Voltage can't do shit if there is no difference in potential. Don't ground yourself and you can grab anything you want.
I would imagine that with his body's capacitance, he still would get a helluva shock if he touched that helicopter without discharging slowly through that stick.
Even if you count out the eleventy billion amps flowing through that wire, just waiting to light your ass up like a christmas tree light. You're still climbing out of a helocopter, to scurry along a couple of wires a few hundred feet in the air.
I would be surprised if they are making any less than $300k/yr.
I watched a video about underwater electric welding the other day. I did not realize those guys are getting a slight electrical buzz the whole time they are welding. If they get a body part directly between the electrical source and what they are welding they are dead. Looks like some fun.
I watched a video about underwater electric welding the other day. I did not realize those guys are getting a slight electrical buzz the whole time they are welding. If they get a body part directly between the electrical source and what they are welding they are dead. Looks like some fun.
Underwater welding is one of the most dangerous jobs in the world. But also one of the most lucrative. A good underwater welder names his price to weld something and anything within reason is usually paid. You can figure around 1k per hour.
Underwater welding is one of the most dangerous jobs in the world. But also one of the most lucrative. A good underwater welder names his price to weld something and anything within reason is usually paid. You can figure around 1k per hour.
Thats awesome... Doesn't seem like a lengthy career, but good money in the short term, if you survive to spend it.
Looks like he is tied onto the wires with a safety harness. But the chopper approach/depart -- that looks terrifyingly dangerous.
Is the static discharge he's doing a side effect of the blades building up static through the air? Just wondering why that part is necessary. Birds don't do it when they land on the wires.
Also -- he straddles both of those wires, so presumably they are both carrying identical voltages in phase. Redundant and/or just doubled lines to increase capacity I imagine. At a bazillion volts though, he needs to have faith that those lines REALLY are within very close tolerances of each other regarding voltage...
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Don't ground yourself and you can grab anything you want. 
