Billy Idol can hold on to the terminals on a transformer when he is dancing with himself.
Billy Idol can hold on to the terminals on a transformer when he is dancing with himself.
Lineman, you have my respect.You walk the walk and talk the talk correctly.My Job consists of locating underground high voltage wires,tran4mers,secondary house lines ect.ect and yes volitle gas lines.Question at hand.Don't ever hang from wires alive or dead.If you hang from wires "slapping"togeather will cause arc and flashs and can burn the hell out of you.Lineman sometimes live to tell stories,minus a hand,fingers,arms,legs,face.Suicide,the act of deliberately killing oneself
wingnut,
I’m from NZ, and I make around $50 k per anum for a 40 hour week. With optional overtime. If you are a live liner you would make around $5 k to 10 k more.
I have been flown into the bush to do repairs on a remote line once; I was hanging from the chopper by a 50 foot strop, as the chopper could not land.
He lowered us me down through the trees; it was a real buzz !
Flagpole,
You most definitely can be killed by electrocution, but receiving an electric shock will not necessarily kill you.
As I wrote earlier, I have been whacked.
That was short for getting hooked up on 400 lines. I was lucky it only lasted about 5 seconds, but I thought I was going to die !
I have a friend who had the de energised 11,000 volt cable he was working on re livened by an incompetent worker.
He is lucky to be alive, with only small moderate burns to one leg and one arm.
In saying that he spent several months off work with painful skin grafts and a slow recovery.
Because it was a high voltage shock, it threw him clear.
When stuff like that happens, it happens faster than you can blink !
santa fe,
Yes, wires clashing together on a 400 volt system is phase to phase (400 volts) or phase to neutral (230 volts).
Even with the correct gear, it pays to only work on one live phase at a time.
Lineman wrote:
Flagpole,
You most definitely can be killed by electrocution, but receiving an electric shock will not necessarily kill you.
Dude, I never said getting shocked would always kill you, BUT when it does kill you it means you've been electrocuted. If you are just shocked and don't die, then you have NOT been electrocuted. Understand and accept all of that before you respond to me again.