Linemen working while dangling from a helicopter - GIF

[Frank S]

That is one of those jobs where I don't care how much they are getting paid it is probably not enough. I didn't mine hanging out the door of a chopper with a machine gun and could handle being lowered by cable to the ground and back again. But the idea of dangling from the rope while the stick jockey has to try and hold his whillybird dead steady near very high voltage power lines while he has to make sure he doesn't get me a mate and the rest of the crew killed woud be more than I would be willing to do and I used to think that I wasn't worried about doing anything.

[Frank S]

I do a fair bit of work with electricity as well but only after it is a more manageable 480V or less. Don't particularly like the kind that reaches out to touch me from distances. As far as the off the ground stuff that used to never bother me. now that I'm a few years older I'm not so sure.