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  1. Big Boulder Lifts

    in Jack Frost & Big Boulder

    Posted · Edited by liplipliplip

    18 hours ago, rgrwilco said:

    I got the chair sitting in my backyard. Plan to strip the layers of paint, seal it from rust, replace the plastic seating pads with wood, and paint it over the next couple weekends if the weather holds.

    I grabbed one of the boulder chairs we had talked about last year. Stripped it down to bare metal, sealed it with a rust inhibiting primer, and then painted it with a few rattle cans. I "dumpster dove" for replacement fiberglass seats (not included with the bb chairs) at the abandoned Tamiment Resort which has a wrecked Hall lift from the same era.

    Some advice: 

    • Those fuckers have a TON of paint on them, at least 20 layers. Citra-strip was as effective as throwing sand at the tide, would recommend mechanical means of removing the paint, either media blasting or grinding, a flap disk on a grinder worked for me but expect to go through a few. 
    • If you detach the chair body from the hanger arm, or the restraint bar from the chair body, reassemble everything before painting. Otherwise you'll scratch the shit out of everything. 
    • If you do plan on separating the chair and the hanger, cutting the bolts is probably the way to go. There's so much paint in the threads of the bolts that it's nearly impossible to unscrew the nut, even with a ton of paint stripping.
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  5. Big Boulder Lifts

    in Jack Frost & Big Boulder

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    Looks like construction is well-ish underway at frost. Old east mountain lift and the triples are completely gone, the bullwheel is off the load station on the quad and the haul rope is just tied off to the station. 
     

    wonder how many of the chairs will go to auction, figure there’s got to be 500+ of them total that have come down or will come down soon 

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  6. Big Boulder Lifts

    in Jack Frost & Big Boulder

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    2 hours ago, saltyant said:

    This is grate (?) But trading 2 slow doubles for 1 slow quad doesnt seem like an improvement. I guess itll be less likely to break down since it's new? (Idk if the old lifts break down often or not)

    I think this improves things a lot though. In the last few years JF has typically only run 1 lift at a time for the sets of lifts that share towers. Having a quad running full time vs. a single double or triple will up capacity and help with lines for sure.

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  8. Big Boulder Lifts

    in Jack Frost & Big Boulder

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    22 hours ago, Benm said:

    ever find out if there is lead paint on it?

    now that i'm seeing all the work it's going to take, i'm considering renting a sandblaster or hiring it out...

    I didn't find any lead. 

    I made a lot more work for myself starting off with a weak chemical stripper. A few hours with an angle grinder with a flap disc would brought it down to bare metal pretty easily. Media blasting might be good on the seat itself, lots of weird angles, but definitely not necessary.

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  9. Big Boulder Lifts

    in Jack Frost & Big Boulder

    Posted

    45 minutes ago, JFskiDan said:

    Are you planning on taking it to some ski lift chair shows?  

    Haha, unfortunately I haven’t heard of any ski-lift-chairs-and-coffee events. 
     

    but all seriousness, haven’t worked with metal before, just asking stupid questions to get good directions. My restraint bar has spots where it’s rusted through, that’ll take bondo, but the rest I’ll treat some other way

  10. Big Boulder Lifts

    in Jack Frost & Big Boulder

    Posted · Edited by liplipliplip

    Decided to start fishing with hand grenades, busted out the grinder and flap discs. 
     

    Coming across a lot of pitted rust, anybody have any advice on what to do? Part of me wants to just prime over it, but not sure. I feel like grinding it out and using bondo to flatten out the divots is a little extra. 
     

    Also, lmk if I should move this to a general thread. 
     

     

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  13. Big Boulder Lifts

    in Jack Frost & Big Boulder

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    Starting to pull some paint off and the chair is finally in 3 pieces. Four bolts hold the seat to the hanging bar and the restraint bar isn’t mechanically fastened, you just have to pull it off of the pins that hold it in place. Starting to see some metal poke through but the citristrip largely just ate through the outer 1-3 layers of paint.

     

    In hindsight, the airplane paint remover you can buy at autozone and the like would’ve eaten this paint a lot quicker, but that stuff is crazy toxic. I’m also on a well, doing this work outside, and airplane paint remover needs to be neutralized by water before handling and I want none of it going into the groundwater

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  14. Big Boulder Lifts

    in Jack Frost & Big Boulder

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    1 minute ago, Benm said:mine has been a lawn ornament since dec.

     

    All I want to do for now is strip the paint and rust, get a protective primer on there, and paint it. Eventually it’ll hang or be a bench but in the meantime rust has already done enough damage on mine 

  15. Big Boulder Lifts

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    Now that the weather’s a bit warmer and my schedule has started to calm down I thought I’d start to work on the chair.

     

    The bolts holding the hanging bar to the seat are painted pretty tight, as are the bolds securing the restraint bar to the seat, so plan for now is see how far a chemical paint stripper can take me. I’m trying citristrip and will leave it on for the full 24 hrs. By my count there are at least 6 coats of paint on these things. I’ve tested a few times for lead and haven’t found any yet but am still a bit afraid to strip with a disk and have airborn paint dust. 

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  16. JF 12-19-20, or the day that convinced me never to buy an Epic Pass

    in Jack Frost & Big Boulder

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    1 hour ago, toast21602 said:

    you make your kids split a hot chocolate and you are criticizing a business for charging people to utilize their services? Volunteers still get free passes. 

    I don't know, new management taking away a benefit from unpaid volunteers shows the new management values them less than old management. If the mountain is closing because they can't muster up volunteer patrol, it does show the work they were doing was valuable.

     

    Just disappointing to see corporate policy overtake mountain personality. If Vail owned Mad River Glen, they'd close the single chair citing safety.

  17. JF 12-19-20, or the day that convinced me never to buy an Epic Pass

    in Jack Frost & Big Boulder

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    1 minute ago, liplipliplip said:

    I'd bet they struggle for the rest of the season. A lot of their patrol are volunteers with lifetime passes, from the looks of it a lot of them aren't fans of Vail and "retired." Seems like Vail is hurting for staff and coming up short on recruitment across the board. Every other day there's IG and facebook stories up asking for lifties at Frost and Boulder.

    Ah. Vail cancelled the benefit volunteers get of free passes for family of volunteers. That'll do it...

  18. JF 12-19-20, or the day that convinced me never to buy an Epic Pass

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    23 hours ago, Ski2Live Live2Ski said:

    I have no idea if Hunter will be open this weekend, but with that being uncertain and JF already having Sat sold out for reservations I cancelled my Hunter Sunday reservation to make a Sunday JF reservation while they were still available - as you can only reserve one Epic Mt per day.

    I'd bet they struggle for the rest of the season. A lot of their patrol are volunteers with lifetime passes, from the looks of it a lot of them aren't fans of Vail and "retired." Seems like Vail is hurting for staff and coming up short on recruitment across the board. Every other day there's IG and facebook stories up asking for lifties at Frost and Boulder.

  19. Anybody Got Snowshoe Recommendations?

    in Gear

    Posted

    Update! I know everyone has been on the edge of their seats for months now, but it has snowed and I've got a few miles on the Tubbs now.

     

    Overall, very pleased with them. The boa binding makes putting them on and off a breeze and they're much more lightweight than I thought they'd be. The shoes really don't impact your stride at all, you can walk fairly normally in them, and it's easy to feel unaware you're wearing the shoe. The float isn't as good as I had hoped but I dont really plan to use these in particularly deep snow or particularly isolated trails so I'm happy to live with it. It's also worth mentioning the grip on hardpack is pretty great.

     

    Only complaint I have is that I've slipped out of the binding a few times, but I think that's more due to the shape of my boots. The binding can be put back on without taking your glove off anyway, so it isn't the end of the world, yet.

     

    Goal for the purchase was buy something that was easy and comfortable enough to operate so my wife wouldn't put her nose up to snowshowing while also performing well on the trails I'd like to use them on. I'd say the Tubb's RDG hits that goal.

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