Mydear old friend and confidant, Mlle Jenny
is expecting an ice storm, and is concerned about her power. I can understand. Keep a happy thought for her- and remember when you turn on the lights, you owe your comfort to men like these:
Work on half million volt wires? No.
Sit on the outside of a helicopter? No.
Work on a flying platform hundreds of feet in the air? No.
There are about a dozen hard “No” answers in the questionnaire for “Do you want to work for Haverfield?”. I would not get past the first two.
Now, would I be a ground crewman? Would I be the guy who inspects and maintains the equipment to make sure all the shit is as safe as it can be? You betcha. I would have made coffee for Red Adair, I would for damned sure work for these guys. But you ain’t getting me in that chopper, pal.
I wonder if this new maintenance process will lead to a re-design of high voltage towers to make the energized lines easier (and, consequentially, cheaper) to maintain. It may already have, I dunno.
Amazing how humans come up with better, faster, cheaper ways to do stuff. I’d bet the gummint permitting process is either non-existent because they don’t know about it or understand it, or it’s excruciatingly complex and expensive because they do.
I dunno. Looks safe to me. Course I said that once and took out a fence on landing when I jumped the creek.
I hope those men are paid lots and lots of money.
Had some of those kind of guys use some of my land as a base to work from.
Very serious about what they do and how they do it. I watched them do a replacement of an insulator.
Very methodical and very patient. Very careful.
But as the one dude said:
“If ya make a mistake, you’ll likely never know it….and if the electric don’t kill ya, the fall will.”
NoSir…Nosiree….that job isn’t one you could pay me to do. not for any money.