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[Tony H]

I was a linesman in the late 70's and can tell you some stories that would make your flesh creep

[A380 Elite]

Shocking, don't do hight's.  

[Marks DTM Calib]

The HT I can cope with (have live wired HT before)....the heights I could not do!

I like the way they attach a lead first to equalise the helicopter and wire potentials, nothing to worry about on the the electrocution sides of things as long as there is no route to true earth (which there isnt that high up).

[Kevin Wood]

I bet that helicopter's not fly-by-wire though

The potential for upsetting electronics on board must be quite high.

Kevin

[Marks DTM Calib]

I bet that helicopter's not fly-by-wire though

The potential for upsetting electronics on board must be quite high.

Kevin

No....it would need to pass radiated immunity testing as part of the approvals and EMC testing so why would it worry about the spark (RF generated) and HT field....

[nuclear onion]

Due to design restraints, all helicopters are fly by wire.  They have three basic flight controls, the collective, cyclic and anti torque pedals.  the collective is like a kind of handbrake thing and is raised or lowered to alter the pitch of all rotor blades collectively (hence the name) used to control lift.  The cyclic is the stick that the pilot uses to control the bank and pitch of the aircraft.  The anti torque pedals compensate for the twisting effect of the main rotor disc.

[Matchless]

I fancy having a go at that, technically its interesting and challenging and on a fine day the views would be great. Not so sure about doing it on a wet cold day in winter though.

[davlad22]

I was a linesman in the late 70's and can tell you some stories that would make your flesh creep

Do it!  

[Allenm]

I was a linesman in the late 70's and can tell you some stories that would make your flesh creep

dodgy offside calls!  always make my flesh creep!  

[Tony H]

I was a linesman in the late 70's and can tell you some stories that would make your flesh creep

Do it!  

Okey dokey hears one. I was working at Fiddlers Ferry power station, we were working on the insulation pots that carry the powerlines.these pots are suspended on large concreate A frames about sixty feet high. To aid access the company hired a large cherry picker which we used as a work platform. We raised the cherry picker and were working away when a CEGB employee shouted up to us pointing at the elbow of the machine. unknown to us as we manouvered the lift part of it had strayed into the next section which was LIVE! carrying 415,000 volts The arm was about 20 feet away from the line, and when you consider that at those voltages electricity can arc 15 feet another few feet and we would have been toast

[Kevin Wood]

I heard a few horror stories from some guys I used to work with who install broadcast transmitters. Apparently one guy was working (alone) on a transmitter which had 2 3 phase feeds from separate parts of the grid. One supply failed and in the process of switching it over to the other supply he managed to connect both supplies with the consequence that he was trying to supply a small town in Wales using switchgear that was designed to operate a TV transmitter.

It was the last mistake he made, sadly.

Kevin

[MikeDundee]

Try anything once.........looks like an interesting job, plenty travel

[Golfbuddy]

Try anything once.........looks like an interesting job, plenty travel

And it keeps you off the streets.  

[MikeDundee]

Try anything once.........looks like an interesting job, plenty travel

And it keeps you off the streets.  

Close to the edge though

[Golfbuddy]

Try anything once.........looks like an interesting job, plenty travel

And it keeps you off the streets.  

Close to the edge though

Interesting job with plenty of highs.