Pretty neat, I work around high voltages but this guy WOW! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tzga6qAaBA
My buddy Chuck was the Northern Regional manager for Niagra Mohawk in NY, now owned and operated by National Grid. He's explained and shown me videos of all the neat stuff they do and how they make repairs, mostly always hot. I've seen videos similar to this. It's how they do it and keep the power running to fire up your oven for dinner. LOL He did some pretty neat stuff in his work, like putting the power back on in Puerto Rico after the big hurrican a few years back, restoring power to the Adirondack region, well all of northern NY during the big ice storm a while back. He's been ask time and time again to come out of retirement to do consulting work..... but he likes his retirement. LOL
That's crazy. If someone asked me to do that for work, and the pay was somewhat decent, I would definitely do that. Seems to be safe enough
I am an "overpaid" union Journeyman Lineman. You may say we are overpaid, maybe I could give you phone numbers to the 4 families that I know very closely whose dad, husband, brother, son, friend they will never get to see walk through their front door at night ever again; just so you wouldn't have the inconvenience of losing the privilege of power. We risk our lives everyday so you can have power. Before you say "overpaid" maybe you should put on some hooks and climb a 90ft pole at 1 am with -40 wind chill and see if we are "overpaid".
Seems to be unless one of those insulators was about ready to go. Looks like it could get a little tricky then.