High Line Power Workers Defy Death

Amazing video of the guys who actually repair high voltage lines. They go out via helicopter to some of the very highest lines. They put on a Faraday Suit which somehow isolates them from up to 500,000 volts of electricity. They climb out on a little platform and then go to work on the fires. They use tools that shoot off massive amounts of electric voltage in sparks.

They crawl up and down the lines, but they are insulated from the voltage, like a bird on a wire. The pilots are also very, very good. As the man says, "It's not a job for a hotshot."