. 120m up the slope with either it being perfectly plane or a slight hump in it, if there is a sag the rope lifts up too high for the kids when the tension goes on. The vertical we had of about 20-25m is about right for good skiers, snowboarders find it more difficult, although one of our group on Sunday had no problems but he is quite experienced.
Vehicle access to the top of the slope is ideal because it saves pulling the winch up the hill, but vehicle access to the bottom is good for a starter. On Sunday we had a 200m walk from the vehicle to the bottom of the slope !
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Where in North Wales is this tow rope?
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I have some good fields if you fancy bringing your tow rope, I am an hour south of Llangollen
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