Job of the day: High-Voltage Power Cable Inspector

January 15, 2009 by Geeks are Sexy | 5 comments

This guys sure does have a serious pair of humongous balls to do this for a living. I don’t know about you, but even for a few hundred k’s per year, I wouldn’t even want this job.

His suit is 75% Nomex to prevent him from catching on fire and 25% stainless steel thread, which creates a faraday cage around him that pumps about a half a million volts around him at all times. The steel allows the electricity to flow around the outside of his suit, completing a circuit, but none of it touches him.

[Via Gizmodo]

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5 Responses to “Job of the day: High-Voltage Power Cable Inspector”

  1. Sebastien says:

    The helicopter pilot has skills too. His job is obviously not as dangerous as the inspector guy but still…

  2. Leigh says:

    That’s fantastic, would be such a cool job in decent climates, probably not so enjoyable over here in the UK with our weather!

  3. Chip says:

    Just climbing on that high wire would give me the heebie geebies, even if it wasn’t energized.

  4. Mike says:

    Damn that pilot has the skills.

    I’d love that job. You get to ride shotgun on a helicopter and get a kickass view. Where do I sign up?!

  5. Rohan says:

    notice the other guy doing the same in the background?

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