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• YouTuber Breaks Down How Poma Lifts Actually Work

  24-02-2024 15:00 via powder.com
  
  Building a ski lift that has both left and right turns is an engineering challenge. Poma lifts are an excellent example how to address this problem, and they also typically operate at higher speeds than traditional ski lifts.But how do they actually function? A YouTuber named Sandro breaks it down on his channel in a video titled, "The brute force approach to the impossible skilift problem: Poma lifts!" There are many things in day to day life I don't understand the engineering behind,
  
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• Fans Wanted Winter Olympian To Produce "More Ski Content," So He Cut His Skis In Half

  24-02-2024 14:30 via powder.com
  
  Another day, another tongue-in-cheek video from the once buttoned-up Olympic skier Nick Goepper.This time, Goepper's fans wanted "more ski content," so he did the obvious thing and gave it to them by cutting his skis in half.View this post on InstagramA post shared by Nick Goepper (@nickgoepper)
  One commenter on this video wondered why Goepper would do such a thing. "Never did it before," Goepper wrote in response. I can't argue with that. If I regularly received free skis, the thought would eve
  
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• Hilarious And Rare Miniature Snowcat Is A Need, Not A Want

  24-02-2024 14:00 via powder.com
  
  Grind Hard Plumbing Co.—a team of friends known for brewing up crazy motor vehicle concoctions—outdid themselves with a rare find this winter: a miniature snowcat.Information about these puppies is tough to come by online, but here's what I could find: from quiet internet forums to old YouTube videos, the consensus seems to be that they're called Arctic Cat Quad Tracs, and were produced in limited numbers throughout the late 1970s and early 1980s.As one of the Grind Hard Plumbing Co.
  
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