I've realized now, how we take electricity for granted, if it wasn't for these heroes we, wouldn't have it. Respect the things we take for granted...regardless of the light bill, it doesn't mean anything, unless these guys are at a dangerous job. God bless and protect you all.
This is why men get paid more than women generally. Men are way more likely to work a dangerous job where their life will end. Women usually work comfortable desk jobs with air conditioning. You cannot expect a guy dangling from a helicopter playing with live wire to get paid the same money as a woman sitting comfortably in an office painting her nails?
Electricity is a business like anything else. I pay the electric company in return for electricity to my home. Taking it for granted does not apply here.
Haven't you heard? Electrocution is a favorite Indian pastime. They watch their buddies fry all the time and still think, "Hm, let me grab that bare electrical wire on top of the train." Make it make sense.
Hey, somebody has to do it & I'm thankful its you that's keeping the electricity flowing. Thank you for your service to our great country. Truly the real and deserving un-sung heroes of Americas POWER.🚁💡
You gotta figure it's one of those rare jobs where they basically set their own pay. Like the guys who put out oil well fires or repair pipes at the bottom of sewage lagoons.
My lights, heat and air conditioning are always working and amazing, the people that provide it.......Priceless God Bless them all and keep them safe.....
Good point. In fact, the line worker ends his commentary with his only 3 fears, among which: women. But that doctor does not make this interesting footage
I was a behind a man in line at mcdonalds over 20 years ago, he was with his son and I asked him what happened to his arm( cut off from above the elbow) He did this job!
far away from loud and gleaming documentaries. The music is touching and the sound work of the sound effects is masterful. A beautiful documentary is like a good movie.
There is actual risk and apparent/perceived risk - the correct procedures, tools and protection (system wide and personal) can reduce the actual risk to that of normal everyday activities (which are dangerous themselves but found quite acceptable by most folks) at a cost. The difference would be the quality inspection of the cable at manufacture to that 'way up there' in terms of relative cost, working team size, time and accident rate. No doubt today (2021) this close inspection is done by the inspector from on the ground using an ATV for travel (rather than a piloted helicopter) and a camera drone (that may fly up and then hang from the transmission wire for most of the inspection time) for inspection documentation. I wonder if this 2010 process inspected the entire surface condition of the two cables top, bottom and both sides, I didn't notice any mirror used (though he did drag something along with him hanging from the pulley).
That's like some motivation words. Dude sitting on cables that are really high in the air and they have lots of Electricity flowing over them and he's married "three things I'm afraid of"
Fun trivia fact ; If you strike the ground wire on a transmission tower line with a metal tool, the sound that is produced is the sound effect used in the movie Star Wars for their laser 🔫 guns
the line Sparks to the rod with the guy on the helicopter because the guy in the helicopter have capacitance and the AC line it's charging them up positive and then reversing and charging them negatively 60 times a second.
Funny Nym BTW. MOSFET. 'Metal Oxide Semiconducter Field Effect Transformer'. That FET is the semi conductor equivalent of the vacuum tube. Great stuff! Have a 1939 Zenith TUBE floor model radio here. What a beauty. Regards.........
no, it's due to static electricity from the rotor blades, he is grounding the static from the helicopter so it doesn't go through him as he climbs on the lines, he then attaches a ground to the cable then, climbs onto the cables....when he gets off he does this in reverse. those lines are not live. the live HT workers wear a Faraday suit.
Wendy's great paranese guard the sheep and lambs....perdenales electric....Blanco Texas was the provider at 1139 deer haven, Blanco, Texas. My Michael Meehan threw the ball to my son, Austin bastone and said, 'go long, Austin's and our son caught the football with one hand! I miss you Michael and Austin and my family!!!! Terry the owner of the 54 acres at 1139 deer haven was a park ranger. It was a blessing and honor to experience that life with Michael and my son and our pups on that land in the 'best lil town in texas' !!! I miss Blanco and chief Richie and pd...thank you for being kind to us when we lived there!!!!
Matthew 6:19-21 NKJV "Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal; [20] but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. [21] For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.,
Average High Voltage Lineman salary: $71,000 per year. About $35 an hour if working a 40 hour week. I'd rather make a bit less than that and be comfortable.
Most of the time it's a 10 hour day, 4 day week. You get unreal benefits, great over time on Fridays, and if you're doing something like he is in this video, he's making well over $100'000/year
$100,000.00 my ass. I went to Iraq for 9 months and made $260,000.00. 3 months on. Two weeks off. As long as you don't stay longer then 10 days in the United States in a calendar year of the contract. It's all tax free... You just had to deal with Camel Spiders. Ever so often mortar fire. Just make sure you hide your alcohol out of public site. Or they send your ass back.. But it is an open contract. You can leave anytime you want... I did it twice. Then paid for a Brand New leisure travel van Wonder. I now travel around and stopped working.. Unless I want too. Best choice I ever made...
Just lookup KBR open jobs site. It's all right there.They do a phone interview. Fly you to Houston. Give a medical look over. Get you a passport. A debt card with some cash on on it and you're on a plane. It really is nice. As they pay for everything. You meet new people from all over. You get to take your 2 weeks to any country you like. They also flew me to every site I had to put by helicopter. Stay a few weeks or a month. Then go build a new one or support an existing one. It's pretty damn easy once you get settled in to the routine. Just don't spend your money going ape shit. When you come back. Take a few months off. If you think you liked it. Do it again. In two years. You can make out like a bandit.. As some of these assignments are in modern cities. Ask for Carol if she is still there. She was my recruiter...www.kbr.com/careers I mean you can get shot on the streets of Chicago easier.....
Fuck no your not. You're not even allowed to wear anything that looks military from any country. You want to carry a weapon. Join a military branch or become a mercenary contractor.
I would imagine that drones will take over some jobs like this in the future . I built some truck mounted boom lifts for working on powerlines at one stage of my life and l really did learn a lot about this sort of work .
American Woman at home: "I would like to do your job, doing laundry and taking care of the kids is exhausting and is the most difficult job of the planet being a mother according to OPRAH"
And recently I saw yet another helicopter fly straight into the wires with everyone saying: How was he supposed to know there were wires there? Perhaps some of THESE pilots could have a chat with the families and explain what logic means. The police will tell you that this comes nowhere NEAR the danger they face every day. I'll say this: Thank you for risking your lives to keep us powered up, it is so appreciated! The police? I'll save that for other commentaries.
Yup….there are MANY jobs out there that are more dangerous than being a cop…and you never hear those people say what you ALWAYS hear cops saying…”We’re out there putting our lives on the line every day!”
And the sad part of this is that all is about the money , If all the electricity conduction cables in the world were installed underground, they would have saved millions of lives , millions of fires should have been prevented and millions of economic losses related to electricity poles
I was skeptical of the "most dangerous" claim so I looked up some statistics. Crab fishermen deaths are 117 per 100,000 workers whereas power line workers seem to have a death rate of 20 per 100,000 workers.
