| Author | Message | ||
     Barker |
My dream job: | ||
| Danger_dave |
Meh - I don't crawl. | ||
| Ft_bstrd |
"Stones the size of Gibraltar" Would make that job more difficult. | ||
| Barker |
Even if you don't aspire to do the work, I still think that cat would be one cool dude to hang with. He seems really chill from the voice over. | ||
| Firebolt32 |
Would make that job more difficult. Seems to be enough space between the lines. Just need a bigger suit. Wonder how well that pays? | ||
| Ulynut |
Are you nuts? I can think of a lot of things better than that. 1) Food critic 2) Taste tester at Ben & Jerrys 3) Playboy photographer Anyway, I think Danger Dave might have the sweetest deal around. | ||
| Danger_dave |
I'm currently designing advertising for Rest Homes. :-0 http://terranovahomes.co.nz | ||
| Danger_dave |
And sometimes the decision making can be difficult.  ;-P | ||
| Ft_bstrd |
Egad, that Triumph dry humped a Buick. Yech!  | ||
| Cityxslicker |
There is always test rider for Buell, Test rider for Pirelli Tires, test rider for .... I have always wanted to add "Closed course, Professional Rider" to my resume. | ||
| Danger_dave |
Nah. Beautiful thing to a man 6'5". 147 ft lbs of torque is a mighty fine thang too. I run with the Sprints and Daytonas touring on it - here. I have it as a long termer. The only thing that I don't thoroughly enjoy about the vehicle is the amount of fuel it uses. But that is about right wrist too. | ||
| Danger_dave |
And I can power wheelie it. :-) | ||
| Ft_bstrd |
I didn't think it possible to make a V-Rod look small. Is that a 190 front tire? | ||
| Danger_dave |
150 - Some of it is down to the wide angle lens - distorts that close. The Musck-le is a beautiful bike too. Star wars land skimmer. Gets along alright. | ||
| Fast1075 |
The sweetest job I ever had was doing TTD (Test To Destruction) jobs when I worked for Honda. The hardest thing to break was a prototype B-75 outboard motor...fun times  | ||
| Gjwinaus |
Motorcycling looks positively safe compared to that. | ||
| Buellinachinashop |
I was a construction electrician for 6 years. I got my heart stopped when I was sitting on a metal pipe bank and I reached up into a EM power box and got nailed a by 277 wire that wasn't capped. I flew off the pipes, dropped about 10', lost every tool in both pouches..all I remember hearing was a sprinkler fitter saying..."dude, that's a yard sale". I quit playing with electricity. | ||
| Fast1075 |
Not only is the high voltage in those transmission lines obviously dangerous...the EMF from the lines in dangerous in unexpected ways. | ||
| Court |
It's a fun business . . .    | ||
| Sayitaintso |
My ex stepfather worked on those things until he got zapped one day. Only the Lord know why but it didn't kill him. I was too young to understand all the details but the part I remember is that it melted his boots to the bucket he was up in and and it melted his fingernails and teeth. | ||
| Swordsman |
MELTED his TEETH ?!?!?!?!  ~SM | ||
| Rfischer |
Possibly the most dangerous part of this exercise is bleeding off the static electricity from the helo before touching anything grounded. Same issue when we did rescue basket evolutions between our CG MLB's and helos. One mistake and you're quite literally toast [in the case of MLB deck crew, wet toast 'cause the jolt is going to knock you into the briny deep]. | ||
| Court |
It's called "arcing on" | ||
| Jstfrfun |
When I was ten my older brothers talked me into peeing on an electric fence...I cried alot after I got back up. | ||
| Swordsman |
 ~SM | ||
| Corporatemonkey |
Court I think we need to rename you "Sparky" | ||
| Crusty |
He really does have big stones. | ||
| Court |
>>>Court I think we need to rename you "Sparky" You are late. My family has called me "Sparky Neutron" for years. It's a nome de whatever I used to write children's books under. I got it after both my Grandfather (who tripped on a catwalk and fell on a live transformer bushing) and my Father, who fell from the top of a pole and landed across live 14,270 Volt and neutral, both survived (albeit) with 6 months in the hospital electrical accidents. Dad bought the first insulated 97' High-Ranger bucket truck and we used to raise up between live phases and change spacers on energized lines. If you want REAL cajones, I'll have to send you an article about some of the kids I used to work with. They re-conductored (changed the wire) on 9 miles of 345,000 Volt(same as in that helo video) WHILE THE WIRE WAS ENERGIZED. Lots of parking trucks on top of insulated platforms and wearing carbon arc suits. We, in the old days, used to get small burns on our face (like a sun burn) where the hood went. The funnest was at Gage Substation (1969) welding live 115,000 Volt substation aluminum tube bus. Dad was the first to use a helicopter in setting poles as well. | ||
| Corporatemonkey |
Dad was the first to use a helicopter in setting poles as well. By chance was there ever a documentary done on your pop's work? I swear I saw a history channel show a couple of years ago about the history of using a helicopter to set distant power poles. | ||
| Danger_dave |
'I wrote a few children's books. Not on purpose.' - Wright, S. |
