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Never go skiing in Easter Europe Eek



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Jeebus. Least they were telling them to jump.



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OmG! Looks like some people figured out to run up the hill and encourage those on the lift to start jumping off.
 
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Eastern Europe, because white people deserve a third world too.
 
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Eastern Europe, because white people deserve a third world too.


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Dude, look for the giant red button and hit it!

Worst part is it going backwards.
 
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Dude, look for the giant red button and hit it!
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Well, folks were complaining earlier it was too slow.....



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Jesus, doesn't anyone have any sense to cut the power here? Flip a breaker, hit an emergency stop button, something!


 
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Jesus, doesn't anyone have any sense to cut the power here? Flip a breaker, hit an emergency stop button, something!


It's not a power issue, it's a physics issue. The lift - for some reason - stopped and the weight of those on the lift reversed the normal direction and started to speed up due to momentum. The weight of the passengers pulling everyone down backwards.

For some reason, the cogs and brakes that should have locked the lift from spinning backwards on its own failed. Results in a rollback.


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Dude, look for the giant red button and hit it!

Worst part is it going backwards.


There is no emergency stop for a malfunction like that. I don't believe it's possible to even run ski lifts backwards. That likely was the result of a broken drive gear.


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Originally posted by 1967Goat:
Dude, look for the giant red button and hit it!

Worst part is it going backwards.


There is no emergency stop for a malfunction like that. I don't believe it's possible to even run ski lifts backwards. That likely was the result of a broken drive gear.


Not unlike the video of the ship anchor dropping and the momentum/weight overtaking the brake.

Once some things get going, the kinetic is nothing to be trifled with.

After the machine changes from horsepower to mulepower, best to get way back.




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Well those folks have one jump. Four more to go.





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