spacer carts on 230kv line

[tracyh1999]

agreed Fujios amps kills you revorocks is on the right track but a lil off

[fujiios]

The amperes kills you(0.08A), The difference potential, Touching the ground while touching a phase or neutral, Close the loop between phases and neutral, Cut a phase or neutral in charge.

[arjan940]

if you dont get to the ground it dont kils you

and the amperes kils you not the wat :O

[gooseskinner]

"safety is a skill developed threw perfectly practicing but primarily learned by (shall we say) "being in the bite when danger gets hungry"" Sean Otis

[rcapistrano835]

good day!im lineman here in philippines. i saw your video.it so amazing. i want to excel my skills to achive success in my life and to my company.i want to promote high safety standard.

[specsavers44]

awesome

[7ankss]

wtf...even the best crane operators can not do this.....

[yukons95]

what fucken balls!!!

[sean64354]

so friends !! as we are talking voltage , a 6A is ok to sustained ventricular contarction of 60,000v we can conclude that no need of much voltage to harm us i will share some of my knowledge with u friend <

9miliamperes for a women cause painful shock ,loss of muscular

9-30miliamperes individual cannot let go .

50 -150 miliamperes rhythemic pumping action of heart ceases .

1,000-4,300miliamperes death likely .

10,000miliamperes death probable or maybe god chance .

[VeinMichal]

You can light a 100W lightbulb with one 1,5V battery, but only for a moment. That is because voltage drops when you put a load on it. A battery has got very low power, so voltage drops immidiately to zero when a high current wants to flow through the load. Transmission line has a huge power (many electrical plants are connected), so even if you load them with a high current (like when you touch it standing on the ground) the voltage won't decrease much. You're screwed.

[MultiYeahthatsme]

you just get the archivement ''pilot skills above electricity''

[tigerdigm]

I find it amusing to read the comments....there are soooo many people who have no clue about power & power transmission, yet they think they are an expert.

[DroneFragger]

The reason lines like this are high voltage is because it is current that confers losses, so running high voltage low ampage is better than high ampage low wattage because it results in less heating in the cables and therefore better effeciency over long distances.

[sansalka]

Locos de mierda Los felicito!!!

[MrDriftspirit]

wow i`m extremly impressed of this skills and big balls of all those workers!

[BoTMSapper]

what a dam good chopper pilot

[BostonUrbEx]

Must be privatized.

[Sidewinder9877]

Damn that pilot is good!

[shanemacc]

@Sidewinder9877 that's what happens when you practice 5-6 hours a day... :)

[MrLiljfizzler]

Dumb

[herauthon]

A = I / R => so, A is result of R over some current ( I )

low resistance (ohm) , high ampères

[thiagofernandos]

ta ai um emprego muito perigoso :D

[spatialcurvedtime]

Dont you get cancer from being so close to these high voltage lines? I once read about an article that said that it could cause blood cancer

[InstantMix]

@spatialcurvedtime No

That's retarded. Honestly. Flowing electrons don't cause your heart or blood to get cancer.

[spatialcurvedtime]

@InstantMix If you don't believe me you can always try to google: Electromagnetic radiation and health Leukemia and cancer

[InstantMix]

@spatialcurvedtime Eejit

[spatialcurvedtime]

@InstantMix Read it on Wikipedia OR put your head in the place where the light never shines.

[InstantMix]

@spatialcurvedtime Sorry , but the internet is not a reliable source of information , unless rick astley really does come from west Philadelphia , born and raised where the playground was where he spent most of his day.

[spatialcurvedtime]

@InstantMix I'm not only talking about "the internet". There has been research conducted on this topics. Check out some peer reviewed journal papers about this (keywords: cancer, electromagnetic radiation)

[revorocks123]

All you people arguing about what kills you.

You need a moderately high voltage to overcome the resistance of the skin.

With little current it won't harm you. With low voltage but high current it does nothing, it physically cannot flow through you. With high resistancr you need a high voltage to flow through it, but again with low current no harm is done.

It's only a combination of these that kill you. You NEED the voltage for the current to take an effect.

[GeneralPurposeVehicl]

@revorocks123 For those who want math: V=IR

[TimpBizkit]

@revorocks123 you've got it. A 12 volts car battery will never do you any harm because although it can produce a lot of current, it can only do it through a good conductor. Your skin isn't a very good conductor but a high enough voltage will cause a bigger current flow. The heating effect is proportional to the power, but things like the heart may be damaged not by resistive heating but by the current affecting the nerves that control muscle contraction.

[KaitharVideo]

@revorocks123 "moderately high voltage"? How about no.

Assuming clean, dry and unbroken skin, current can flows at as low as 50VAC, which is pathetic voltage, and even as little as 60mA can kill you. If the skin is punctured the resistance of the skin is bypassed and the lethal current drops further.

[revorocks123]

@KaitharVideo ffs lol, when I say moderately high I'm not talking in relation to these 230kv lines... I know a plug socket can electrocute you so obviously it's less than 230 or 120 in the US, I didn't know the actual voltage threshold, as it will vary from person to person, skin type, oils and liquids, temperature and liquids on the skin... I was just giving a vague answer.

[KaitharVideo]

@revorocks123 but even 220V mains isn't "high voltage"... for purposes of mains wiring, 400V cross phase can be referred to as high voltage, but in terms of physics it doesn't become high voltage until you have at least 4 figures. 2kv-4kv is barely enough to be high.

110 might be high relative to a 1.5V AA battery, but that's about it.

[revorocks123]

@KaitharVideo Well yes you're right there.

For it to be classified as a HV then yes the figures are much larger, I'm explaining it to the average joe who doesn't have use HV or EHV classifications...

People that don't work or study that area classify things by what they usually encounter, so to most people a plug socket is a high voltage, and a 1.5V is a low voltage. That doesn't mean it is officially. Sorry for any confusion.

[KaitharVideo]

@revorocks123 This is why when talking about electrocution I like the description "decent voltage". Has the same implications, but doesn't risk said average joe picking up dangerous ideas from misinterpreting a necessarily vague description. But then again, there are so many people adamantly supporting conspiracy theories that you have to wonder if any amount of explanation will straighten out their understanding.

[revorocks123]

@KaitharVideo That's fair enough, this is YouTube don't forget, 90% of the community seem to be complete idiots so you're right there! It's hilarious watching the people saying the sun is a laser owned by the government,and they can tell by the massive line they get on their camera when pointing it at the sun. Scary to think that they genuinely believe it!

[KaitharVideo]

@revorocks123 don't these people realise that the sun is a mass of incandescent gas, a gigantic nuclear furnace?

My personal favourites are the people that insist the government is suppressing free energy tech.

[revorocks123]

@KaitharVideo Oh yes those ones are good. Energy conservation laws apply and are observed everything in the Universe, yet SOMEHOW, the Government has broken this law. Free energy YO!

[djtowo]

best job ever!

[Herthan]

yet tiger woods makes $110 million a year......i love our society

[jacocobhutme]

he thinks hes cole

from infamous

[quadpro56]

i want this job

[LFO3001]

AutoHover

[eman20083421]

are them lines on when they are working on them?

[lonewolfintj]

@eman20083421 : No. No power wands, no Faraday suits, etc. Live-line workers wear conductive body suits so that electricity flows around them, not through them.

[100andtwenty2]

I like how at 1:38 he tries to jump into the basket before it's securely hooked, and then he almost slips doing so..

[Bennyliz]

It doesn't even look like a helo is holding that load, it's so steady that you would think a crane is doing this work; amazing!

[Twinkfactory1]

material(resistance) Volts amp Watt, you need all three to define what kills you. So really. all three kill you, From: the electrician. this discussion is over.

[conoba]

@Twinkfactory1

I think there is a darwin award for a guy who managed to kill himself with a mutimeter powered by a nine volt battery.

He was trying to measure the inner restance of his body or something like that.

He found out the hard way that once you pierce the skin your resistance is 100 ohms and not megohms. So he send 90 milliamps straight through his heart.

[TheHevquip]

@conoba Then I'm going to solder nails onto 9 volt battery contacts and stab people with them.

[conoba]

@TheHevquip

Yeah, you go do that.Have fun with it.Utill they are going to put you in a chair and put some aeriou amps through your body.

[TheHevquip]

@conoba Are you trying to speak english?

[conoba]

@conoba

Hey I can always try. If I fail at it, no biggie.

[Twinkfactory1]

@conoba he recieved a darwin award for not knowing that Liquid has a much lower resistance than skin?. anybody knows that.

[lonewolfintj]

@Twinkfactory1 : Wrong. Liquids can have resistances ranging from zero to infinitiy, just like solids and gases can. Phase does not determine resistance, only electron mobility. (Man, what is up with all these folks making all these wild, but dead-wrong proclaimations about things they know absolutely nothing about???)

[ArclightPrime]

@lonewolfintj Well you've kinda proclaimed an error yourself. Nothing has a resistance of either zero or infinite, or I should say no substance known to man. Everything can be either a conductor, or a resistance, depending on the material and the voltage applied to it.

[Twinkfactory1]

@lonewolfintj ''can have'', Its not a proclaimation, Blood is not the ulimate Current negater :P, under Normal conditions such as piercing your skin, it's OBVIOUS that there will be a much lower resistance. i dont know how someone looked past that.

[atourdeforce]

fuck me, thats some seriously good pilot, does any1 have a CLUE how hard it is to keep a chopper that steady and nimble, ive never seen any flying that accurate and steady, granted it was prob a very nice hot day without a breeze in the air but still, WOW!

[g7txu]

@atourdeforce If it was a nice hot day, how do you explain the snow?

[atourdeforce]

@g7txu im going to refrain from calling you and idiot and tell you to look harder!

there is now snow if the forest around the men working, and the reason for this is that they are at low altitude and the snow you see is on the mountains in the background which is at very high altitude, much colder and much less dense up there.try looking at mt kilimangaro(sorry if wrong spelling) which is situated in HOT africa BUT THE TOP OF THE MOUNTAIN is snow covered, p.s it doesnt need to be that hi 4 snow

[g7txu]

@atourdeforce Thanks for the geography lesson but funnily enough, I'm no stranger to sub Saharan Africa and was even working up in the mountains of East Africa fairly recently.

You say "there is now snow if the forest around the men working"

Does that mean it wasn't in the video clip the first time you watched it? Surely you just failed to notice that about 14 seconds in, you can see a thick layer of snow directly below the helicopter.

[arizonie602]

thats a great video..

[gripchion]

The pilot snagged the other side of the basket with no help from the lineman!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Too F***ing cool

[KutWrite]

Amazing flying!

[myfeeling4you]

bloody brilliant !!!!

[44coltanaconda]

he got the hook

[RCWorks]

Great pilot!!!

[krrrruptidsoless]

That's a friggin pilot there man.

[hvguy]

omg thats a good heli pilot

[errylche]

the weather is good

[438426x1]

ive made more voltage than that in my room...

lol seriously its not that hard i built a mini tesla coil

[mythril4]

@438426x1

Yes you might have made alot of voltage but with maybe .000001 amps on the tesla coil.

This is voltage is with 1,000,000+ amps, enought to vaporize you in less then a second.

The piezo ignighter in a lighter outs out 10,000 volts but with no currrent so feel like a tiny pinch to you.

Voltage is not what kills you, it is the amperage behind it that does.

[G0IFI]

@mythril4 Actually a combimnation of the two is what does it. You could have available a current of 1000 amps at 100 microvolts but that voltage won't even register on your nerve endings. We've all done that thing with a 9 volt battery on the tongue. A standard PP9 might be capable of delivering one amp for a very short time, but sufficient current to kill is never reached due to body resistance. Milliamps at a few hundred volts though, and you're toast. Let's say it's the watts that kill you.

[asdfghjklkjhgfdsa555]

@G0IFI length of time and current path play a role as well, milliamps and 240v won't make you toast, unless you have very weak heart

[G0IFI]

@asdfghjklkjhgfdsa555 Absolutely. Thousands of volts (such as tasers) don't normally kill a healthy person either. Lots of volts with no oomph. Just gives you a whack, mainly at the point of contact. However, it isn't nice.

[G0IFI]

...whereas the voltage/current these guys are playing with here will literally blow them apart should it ever find its way to deck through them.

[asdfghjklkjhgfdsa555]

@mythril4 This voltage (230kv) actually has very low amps, the high voltage is to keep current low so you can have smaller cables.

[WRkrawlmachine]

@mythril4 thats correct.... amperage is the truly killer......

[lonewolfintj]

@mythril4 : Dead wrong in every particular. Current is determined by voltage and resistance: I=V/R. It's the voltage which is deadly, never the current. The current is not an independent variable. Sigh. Amazing how laymen always get this wrong. One would think that somewhere in their schooling, they would have learned at least *something* about electricity. Ohm's law, at *least*. But nooooooo.....

[mythril4]

@lonewolfintj

I made that comment like a year ago, completely forgot about it till a little thing poped up telling me I had an email from Youtube.

[was4021]

@lonewolfintj Actually you are wrong. It is the current that kills you not the voltage. You are correct in your ohm's law equation but you can just as easily say that V=I*R making V a dependent variable. The amount of voltage doesn't matter. What does matter is how long you are exposed to the shock and current is the measure of moving charged particles. So the higher the amperage the more of a shock you are receiving. To demonstrate rub a balloon on your head. It's a few million volts. Not dead

[chickenpoper]

@mythril4 correct but the voltage is the "train" for the amperage.

[cortexedge]

@mythril4 wtf?

there are maximum 200-300 amps on that line.

after stepping it down, by lowering the voltage, the current is getting bigger.

[shmuli9]

@mythril4 The wires would melt with that much amperage (that's why the VOLTAGE is raised so high, to reduce the amperage and make long-distrance transmission of electricity possible... In fact,t he higher the voltage, the more electrcity flows on the OUTSIDE of the conductor.) And BOTH are necessary in sufficient quantities to kill a person, though in general at higher voltages one has a greater chance of getting burned. At 120-240 AC one won't get burned; one's heart will just stop.

[ArtistBlade1972]

@shmuli9 Skin effect is dependent on frequency, not voltage...

[shmuli9]

@ArtistBlade1972 You're right, but I think FEELING the effect of the freqeuncy depends on the voltage. (I FEEL it at 120V or 240 V, but not without touching a live wire. I can feel frequencies at high voltages from quite a distance away...)

[ArtistBlade1972]

@shmuli9 What you're probably feeling is an electrostatic field.

[TimpBizkit]

@mythril4 actually it's the watts that kill you

[PanORotta]

@TimpBizkit

no.. its the Ohms that kills.

[brandon14872]

@TimpBizkit its amps and voltage, you need like 100 volts to get through the skin and then 70 miliamps to kill you

[kjcohn]

@TimpBizkit you're dumb

[jlsd18]

@TimpBizkit actually its the current, amps..

[felixxr6turbo]

@mythril4 Wrong on the first current statement... complete opposite.

[mythril4]

@felixxr6turbo

HAHAHA!! I gotta say, for that comment being there over a year, it by far has thee most responses over any comment I've left on YouTube to date.

[felixxr6turbo]

@mythril4 Haha, no idea why I replied, never normally do... been at work all day (hate saturday work) building switchboards... guess the job came home with me today :D

[DJelectfire]

@mythril4 Thank you! Finally some one who understand the difference! Now please tell the ignorant masses the difference between DC and AC!

[boneyloc]

its called a bundle conducter...there used to reduce corona...as well as increase the power factor. its the same phase..just 2 wires unstead of 1. ive used a spacer buggy ......but we just used a crane to get it on there not a heli....be nice to work up in the mountains

[jdub2800]

Is he signaling the piolot with his head movements? Is that the purpose of the blacktape on his hardhat?

[joeltheasshole]

"Yes for heaven, no for hell"

[chuckeieio]

Wow Good pilot!

[syferwx]

I don't know if these line are alive in the video.. but I can surely say that these two lines are from the same phase, just because they are too close. This is only a way to reduce impedance, replace one big line by two..

[netrix99]

Ok, 3 questions. Im an electrician just so you know.

1) are these live?

2) If yes, that phase is live, is there another phase running next to it a few meters away?

3) There is usually a minimum distance required between lines to prevent arcs, would that bucket close that distance in abit to cause a link for an arc to jump?

[joeltheasshole]

No, the circuit is deenergized. There might be an energized circuit on the oposite side of the tower, which would cause induction.  Are you asking, if a bucket was positioned between the phases, would it cause it to arch phase to phase?

[netrix99]

Yes, that is mainly what I wish to know. In new zealand, our regs state that nothing shall come within a certain distance of a line, and since there are two lines running side by side, they will also have a restriction regarding the distance. Ive never seen or know of anyone who has seen it happen, but if they were live, would the bucket interfer with this and cause arching?

[joeltheasshole]

No, it wouldn't cause a phase to phase arc, because the bucket is isolated from ground.

[Krevan89]

this comment is insane, a simple anwser that is that these are the same phase and are jumpered across at the the bottem side of the insulators, line is de-energized ive done this shit before, good,clean work

[baginDVS1]

its off.

[diago2008]

This is very accurate flying, it always amazes me how much faith the grounds people have in the pilot above. Well done and safe flying.