Here's What To Do After Finding Hot Connectors On Overhead Power Lines
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- Опубліковано 7 жов 2024
- This video shows a typical scenario using infrared inspection of an overhead transmission line to identify a hot splice and then the proper correction of that hot splice using a ClampStar engineered mechanical shunt.
NOTE: At the 3:41 mark there's a mistake in the narration. He should have said 27 degrees Celsius, not Fahrenheit.
Most of the U.S. power grid was constructed 40-70 years ago. And connectors are the weak link in the system. ClampStar can be used to protect overhead connectors, effectively extending the life of aging overhead assets.
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WOW! A Do it yourself High Tension Line Repair video! Just what I've needed! I've been waiiting for a long time for one of these!
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The video just describes someones job.. It’s entertainment (for a selected group of people)
funniest thing i've seen all day
Do u guys know how much is it to rent a small helicopter for 4 hours at home depot?
GET TO THE CHOPPAAAA
That was one of the most informative, clearly narrated, and absolutely fantastic videos I've seen on UA-cam. I'm no electrician, but I'm guessing this product sells itself.
NICE COMMERCIAL
ophello I bought one.
I have read a lot of comments asking how the pilot is able to keep the helicopter so still. Allow me to explain, as I am a seasoned pilot with over 30 years of experience. In situations like this, the combined weight of the lineman's and pilot's testicles helps to stabilize the aircraft.
Hahahha :D
david esktorp good thing I'm not a power line worker because then I'd bring 500 pounds of testicle
That is the best technical explanation I have read yet .. thank your for that insight .. It seems that Periodic weighing of the testicles of both men is probably crucial in order to make any adjustments that may be needed on the Aircraft itself to fine tune the balance. ..
Dude you are hilarious...
Wait...so you're saying the pilot and engineer have elephantiasis of the testicles? Must've been uncomfortable. :S
These pilots and linemen always amaze me. Because of these brave fellas you have power to your home. We tend to take it for granted, but there is a lot of effort into keeping the lights on.
Idk how i got here but power lines and heights are two of my biggest fears, this guy is a god damn champ.
lmao this is hilarious
In another video, one of these helicopter-riding linemen says, "I've only ever been afraid of three things: electricity... heights... and women. And I'm married, too." :-) So yes, such workers have all the fears that one would expect them to have. But they learn how to over-ride those fears. "A coward dies a thousand times before his death, but the valiant taste of death but once.", to quote Shakespeare's play "Julius Caesar".
Robbie Hatley yes exactly, we have respect for the height but we learnd to life with this !👍🏻
Yeah, sitting here with my hands sweating!!
Being on a building and looking down, isn't the same as being on a helicopter looking down. The perspective to the ground is different. I noticed this when I went skydiving for the first time and you have to step out of the plane and put your foot on the wheel in preparation for the static line jump.
What an incredibly talented pilot. A pilot that can keep a helo that steady in those brisk winds is absolutely amazing.
Not only the pilot but the working guys just unbelievable skills. I hope they make a well diservd living
Just watching this video, you realize how many different things can go wrong and how fast it can happen. These guys have SKILL!!
well done gents. it's these types of guys that do jobs like this that make our way of life possible.
indeed.....God bless everyone 🙏work for make our live better
I do not work in this exact industry, but my job requires me to understand transmission lines and with 20 year history as a Telco lineman, this looks like a very solid product and a great solution. Well done video as well.
this is not for the faint of heart and short of temper. Bravo pilot and lineman.
My cousin did this kind of work, I will always be in complete awe of the skills these guys have.
As a former residential pole climber, I found this most impressive.
I’m in the process of being hired to comed as a overhead technician, I am so fuckn nervous, I know they will teach me everything but having no experience going into this field is frightening, any tips?
These guys have one of the most badass jobs. I would love to do this.
I’ve been looking for this video everywhere, thanks! I now know what to do when I find hot connectors on my overhead powerlines
These guys deserve every penny they get. Note to electrician -- don't cheat with the pilots wife....
Raptorman0909 they are married to each other , so it can’t happen
Note the helicopter is attached to the line for the duration of the operation. If anything happens to the guy installing the bypass the pilot is also doomed.
pretty sure that connection is a tear away...too much tension and it snaps so as to not destroy the heli
Leonard Milcin, there is no problem to just fly away anytime, also without disconnecting that...pliers. and the worker is always ready, he doesnt tangle up with anything during working, he is literally always ready to just being pulled away of everything
I think its too low for this job
Now i know what to do next time i'm in this typical scenario. Thanks UA-cam.
The brave worker is not afraid of heights.
I get a little weazy just watching the video.
What could possibly go wrong here? I really hope these guys are WELL PAID for this high risk task. R-E-S-P-E-C-T
He has to sit outside because his balls wont fit through the helicopter door.
true dat
Seriously
Yes sir I agree... I climb and assemble cell phone towers for a living... and the highest I ever been was on 1131 ft but I don't think I could do this kind of work I don't play with electricity.. I tip my hat to them.. they got nerves of Steel..
4th video in a row ive seen a comment like this
LOL! Indeed!
Anyone who is in aviation definitely has mad respect for that pilot.
Myself included. I can’t wait to start flying
i hope that team gets paid a shitload flying a chopper like that is ungoldy hard and being that close takes balls of steel
350k a year.
Thankfully with have skilled men like the lineman and the pilot who have the courage to take on a job like that.
The counter weight on the other side of the chopper is to balance the weight of the BIG PAIR of the line man.
Good to know, thanks. I have forwarded this information to the Norwegian transmission system operator, Statnett.
Impressive.... I know the lineman is probably safe with all the gear but still I imagine it takes some stones to do that job and amazing skill of that pilot. Nice work gentlemen!
Nope, that gear will do nothing if the helicopter drifts too close to another phase and causes a line to line fault. Talk to people that have worked with transmission repair for a decade or two and they can probably name a person who died from that either form a bad pilot or a strong gust of wind. Sure they might fall to the ground after the fault but they are dead before they hit.
Great! Now I know what to do, I am going to try this.
I'm in Lincoln NE and a few years back the were doing high power repair. Pretty cool stuff. This is where I could get stupid, they used a five blade Hughes helicopter with tail rotor maybe a 500D ?? That pilot kept that thing pretty steady. Fun to watch. at a distance.
Where was the camera ?…
Lot of trust put in the pilot !…
Great job and lot of confidence from the pilot too.
This is the source of the "wage gap" (note: wage gap doesn't exist, an EARNINGS gap exists)
Well that was easy, wasn't it. My wife has been looking for a change of career direction, I think I've now found just the thing.
i hope she has big balls
Can you get an application for my ex wife?
You could NOT pay me enough to do these jobs. Thank God we have people that have nerves of steel! No pun intended.
these are truly skilled workers !!!!
That clampstar looks like it works pretty good. Clampstar!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This looks like a pretty fun job. Fun as in thrilling.
That is insane. Bravo
Wow that's some wicked flying skills ..
Love the sheering screws
Kim Kardashian makes 250 times the salary of both this lineman and pilot combined in one year. Just let that sink in.... Our species is doomed.
We´re fucked!
Yeah, but have you seen the size of her huge ass?
According to feminism Kim Kardashian is a victim and the guy hanging from that helicopter reparing a 400000 volt line is a privileged.
Fuck Kim K
The sad thing is... Kim Kardashian didn't make herself famous...
the general public did. Somehow, we made her important. We fell for her promoters bullshit. If we ALL were more aware of what's truly real and fake... what's talent and not in this world, we would have never had heard of that bubble-ass, pretentious, no-talent bitch.
You can find any DIY video nowadays on UA-cam, it is amazing.
Unreal. Real hero
This looks like an incredibly dangerous line of work. Hat's off to these guys.
Crossing the road it dangerous. So is going to a school in the USA. More deaths in Grade and Elementary schools than fling wing guys and girls hovering alongside HV power lines.
That has to be the most dangerous job in the world!😲 well done👍👍.
Unreal. Well done men. Great video.
Props to the pilot and lineman.
Great video, and good commentary, and thankfully not overshadowed by lousy music you get on some videos. Subscribed.
Very cool video!
The pilot is amazing. Hovering with around 190lb man on the starboard side moving around. Add in he's flying right next to power lines. Power lines, and guide wires are a helicopters pilot nightmare.
Not when you work on them all day everyday, its just normal to us. :) We're kinda like firefighters, when others run away, we run in and do what needs to be done.
You mean port side... Port like the word Left both have 4 letters....
+God of plumbing You should stop using fancy words if you don't know their meaning. Starboard is on the right-hand side.
RIP
That guy has more guts then I have to do something like this.
I'm going to try this at home.
This Pilot is Top Notch!
On a daily basis, i probably need about 99% of the time those kind of skills. 😂
But thx for sharing anyway, its really interesting :D
Pretty cool..bad ass pilot there!
amazing copter skillz
and that sitting out guy gave iron balz
This is TOTALLY cool. If I could go back 30 years, I'd definately swap my career as a software engineer (ie computer programmer and web developer) for THIS career field, even though I probably wouldn't make as much in salary. Job satisfaction counts for something.
I can honestly say I don't know of any story of who has died as a direct result of their work as a software engineer. I've worked on utility projects for 9 months now and have heard at least 5 different stories about linemen getting killed, 4 of those were doing hot work from a helicopter. The pay is better than most low end skilled jobs but the risk is very high.
We (software engineers) tend to die from strokes or heart attacks - not high voltage encounters. ;-)
"Ma, I got a new job! I'll be hovering a helicopter next to power lines all day!"
"That's great, son!"
How many clamps before the Powerline becomes a Clampline?
Not going to happen. There are never that many splices to begin with, and most don't fail. Only the ones that _do_ fail (develop high resistance and hence high power loss and high temperature which shows up as white on infrared cameras) are clamped. The vast bulk of each line consists of segments of thousands of feet of unbroken conductors with splices between segments.
I love how the dude just clips his *Plugin drill* onto the power line and just goes to town.*
The clip is attached to the helicopter to make the helicopter's charge the same as the line so that the lineman doesn't get electrocuted by a static shock. The drill is plugged in to a power source on board the helicopter.
Great work - on we groundlings are afraid of 110 V AC :-)
0:43 Great visibility out of that helicopter. They even made the instrument panel narrow so the pilot can see downwards over his feet.
that's normal for md500
Looks a bit heavy, I suppose that could limit potential uses, but still very cool nonetheless. That pilot and lineman were both amazing.
I'm gonna buy myself a clampstar clamp for Christmas
This is a really cool product
You know.... Who was the big balled bastard who did this the first time? I can hear the conversation going someone like this: "if you bond the helicopter to the wire, you won't get shocked.... At least I think..." 😂😂
I mean, come on. That's 230 THOUSAND volts. On the up side, if you #### up, you'll never know what hit you. Lol
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the pilot is totally superb!!! flys the bird a few feet this way - a few inches back!!! - as for the hotwire guy on the skids platform - well, nobody can ever doubt his courage - sanity however..... 😁😁😁
Looks like a fun job 😎
Thats one nice MD 500.
Harverfied Aviation which I seen in action at a DZ where the two MD-500 was starting to get the line journeyman to their location
I learned something today
My Car's plug wires have a few abrasions causing shorts; I am going to use Clampstars!
Thankyou
Hold my beer.
Indeed.
I thought that's how accidents start out.............
It would not surprise me if a lot of these pilots are ex-160th SOAR. These guys hovering skills are bar none.
What a job that is.
Amazing pilot. Very hard to hover like that even 10 ft off the ground much less 2 ft from the transmission line.
Woot?! dat pilot godlike skill :O
Dude hooking stuff up has the biggest balls ever. I’m surprised he can do that so fast with balls that big .
Amazing vid. But there's a temperature unit mismatch in the voice commentary: the graph shows temperature values in centigrades, but the commentary says that after installing a ClampStar, the temperature fell to 27°F (-3°C) that seems unrealistically low temperature even in winter conditions.
Reposted from the video description: NOTE: At the 3:41 mark there's a mistake in the narration. He should have said 27 degrees Celsius, not Fahrenheit.
How much are they, I really want one (in blue)..... Not sure what for? I don't own a pylon? Great Video...
They should design a socket that is longer and has an angled slot out the side of it with an annular housing around it and bag underneath so when the head breaks off it stays in the socket then the operator just pushes it on to the next one which forces the broken one out the angled slot of the socket, into the annular housing with angle floor in it and tube down to the catch bag to catch all the heads.
That way he wont need to invert the power tool each time to catch the broken bolt head out of the socket and put it in the can (risking dropping it) and can just go from bolt to bolt which would speed up the job, save fuel, reduce risk time near the line and the operator can just empty the bag of break off heads into the can after the job is done on the way to fit the next one.
If you don’t have a lot of Helicopter hours and not good at hovering and want to do a job like this is all about training and going out and practice everyday
An old phrase comes to mind: You couldn't pay me enough!
ecsciguy79 Trust me, they can! Lol.
I was thinking: Oh, Hell no.
How does 250k/yr sound?
500k with OT.
formdoggie5 And worth every penny.
probably more like 1000kv/year
Where is the diaper storage located?
Meet them both!
nice 7/8 time signature in the outro rythm :-P
Challenge work and very dangerous 👍👍
Talk about trust in your pilot. Granted the pilot has to trust that the lineman isn't going to royally screw up, also.
this is a very challenging process. To a point it could be interesting and rewarding, but fear of heights is a non qualifier
If I was 50 years younger I might try that job just for the discipline it takes to accomplish the goal plus getting paid
pardon my english, but fuck that job! much respect for those guys.
Great job! I wonder how they fix a high resistance problem when it is in a line in the middle of the other two.
People commenting in another similar video said the space between the phases is more than you think, and also, the heli's rotor is kept above the height of the wires, and the work platform is underneath the heli.
What the heck... the lineman seriously puts so much trust in the helicopter pilot
beautiful
Amazing 🥺
What a freaking job omg.
Great pilot. But props to the other guy. Imagine doing all that work from a moving platform, and holding and operating that drill at arms reach
There is a reason everything is either tethered or they have several back ups.
this is the only video I've seen that got me shitting bricks
This is one of those times where you need a new wrench to torque all 20 bolts down. It would cut the instillation time by half at least.
All involved have balls of steel 😮 😂😂😂