Why You Should Always Treat Power Lines With Respect (18+)

[tandors 888]

Did the one on the left win? He held on the longest.

[YOKEL 2,216]

Typical bloody foreign workers, laying around smoking while there's work to be done.....vote ukip i say!

Yokel

[dare 1,103]

Seen a few videos of people getting done by the ole. When younger mates would cross the tracks out of pure laziness. My dad getting off the train one day saw em and decided he was bringing me to work lol. Was shown a body which wasnt killed on the tracks but I didnt know that. It worked though I never crossed the tracks after seeing that and even convinced a few others that it ain't worth it. Also lost a mate who fell on the conductor rail whilst running from police for doing graffiti. I now work on the railway and to be honest everyone works safe and not had any near misses.

[jeppi26 1,855]

I scaffold under the power line wehn there getting changed for new and trst me it's scary when you 3.6m away from 400thousand volts and its buzzin away. Even worse when there's damp in the air and buzzin load as hell.

[lurcherman 887 13,079]

Seen a few videos of people getting done by the ole. When younger mates would cross the tracks out of pure laziness. My dad getting off the train one day saw em and decided he was bringing me to work lol. Was shown a body which wasnt killed on the tracks but I didnt know that. It worked though I never crossed the tracks after seeing that and even convinced a few others that it ain't worth it. Also lost a mate who fell on the conductor rail whilst running from police for doing graffiti. I now work on the railway and to be honest everyone works safe and not had any near misses.

Caledonian road?

[shepp 2,285]

I scaffold under the power line wehn there getting changed for new and trst me it's scary when you 3.6m away from 400thousand volts and its buzzin away. Even worse when there's damp in the air and buzzin load as hell.

Sod that, I wonder how far that voltage can jump?

[jeppi26 1,855]

Al depends on the weather mate but with us useing scaffolding under them we have to keep 3.6m away that's from the top of your head. I have built within 3.6m and you can feel your hair standing up on your arms even little shocks. You have av your witts about you in hot weather tho as the line heats up it gets lower so we have to take hight readings as we build

[Ossie n Arch 1,682]

LOL.

 

Next time you're out and about, just have a look how far apart the wires are. The Electric doesn't jump between them does it.

 

 

 

 

 

If we work on the "Dead" side of an 11,000v line, the gap in the switch between "Live" and "Dead" is 9 inches. It doesn't jump across the gap on there either.

 

 

..........Or you could have a go at this.

 

 

 

 

 

1.1 Metres away from live HV for us

[jeppi26 1,855]

LOL.

 

Next time you're out and about, just have a look how far apart the wires are. The Electric doesn't jump between them does it.

 

 

 

 

 

If we work on the "Dead" side of an 11,000v line, the gap in the switch between "Live" and "Dead" is 9 inches. It doesn't jump across the gap on there either.

So you work on pole lines? Done the scaffolding for them aswell when that wire the fiberoptic in the middle line or when there jointing to the insulators

 

..........Or you could have a go at this.

 

 

 

 

 

1.1 Metres away from live HV for us

[jeppi26 1,855]

Not a nice thing to be around