Want a Job? Are you man enough for this one?

[KK4AMI]

High Tension Cable Inspector. I don't even wonder what it pays! Uh UH, no way.:snooty:

http://www.flixxy.com/helicopter-cable-inspector.htm

[N8YX]

A certain 3-land ham is man enough for the task. Hell, he even wrote the inspection procedures...and IIRC, designed the helicopter too.

[kf0rt]

How 'bout the photographer? He does shit like this all the time, but rarely the same thing twice.

http://portfolio.joemcnally.com/index.php#mi=2&pt=1&pi=10000&s=2&p=0&a=2&at=0

[KK4AMI]

There has to be a country music song for those guys. Sorry, I don't trust helicopters, pilots or electricity.

[N7YA]

Yeah....ill pass.

[KC9ECI]

Doesn't look so bad to me.

[WØTKX]

I'd do it, with proper training, etc. Seriously. Damn good pay.

[NQ6U]

I'd do it. I used to climb utility poles for a living and I'd bet that, statistically speaking, that was more dangerous.

[kb2vxa]

"A certain 3-land ham is man enough for the task. Hell, he even wrote the inspection procedures...and IIRC, designed the helicopter too."

Hello

Are you sure you don't mean 5 land?

[N8YX]

"A certain 3-land ham is man enough for the task. Hell, he even wrote the inspection procedures...and IIRC, designed the helicopter too."

Hello

Are you sure you don't mean 5 land?
Nope.

[n2ize]

I saw this video years ago. I have no problem riding in helicopters or being near electricity but I would be scared to death to climb out and onto those wires and then crawl along those wires. But I am sure that given proper training and time I could have gotten used to it and it would become second nature to me and wouldn't bother me. I would feel more comfortable working up there than working in some tight or enclosed space. Plus the pay would be awesome.

[kb2crk]

Looks like fun. I know from personal experience that the fall is painless... the sudden stop at the bottom can be a bitch though....lol

[N7YA]

Nope. Climb out of a helicopter on to a high tension line with hundreds of thousands of volts running through it at 300'...my hats off to those guys, for sure.

Ill stick with pretending to be a rock star. :lol:

[w3bny]

Thought this was going to be about agricultural worker jobs in Alabama since it seems like no white folks need or want to apply.

[N7YA]

Or housekeeping in Vegas.

[n2ize]

That was no line inspector !! He was trying to steal the copper wires !!! These days copper thieves will steal anything.

[kb2vxa]

I have a few pictures of dumb copper thieves, you DON'T want to see them.

[N8YX]

I have a few pictures of dumb copper thieves, you DON'T want to see them.

Well done, Warren...well done. :clap:

[suddenseer]

I am impressed, but these guys are a bit nuttier.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgO4Gd4RhvM&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgO4Gd4RhvM&feature=related

[NQ6U]

I am impressed, but these guys are a bit nuttier.

Saw this some time back and, yeah, I agree—free-climbing a 1700+ foot tower is another thing altogether.

[N7YA]

I have a few pictures of dumb copper thieves, you DON'T want to see them.

I saw them.

Intent x brain power = result.

[W7XF]

That was no line inspector !! He was trying to steal the copper wires !!! These days copper thieves will steal anything.

Joke is on them....high tension and even medium tension distribution lines are ALUMINUM conductor wrapped over a steel cable for strength.
Copper is too heavy and soft for high voltage transmisson lines above ground. Copper thieves are down to underground distribution... which can produce the same jolt as overhead.

[n2ize]

Joke is on them....high tension and even medium tension distribution lines are ALUMINUM conductor wrapped over a steel cable for strength.
Copper is too heavy and soft for high voltage transmisson lines above ground. Copper thieves are down to underground distribution... which can produce the same jolt as overhead.

Maybe those very high voltage cables on towers are not copper but some of the older cables running above the streets here (7000-12,000 V) are indeed copper. I know they are because there was an outage due to a fallen tree here and they left a piece of the fallen cable that they cut and later I picked it up and it was solid copper throughout. The insulation looked like some sort of cloth impregnated with tar.

[n2ize]

Speaking of copper theived I would still like to know who was the nut that cut out and stole a length of ethernet cable that ran through a stairwell from a place I used to work at. The ethernet cable was energized and in use and caused a network outage when it was cut and stolen. I couldn't imagine much copper value in it.

[w2amr]

High Tension Cable Inspector. I don't even wonder what it pays! Uh UH, no way.:snooty:

http://www.flixxy.com/helicopter-cable-inspector.htm
No thanks, I get shakey at the top of a 10' ladder.:sick: