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500Kv Tower Construction 3 -Line Work Time Lapse

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25 Responses to “500Kv Tower Construction 3 -Line Work Time Lapse”

  1. jcmegabyte Says:
    July 29th, 2009 at 11:05 pm

    Thanks so much for watching and commenting! :-)

  2. amarcordeon Says:
    July 29th, 2009 at 11:05 pm

    Excellent and interesting
    Thank you
    *****
    Lillo

  3. jcmegabyte Says:
    July 29th, 2009 at 11:05 pm

    Not that *their* job is boring, but it would be cool if all long dull work days could go by that quickly! :-)

  4. jcmegabyte Says:
    July 29th, 2009 at 11:05 pm

    I had really hoped to get more of the cable installation parts but almost all of it happened when I wasn’t around :-( Still, I did get that one bit, and the helicopter/crew activities were pretty interesting at high speed, too. I liked how the chopper kept adding dudes and stuff as the day progressed! :-)

  5. destroyahdes Says:
    July 29th, 2009 at 11:05 pm

    Cool. I’m always fascinated by construction and industry. I like how the cable was pulled.

  6. kalacaw Says:
    July 29th, 2009 at 11:05 pm

    Well this was very intense. The helicopter moved along at a pretty good clip too. :D

  7. jcmegabyte Says:
    July 29th, 2009 at 11:05 pm

    I liked that shot too – reminded me of the bat-pole! I bet you could have some great fun on that tower if you weren’t bothered by hieghts and had some good safety equipment. However, in real life, the guys moved around much more slowly and carefully! ( I know *I* would!) :-]

  8. 64mung Says:
    July 29th, 2009 at 11:05 pm

    Talk about a hard day at the office! One step from falling to your death in 100 degree heat…WOW!

    Nice time lapse camera work, jcm! I love the shot at 2:12..it looks like the workers are sliding down the tower, just like the way a fireman slides down the pole at the firehouse lol ;) Love the chopper shots too!

    Defiantly a 5 star video:) Very interesting!
    Keep up the great work, jcm!
    64m >:-)

  9. jcmegabyte Says:
    July 29th, 2009 at 11:05 pm

    Excellent info – thanks! :-)

  10. Hypermobilemind Says:
    July 29th, 2009 at 11:05 pm

    The conductor material is nearly always an aluminum alloy, made into several strands and reinforced with steel strands.

    Copper was sometimes used for overhead transmission but aluminum is lower in weight for equivalent performance, and much lower in cost.

  11. jcmegabyte Says:
    July 29th, 2009 at 11:05 pm

    I was over 1/2 mile away so it was hard to see extreme detail, but I believe they use harness and climbing gear, complete with hooks like mountainclimbers use.

    I suspect that the powerlines are an aluminum alloy, which would be lighter than copper or steel, but still – the load must be enormous!

    And when those lines are energized, you can’t get within 25 feet of them (unless you are airborne) or it’s arc and death!

    Yup, dangerous jobs for sure!

  12. anmoose Says:
    July 29th, 2009 at 11:05 pm

    Even at “only” 100 feet, I feel a distinct need to tie myself to something. LOL

    That span had me wondering. At that length, just the weight of copper and steel alone has to be enormous, but add the tension it must take to draw them up tight, and there’s NO margin for error. Not when you’re within arm’s length of it. Yikes…

  13. jcmegabyte Says:
    July 29th, 2009 at 11:05 pm

    I think that particular tower is somewhere between 100 and 150 feet high, although I couldn’t see the actual base of it over the hilltop.

    The span between towers varies a lot, but the longest ones appear to me (rough guestimation) to be 1/2 to 3/4 of a mile.

    I would imagine the weight and tension of those lines is in the thousands of pounds. Not the kind of job environment where you’d want to making mistakes! :-)

  14. jcmegabyte Says:
    July 29th, 2009 at 11:05 pm

    They were pretty cool to watch in high speed – and they got like 8 of them up on that tower at once! Thanks for checking it out :-)

  15. jcmegabyte Says:
    July 29th, 2009 at 11:05 pm

    Thanks so much for watching! =)

  16. jcmegabyte Says:
    July 29th, 2009 at 11:05 pm

    “Attack of the hyper-active tower ant people” XD

  17. NewOrleansWoman Says:
    July 29th, 2009 at 11:05 pm

    LOL Chris this is GREAT ! great idea for a time lapse !! really fun !

  18. menchulica Says:
    July 29th, 2009 at 11:05 pm

    Very interesting.

    Fascinating to see the birds leaving their young or their eggs LOL
    Thanyou ;)

  19. xxjixyy Says:
    July 29th, 2009 at 11:05 pm

    this is awesome dude! those workers are great!

  20. anmoose Says:
    July 29th, 2009 at 11:05 pm

    Great footage, again! They’re, what, a few hundred feet up in the air? And scurrying around like there’s nothing to it.

    How long is the span of those lines between towers?

  21. jcmegabyte Says:
    July 29th, 2009 at 11:05 pm

    Thanks so much!

  22. jcmegabyte Says:
    July 29th, 2009 at 11:05 pm

    I can imagine! Anyone who is afraid of heights need not apply! :-)

  23. jcmegabyte Says:
    July 29th, 2009 at 11:05 pm

    It really is an amazing amount of work and engineering that goes into these things – especially these sections in difficult to access places. Thanks for stopping by! :-)

  24. jcmegabyte Says:
    July 29th, 2009 at 11:05 pm

    I was really hoping to get the helicopter/crew laying out and threading the first tow lines between the towers but unfortunately I missed that part. Still, what I did get was pretty interesting – thanks for watching! :-)

  25. jcmegabyte Says:
    July 29th, 2009 at 11:05 pm

    That’s pretty-much what they look like! I did one other video (TimeShift) where I compared cars on the freeway to a trail of ants… the effect worked great! High speed people look just like insects :-)

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