Not a job for the faint hearted
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16 years ago
Not a job for the faint hearted
In message , vortex2 writes
the guys who work on high voltage cables from bucket trucks, ladder or pole spikes while wearing nothing but a pair of high voltage rated rubber gloves. When the gloves fail (and they have) the very least they can expect is to lose limbs of they survive.
All so you guys can have power all the time without interruption.
And to keep the meters turning!
Hmm, some more misinformation. 'Hot' working doesn't rely on rubber gloves.
Beg to differ they are used depends on the voltage on the line be that
230/415 11 kV etc...
Mea culpa, I'll rephrase that slightly - 'hot' working *at EHV or HV* doesn't rely *solely* on rubber gloves.
In message , The Wanderer writes
It does in some instances. While the bucket trucks are often designed with a fibreglass section in the boom, it isn't always possible to get a heavy bucket truck into a field.
There are other techniques for hot work like stick working where tools on the end of insulated rods are used to manipulate the cables, but rubber glove working is common and often done directly from the pole, though less so in the UK.
What sort of "maintenance" would one of these guys be carrying out anyway?
I'm guessing, by the youtube video, it would be general inspection - I saw one guy coming up to the insulator for a fleeting moment.
I once watched some guys using insulating rods to detach a link on a pole so as to isolate a section to check for insulator breakdown, which was causing severe radio interference,
Some scary piccys here!...
In message , John Rumm writes
It would scare you....
They do things like tapping on a new transformer, changing out insulators and even running in new cables above or below the existing live ones. (All bare!)
In message , tony sayer writes
Much better view from the top.
Picture taken from helicopter... He's about to climb onto it's skids. Much easier than climbing pylons.
In article , Clive Mitchell writes
harness I have has two safety hooks thereon and one is attached then I climb a bit then the other is attached take the original off and repeat and so on.. very slow progress but "connected" all the time.
Matey there is climbing freehand as it were and they do fall off quite frequently especially elsewhere in the world where safety standards are more lax.....
As I corrected myself in an earlier post:-
If you are talking about work in places other than the UK - this is uk.d-i-y after all - anything could apply.....
Looks to me like he clipped to the cable, then unclipped from the chopper (I was concerned about the chopper being tethered for a few seconds).
Accent is US or Canada, both with excellent standards of public safety.
In article , snipped-for-privacy@gglz.com writes
Not according the some linesmen's websites it doesn't seem to be...
In message , tony sayer writes
Take another look. It's a double lanyard harness.
In article , snipped-for-privacy@gglz.com writes
Blowed if I can find the site I was looking at the other week!. A linesman's site complaining about safety standards with some companies located in Florida.
Gripe was about costs and profits over safety standards...
In article , Clive Mitchell writes
Yes but that sort of tower doesn't look like it can be readily climbed in the manner I wrote about, the masts I'm referring to usually have a fall arrest system in place or are made up of round section member cross bracing that you can clip round easily.
Course guys like him wouldn't be seen dead with such a "baby walker" arrangement;!....
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