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I don’t mind working with the voltages you find in a typical house but I always feel a bit less secure when working with higher voltages that have little current limiting. I think that it would take me a long time to feel comfortable to ride a helicopter over to a live transmission line, hop on and start working. |
June 3rd, 2009
That is one cool dude!
June 5th, 2009
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June 7th, 2009
This has been up on youtube for ages ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3q9WdjD5wc )
But still a fav. video thou
Seems so nuts when he connects to the wire and climps over on it
… But is still very educating 
Still those arches you see he makes when connecting would make me jump for sure … but he is so used to it
I could never do a job like that.
June 20th, 2009
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