Re: MUST SEE: "Helicopter Linemen" on History Channel!!
- From: "operator jay" <none@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2005 23:26:58 -0500
"Bruce Sinclair" <bruce.sinclair@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote
in message news:cfHwe.11404$U4.1449871@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> In article <1120058247.801219.266440@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
mdmarshall@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >Man, you've got to check this show out, it's incredible!!
> >
> >Tune In:
> >Saturday, July 9, 2005 @ 11am ET/PT
> >
> >The remarkable story of the men who maintain and repair live
> >high-voltage power lines--an elite team of pilot and lineman that looks
> >for damage and makes critical repairs without turning the power off!
> >"Barehanding" involves a helicopter flying up to live power lines,
> >stretching a metal wand out to the line and energizing the helicopter
> >and lineman to the full strength of the power line. The lineman,
> >wearing a special metal fiber suit, then works on the wire by sitting
> >on the helicopter skid or climbing onto the bare line. This technique
> >makes the lineman, chopper, and pilot all part of the electrical
> >circuit with 345,000 volts running through both men and machine. For
> >two days, we follow members of the USA Airmobile team in Wisconsin as
> >they risk their lives to inspect and repair critical power lines that
> >were struck by a tornado. And we trace the development of this
> >high-risk work, conceived of in 1979 by Mike Kurtgis, our guide through
> >its electric history.
>
> IIRC in france (?) they have a helicopter lifted cable car like device
that
> they hang off the power cables for doing inspections and such. Now that
> looked fascinating :)
>
>
>
> Bruce
>
>
> -------------------------------------
> The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who
have not got it.
> - George Bernard Shaw
> Cynic, n: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as
they ought to be.
> - Ambrose Bierce
>
> Caution ===== followups may have been changed to relevant groups
> (if there were any)
I saw some guys on +/- 500kV DC lines in the same kind of contraption, here
in Canada. Crossing the insulators at the towers required some contraption,
I didn't see that part. I wondered what would happen if one of them took a
whiz over the side. I guess it depends.
j
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