Why Wind Turbine Technicians EARN So MUCH MONEY to Keep Massive Blades Spinning

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Explore the high-stakes world of wind turbine technicians ('wintechs') who battle dizzying heights and tough weather conditions to maintain some of the world's largest wind turbines, like the towering HALIADE-X. These unsung heroes of the renewable energy revolution conduct everything from installation and inspection to repair and overhaul of these massive energy-generating titans.
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@TheDerperado 9 месяцев назад

Being a wind turbine tech isn't as dangerous or extreme as many people think. Deaths are almost always a result of neglecting safety procedures. If you use your PPE correctly and follow safety instructions, it is acually a very safe job.

@Physics072 8 месяцев назад

It is very extreme vs other jobs not sure why you would post this. There is no room for human error. Other jobs you can make a mistake and not be killed. So stick your "Very safe job" where the sun does not shine buddy. Most of the deaths among wind turbine technicians happened because of falls. Other common causes of death include being struck by an object and electrocution. Wind turbines can also pose a risk to the general public

@TheDerperado 8 месяцев назад

@@Physics072 😂

@Papitoti 6 месяцев назад

Only 'safe' for the real professionals out there, not for amateurs.

@Physics072 6 месяцев назад

@@Papitoti Tell that to the insurance companies that won't insure them the same as other safer jobs. The have the stats.

@martinlutherkingjr.5582 3 месяца назад

There’s more to health risks than risk of death

@desertdesserts6262 Месяц назад

to be clear - industrial wind farms are not "green" or "clean" energy.. just alternative energy. I work on these things.. they ain't clean.

@boatlifescotland 17 дней назад

Thank you, at least someone stating it…

@ianmoone4331 15 дней назад

This seems to be the hidden truth that is conveniently left out whenever "green energy" comes up.

@aaronvallejo8220 9 месяцев назад

I build wind farms. 60 to 70 hour weeks. 6 days a week and they pay me well. I see weird little places all over the country filled with super nice people. It is a fulfilling job when you build massive structures with your good buddies which produce secure, domestic, clean, renewable electricity for 160,000 homes in a year.

@shauna6140 8 месяцев назад

If you don’t mind me asking what is the hourly rate or daily wage doing a job like this thanks .. I’m asking as I’m currently doing my rope access

@trevorhuff7213 7 месяцев назад

how safe do you feel? and do you think it's a career you could do the rest of your life?

@julian_david4556 7 месяцев назад

About to attend Airstream renewables tech school. Excited to be apart of a clean future

@bobducksplayz5251 3 месяца назад

@@trevorhuff7213I started as a travel wind tech at 18 and now I’m 19 about to turn 20 and I feel like it’s something I’m not gonna do forever but for a while of course because of the pay it’s good

@RetroDoneRight 5 месяцев назад

Wind Techs dont make shit for the amount of work they do. I was offered a position travelling the world basically living out of a suitcase, and ended up finding a job locally that paid more for significantly less work.

@Efrain891 3 месяца назад

How much were they offering and how do you begin the process with no experience?

@RetroDoneRight 3 месяца назад

@@Efrain891 Couldn't tell you how to get started with no experience. I worked in turbine repair for about a decade before. It was around 110k before per diem.

@franciscosotelo3938 29 дней назад

Lazy mf lol 😅

@RetroDoneRight 29 дней назад

@@franciscosotelo3938 Lol, wind techs spend the vast majority of their days waiting. I repaired the blades that were "too difficult" or "impossible" to repair. The scarf and wet layup repairs they do in the field I could do in my sleep. Because I went to a company that actually wanted to pay me for my carbon fiber and fiberglass expertise doesn't make me lazy. I just know what I'm worth. My last project just arrived at the Kennedy Space Center to prepare to launch and return from the ISS this year.

@williamgragilla7007 2 месяца назад

That’s $66,000 a year paycheck kind of sucks. No thanks.

@justdoingitjim7095 11 месяцев назад

I had to do some work on some equipment located on a wind farm, so one of the wind farm workers accompanied me. While driving he told me to steer far around the turbines, as they always had things falling off of them. Some of the nuts used on them are larger than a basketball and falling from that height it would completely flatten the cab of my truck and anyone in it.

@SamIAm-kz4hg 11 месяцев назад

@justdoingitjim7095 "he told me to steer far around the turbines, as they always had things falling off of them" This is not how we arrive at facts. "A guy told me..." Yeah. Not buying that crap.

@SamIAm-kz4hg 11 месяцев назад

@@DecernererInitium "Things do fall off them." Whether it happens or not is not the question. Things also fall off buildings and vehicles. The idea that it happens so often that you need to drive around them is simply moronic.

@SamIAm-kz4hg 11 месяцев назад

@@DecernererInitium "Because of the vibration and movement they're more prone to loosening than static buildings." This is called moving the goalposts. Pay attention to what the conversation was about. Some guy told you that these machines "always had things falling off of them" to the point where it was too risky to drive under one. I'm calling bullshit on that. Do you have ANY other source other than "a guy told me." Did he tell you how often it happened? How does he know that this is the case with 340,000 other wind turbines in the world? Even it it were the case that some things fell off this turbine, what was the cause? Did someone accidentally leave some things lying on top? Wind turbines cost $2-4 million. But parts just randomly fall off like rain, right? Come on. Be smarter.

@SamIAm-kz4hg 10 месяцев назад

@DecernererInitium "It isn't moving the goal posts" You started by claiming that enough stuff fell off these machines that it required you to drive around them instead of under them. You then MOVED THE GOALPOSTS when you backtracked to say "Because of the vibration and movement they're more prone to loosening than static buildings". Those are two different things. "This conversation is now over." No. No it wasn't. I'll decide when it's over for me, thanks. If you want to run away, feel free. And that sure does speak volumes about you. Bit of a dick aren't you?

@jazzridez 10 месяцев назад

Bolts the size of basketballs, I DON'T THINK SO. Maybe up to 6 inch hex. Basketball, no way jose.

@BILLY-px3hw 11 месяцев назад

Me at the beginning of this video: This sounds like a really cool job...........Me at the end of this video: I quit

@ianmoone4331 15 дней назад

I feel like I could do this. It looks a lot safer than what i do now and pays better.

@bernhardfraser8259 11 месяцев назад

They are shockingly underpaid. Should be double as standard', with extras, eg, a payment for every time they have to go out on top (would encourage electric companies to demand better quality windmills). They should organise for a worldwide strike. They would win.

@LimbovitschHaim4Mir 11 месяцев назад

...and besides there are a German small comp. "STORM's" that has developed an advanced concept, where the generators are all under, but the pigs from big comp. malmanagement simple ignoring that fact and preferring to risk life's of the "Technicians" ...

@MisterAndyS 11 месяцев назад

Yup. I'm an engineer and a rock climber. I'm good with heights. I still say double would be about right.

@SamIAm-kz4hg 11 месяцев назад

@@MisterAndyS "I'm good with heights" I can't walk across the glass floor of the CN tower. This job is a non-starter for me.

@julianmason8290 9 месяцев назад

The pay is it amazing there’s guys on my site now earning 13k a month

@autismothegreat1741 9 месяцев назад

@@julianmason8290please explain

@tonyromano6220 10 месяцев назад

Insane.

@gowine504 2 месяца назад

now tell us about the cost of living in San Francisco

@mocpehusrainey4961 Месяц назад

Sure, glad for the added beauty these climate friendly things add to the landscape. I never have seen one in a city like New York.

@LimbovitschHaim4Mir 11 месяцев назад

8:42 - all you left for food !

@sushantdey402 9 месяцев назад

In India we getting only 15 k salary 😅

@buddha2845 3 месяца назад

सच्ची में सिर्फ 15000रूपए?

@vladalexandrurascanu8015 12 дней назад

We earn so much money ,because we stay away from our family for many weeks,with 12h shift almost every day.Currently the rates are way to low for our work, related with how much money the industry is producing!!

@MeaHeaR 3 дня назад

Thiss Turbans aré é Power-Phull

@chrisgillard6129 Месяц назад

Looks to me that all the hydro carbons used to build and maintain those wind turbines is far greater than any "renewable green energy" that the turbines produce.

@hotchihuahua1546 Месяц назад

That salary had better come with some good benefits with free medical insurance , life & accidental benefits , pension and vacation time !

@keithtaylor6259 7 месяцев назад

Why not make the entire wind turbines out of hard plastic like portable radios are made of then they stand a chance during strong winds

@danielebrparish4271 5 месяцев назад

Because reinforced fiberglass is tougher and lasts longer.

@user-qk4jo5zt5r 4 месяца назад

How many salary got by wind turbine technician in Germany of work experience of 9 years.

@jakebern6890 3 месяца назад

probably around 45000 first year but thats without taxes

@jakebern6890 3 месяца назад

maybe a little more

@dixonkim8659 10 месяцев назад

$66K/Year??? I was thinking more like $660K/Year considering how dangerous this job is.

@tonyromano6220 10 месяцев назад

No joke.

@juanshaftpatel7488 7 месяцев назад

why? they are expendable

@maxdoubt7680 11 месяцев назад

Where are all the women ??? ( apart from the narrator that is :)

@samlipsit517 11 месяцев назад

3 min mark

@brianwarshow129 8 месяцев назад

Typically they are in management configuring new ways to cut wages and per diems, travel pay, deny health benefits, add pressure for corporate profit margins. The very few women who put on a harness, get out there on rope and do good repairs are few and far between. I've worked with some great women in this feild and sadly, they move on quite fast. Normally within a year or two they are given management positions in a flurry of female corporate nepotism. Sorry to shit on the birthday cake but that's how it goes.

@ImmortalExplorer Месяц назад

Why don't you ask them? Nothing's stopping them from applying.

@Wingalaxi 3 месяца назад

The statements madel by American girl speakers so often end in a peculiar croak. Does no-one ever draw their attention to this strange impediment?

@Shannen-ps9ts 9 месяцев назад

Lighting magnetic? No thank you.

@richiemac3135 2 месяца назад

its not a job that pays So MUCH money ! Far from it

@stefannilsson2406 5 месяцев назад

Normal electricians make more money and it's a safer job. At least where I live.

@Moudiremoo 5 месяцев назад

trading money with your life is a dumb equation. and its only 5.5k a month, a barber can make more!

@bluefalcon8215 8 месяцев назад

God those things are just ridiculous. “They don’t put out any global warming gas!” Wow !! How do they get all that electricity to the actual houses??

@roboticbigfoot3222 2 месяца назад

Wind power produces a low voltage and that is stepped up to a high voltage using a step up transformer. High voltage is good for distributing electricity over long distances. This electricity gets sent to a substation near you where it is stepped down a little bit and then sent to the transformer near your house which steps it down to 120 or 240 volts. No greenhouse gases required for this entire process.

@Christian-oq3md 5 месяцев назад

shit energy but hippies wants it instead of a powerplant for some reason

@Intuition5 2 месяца назад

I work for a contractor. We work/sell shit to both 😂😂

@sergsilvestr1217 10 месяцев назад

I can imagine the price of changing one propeller blade. Will any profit from producing electricity will be left? The propeller itself probably cost hundreds of thousands of $$. How much can one wind tower, without cost of repairs or maintenance, earn. I like general idea of "green" and renewable energy, but todays technology is fur from replacing nuclear and fossil fuel based power plants. Nicola Tesla told, that he was accumulation electricity from surrounding air. Now, that the way to do it !

@ginog5037 10 месяцев назад

What a stupid power system and a waste of resources...

@tonyromano6220 10 месяцев назад

Absolutely, complete grift.

@nicolasgiraudo7948 8 месяцев назад

shut your mouth genius

@davidanalyst671 8 месяцев назад

yes, other than its 1/3 the cost of the electricity from a nuke plant. So other than capitalism, its a waste

@ginog5037 8 месяцев назад

@@davidanalyst671 1/3 of the cost, sure libtard, try again.

@tonyromano6220 8 месяцев назад

@@davidanalyst671 nonsense, everything green does not get honest sunrtaniny. Without government subsidies wind would not exist. Same with solar and silly EVs. Complete environmental disasters all.