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Maggie’s Motivational Pic Thread v2.0 - - New Rules - See Post #1

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STARING AT INSTANT AND EXTREMELY VIOLENT DEATH RIGHT IN THE FACE FOR 20 SECONDS STRAIGHT...

Installing spacers on live 765,000 volt high tension lines via helicopter. Yep, these are the same types of lines that glow a ghostly blue at night due to ionization of the air around them. In comparison, the overhead caternaries needed to operate one of the highest rated electric high speed freight locomotives in the world, the WAG-12 of India Railways, runs around 23,000 volts, and every year, careless workers pushing around tall metal work platforms would accidentally come into contact with a caternary as Indian railway lines run in very close proximity and through residential and commercial areas with very little safeguard fencing or signage. In a split instant, the bodies of every worker who was in contact with the tower would glow as bright as a halogen filament, followed immediately by instant carbonization and incineration.

 
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What’s happening with the little stick he’s touching the lines with on approach that’s arcing. What’s that for?


Conducting wand, to equalize the potential of charge for both the line and the helicopter. If the potential is not leveled out a bit, a spark can jump from the line and into the helicopter even at some distance.

 
STARING AT INSTANT AND EXTREMELY VIOLENT DEATH RIGHT IN THE FACE FOR 20 SECONDS STRAIGHT...

Installing spacers on live 765,000 volt high tension lines via helicopter. Yep, these are the same types of lines that glow a ghostly blue at night due to ionization of the air around them. In comparison, the overhead caternaries needed to operate one of the highest rated electric high speed freight locomotives in the world, the WAG-12 of India Railways, runs around 23,000 volts, and every year, careless workers pushing around tall metal work platforms would accidentally come into contact with a caternary as Indian railway lines run in very close proximity and through residential and commercial areas with very little safeguard fencing or signage. In a split instant, the bodies of every worker who was in contact with the tower would glow as bright as a halogen filament, followed immediately by instant carbonization and incineration.


watched a guy a couple years ago on a power line near my shop,
kept hearing a helicopter , as in not flying past, and caught a glimpse thru the trees, so I shut the shop and drove down the road to the powerline,

helicopter had a guy suspended, via a tether, who would drop down to the tower and take something from one bucket, do something to the line, and put whatever he replaced in the other bucket,

pilot would get the signal and take him up and to the next pylon,,

amazing thing to see
 
watched a guy a couple years ago on a power line near my shop,
kept hearing a helicopter , as in not flying past, and caught a glimpse thru the trees, so I shut the shop and drove down the road to the powerline,

helicopter had a guy suspended, via a tether, who would drop down to the tower and take something from one bucket, do something to the line, and put whatever he replaced in the other bucket,

pilot would get the signal and take him up and to the next pylon,,

amazing thing to see


Pure precision, teamwork, and verbal/nonverbal communication all deployed at once, and at max efficiency too for these jobs to succeed. Just like an aircraft carrier flight deck, there is NO margin of error. There is energy there that will vaporize entire crowds in a mere split second if even a slight error is made...