Powerline Spacer job

[Frewballs74]

@helmus 2000, the lines are dead dude, no faraday suit, no equipotential, and the guy who is filming from the cross arm would be toast!

[StarStudioTattoos]

what a freaking crazy job!

[maxstein2011]

1:01 looks like a guy hanging lokl

[dodgechargercrazy]

i thought you weren't supose to touch 2 wires at once

[nightwing36s]

@dodgechargercrazy Judging from how close they are, those two lines are probably on the same phase. I'm no EE, but I'd think you would see arcing if they were't, at that range.

[dodgechargercrazy]

@nightwing36s i c

[conoba]

So, what does that guy do in his spare time? Fly a rocket powered motorcycle across the grand canyon?

[jimjohngarcia]

Hey so how does he get back down? does he climb back over the insulator?

[CYLing90]

where is this location??

[POdXXvv]

its 380 kv?

[rbz12run]

@umloginqualquer Thank goodness for LOTO!

[umloginqualquer]

*at the power generation plant*

"Hey, who the f*ck shut down this switch? I'll turn it back on..."

[XelaXor]

@umloginqualquer HAHAHA

[helmus2000]

@umloginqualquer you cleary don't get, these are live lines

[macrosmarcus]

He also bring some hamburgers there..see the lunch box??

[nessnes64]

thats not live cuz there would be interference with the audio

[SuperTechieJ]

If the line were live, would a video camera be able to get close to it and still work?

[redsquirrelftw]

Looks like a fun job, but must suck when it's really cold out, or raining/snowing. Must suck when there's lot of ice buildup too. I'd do it any time on a nice day though, must get a nice view from up there.

[TheLowey08]

Ive worked on powerlines here in the UK all my life & I have never risked my life once .I would not , life is too precious & I have too much to live for. All you guys saying powerline workers are some kind of heros risking their lives everyday dont understand what it is really like. Its very nice to be thought a hero but its just a job .We have numerous safety procedures & excellent full body harnesses & safety gear. It is 100% safe & never any danger to your life -safer than crossing the road!

[liquidst07]

There are two lines or sometimes three or fours lines "bundled" together to make up one phase. This allows the utility company to send more electricity to you. More wires = more electricity. It's much more effective to add another conductor than it is to have one very large conductor.

[lonewolfintj]

YIKES. I'm sooo glad I don't have that job. Just watching this video makes me feel vertigo and nausea and panic. I'll leave the high line work to folks with love of heights. You have to have a little Karl Wallenda in your blood to do work like that. (And no, the high-voltage aspect itself doesn't frighten me. Gimme a faraday suit and I'd happily work with a million volts. At ground level. But I'll leave the heights to others.)

[dmesz311]

this is my dream job....besides being a photographer for hustler

[walkzs]

This would be De-energized, isolated and earthed spacer maintenance work, the two lines running in parallel are for load reasons. If he was working on live wires bare hand he would have to wear a Faraday suit. and he would most likely be working from a hot seat from the side of a chopper, or he could climb from the chopper to the lines after bringing the chopper up to the same potential.

[baginDVS1]

sounds like you might be an eletrician, and way know a few things. IBEW anywhere in there?

[scovegner]

This will not be live line, live line needs a helicopter to bring them on/off the line and the guy has no harness/suit on, also the picture is being taken from a guy sitting on the other side of the insulators, which you would NOT do on a live line .. and they do wear protection suits to make sure there's no voltage gradient building up in the body :)

[snedie69er]

@scovegner

Actually they wear a Faraday suit to bring their bodies to the same potential voltage as the line.

And er this is not a live line. As soon as that line hanging from the helicopter went near that line there would be electrical arcs.

[tall32guy]

But how does he avoid getting blown up being next to another phase? That's what I don't get. (Another line, is what I mean).

[xXtortionXx]

those two cables are one phase. i think the second one is used for compensating the power load. or just used for spacer carts for workers to be on.

[stuch11]

its the same phase

[VREDFOX]

got your nuts energized? LOL the in case these lines are really live the worker wears a special suit to protect himself from the capacitive current which appear on AC lines, due the capacity of the helicopter it capacitive current is larger and could be dangerous, so it have to be connected with the line to provide a path for the capacitive current to flow, otherwise this path cold be the worker himself, not good i d say

[lunde1987]

If you see the "Like a bird on a wire" vidoe you can see that the guys are wearing protection suits against the magnetic fields.. And when they arrive with the helicopter he uses a wire to connect him and the helicopter to the wire. The helicopter and the wire is not the same potential before they actually have a connection to each other. And yes everybody that is in the business have heard about linemen getting "zapped". That's one of the risk about the job.

[catacc]

the guy sitting on the live wire has the same potential as the wire has. he was left there by helicopter (no connection with the ground) and after he will finish his job, he will be picked up also by helicopter. there are few that can work under these conditions and the maximum period of the working time is around 2 hours per session. electric and magnetic fields are changing human body.

[ljmike1204]

hmm tosted nuts XD XD XD

[TomBrooklyn]

1. What's he sitting on? (between him and the wire) I assume he's not sitting just on the wire.

2. Those wires are de-energized, right?

Thanks.

[CPRailRTC]

1. Wire

2. No

[lunde1987]

I would think they have cut the power to the line because the guy has no protection suit.

And I guess he would'nt be touching the wire from the helicopter before it had touched the lines if there where power on the line.

[CPRailRTC]

Learn how electricity works.

[lunde1987]

If you see the other movies on youtube showing linemen working on live power lines you see them wearing protection suits.

And I know how electricity works ;)

[sneakysneaky333]

No, there is no such thing as a "protection suit" for people that work on power lines. That wire is live. As long as you know what you are doing you will be save. Have you ever heard of a power line worker getting zapped??? I havent.....

[harrison359]

awesome vid..I have one that's similar. Feel free to put a video response with yours on it..

[NAKAKATAKOTAKO]

we, filipino linemen don't use trolley basket in spacer job, we just crawl on the conductor to put the spacers.

[transdrole]

Um...WAIT come back with my tools!

[com85]

good job guys !!

[metalini]

where was this video taken?

[throat68]

pretty sweet!

how offten do linesmen use choppers??

im in highschool looking forward to going to line school soon

[471911]

Nice one dave

[19331970]

good vid would like to do that kinda work

[tall32guy]

You get paid googobs of money but risk you life everyday! More so than a lot of other jobs or things done living.

[Gnildir]

was this filmed near Longview?

[Tallmanbutsmallcar]

i would be scared to death to do ur job

[buckfastyabam]

Hi there fae Scotland.

Well done, theres some down draft aff they blades. I have never put a chair up/down with a chopper before, always rigged it. An are they the battery powerd ones?

Nice to see it go after a day in the chair, kills the arms. Well done Men

[Fallbrookmudd]

Dang!