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Swiss troubleshooter flies in to fix Australian ski lift
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An incident at the Australian ski resort of Mount Hotham, involving a skier falling while boarding a chairlift, has resulted in a Swiss expert being despatched to repair the damage.

The woman involved suffered a head injury. The chairlift was derailed and suffered cable damage.

As a result, a Swiss engineer is flying to the resort today to splice 2 metres of the cable and retension the system. He is said to be one of only 10 people in the world qualified to do this specific repair.

This report from ABC News Online
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 Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Of course the Swiss normally would just replace the entire cable however if the cable is fairly new I can understand why they wouldn't want to do this, it is a difficult job because the cable has to be kept close enough to its normal diameter to feed through the drive system which is going to be very difficult to accomplish
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I don't understand. I thought all lifts used cables which had to be spliced to produce a loop. Are there really only 10 people who can do this?
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Alastair, I think the problem is that they are cutting out a section of cable and replacing it on site, this is not something that is normally carried out
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Quote:
Are there really only 10 people who can do this?

Whether there are or there aren't, there don't appear to be any Australians up to it!
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David Goldsmith wrote:

Quote:
Are there really only 10 people who can do this?

Whether there are or there aren't, there don't appear to be any Australians up to it!


They're all over here for the cricket, from the PM down.
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