Inspecting Live Power Lines (Video)

[skip0110]

This man has a lot of confidence in the laws of physics

 

[Aquendwato]

Looks like fun.

 

[Omnis]

Dirty Jobs anyone?

I think it would be awesome to fly on the outside of a helicopter like that. Trust is an amazing thing.

 

[SRV2LOW4ME]

This reminds me of the guy on Pinks that lost an arm and part of the top of his head due to working on some power lines.

I think I'll just keep my job as "Bear wrestler" in the circus thanks.

 

[ferrari_chris]

The good thing about the laws of physics is, they never stop working.

As safe as crossing the street eh. Did he really mean that?

 

[ExigeEvan]

That's amazing. I wonder how they word the job description.

 

[Famine]

He's right though. The safesuit is just a scaled down version of this:

 

[Duke]

This man has a lot of confidence in the laws of physics

I'd say he has a lot of faith in his pilot, too.

 

[wfooshee]

These pilots are VERY good. When they built a new bridge across the bay here, they had to move 2 or 3 towers for a 500KV line alongside the bridge. They used helicopters to string the new wires and join them to the existing hot circuit, then to remove the wires from the old towers that had to come down.

 

[Giancarlo]

But what are the insurance benefits for that sort of job? Good huh?