It was probably barely noticeable on the original recording. The whispering sounds loud here because someone has applied automatic volume control at some stage, most likely when the tape was being copied, converted or digitised.
The RUclips algorithm took a big gamble in thinking I'd watch the whole thing by simply recommending it, since I've never searched or watched transmission line electrical stuff - and it was right, I indeed watched it all.
well i’ve watched a number of electrical generation and high voltage transmission videos before and i literally could not get even halfway through this because of how mind-numbingly tedious and dreary I found it. 😅 it was not educational or informative. it did not invoke awe. i’m glad you liked it, but trust me, there are much better videos out there! I come to bury the RUclips algorithm, not to praise it. After watching a variety of “hard science” videos on subjects like physics, astrophysics, electrical engineering, nuclear engineering, etc., you will inevitably find RUclips trying to radicalize you into a nutcase by offering videos like “Was the moon landing faked by CIA,” “The lies of radioactive medicine,” and “Physicists proved the universe doesn’t exist.” (actual videos I have been offered recently.) See, “engagement = money” and the more outrageous and clickbaity your titles are, the more money you make. So yeah if it seems like the algorithm is being uncannily intelligent, it is. It’s not a fluke. It’s a calculated statistical probability designed to keep you watching more and more videos (and commercials). And the path they have set up for you goes straight to Paranoid Schizophreniatown.
Likely you've watched Fred Dibnah videos in the past. I'd watched pylon videos before but, it is still odd to get this in our feed 5 years after it was uploaded.
Yeah. As an engineer, I like studying how things failed so I can learn from past incidents. It all translates - EE, compeng, etc.. the storytelling and fact based journalism is top notch here.
@@michaelthompson7217It's a damn shame what's happened to them after automobiles. Now they're kept as showpieces, and often don't get the exercise they need.
RUclips algorithm must have known. I am an old linesman 83 now. My days building power lines are fond memories , a great job working with some great guys. An intriguing clip.
I hauled a lot of coal in boats. This was for power companies and if I have seen lines doing this I would have been trying to insulate myself from my pants with a trouser biscuit.
100% clicked on this because I thought it was an analog horror series about power conductors that can get up and walk. Now that I know it's just a thing that happens, I'm baffled why youtube thought I needed to watch this
Dude, a few weeks ago I clicked on what I thought was a repair video. It was a toilet flushing. Belongings to a channel where they just flush different toilets. That's it. There's weird stuff out here, folks....
My fellow viewers, we’ve gathered here today, together, in bewilderment wondering what we’ve done for the algorithm to have offered up such an esoteric bit of film. I do think it could be backrooms related based on some recent comments and my own experience. Not angry about it, but I do think it’s safe to say we’ve all watched everything else RUclips has to offer. Galloping conductors will be a niche community of bored people now in possession of esoteric knowledge.
I think the algorithm thinks this is analog horror... or that analog horror is this. Or I looked up one to many obscure engineering topics. One or the other.
I know right...Imagine getting a call out during a blizzard and have to walk the line and assess for any damage with six 400KV skipping ropes violently twirling above your head. A facinating video of engineering but some of the editing seems a bit double dutch though. 📼.
We’re about to get another hurricane down here, and people are already thanking the linemen who are gearing up for the aftermath. Rightfully so! Edit: PSA to disconnect your main breaker before hooking in a generator. Backfeed is deadly to linemen. Be safe.
I think I met this guy and saw this film on a mod 4 operators course at Drax power station, it’s an absolute blast to see it now. I still have the notes in the attic!
Fascinating - I'd never considered that the cables would have a resonant frequency (of course they do!) And I can understand now why the ceramic plates are fitted as individuals rather than as a single piece baffle - super interesting film thank you!!!
It is not strictly a resonance effect. I am pretty sure it is vortex excitation (vortex induced vibration), which I had to learn about when studying engineering, decades ago. Ice on one side of the cable, and not the other, can cause or significantly increase the likelihood of it occurring, as it may change the cross-section shape from a circle to a “D” which is an aerodynamic shape that is more conducive to vortex excitation. (At least that is what my lecturer said.)
This happened nearly 40 years ago on the other side of the Atlantic and I’m still not far enough away from it. Impressive to see guys getting so close.
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"I know I need a small va-caay-sion But it don't look much like rain.... unless you count 2 lb. bolts and 20 lb. chunks of ice....not a hardhat in sight either. Ballsy!
And people complain when there's a power outage and it can't be restored within a couple of hours! I wouldn't expect anyone to risk their life trying to get it all back up and running in these conditions! Much respect to the line men! Even just getting out there to check it is hazardous enough. We should all be grateful for the work they do and the dangers they expose themselves to in their normal working day!
@@rayjennings3637 my experience in Florida is that the power has been extremely reliable over the decades, with the exception of just having gotten our butts kicked by a hurricane, and we all know the power isn't coming back on anytime soon. So there's no point in complaining about it. And very few do. You fire up the generator if you have one and you get on with your business of doing what you have to do. For me the last one was Cat 4 Hurricane Irma. Something like 7 million were evacuated and something like 12 million were left without power in FL. I didn't evacuate I hunkered down. For me personally it was 10 days before power was restored and I'm grateful for that not complaining. Many others had it worse. Never seen so many linemen in my life before, from all over the country, descend on the Southeast after a hurricane to rebuild the power grid. Which in Southwest Florida was impressively destroyed. Adverse weather events ain't no joke. And when they happen I don't recall too many people complaining, more so we were kind of praying for the safety of those guys getting the job done, effin heroes they are. I don't know if you know what the satisfaction is like seeing convoys of a linesman's trucks from 2, 3, 5 states and more away arriving on scene. And they work incredibly hard all day every day until the job is done and it's time to go home. :) And no I'm not making a comparison, it isn't a competition. Just saying when things get really bad people don't seem to complain about things as much as you allude to. People that have hissy fits about the power not being back on in a few hours don't live in places where it can and has gone out for days weeks or months before it's restored. Whether that's because of winter ice storms or hurricanes or whatever.
@@rayjennings3637 No not at all I live in Florida because winter and the adverse weather events that come with it sucks. Of course instead it's hurricanes like cat 4 Irma that plunge 12 million people into darkness for days, weeks, or months depending on how unfortunate they were before they personally have power restored. For me it was 10 days and I don't recall too many people complaining. 13 million people, over half the state's population were in darkness without power at some point, so what's the point of complaining. You know darn well it isn't going to be back on in a few hours and you get on with doing what you've got to do without being a baby about it. I don't know why you're alluding the people being big babies about the power being out for a few hours after truly historic inverse weather events like this one was, or hurricanes etc. That's the sort of thing people complain about after an afternoon thunderstorm power outage, not historic adverse weather events like this one. How much people complain seems to be a inversely proportional to just how bad it truly is. I don't know maybe it's different in the uk, or not. Whatever. Just not my experience people are a bunch of complainers when the power goes out, because it rarely ever does here and when it does it's bad it's really bad. One thing I am certain of is those linesmen were every bit the hero they are anywhere else when it does happen. They work around the clock every day of the week until the job is done in terrible conditions.
@@ButterfatFarms I realise the all too frequent problems you have with hurricanes and I really sympathise with the hardships they bring. I also think that people like yourself are somewhat accustomed and more acceptant of the results of such an occurrence. Thankfully, over on this side of the Atlantic we don't experience them; storm force 10 or 11 is the maximum we tend to get and not too often either! Our problem is that the general public don't appreciate the conditions the line men have to work in at times and whilst they may reluctantly accept that the power may be out for a day or two, if the National Grid spokesman says they hope to restore power 'by the end of the week' say, the public will be expecting full restoration for breakfast on Saturday morning and if it's not there woe betide someone in authority and all the time, the media will be stoking the fire in the way that only it can! So, my comment was really aimed at how things happen here!
THe location sound recording in those blustery conditions was fantastic. It's a miracle they could even hear each other. What the film doesn't show is at the slightest drop in wind speed the guys were up the towers knocking the ice off and bolting the steelwork back together. All before they even started on the broken connnectors.
I remember watching a clip from I think before ww2 and the sound was fantastic then I realized a lot of stuff is the sound recorded onto the film which ruined the audio quality. You could see in the interviews them talking into a
Laying awake at 3am, I was thinking of the giant power lines that used to line a street in Tacoma, WA. I never said anything out loud, just thinking of them, as I turn on RUclips hoping to find a soothing video to fall back asleep, this video is my feed, despite my never searching for this topic previously. And this isn't the first time. Kind of weird.
Spooky action at a distance… Somewhere out there a conductor is galloping free, going like the wind, happy in the knowledge that the ethereal whisper of it’s rhythmic stride has been heard.
My theory on this is that there are so many people watching YT, that there is another person out there watching the exact same things you are. They’re just a few videos ahead of you though, and the algorithm knows this.
I’ve had this,thought of something obscure and had a RUclips suggestion of the exact thought a little time afterwards,they’re definitely listening to our thoughts 😅
It was a known phenomenon, that occurred with great frequency. The corporation has many records. This isn't an Instagram moment. It is men working to rectify an issue.
More like nobody had the means. The venerable "camcorder" was ridiculously expensive back then... and even the VCR to play a tape was not exactly cheap.
@@peppigue At one point if you saw a camera capable of recording on videotape in this era, it was because something was going on and expected. It wasn't until the early mid 90s that they started to appear in more hands in the wild, and these things were *heavy* when the tech was young... lead acid battery for one thing. Got you a half hour of roll on a good day, and squeezing the pro grade formats (meaning standard cassette sizes) into portable equipment was not easy... when they realized they could keep the tape geometry and shrink the drum, they got smaller but this only meant even more dense. A block of almost solid metal (steel, lead, aluminum, and a fair bit of copper lol) first hanging from a shoulder strap and then later combined with the camera all sitting up top. Fancy looking machines... but if you've never noted the physique of an 80s professional field cameraman... take a look 🤣
I suspect that the winds have to be blowing in such a way that the oscillation is near a resonant frequency of the lines. It's probably like the famed Tacoma-Narrows bridge collapse, you know? Given your 39 years, I'm curious about what you have heard of. Intuitively, this struck me as a rare event, but I don't actually know.
@@bsadewitz The video reminded me of the Erasmus bridge in Rotterdam (the Netherlands). The cable-stayed portion of the deck would swing during winds of 6 Beaufort or more and if rainwater was flowing along the cables. The water changed the cables' aerodynamic properties just enough to induce oscillations. The issue was solved by adding 2 hydraulic dampers to each cable.
@@liam3284And altitude. Fred Dibnah commented on the EMF conditions at height were different than lower down. They say in this video that a line a little lower than the affected pylons in the same route was unaffected.
My dad also worked his entire career (47 years) for the electric company in our city. "Galloping conductors" is not a pair of words I ever heard him utter, either. "Blown transformers" was probably the phrase I heard most often. I even worked for the company for four years right out of school starting the same year this video was made - I worked on substations, which is where those high-capacity transmission lines go to and from - and I never heard anything about "galloping conductors." Maybe we built them better in the USA…
Guy #1 is clearly from Lancashire. Listen at 0:54 to how he pronounces "outskirts". So enough of your divisiveness. There are true heroes and sloggers everywhere, from Tan Hill to Tajikistan to Tasmania to Texas. (Me, born and raised near Oldham, now retired in Sheffield).
Guy #1 is clearly from Lancashire. Listen at 0:54 to how he pronounces "outskirts". So enough of your divisiveness. There are true heroes and sloggers everywhere, from Tan Hill to Tajikistan to Tasmania to Texas. (Me, born and raised near Oldham, now retired in Sheffield).
The algorithm is an interesting thing, given the vast library of the most utilitarian of videos posted. Gives a peek into a world that most "1st world folks" give zero thought to, but they are most dependent on. 😂😮😢
This is a valuable demonstration of weather causing damage to power lines. I've heard of this phenomenon but this is the first time I've seen it. Awesome historical data. Great video...thumbs up.
These guys are SAINTS to ensure electricity now so essential to life is very rarely interrupted. We COULD NOT live without it now. We are UTTERLY dependant on it and i humbly bow to to ALL involved in its production and distribution
Back then electricity was a service, and affordable! This public asset was sold without a referendum or deed of trust. Today it's a profit centre.... and stolen goods.
We'll deify billionaires whose only accomplishment is amassing wealth and falling up the ladder throughout life, but disregard the humble cogs that keep our modern world running.
Well, I have news for you all : That power company didn't even protect their workers with hard hats 18:21 (watch for about a minute) until the "Gubment" told them that they had to. Likewise with electricity, once provided to us by "Utilities", aka a private company fully regulated by "Gubment" because the company was given a monopoly (I'm an electronics engineer by education - with a software career) and the idea that companies can "compete" to bring electricity to your home is dangerous and laughable With the trend towards privatization, I can guarantee that companies will stop providing electricity to the working class if ghe CEO has enough cash in the bank and his boardroom buddies believe that desperate workers are better workers and access to electricity for the poors is as much "a waste of time" as a livable wage and affordable housing.
I've seen conductors sway in the wind of certain stretches of motorway, but my God I've never seen anything like this. The fact there were concerns some of the pylons might fall down is harrowing to think about. Thank God they were able to conduct repairs once it was all over. Fascinating piece of history, this!
Jim Exton was the 1st Eng OHL in the Penwortham based northern district of the now National Grid Company or what was then the CEGB. He was a great guy to work for and was well respected by all of his line gang and those of the Daines line gang AKA Central District, who, where also invited to the party to repair the damage. Those were happy days signed John Hatton of the Daines Line Gang
How does this span fare today? Have literally never had my electricity go out all the time I’ve been in Yorkshire - since 2004. It’s amazingly reliable considering how exposed the area is and the bad storms we’ve had. Also, thank you algorithm for recommending me this!
We've developed a lot of new pylon technologies since then that have largely done away with this problem, the main one being modifications to pylons so that they behave much more like the self-regulating tension devices found on electric railway catenaries.
"I am a lineman for the county… and I drive the main road Searching in the wind and snow for another overload… I hear you singing in the wire… I can hear you through the whine… …and those Galloping Conductors are still on the line… "
“2/3 of the way through”, takes me back to the investigation into the fire that burned down Paradise CA. 100+ year old towers with insulators hanging & swaying but nobody ever thought to check for wear at the pivot point. At about 98/100ths the hole became an open ended slot. Having spent my life around mechanical things, the photo of that “worn to the point of failure” bracket did more than the nightly news to convince me that California & its infrastructure are doomed to failure.
That’s what happens when the supermajority democrat state legislature and governor order the power company how to spend its budget. They diverted 2+ billion a year that was the maintenance and upgrade budget to instead be spent on renewable energy. Because climate conspiracy. Plus decades of forestry neglect allowing the dead fuel to accumulate creates a perfect set of circumstances for disaster. But does the corrupt politicians change thier policies? of course not they double down.
1988 was a bad year for ice storms. We had one in North Carolina that took down a HUGE radio tower, crumbled it and it folded in half! Its a miracle those towers didnt come down!
I’m pretty sure that winter was the time that we had a lot of snow in Kent, London and the south east of the U.K., and we had storms almost continuously that winter with cold followed by snow. Amazing to see at the end the workers going under the tower with falling ice wearing a woolly bobble hat for PPE! How times have thankfully changed! Fantastic footage, thank you for posting.
@@iandobson8846 I would have been about 7 then and we have pictures from that winter up in the Grampians in Scotland. The winters then were regularly much colder than in the last couple of decades, often with deep snow each year especially in January and February.
Just recommended this 5 years after the upload. Wow. I've never seen anything like this before, despite many years in the industry. I think that the presenter mentioned 1986- that was probably the year when I and several others made our way across (deep) snow covered fields to relieve the shift who were on duty at our power station, all the roads there being impassable. Glad that nobody used the word "pylon" instead of tower.
@@lauraarcher1730 A pylon is an Egyptian Arch or a mast for mooring airships. The electricity supply industry uses the term "Tower". Regrettably, Pylon has become like the word "Hoover" being used for a vacuum cleaner or even worse, "Train Station" for a railway station.
@@truthmerchant1 1986 summer WAS warmer than 1985, but not nearly so hot as 83 or even 84. I never so much as needed a fan in those years. Boy has that ever changed.
Why did RUclips recommend this video to me? I need to know why the algorithm thinks this is a video I would enjoy. This is going to keep me awake at night.
You are smart and like unusual videos. I asked myself the same thing. Look at 13:16 and you might get it. OR you like stuff on videotape. Or you dislike Kamala. I know I do. The algorithm that recommended these seems to be quite interesting....
This is no longer a common issue on overhead lines in the UK. All conductor spans are now fitted with dampers close to the connection points with the towers to prevent any significant resonant oscillations. If you look at pylons in the UK you will see thess dampers as dumbbell shaped objects hanging below the conductors
@r.h.8754 the reason for calling them "Stockbridge" would that be anything to do with the notorious Stockbridge Bypass? Just a coincidence? The reason it's a notorious piece of road you probably know about 👍 edit- I think it's called " Stocksbridge " sorry
Fascinating, thanks AVIP Limited & Agecrofts Training Resource Unit and thanks for sharing. It's heartening to see that this has gone viral, 38 years later. I wonder how they improved the design. I'll have a Google.
I saw this on the I-45 to Galveston bridge in the 1980's. Super strong ENE winds at 40-50mph. The sets of 3 phase conductors were swinging in opposite directions between towers. The surf was pumping! Yew!
As a species we have our share of "issues" but we also have our moments to shine & brilliantly we do. These overhead high voltage transmission lines are one of those marvelous feats of engineering .
Great stuff, lucky it's not too common. Love the pre RUclips era video! I was living in Yorkshire in 1986 and can attest to the nippy winter when we had to put an actual coat on in winter for once, like that German military parka the linesman was wearing.
Here in Fairbanks Alaska conductor galloping is quite common during the winter months on lines between local power line poles, however I have never seen this on the longer range transmission lines. What I've always found interesting is that it's usually only a single line amongst the several lines between poles. I've even seen nodes formed in the galloping line suggesting a particular frequency. These galloping lines did not appear to be particularly ice or snow loaded.
You're dead right My Dad did it for a living Him and his mates were generally, as you said, the salt of the Earth It was a dangerous job too, I didn't realise how much when I was a kid
I'm glad that these guys do their job so well and I thank them for their work and dedication to their job and God bless them for putting their lives on the line for us
I love how you can see dark trails to the right of the letters. Clearly the cathode ray is slow to adjust after the white pixels, I never thought about that until now
What? Are you watching this on a CRT? Any artifacts are remnants of the type of film used on camcorders or from your own eyes, unless you have a CRT yourself cathode rays shouldn't be playing any role in the visual artifacts in the video, as it is a VHS-digital transfer rather than a recording of a CRT (Cathode ray tube) screen, although I can understand the confusion. An actual recording of a screen would have unbelievably bad quality.
If you are talking about the light shadow to the side of the date font that's just part of the font used on early VHS recorders. If you are seeing a black image for a few milliseconds after the white letters go away, that's your eyes/visual cortex, a partial negative burn in that you are seeing from the intense light. Like if you look at the sun and look away, or close your eyes you will still be able to see a photonegative version of the image for a short time even though you are not looking at it. This is a possible explanation for certain types of photographic memory, and is a skill you can develop by flashing pictures and focusing on the burn image to remember things that you've only seen for less than a couple seconds.
@@Pepesmall oh that’s true, I could tell the artifacts must be from a left-to-right scanning process and my mind went straight to CRT since it works that way. But then again signals were broadcast in this same sequence and I assume VHS was also recorded in this sequence. So it makes sense that this is a VHS artifact
In the beginning you can see a dark trail to the right of the white letters, and a light trail to the right of a streetlight at the bottom left. And then when there are black letters you can see a faint lighter trail to the right of them. So I assume it’s just an artifact rather than a drop shadow effect on the text
I watched a program once. I have a vivid memory of it. I forget where I watched it. It was about a video that was found, and on the video it was a weird show about electrical pylons, and it had weird noises and strange artistic symbology. Ive never been able to find it again. It was the weirdest thing I ever seen.
@@fritsdaalmans5589 I know it well. It was not it. This was a weird artsy type of film, almost looked home made, like it was videos on an old cam-corder. It was like a grainy old video tape. As far as I recall, there was no narration. It was all about Pylons, specifically. It would cut between various images and clips of different pylons, with eerie music and sound effects in the background. I have hunted for it on Google, RUclips etc a few times and never found it. It was really weird, it had a pretty dark and foreboding atmosphere. If I were to guess, the footage had a late 80s / early 90s vibe.
Been a sparky for 20+ years and I'm more than happy on the 230/415v thank you very much, sod all that 300/400kv bollocks.....and what I do, it's normally a bit warmer.
Digital elecronics engineer here. Glad we got you lot for the other side of the PSUs. Had some dicey moments with 5V TTL. I once had a chip get slightly warm! But thankfully it's mostly 0.9V nowadays. I rarely use the big insulating gloves for that.
The amount of stress put onto the trusswork and multiple failure points gives sense as to why so many places where I live have been switching over to single pole setups and getting rid of the "bunny ear towers" as my family called them growing up.
They are classic Electricity Generating Board type double circuit lattice towers. 275-kV Great Britain. Very interesting to see British tribulations with conductor fatigue.
@@tommiballs They are well over-insulated for 132-kV. Spacings and conductor arrangement figure that these structures were originally built for a higher voltage.
@@tommiballs Its a 400kv single circuit from Eggborough power station to Padiham near Burnley. And a 275kv single circuit from Bradford West to Rochdale. I can see these towers from my house, so I know exactly what they are and where they go. Driven past them countless times.
Kind of got overshadowed in the popular memory by 1987’s hurricane. I’m certain that Michael Fish, the BBC’s on-air meteorologist, never lived it down.
I grew up not far from here, at Ingleton in the Yorkshire Dales. I remember my mother showing me where the flashlight, candles, and matches were stored and how to use them in case the power was knocked out and I was alone This was mid to late 80s, and during the winter months, we would occasionally lose power. It happened to me at night a few times when my Mum and Dad had gone out to the local pub. It used to scare the ship out of me ... thankfully, it never stayed off too long!
Thanks for posting this up. This was interesting. I was a line a for the phone co once upon a time so we had to have an awareness of what was above, meaning we had to learn a little about power lines - but certainly nothing like these, what did he say? 400kv and 275kv lines? Massive! The high lines were always interesting to me. Seeing the towers here getting torn apart due to the wind was amazing! I remember climbing poles in the fog and hearing the nearby high-lines crackling. At times when there were 12kv lines above us on the poles, in the fog or misty rain they would induct into the downguys and if you weren’t careful you’d get a bit of a jolt if you grabbed one without testing it with the back of your hand first. It’s interesting that they measure the height of these based on sea level and not how high they were from the ground. Also interesting was they measured or communicated speed in miles per hour and not kmh.
Yep UK speeds logged as mph. Long distance in miles, height in feet and inches but engineering and furniture in mm. Best one is fuel sold by the litre but fuel economy recorded in mpg... Weird eh?
Wow pretty crazy stuff. I remember seeing fibre optic lines doing this, not really damaging or anything but it was interesting that it must have hit the right resonance and it was basically like a skipping rope between two poles, and all the other spans were not moving, it was rather interesting to see it doing it to just one span.
I used to live near this ~300kV large transmission line of endless curiosity. The frequent rain would pop on these lines and cause them to resonate as a pretty common occurrence.
I grew up in this area know it well, often though about the folk who worked on these Iron ladies and how well built they are to withstand the elements! Seems like this particular winter came right close to disaster, i guess if one span gets comprised and becomes slack it has a major effect on the rest !
@@peppigue It *could* be either but given professional use and needing to see as much detail as possible from a distance, betacam would be my guess. This was not only superior to VHS but even betamax. Cam was intended for "mastering" at the camera, max and VHS were home formats. With their reduced prices, came extra slop in tolerances. This results here in the other indicator, the quality of the scan. There's minimal continuous tearing (very bottom of the frame is slightly misaligned) and no jitter that was associated with VHS. The bad spots in the tape going by don't count lol, but they too offer insight as to which mechanism was used. It moves like SLP with VHS but doesn't have the severe degradation that goes with it. My vote remains pro grade unit and format. I also just don't see them spending the couple-few thousand (in 80s value!) for an inferior system when the intent is later scrutiny for diagnostics. A few grand more got a better camera and tape format overall. But who knows... you might be right. Exceptional VCR? 🤣🤷♂️
Ahhhhh, the Great Galloping of '86 was indeed a spectacle to behold! All those diamond braces and arms flapping had me in a trance. And the deflecting that loosened thousands of bolts, mmmm-hmmmm, golly! What a time to be alive!
I can remember as a very young lad being fascinated by pylons and wiring. I still remember strange dreams of pylons talking to me when I was about 5. 50 years later I remain entirely fascinated by them and electricity in general. This video was particularly interesting and a good find.
Fascinating. And a nostalgic step back to mid 80's England. Furthermore a peek into an industry most of us know very little about. I'll be sharing this with like minded folk. 442k views as of 17 November 2024.
So from the north of scotland, this is only 40mph. But it doesnt seem to be the strength of wind, but the way the wind and ice storm set up a resonant frequency, like wiggling a slinky! I wonder if the conductors shrunk in length because of the low temperature, and rhe added weight due to the ice. You could model this now before building it. How do these engineers dampen the effect nowadays.
Scary when that conductor detached itself from the insulator I wonder if it touched the tower and short circuited they must have cut the power by the time these guys arrived
Near the beginning of the video they mention how the line had already tripped off before they came to investigate. That is what brought them out to see what happened.
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The whisper before cue at the start was just perfect 👌
Sounded like a Boards of Canada sample with that warbling, distorted audio.
"Keep it together, keep it together..."
"I'm being held captive and forced to operate a camera"
It was probably barely noticeable on the original recording. The whispering sounds loud here because someone has applied automatic volume control at some stage, most likely when the tape was being copied, converted or digitised.
Everything before the presenter talks are perfect creepypasta material
The RUclips algorithm took a big gamble in thinking I'd watch the whole thing by simply recommending it, since I've never searched or watched transmission line electrical stuff - and it was right, I indeed watched it all.
well i’ve watched a number of electrical generation and high voltage transmission videos before and i literally could not get even halfway through this because of how mind-numbingly tedious and dreary I found it. 😅 it was not educational or informative. it did not invoke awe. i’m glad you liked it, but trust me, there are much better videos out there!
I come to bury the RUclips algorithm, not to praise it. After watching a variety of “hard science” videos on subjects like physics, astrophysics, electrical engineering, nuclear engineering, etc., you will inevitably find RUclips trying to radicalize you into a nutcase by offering videos like “Was the moon landing faked by CIA,” “The lies of radioactive medicine,” and “Physicists proved the universe doesn’t exist.” (actual videos I have been offered recently.) See, “engagement = money” and the more outrageous and clickbaity your titles are, the more money you make.
So yeah if it seems like the algorithm is being uncannily intelligent, it is. It’s not a fluke. It’s a calculated statistical probability designed to keep you watching more and more videos (and commercials). And the path they have set up for you goes straight to Paranoid Schizophreniatown.
RUclips wasn't gambling.... YOU were.
Likely you've watched Fred Dibnah videos in the past. I'd watched pylon videos before but, it is still odd to get this in our feed 5 years after it was uploaded.
Same here!
Yeah. As an engineer, I like studying how things failed so I can learn from past incidents. It all translates - EE, compeng, etc.. the storytelling and fact based journalism is top notch here.
Tower 4ZP128 is one of my favourite towers of all time. A real beauty.
the pioneers used to ride these babies for miles
I'm a 4ZP91 fan, myself. But I respect your opinion and your right to exist. Not like those filthy 4ZP106 scoundrels. What is wrong with them?
@@michaelthompson7217It's a damn shame what's happened to them after automobiles. Now they're kept as showpieces, and often don't get the exercise they need.
😂
I’m putting it on a tee shirt!
You know, I was just lamenting a severe lack of videos on galloping conductors in my life. What a saving grace!
RUclips algorithm must have known. I am an old linesman 83 now. My days building power lines are fond memories , a great job working with some great guys. An intriguing clip.
Thank You for your job! These lines have their own beauty... I rode my bicycle much in 90's under 150 kV lines with towers looking like these
🎶 I am a lineman for the county 🎶
I hauled a lot of coal in boats. This was for power companies and if I have seen lines doing this I would have been trying to insulate myself from my pants with a trouser biscuit.
100% clicked on this because I thought it was an analog horror series about power conductors that can get up and walk. Now that I know it's just a thing that happens, I'm baffled why youtube thought I needed to watch this
Yeah me too 😂
I will take this over the 99% of other crap and shorts they throw at me any day.
@@JathraDH true!
lol, same here
actually kinda glad it wasn't though, this was probably better
Dude, a few weeks ago I clicked on what I thought was a repair video. It was a toilet flushing. Belongings to a channel where they just flush different toilets. That's it. There's weird stuff out here, folks....
My fellow viewers, we’ve gathered here today, together, in bewilderment wondering what we’ve done for the algorithm to have offered up such an esoteric bit of film.
I do think it could be backrooms related based on some recent comments and my own experience.
Not angry about it, but I do think it’s safe to say we’ve all watched everything else RUclips has to offer.
Galloping conductors will be a niche community of bored people now in possession of esoteric knowledge.
I haven't watched anything Backrooms related, but I have been watching Tape Library, so I'm certain it has something to do with horror themed videos.
Ahhhh...ya used "esoteric" one too many times. Invest in a thesaurus.
Hmm, I doubt this old Tony sent me this far down the rabbit hole. I’d say CERN found something interesting.
"How's it going to end"
I think the algorithm thinks this is analog horror... or that analog horror is this.
Or I looked up one to many obscure engineering topics. One or the other.
Unsung heroes who keep the lights on in extreme conditions.
I know right...Imagine getting a call out during a blizzard and have to walk the line and assess for any damage with six 400KV skipping ropes violently twirling above your head.
A facinating video of engineering but some of the editing seems a bit double dutch though. 📼.
And I wasted money on a drawer full of candles? 😂
They are a dedicated lot. Linemen make good money and this video demonstrates how they earn every penny
We’re about to get another hurricane down here, and people are already thanking the linemen who are gearing up for the aftermath. Rightfully so!
Edit: PSA to disconnect your main breaker before hooking in a generator. Backfeed is deadly to linemen. Be safe.
I just think its awful that these MEN are actively keeping out the fully capable woman who are desperate for this sort of high status work!
I think I met this guy and saw this film on a mod 4 operators course at Drax power station, it’s an absolute blast to see it now. I still have the notes in the attic!
Wow what a world
You old raver Dave, go on, get up there & get em out 😁🙌😁🙌😁
Cool 😎
fantastic!
Yes, I understand exactly what you mean, fellow adult 👌🏻
my heart goes out to tower 4ZP105
Rip
And 106 got a pounding too!😮😬🤪
When I die one day let it be known that this tower played a crucial role in keeping my TV on
Such great memories.
Fuck tower 4ZP105. It knew the risks. We all knew the risks that day, but only 4ZP105 decided to ignore the warnings.
No idea why this popped up in my feed, but for a reason I cannot fathom, I just sat and watched this from beginning to end. Absolutely Fascinating.
Fascinating - I'd never considered that the cables would have a resonant frequency (of course they do!) And I can understand now why the ceramic plates are fitted as individuals rather than as a single piece baffle - super interesting film thank you!!!
It is not strictly a resonance effect. I am pretty sure it is vortex excitation (vortex induced vibration), which I had to learn about when studying engineering, decades ago. Ice on one side of the cable, and not the other, can cause or significantly increase the likelihood of it occurring, as it may change the cross-section shape from a circle to a “D” which is an aerodynamic shape that is more conducive to vortex excitation. (At least that is what my lecturer said.)
@@swingingvoter4309Aelion distortion
Lol think guitar
This happened nearly 40 years ago on the other side of the Atlantic and I’m still not far enough away from it. Impressive to see guys getting so close.
"I know I need a small va-caay-sion
But it don't look much like rain....
unless you count 2 lb. bolts and 20 lb. chunks of ice....not a hardhat in sight either. Ballsy!
High voltage 😎
And people complain when there's a power outage and it can't be restored within a couple of hours! I wouldn't expect anyone to risk their life trying to get it all back up and running in these conditions! Much respect to the line men! Even just getting out there to check it is hazardous enough.
We should all be grateful for the work they do and the dangers they expose themselves to in their normal working day!
That's nothing in Florida
@@ButterfatFarms I'm not making a comparison but if you want to go there, do you have the same problems with icing conditions?
@@rayjennings3637 my experience in Florida is that the power has been extremely reliable over the decades, with the exception of just having gotten our butts kicked by a hurricane, and we all know the power isn't coming back on anytime soon. So there's no point in complaining about it. And very few do. You fire up the generator if you have one and you get on with your business of doing what you have to do. For me the last one was Cat 4 Hurricane Irma. Something like 7 million were evacuated and something like 12 million were left without power in FL. I didn't evacuate I hunkered down. For me personally it was 10 days before power was restored and I'm grateful for that not complaining. Many others had it worse. Never seen so many linemen in my life before, from all over the country, descend on the Southeast after a hurricane to rebuild the power grid. Which in Southwest Florida was impressively destroyed. Adverse weather events ain't no joke. And when they happen I don't recall too many people complaining, more so we were kind of praying for the safety of those guys getting the job done, effin heroes they are. I don't know if you know what the satisfaction is like seeing convoys of a linesman's trucks from 2, 3, 5 states and more away arriving on scene. And they work incredibly hard all day every day until the job is done and it's time to go home. :)
And no I'm not making a comparison, it isn't a competition. Just saying when things get really bad people don't seem to complain about things as much as you allude to. People that have hissy fits about the power not being back on in a few hours don't live in places where it can and has gone out for days weeks or months before it's restored. Whether that's because of winter ice storms or hurricanes or whatever.
@@rayjennings3637 No not at all I live in Florida because winter and the adverse weather events that come with it sucks. Of course instead it's hurricanes like cat 4 Irma that plunge 12 million people into darkness for days, weeks, or months depending on how unfortunate they were before they personally have power restored. For me it was 10 days and I don't recall too many people complaining. 13 million people, over half the state's population were in darkness without power at some point, so what's the point of complaining. You know darn well it isn't going to be back on in a few hours and you get on with doing what you've got to do without being a baby about it.
I don't know why you're alluding the people being big babies about the power being out for a few hours after truly historic inverse weather events like this one was, or hurricanes etc. That's the sort of thing people complain about after an afternoon thunderstorm power outage, not historic adverse weather events like this one. How much people complain seems to be a inversely proportional to just how bad it truly is.
I don't know maybe it's different in the uk, or not. Whatever. Just not my experience people are a bunch of complainers when the power goes out, because it rarely ever does here and when it does it's bad it's really bad.
One thing I am certain of is those linesmen were every bit the hero they are anywhere else when it does happen. They work around the clock every day of the week until the job is done in terrible conditions.
@@ButterfatFarms I realise the all too frequent problems you have with hurricanes and I really sympathise with the hardships they bring. I also think that people like yourself are somewhat accustomed and more acceptant of the results of such an occurrence. Thankfully, over on this side of the Atlantic we don't experience them; storm force 10 or 11 is the maximum we tend to get and not too often either!
Our problem is that the general public don't appreciate the conditions the line men have to work in at times and whilst they may reluctantly accept that the power may be out for a day or two, if the National Grid spokesman says they hope to restore power 'by the end of the week' say, the public will be expecting full restoration for breakfast on Saturday morning and if it's not there woe betide someone in authority and all the time, the media will be stoking the fire in the way that only it can! So, my comment was really aimed at how things happen here!
THe location sound recording in those blustery conditions was fantastic. It's a miracle they could even hear each other. What the film doesn't show is at the slightest drop in wind speed the guys were up the towers knocking the ice off and bolting the steelwork back together. All before they even started on the broken connnectors.
I remember watching a clip from I think before ww2 and the sound was fantastic then I realized a lot of stuff is the sound recorded onto the film which ruined the audio quality. You could see in the interviews them talking into a
@@jadall77Talking into a what? You can just leave me hanging lik
@@Vacuum_Tube🍌
@@BananaPhoPhilly😂
@@Vacuum_Tubeinto… into a a thing.!
Laying awake at 3am, I was thinking of the giant power lines that used to line a street in Tacoma, WA. I never said anything out loud, just thinking of them, as I turn on RUclips hoping to find a soothing video to fall back asleep, this video is my feed, despite my never searching for this topic previously. And this isn't the first time. Kind of weird.
Spooky action at a distance… Somewhere out there a conductor is galloping free, going like the wind, happy in the knowledge that the ethereal whisper of it’s rhythmic stride has been heard.
My theory on this is that there are so many people watching YT, that there is another person out there watching the exact same things you are. They’re just a few videos ahead of you though, and the algorithm knows this.
I’ve had this,thought of something obscure and had a RUclips suggestion of the exact thought a little time afterwards,they’re definitely listening to our thoughts 😅
I really think they are though @@Bella-fz9fy
It's happened to me before! It's definitely freaky lol
So this is what analog horror is based on
In the first few-ty seconds, I was genuinely wondering wether this was going to be an analogue horror or just an old video about some obscure topic.
I thought it was gonna be like the jump rope gif I am now disliking this video
I just turned to dust and I ain't even old.
i can't believe old video is like analog horror wow....
@@walkingonneedles real
Kudos to whoever thought to film this as it was happening way back in 1986, when people’s first thought back then wasn’t to film something.
It was a known phenomenon, that occurred with great frequency. The corporation has many records. This isn't an Instagram moment. It is men working to rectify an issue.
This was their job.
More like nobody had the means. The venerable "camcorder" was ridiculously expensive back then... and even the VCR to play a tape was not exactly cheap.
@@MadScientist267 and those who had the equipment were likely quite eyes open to opportunities to get footage of extraordinary events
@@peppigue At one point if you saw a camera capable of recording on videotape in this era, it was because something was going on and expected. It wasn't until the early mid 90s that they started to appear in more hands in the wild, and these things were *heavy* when the tech was young... lead acid battery for one thing. Got you a half hour of roll on a good day, and squeezing the pro grade formats (meaning standard cassette sizes) into portable equipment was not easy... when they realized they could keep the tape geometry and shrink the drum, they got smaller but this only meant even more dense. A block of almost solid metal (steel, lead, aluminum, and a fair bit of copper lol) first hanging from a shoulder strap and then later combined with the camera all sitting up top. Fancy looking machines... but if you've never noted the physique of an 80s professional field cameraman... take a look 🤣
Spent 39 years in power industry and never heard of this in such magnitude! Scary stuff!!
I suspect that the winds have to be blowing in such a way that the oscillation is near a resonant frequency of the lines. It's probably like the famed Tacoma-Narrows bridge collapse, you know? Given your 39 years, I'm curious about what you have heard of. Intuitively, this struck me as a rare event, but I don't actually know.
@@bsadewitz The video reminded me of the Erasmus bridge in Rotterdam (the Netherlands). The cable-stayed portion of the deck would swing during winds of 6 Beaufort or more and if rainwater was flowing along the cables. The water changed the cables' aerodynamic properties just enough to induce oscillations. The issue was solved by adding 2 hydraulic dampers to each cable.
@@MicraHakkinenExactly.
@@liam3284And altitude. Fred Dibnah commented on the EMF conditions at height were different than lower down. They say in this video that a line a little lower than the affected pylons in the same route was unaffected.
@@bsadewitz Ice 🧊 and wind load on conductors! It’s called special conditions in line design!
A local wedding video recorder guy was recruited to do the filming at very short notice. RIP all the guys who are no longer with us
My dad worked for the electric company for 45 years in the USA. Don’t ever remember him talking about this. Fascinating. Miss my dad. He was awesome.
My dad also worked his entire career (47 years) for the electric company in our city. "Galloping conductors" is not a pair of words I ever heard him utter, either. "Blown transformers" was probably the phrase I heard most often.
I even worked for the company for four years right out of school starting the same year this video was made - I worked on substations, which is where those high-capacity transmission lines go to and from - and I never heard anything about "galloping conductors." Maybe we built them better in the USA…
The guys who fixed this are true heroes. Proper Yorkshiremen
Amen from an Australian who knows what hardworking people they are, and I'm not even descended from northerners
Oh Aye
Guy #1 is clearly from Lancashire. Listen at 0:54 to how he pronounces "outskirts".
So enough of your divisiveness. There are true heroes and sloggers everywhere, from Tan Hill to Tajikistan to Tasmania to Texas.
(Me, born and raised near Oldham, now retired in Sheffield).
Guy #1 is clearly from Lancashire. Listen at 0:54 to how he pronounces "outskirts".
So enough of your divisiveness. There are true heroes and sloggers everywhere, from Tan Hill to Tajikistan to Tasmania to Texas.
(Me, born and raised near Oldham, now retired in Sheffield).
They are Lancashire men. It is near Blackburn after all. Big tell-tale for the accent: Yorkshire accent pronounce the 'o' in no or know like 'ner'
The algorithm is an interesting thing, given the vast library of the most utilitarian of videos posted. Gives a peek into a world that most "1st world folks" give zero thought to, but they are most dependent on. 😂😮😢
Yes I also watched the whole thing. I love how concise it is
This is a valuable demonstration of weather causing damage to power lines. I've heard of this phenomenon but this is the first time I've seen it. Awesome historical data. Great video...thumbs up.
Agreed. Thumbs up to the original author. This is a repost of others fantastic work.
These guys are SAINTS to ensure electricity now so essential to life is very rarely interrupted. We COULD NOT live without it now. We are UTTERLY dependant on it and i humbly bow to to ALL involved in its production and distribution
Back then electricity was a service, and affordable!
This public asset was sold without a referendum or deed of trust.
Today it's a profit centre.... and stolen goods.
We'll deify billionaires whose only accomplishment is amassing wealth and falling up the ladder throughout life, but disregard the humble cogs that keep our modern world running.
@@ConsciusVeritasVids The whole 'celebrity' thing is just another sponsored form of influence.
Yep so many of really really need electrical power to get by
Well, I have news for you all : That power company didn't even protect their workers with hard hats 18:21 (watch for about a minute) until the "Gubment" told them that they had to.
Likewise with electricity, once provided to us by "Utilities", aka a private company fully regulated by "Gubment" because the company was given a monopoly (I'm an electronics engineer by education - with a software career) and the idea that companies can "compete" to bring electricity to your home is dangerous and laughable
With the trend towards privatization, I can guarantee that companies will stop providing electricity to the working class if ghe CEO has enough cash in the bank and his boardroom buddies believe that desperate workers are better workers and access to electricity for the poors is as much "a waste of time" as a livable wage and affordable housing.
What a treat YT served me today!
I've seen conductors sway in the wind of certain stretches of motorway, but my God I've never seen anything like this. The fact there were concerns some of the pylons might fall down is harrowing to think about. Thank God they were able to conduct repairs once it was all over. Fascinating piece of history, this!
This is an incredible testament to engineering and steel and linesmen and Mother Nature. Thank you so much for sharing this with us!
Jim Exton was the 1st Eng OHL in the Penwortham based northern district of the now National Grid Company or what was then the CEGB. He was a great guy to work for and was well respected by all of his line gang and those of the Daines line gang AKA Central District, who, where also invited to the party to repair the damage. Those were happy days signed John Hatton of the Daines Line Gang
Were you there?
These workers get my respect! Thanks for keeping the lights on!
No idea how or why RUclips decided to show me this, but it’s pretty cool, never seen that before! Weather looks rough as hell too
Best intro ever...suspense, drama, intrigue...before the first audible dialogue. Orson Welles vibes for sure.
If it had been a tad more serious they would have called Fred Dibnah.
I was just thinking the same thing!
It might be my age, but I found this strangely fascinating.
I must be about the same age.
How does this span fare today? Have literally never had my electricity go out all the time I’ve been in Yorkshire - since 2004. It’s amazingly reliable considering how exposed the area is and the bad storms we’ve had.
Also, thank you algorithm for recommending me this!
We've developed a lot of new pylon technologies since then that have largely done away with this problem, the main one being modifications to pylons so that they behave much more like the self-regulating tension devices found on electric railway catenaries.
@@alexritchie4586 Probably got it from sweden since that has never occurred here.
damn that must have been some spectacular phase to phase arcing when the line tripped out initially
At 400kv, I bet the boom was heard from miles. It probably sounded like thunder from the distance.
@@electron2601 for sure. HV stuff is on another level the biggest I get to work on is 400V 3 Phase feeds.
“Don’t worry, it’s perfectly safe.”
“How is that safe??”
“Because it’s over there!”
gonna use that ty
"I am a lineman for the county…
and I drive the main road
Searching in the wind and snow for another overload…
I hear you singing in the wire…
I can hear you through the whine…
…and those Galloping Conductors
are still on the line… "
Glen's finest!
Sacrilege, but funny. RIP Glen.
Tony Joe White’s version is #1
Bro analog horror without even trying this is great
The tone of this video is so uncanny. It feels like the opening to an apocalyptic movie or something
“2/3 of the way through”, takes me back to the investigation into the fire that burned down Paradise CA. 100+ year old towers with insulators hanging & swaying but nobody ever thought to check for wear at the pivot point. At about 98/100ths the hole became an open ended slot. Having spent my life around mechanical things, the photo of that “worn to the point of failure” bracket did more than the nightly news to convince me that California & its infrastructure are doomed to failure.
It's not "California". It's the for-profit company that is choosing risk for increased profits.
That’s what happens when the supermajority democrat state legislature and governor order the power company how to spend its budget. They diverted 2+ billion a year that was the maintenance and upgrade budget to instead be spent on renewable energy. Because climate conspiracy. Plus decades of forestry neglect allowing the dead fuel to accumulate creates a perfect set of circumstances for disaster. But does the corrupt politicians change thier policies? of course not they double down.
It had even been replaced at least once because it almost wore through the tower itself.
YT algorithm knows.. this is exactly the type of video that ppl will enjoy the most fun while scrolling comments and replying whatever
btw I take this video as some sort of asmr 💀
@@alvarobelevanit’s got the comforting sounds of childhood tv that we’d fall asleep to.
@@KateCarew I mean.. ok nvm fair enough lol
whatever 😊
1988 was a bad year for ice storms. We had one in North Carolina that took down a HUGE radio tower, crumbled it and it folded in half! Its a miracle those towers didnt come down!
In what part of North Carolina did that happen? I’m from Sanford.
I’m pretty sure that winter was the time that we had a lot of snow in Kent, London and the south east of the U.K., and we had storms almost continuously that winter with cold followed by snow.
Amazing to see at the end the workers going under the tower with falling ice wearing a woolly bobble hat for PPE! How times have thankfully changed! Fantastic footage, thank you for posting.
Most of the 1980s were pretty cold, compared to recent times.
@@iandobson8846 I would have been about 7 then and we have pictures from that winter up in the Grampians in Scotland. The winters then were regularly much colder than in the last couple of decades, often with deep snow each year especially in January and February.
09:58 “one or two volts flying out, by the look of things” 🤣
I think he said bolts. Because the tower was creaking.
Yeah it was bolts. They'd stopped the power to these by this point
*sound of things
“By the sound of things”.
Sound not look
Just recommended this 5 years after the upload. Wow. I've never seen anything like this before, despite many years in the industry. I think that the presenter mentioned 1986- that was probably the year when I and several others made our way across (deep) snow covered fields to relieve the shift who were on duty at our power station, all the roads there being impassable.
Glad that nobody used the word "pylon" instead of tower.
Why? What’s wrong with pylon?
@@lauraarcher1730 A pylon is an Egyptian Arch or a mast for mooring airships. The electricity supply industry uses the term "Tower". Regrettably, Pylon has become like the word "Hoover" being used for a vacuum cleaner or even worse, "Train Station" for a railway station.
January and February of 1986 were particularly perishing.
First time in my life I got chill blains. Bloody Victorian, that was.
I was 11 years old and the river forth in Stirling had frozen over
And then we got the scorching summer with the drought and had to get water from standpipes.
@@truthmerchant1 1986 summer WAS warmer than 1985, but not nearly so hot as 83 or even 84.
I never so much as needed a fan in those years. Boy has that ever changed.
Why did RUclips recommend this video to me? I need to know why the algorithm thinks this is a video I would enjoy. This is going to keep me awake at night.
It thinks you need landscape inspo for the background of an ice-queen-angel artwork.
You are smart and like unusual videos. I asked myself the same thing. Look at 13:16 and you might get it. OR you like stuff on videotape. Or you dislike Kamala. I know I do. The algorithm that recommended these seems to be quite interesting....
well *did* you enjoy it?
What sort of content do you usually watch?
This is no longer a common issue on overhead lines in the UK. All conductor spans are now fitted with dampers close to the connection points with the towers to prevent any significant resonant oscillations. If you look at pylons in the UK you will see thess dampers as dumbbell shaped objects hanging below the conductors
They are called Stockbridge dampers but the physics of how they work is beyond me!
Top comment. I wondered what those things were.
@jacksmith5399 thanks for this, I wondered what they did post 86 to try and prevent a recurrence
@r.h.8754 the reason for calling them "Stockbridge" would that be anything to do with the notorious Stockbridge Bypass? Just a coincidence? The reason it's a notorious piece of road you probably know about 👍 edit- I think it's called " Stocksbridge " sorry
This is a fascinating video, thank you for bringing this to the people.
2:57 “Conditions are awful.” Says it all.
Fascinating, thanks AVIP Limited & Agecrofts Training Resource Unit and thanks for sharing.
It's heartening to see that this has gone viral, 38 years later.
I wonder how they improved the design. I'll have a Google.
Never, I repeat never go ahead with a plan before asking Jim what he thinks.
It's dead Jim.
I'm a doctor, not a lines repairman.
I'm a doctor, not a high qualified sparky.
Jimmy, will you fix it for me?
Incredible to see that kind of load on the tower and insulator strings. Testament to the design that the line stayed up.
Well, it did not really...
Thank you mysterious algorithm!
AI is watching.
This film was very intriguing and it was riveting. (No pun intended.) It was very unsettling to say the least. Great video though.
I saw this on the I-45 to Galveston bridge in the 1980's. Super strong ENE winds at 40-50mph. The sets of 3 phase conductors were swinging in opposite directions between towers. The surf was pumping! Yew!
I am an electrical engineering student from Mongolia and I found this video very helpful. Nice! 👍
As a species we have our share of "issues" but we also have our moments to shine & brilliantly we do.
These overhead high voltage transmission lines are one of those marvelous feats of engineering .
Live under them.
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@@mattmarzula I wouldn't recommend that...
Great stuff, lucky it's not too common. Love the pre RUclips era video! I was living in Yorkshire in 1986 and can attest to the nippy winter when we had to put an actual coat on in winter for once, like that German military parka the linesman was wearing.
Here in Fairbanks Alaska conductor galloping is quite common during the winter months on lines between local power line poles, however I have never seen this on the longer range transmission lines. What I've always found interesting is that it's usually only a single line amongst the several lines between poles. I've even seen nodes formed in the galloping line suggesting a particular frequency. These galloping lines did not appear to be particularly ice or snow loaded.
My life will never be the same after watching this masterpiece.
This in my recommendations
I thought I was going to be watching a new analog horror
Flashbacks to the nightmares induced by BBC children's show The Changes.
This was incredible to watch, thanks for sharing.
These people shown here really are the salt of the earth.
You're dead right
My Dad did it for a living
Him and his mates were generally, as you said, the salt of the Earth
It was a dangerous job too, I didn't realise how much when I was a kid
I'm glad that these guys do their job so well and I thank them for their work and dedication to their job and God bless them for putting their lives on the line for us
I love how you can see dark trails to the right of the letters. Clearly the cathode ray is slow to adjust after the white pixels, I never thought about that until now
What? Are you watching this on a CRT? Any artifacts are remnants of the type of film used on camcorders or from your own eyes, unless you have a CRT yourself cathode rays shouldn't be playing any role in the visual artifacts in the video, as it is a VHS-digital transfer rather than a recording of a CRT (Cathode ray tube) screen, although I can understand the confusion. An actual recording of a screen would have unbelievably bad quality.
If you are talking about the light shadow to the side of the date font that's just part of the font used on early VHS recorders. If you are seeing a black image for a few milliseconds after the white letters go away, that's your eyes/visual cortex, a partial negative burn in that you are seeing from the intense light. Like if you look at the sun and look away, or close your eyes you will still be able to see a photonegative version of the image for a short time even though you are not looking at it. This is a possible explanation for certain types of photographic memory, and is a skill you can develop by flashing pictures and focusing on the burn image to remember things that you've only seen for less than a couple seconds.
@@Pepesmall oh that’s true, I could tell the artifacts must be from a left-to-right scanning process and my mind went straight to CRT since it works that way. But then again signals were broadcast in this same sequence and I assume VHS was also recorded in this sequence. So it makes sense that this is a VHS artifact
In the beginning you can see a dark trail to the right of the white letters, and a light trail to the right of a streetlight at the bottom left. And then when there are black letters you can see a faint lighter trail to the right of them. So I assume it’s just an artifact rather than a drop shadow effect on the text
I watched a program once. I have a vivid memory of it. I forget where I watched it. It was about a video that was found, and on the video it was a weird show about electrical pylons, and it had weird noises and strange artistic symbology. Ive never been able to find it again. It was the weirdest thing I ever seen.
It sounds like The Changes, a BBC sci-if that was made at the end of the 1970s.
What you describe sounds a bit like Koyaanisqatsi: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koyaanisqatsi
@@fritsdaalmans5589 I know it well. It was not it. This was a weird artsy type of film, almost looked home made, like it was videos on an old cam-corder. It was like a grainy old video tape. As far as I recall, there was no narration. It was all about Pylons, specifically. It would cut between various images and clips of different pylons, with eerie music and sound effects in the background. I have hunted for it on Google, RUclips etc a few times and never found it. It was really weird, it had a pretty dark and foreboding atmosphere. If I were to guess, the footage had a late 80s / early 90s vibe.
@@skeletalwreckYou could ask Copilot, or another LLM-based system.
0:30 What ❔️
Came here for Same reason 😂
"She sells sharks by the batteries," obviously.
"dude sex from under the factory"
I drank a beer *WHAT?*
I drank another beer *WHAT?*
"Dude sex yaknow from under the factory"
I watched a good seven minutes or so of this before realising it isn't some AI generated, liminal horror video
Been a sparky for 20+ years and I'm more than happy on the 230/415v thank you very much, sod all that 300/400kv bollocks.....and what I do, it's normally a bit warmer.
Digital elecronics engineer here. Glad we got you lot for the other side of the PSUs. Had some dicey moments with 5V TTL. I once had a chip get slightly warm! But thankfully it's mostly 0.9V nowadays. I rarely use the big insulating gloves for that.
Ee lads, it's nay good jus' standin' there yakkin' about it on't radio! Thas gorra git OOP there an' stop t' cables joompin' around!
Cuppa tea Sir?
@@post5230nay lad, it’s opening time, we’re knockin’ off for t’day.
What the hell is whispered at the 29-31 second mark? "You're so soft electric hydrogen?" Makes perfect sense. funny.
Some sort of weird electrical fettish wank going on in the background
@@MrRedeyedJedi 😆😆😆
this is hilarious (0:29)
@YAKUMO RAN lmaoo
To me it also sounded liked the camera operator counting softly to time the zoom :P .
The amount of stress put onto the trusswork and multiple failure points gives sense as to why so many places where I live have been switching over to single pole setups and getting rid of the "bunny ear towers" as my family called them growing up.
They are classic Electricity Generating Board type double circuit lattice towers. 275-kV Great Britain. Very interesting to see British tribulations with conductor fatigue.
L6, 400kv
Video clearly states 132kV
@@tommiballs They are well over-insulated for 132-kV. Spacings and conductor arrangement figure that these structures were originally built for a higher voltage.
@@tommiballs Its a 400kv single circuit from Eggborough power station to Padiham near Burnley. And a 275kv single circuit from Bradford West to Rochdale. I can see these towers from my house, so I know exactly what they are and where they go. Driven past them countless times.
This is great! Really don’t recall the weather being this bad in winter 1985-6! Great stuff!
It was a bad winter, I remember walking to school though snowdrifts, and that was in the south of England.
Kind of got overshadowed in the popular memory by 1987’s hurricane. I’m certain that Michael Fish, the BBC’s on-air meteorologist, never lived it down.
I grew up not far from here, at Ingleton in the Yorkshire Dales. I remember my mother showing me where the flashlight, candles, and matches were stored and how to use them in case the power was knocked out and I was alone This was mid to late 80s, and during the winter months, we would occasionally lose power. It happened to me at night a few times when my Mum and Dad had gone out to the local pub. It used to scare the ship out of me ... thankfully, it never stayed off too long!
Thanks for posting this up.
This was interesting. I was a line a for the phone co once upon a time so we had to have an awareness of what was above, meaning we had to learn a little about power lines - but certainly nothing like these, what did he say? 400kv and 275kv lines? Massive! The high lines were always interesting to me. Seeing the towers here getting torn apart due to the wind was amazing! I remember climbing poles in the fog and hearing the nearby high-lines crackling. At times when there were 12kv lines above us on the poles, in the fog or misty rain they would induct into the downguys and if you weren’t careful you’d get a bit of a jolt if you grabbed one without testing it with the back of your hand first.
It’s interesting that they measure the height of these based on sea level and not how high they were from the ground.
Also interesting was they measured or communicated speed in miles per hour and not kmh.
Yep UK speeds logged as mph. Long distance in miles, height in feet and inches but engineering and furniture in mm. Best one is fuel sold by the litre but fuel economy recorded in mpg... Weird eh?
This is better than any self labeled analog horror.
Well Godzilla would have been able to grab the lines and settled them down, did any of the engineers consider that option?
Wow pretty crazy stuff. I remember seeing fibre optic lines doing this, not really damaging or anything but it was interesting that it must have hit the right resonance and it was basically like a skipping rope between two poles, and all the other spans were not moving, it was rather interesting to see it doing it to just one span.
Like a huge double-dutch! Jump in!
Daniel Wilten
I used to live near this ~300kV large transmission line of endless curiosity. The frequent rain would pop on these lines and cause them to resonate as a pretty common occurrence.
I grew up in this area know it well, often though about the folk who worked on these Iron ladies and how well built they are to withstand the elements! Seems like this particular winter came right close to disaster, i guess if one span gets comprised and becomes slack it has a major effect on the rest !
One day hoof-trimming randomly showed up on my timeline. Guess I'll be hooked on galloping power lines in the near future.
God Bless VHS 1980 camera units!!! A shoit tun to be learned from these movies!
This was likely recorded on betacam.
@@MadScientist267you think it looks better than period vhs cameras?
@@peppigue It *could* be either but given professional use and needing to see as much detail as possible from a distance, betacam would be my guess. This was not only superior to VHS but even betamax. Cam was intended for "mastering" at the camera, max and VHS were home formats. With their reduced prices, came extra slop in tolerances. This results here in the other indicator, the quality of the scan. There's minimal continuous tearing (very bottom of the frame is slightly misaligned) and no jitter that was associated with VHS. The bad spots in the tape going by don't count lol, but they too offer insight as to which mechanism was used. It moves like SLP with VHS but doesn't have the severe degradation that goes with it. My vote remains pro grade unit and format.
I also just don't see them spending the couple-few thousand (in 80s value!) for an inferior system when the intent is later scrutiny for diagnostics. A few grand more got a better camera and tape format overall.
But who knows... you might be right. Exceptional VCR? 🤣🤷♂️
So what’s the North of England like in wintertime?
I've been up there in quite some conditions but never seen them galloping like that. The weather must have been something special back then.
Another video that makes me appreciate civil and mechanical engineers
The subject is electrical distribution and you omit electrical engineers?
@@rubensano4860 that too of course ⚡
An arc-cellent video. ♡ T.E.N.
Ahhhhh, the Great Galloping of '86 was indeed a spectacle to behold! All those diamond braces and arms flapping had me in a trance. And the deflecting that loosened thousands of bolts, mmmm-hmmmm, golly! What a time to be alive!
Anyone who thinks pylons are boring is wrong❤️😊🇬🇧
True
Agree
😂
if you are heterosexual male, pylons are boring. if you are heterosexual female of homosexual male, pylons are good
Pylons are pretty cool
I’ve had to have a cold bath and a ‘two bagger’ brew after that festival of northern smut. I’m still sporting a proud semi, conductor.
God bless.
In the US, we have big ass tornados that come through and wipe out the towers and all. The wind is still a mighty force of nature.
I can remember as a very young lad being fascinated by pylons and wiring. I still remember strange dreams of pylons talking to me when I was about 5. 50 years later I remain entirely fascinated by them and electricity in general. This video was particularly interesting and a good find.
I can only guess RUclips sent this to me because of my love for ElectroBoom.
🤣 He's cool indeed!!
Fascinating. And a nostalgic step back to mid 80's England. Furthermore a peek into an industry most of us know very little about. I'll be sharing this with like minded folk. 442k views as of 17 November 2024.
Some very distinct Lancashire accents
In the days before they analysed resonance effect with wind speed
So from the north of scotland, this is only 40mph. But it doesnt seem to be the strength of wind, but the way the wind and ice storm set up a resonant frequency, like wiggling a slinky! I wonder if the conductors shrunk in length because of the low temperature, and rhe added weight due to the ice. You could model this now before building it. How do these engineers dampen the effect nowadays.
Not something I would usually watch, but the algorithm randomly just slipped this video into my suggestions and I was fascinated.
Scary when that conductor detached itself from the insulator I wonder if it touched the tower and short circuited they must have cut the power by the time these guys arrived
Near the beginning of the video they mention how the line had already tripped off before they came to investigate. That is what brought them out to see what happened.