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RD

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Hot Job! How do they get these jobs?
« on: May 31, 2007, 09:32:34 AM »
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Re: Hot Job! How do they get these jobs?
« Reply #1 on: May 31, 2007, 09:40:49 AM »
When I was 8, I saw a guy die instantly, about 15 feet from me. He worked for the local concrete company, and was installing a new septic tank in our backyard. The boom on the truck got close enough to the overhead powerline to cause an arc, and he was dead before he hit the ground, still clutching the boom control. The tires all blew out on the truck, and they hauled it away later that day, and sent out a truck the next day with a horizontal boom, (and a vertical operator). Pretty spooky, and something I will never forget...  :o :-\ 
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Re: Hot Job! How do they get these jobs?
« Reply #2 on: May 31, 2007, 09:45:21 AM »
I knew a guy that did this work before and he said it felt like ants crawling all over your body the whole time you are up there. Believe it or not, the most common way people die doing this work is not from electricity. It is from the helecopter hitting the wires....
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Re: Hot Job! How do they get these jobs?
« Reply #3 on: May 31, 2007, 12:03:37 PM »
I watched a special about that type of work one time. It's a very expensive process but still cheaper than trying to get crews into some of the places by land. And yes, those guys make mega bucks.
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Re: Hot Job! How do they get these jobs?
« Reply #4 on: June 04, 2007, 05:04:03 PM »
 I actually saw these guy's working at the power plant I work at.
They did not have the platforms on each side of the copter, they just climbed out on the rail and the pilot hoovered about 3 feet above the High line tower. He practically jumped onto the top of the tower and climbed down to a small wood platform that was hanging on the cross arm.
Later, the copter would go back and and pick up the cable and place it within reach of the lineman then he would connect it to the cross arm hanger, then the pilot would move forward and strech the line out,
Absolutly Amazing.

After this line is finished S.E. Texas will have a supply line from
South Texas Nuclear Project (STP) as a back up Electricity supply.
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Re: Hot Job! How do they get these jobs?
« Reply #5 on: June 04, 2007, 08:42:06 PM »
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Re: Hot Job! How do they get these jobs?
« Reply #6 on: June 04, 2007, 09:40:03 PM »
Let me be the first to say Oh HELL NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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