Would you want this job?

[Ddan]

exactly what are they repairing?

Trying to get the smoke back in

[ducpainter]

Trying to get the smoke back in

[Kopfjager]

exactly what are they repairing?

Mostly just inspection of the lines.

[KnightofNi]

um..... i'm thinkin' your beard would get tangled and you'd end up dead   
please don't do it

i think that long hair and very loose clothing are not an option while hanging below a helicopter.

thanks for the concern. i have no idea how to become on of those people anyways. but i'd still do the job

[Rameses]

i think that long hair and very loose clothing are not an option while hanging below a helicopter.

thanks for the concern. i have no idea how to become on of those people anyways. but i'd still do the job

I knew you'd do it.

I saw how much you enjoyed the metal in Nukey.   




(I'd do it too.  Just to see those arcs up close.)

[KnightofNi]

I knew you'd do it.

I saw how much you enjoyed the metal in Nukey.   




(I'd do it too.  Just to see those arcs up close.)

see if you can light a cig off of it.

[fastwin]

What makes you get up one day and say to yourself that's what I want to do for a living? Who applies for that job? People on death row??? "OK, we'll let you out but you have to do this cool job for us first."

[KnightofNi]

What makes you get up one day and say to yourself that's what I want to do for a living? Who applies for that job? People on death row??? "OK, we'll let you out but you have to do this cool job for us first."

when i saw it my first thought was "i wonder how much that pays. you probably get gret benefits..."

[fastwin]

Like those crane operators that work in a little box 20 stories in the air, I've heard those guys are payed really well. So should the wire workers!

[Triple J]

I'd bet the wire workers are paid really well. It's no doubt dangerous.

Tower crane operators are union, and are at the top of the crane operators food chain. Due to that they make good money (>100K/yr). That's not saying they don't deserve it...they most definitely do. Things can go wrong really quickly with a tower crane (or any crane really) if the operator screws up! 

I thought about revising my answer and saying I'd do it. Like Knight I think it would be fun and thrilling...definitely not a boring day on the job. However, I have a fear of extreme heights when I'm on things that move or sway (like the cables would). I'd like to think I could get over it, but I don't know. I got to go to the top of one of the towers for the new Tacoma Narrows Bridge a few years ago. The cables were spun, but the deck wasn't in place. That morning I was really hoping they'd let us walk down on the cable scaffolding...sounded like a blast! However, standing at the top of the tower and looking down the cables...I wasn't too disappointed when they said we couldn't walk the cable for safety reasons.  I would have done it...but I'm not sure I would have enjoyed it.

[cyrus buelton]

I'd bet the wire workers are paid really well. It's no doubt dangerous.

You are indeed correct.

My Father used to have a patient (he was retired.....he lived.....some of his friends didn't) who was a high tension / high wire power line worker.

There weren't helicopters during his days. They'd climb those massive towers to do the inspections on the relay units or whatever those huge coils are up there. He said you'd have to wear hearing protection on the towers because the "buzz" of the electricity was deafening running through the relay towers.

This guy worked for an electric company and also did a stint in a nuclear power plant.

He had a co-worker that forgot to turn a breaker off before make the beast with two backsing around with some box that had something like millions of volts running through it.

Long story short.........they didn't find much of the guy left after he touched that hot box...........

[Bigbore4]

Look up "Highly Compensated" in the dictionary, be a picture of them dudes.

[cyrus buelton]

make the beast with two backs, the AEP guys around here that work on standard power lines make a good living.

They live for the big storms........HAZARD PAY!!!! OVERTIME!