#king pine

While Mother Nature keeps the winter weather at bay, the King Pine terminal construction presses on here at Sugarloaf. After receiving the steel frame last week, the remaining terminal components, including the 29,000lb motor assembly, arrived this weekend after a five day cross-country journey, from Salt Lake City UT.

Our lift crew wasted no time in unpacking the many pieces, taking inventory, and beginning assembly. Yesterday, less than 24 hours after delivery, the crew navigated Crosshaul with the motor assembly in tow, to relocate it from parking lot E to the constructions site. First thing this morning, a crane hoisted it to its final destination on the steel frame.

Over the next 4-5 weeks, the crew will concentrate on piecing the rest of the terminal together, with some help from the experts at Doppelmayr. The lift is expected to be ready for operation in late-December.

Our lift maintenance crew is wasting no time assembling the new King Pine terminal. From receiving the first shipment of parts on Monday, they have already pieced together the frame (shown above), as of late this morning.

And so it begins…

This week, the first (of many) pieces of the King Pine load terminal arrived in parking lot E.

Today, the crew will work to assemble the frame (shown above), in preparation for more terminal parts that will be arriving steadily over the next couple of days.

With summer setting in, the days are growing shorter by the minute; welcome news for those of you itching for winter to return, and a ticking clock for our Lift Maintenance crew, who have been hard at work this week dismantling the bottom terminal of the King Pine Lift. With the help of Nickerson Rigging & Crane services (the same company who helped with the Spillway/Skyline project), the demolition process has taken just one week, and all that remains is a skeleton of the King Pine terminal.

As you may recall from the announcement we made back in June, the King Pine lift will receive a new Doppelmayr TRISTAR terminal; expected to up and running by December.

With the existing King Pine towers and chairs remaining in place for the new terminal, the haul rope, with chairs, has been removed from the old bullwheel, repositioned, and anchored to allow for construction to begin on the new terminal.

A new King Pine terminal and $1.3 million in lift upgrades are in the works for this summer.