Hey mate I hit a single wire earth return with a scissor lift my boss was operating. I took 19,000 volts three times over 11 seconds. I lost both my legs n now I’m getting ready to race dirtbikes on prosthetic legs
@@mattgayda2840 I bet he needed absolutely no convincing. U could see that by how he shot up the pylon pins, plus there’s naff all that scares Guy, he’s game for anything that lad 👍✌️
If I could I would spend my life learning a new craft trade every 5 years. I am an electrician, but I spend most my free time making projects because I am curious about learning other skills... a couple of decades ago being a Jack of All Trades wasn't considered being a person with a lack of focus! LOL
Major respect to the guys that do this work for real. This job is no joke! As guy said, you can only get it wrong once! You don't often see them, but, whenever I do, I tip my hat to them because without them doing their job, we'd all be back in the dark ages, unable to do ours (or much else!).
My dad was a linesman for South Wales electricity board,(Trydan dy cymru) back in the day... I was always in awe of him ,as he climbed those poles and fixed those lines ....Thankyou all
My old friends father was a linesman, I'm sure he worked for Manweb/Norweb. Not sure if that was part of the national grid, but sadly he fell from a pileon and died.
The national grit take the power from the power stations and distribute it to the regional electricity companies. Manweb is an abbreviation of Merseyside and north Wales electricity board, norweb is north western electricity board. The regional boards have had many fatalities over the years with people falling from height. Unless the accident your talking about happened 30+ years ago then there’s a good chance I will know of your friends father and what happened and why. It’s a dangerous job but if all the modern rules and procedures where followed then there’s a good chance your friends dad would still be here today.
I worked for eskom before they started to collapse.from 1983 till 2008 Not all the linesman in the world will save south Africa. Becauce your corrupt cANCer. South africa recieved 1.5 trillion to improve the electrical infrastructure to move away from fossil fuel
@@stoepie1015 in 2008 they were talking about sweating assets then , meaning we do maintenance or not . we used to be one of the world leaders in electrical suppling and exporting and now load shedding three time per day every day . I was there in December in small town . there was only three days we did not have load shedding Christmas day boxing day and new years day . they received the money in October last year
This is literally my dream job, I'm currently a telecoms engineer and I always look at the pilons and I'm like I'd love to be working on them. It makes the telegraph poles look like a kids playground.
Just be careful. I hit a single wire earth return carrying 19kva. Took it 3 times hell it hurt a lot.. I lost both legs a lot of skin n fried my internal organs. I had 25 surgeries and bled out in 3 of em. Be aware of the dangers because when it does go wrong, it goes really wrong.. the bangs are so bloody loud mate and the heat is just mental! I felt like I was on fire for months after. Four years later I’m about to enter my first dirtbike race and on the way to buying my own farm. Have a good one mate.
Has an exlineman 40 years ( wood pole the odd smaller tower ) from Lincolnshire close to Guys home. For him to climb a tower and not hang on with at least one hand is very impressive. Most hold on at the begining and it takes a while to let go.
Hey mate I earthed out a single wire earth return carrying 19,000 volts. It sent 3 waves through me to the ground.I lost both my legs and burnt my whole body.
@@djturbine7565 what have you done or survived Yankee Doodle? Apart from stray bullets out shopping.. your American it doesn’t matter what you say your country lost the Afghanistan war to the Taliban so seriously shut up you Americans never have anything nice to say… it’s all doom and hatred.. no wonder the planet hates yas… don’t get hit by a stray bullet, stay safe n don’t get shot mate…
6:57! See them Merc trucks! I’m currently a Brit in Australia working with on Merc fire trucks that patrol the out back tackling wild fires. You say Mercedes to someone and instantly think wealthy show off status. The one I’m working on atm doesn’t have remote central locking 2017 g wagon! Seats are mounted on actual springs. It says to me practical and reliable for the job ! Very off topic but interesting
Interesting about HVO, Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil as a replacement for diesel, 90% less c02 emissions So why ban the sale of new diesel cars, just sell them as HVO cars and why the push for electric vehicles as an alternative to diesel. Seems an awful lot of diesel cars could use HVO if there were the filling stations.
Brilliant program but someone fed you duff gen on speed electricity flows. It’s about one metre per second. The electrons that immediately flow when you turn on power we’re already in your house wiring just like turning on a tap the water that immediately flows out was already in the house pipe not travelling from reservoir instantly.
Twenty two thousand pilons yet only a 100 people qualified for the job that right there is dedication to the job knowing your not really making a dent in up keep but still doing the job I bet they get paid a fair whack of money but with the being said well done lads for keeping the kettles brewing
They could erect a pilon in one day back then,now a days it would take 6 months for the safety paper work to get signed off,and another year for the council to get it up, different times
A guy I know fell off. He fell and bashed his abdomen on the lines below before hitting the ground. He survived, just , but never ate or drank properly again due to the injuries.
@@tom.2900 There are hundreds of men qualified for this job, I don’t know what he’s talking about. I’ve heard of the odd female engineer, but I’ve never seen or even heard of a woman actually working on the power lines.
Guy says we need to use less energy, government tv ads on how to use less, meanwhile government tries to encourage us to invest in heat pumps and electric cars and no incentives for solar panels, hmm
Death due to ignorance wasn't "proper" it was idiotic. They had ropes and harnesses back then but had an idiotic superman complex still prevalent today.
Incorrect. Network craftspeople have qualifications in Electrical Power Engineering and must throughly understand and apply these principles in multiple aspects of work.
@@djturbine7565 electrical power engineering degree you speak of is a tradesman degree in Canada just like and electrician there's a difference between designing and running both called engineers
@@joesutherland225 It’s an engineering qualification, I didn’t say it was a degree. That said many of the craftspeople I work with have achieved degree level qualifications in electrical and mechanical engineering and are just as capable with a spanner in their hands as they are designing circuits and substations. They are engineers, not just tradesmen.
Yup I agree some go from trades qualification to engineering qualifications have found those ones to be the best at designing stuff that doesn't need tweaking on install others without the hands on background need 10 plus years before they get anywhere near to built as designed
@@djturbine7565 um I take exception to just tradesmen as I explained most university trained engineers design projects and you get the prints on the job and immediately find stuff that just does not fit as designed then I call the engineer to the job and explain how it's actually be designed only once did an engineer not agree and stamp the change so not just a tradesman a Profesional a peer of anybody involved on a project I'm on as are all the rest of us
Well it depends how you charge it and discharge it... If you treat the batteries "correctly" they can last much longer, but then your electric car get half the reach and it complicates the electric car useage a lot.
Please Guy, don't become a mouthpiece of the scumbags, we could have saved a whole series of program by just heading straight to the accountancy offices of Shell, BP, EDF etc etc to understand why we had the price rises, greed, and you know that already. The engineering stuff you will do will no doubt be interesting and cool, but let's not forget the premise of the program , "Guy does this and that to find out why" .........we know why already !!
You've almost got it, keep digging buddy.... Do an hour of research into the carbon credit scam and who's profiting. The climate change agenda is a scam and you've fallen head over heels for it
Yes here in Norway the power companies used to be owned by the people and government, now it is all privatized and we have 10 double to 30 double the price to pay to these currupt bandits that sell all the power to Germany ... We the people paid to create the power companies trough our taxes, then our currupt bandits calle "politicians" sold it all and now the power companies is bleeding us dry with high prices of what we did pay for and owned until it was sold for pennies...
To watch the full series, head over to All4: www.channel4.com/programmes/guy-martins-great-british-power-trip
Don't bother it's just fake climate nonsense!
Hey mate I hit a single wire earth return with a scissor lift my boss was operating. I took 19,000 volts three times over 11 seconds. I lost both my legs n now I’m getting ready to race dirtbikes on prosthetic legs
Guy will turn his hand to anything at least once. A proper grafter, I’d have him as a deckhand any day 👍✌️🇬🇧
Convincing someone with a mental disability (he's got Asperger's) to climb onto power lines would be illegal under any other circumstances
@@mattgayda2840 I bet he needed absolutely no convincing. U could see that by how he shot up the pylon pins, plus there’s naff all that scares Guy, he’s game for anything that lad 👍✌️
If I could I would spend my life learning a new craft trade every 5 years. I am an electrician, but I spend most my free time making projects because I am curious about learning other skills... a couple of decades ago being a Jack of All Trades wasn't considered being a person with a lack of focus! LOL
How long have you been on the submarines Mark?
@@ethelmini I was born on one
Major respect to the guys that do this work for real. This job is no joke! As guy said, you can only get it wrong once! You don't often see them, but, whenever I do, I tip my hat to them because without them doing their job, we'd all be back in the dark ages, unable to do ours (or much else!).
I dunno why, but whatever guy is doing makes me smile 🙂
My dad was a linesman for South Wales electricity board,(Trydan dy cymru) back in the day... I was always in awe of him ,as he climbed those poles and fixed those lines ....Thankyou all
My old friends father was a linesman, I'm sure he worked for Manweb/Norweb. Not sure if that was part of the national grid, but sadly he fell from a pileon and died.
The national grit take the power from the power stations and distribute it to the regional electricity companies. Manweb is an abbreviation of Merseyside and north Wales electricity board, norweb is north western electricity board.
The regional boards have had many fatalities over the years with people falling from height. Unless the accident your talking about happened 30+ years ago then there’s a good chance I will know of your friends father and what happened and why.
It’s a dangerous job but if all the modern rules and procedures where followed then there’s a good chance your friends dad would still be here today.
See? @5:33 once again BBC, just call whatever you're filming, "Guy Martin gets a job offer."
Just watched the 3 episodes, absolutely brilliant well done Guy and the team😊
We need you guys in South Africa. We have power cuts 3x per day, lasting 2 hours 30 minutes every time.
I worked for eskom before they started to collapse.from 1983 till 2008 Not all the linesman in the world will save south Africa. Becauce your corrupt cANCer. South africa recieved 1.5 trillion to improve the electrical infrastructure to move away from fossil fuel
@@brucespanner6756 and that money is gone and nothing has been done.
@@stoepie1015 in 2008 they were talking about sweating assets then , meaning we do maintenance or not . we used to be one of the world leaders in electrical suppling and exporting and now load shedding three time per day every day . I was there in December in small town . there was only three days we did not have load shedding Christmas day boxing day and new years day . they received the money in October last year
This is a fascinating insight to the grid, beyond seeing the pylons and substations etc from a distance never get to see how it hangs together.
Impressive job Guy. Well done.
What a fantastic job: if only I were thinner I’d have applied for a linesman job already. Amazing 😊👍
This is literally my dream job, I'm currently a telecoms engineer and I always look at the pilons and I'm like I'd love to be working on them. It makes the telegraph poles look like a kids playground.
I would give these guys top pay!
I do this job as we speak wouldn’t change it for anything love it
How did you get into it? It's something I would love to do.
@@pdfp24 I got an apprenticeship when I was young and it was through my father that used to work as a linesman
Just be careful. I hit a single wire earth return carrying 19kva. Took it 3 times hell it hurt a lot.. I lost both legs a lot of skin n fried my internal organs. I had 25 surgeries and bled out in 3 of em. Be aware of the dangers because when it does go wrong, it goes really wrong..
the bangs are so bloody loud mate and the heat is just mental! I felt like I was on fire for months after. Four years later I’m about to enter my first dirtbike race and on the way to buying my own farm. Have a good one mate.
Excellent start to series
Those old school line mechanics must of been Hard bastards - No harness back in them days
Too Cool!
Pop over to NZ Guy. Bit o work out here this week .
Got it on record so I can fully enjoy it.
Very interesting video
bloody amazing! I hope those linesmen get paid very very well.
Nope
Us HGV technicians can turn our hand to anything
Has an exlineman 40 years ( wood pole the odd smaller tower ) from Lincolnshire close to Guys home. For him to climb a tower and not hang on with at least one hand is very impressive. Most hold on at the begining and it takes a while to let go.
Hey mate I earthed out a single wire earth return carrying 19,000 volts. It sent 3 waves through me to the ground.I lost both my legs and burnt my whole body.
@@nothinyaseehere9449 Nobody cares mate stop going on about it.
@@djturbine7565 na mate it’s apart of my job to create awareness around safety…
@@djturbine7565 what have you done or survived Yankee Doodle? Apart from stray bullets out shopping.. your American it doesn’t matter what you say your country lost the Afghanistan war to the Taliban so seriously shut up you Americans never have anything nice to say… it’s all doom and hatred.. no wonder the planet hates yas… don’t get hit by a stray bullet, stay safe n don’t get shot mate…
Safety gear -- turned down wellies
6:57! See them Merc trucks!
I’m currently a Brit in Australia working with on Merc fire trucks that patrol the out back tackling wild fires.
You say Mercedes to someone and instantly think wealthy show off status.
The one I’m working on atm doesn’t have remote central locking 2017 g wagon! Seats are mounted on actual springs.
It says to me practical and reliable for the job !
Very off topic but interesting
You should get guy with some tree surgeons
That training place is Eakring.
Love it 👊👊👊👊
he can do anything
Interesting about HVO, Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil as a replacement for diesel, 90% less c02 emissions So why ban the sale of new diesel cars, just sell them as HVO cars and why the push for electric vehicles as an alternative to diesel. Seems an awful lot of diesel cars could use HVO if there were the filling stations.
thank god ive never had to do this lol
I would be bricking it !
Good vid... interesting...
Brilliant program but someone fed you duff gen on speed electricity flows. It’s about one metre per second. The electrons that immediately flow when you turn on power we’re already in your house wiring just like turning on a tap the water that immediately flows out was already in the house pipe not travelling from reservoir instantly.
I would love to do the same .. but i work into chemical plant ... Keeep on it Guy..
We may be moaning about the current fuel prices, but ive never in 52 years not being able to boil a kettle in all that time
Where did you get your kettle from? Flipping good to work in a power cut
@@SomeGuy-lw2po Thats the point, ive never had a power cut 🤔
@@wolfe1970 ever? I know our power network is good, but haven't you had a storm knock the power out
id love to do a job like this but no idea how id get into it and probably unable to afford the training youd need beforehand
National grid have apprenticeship and adult trainee programmes 👍🏻
If ya didn't get a buzz doing 200mph+, ya will here!
Attention Guy ⚠, haute tension ⚡, et hauteur xxl !
I'm in the wrong job, I've done this for fun!
Only 100 service crew people in Britain? For 7,000 kms of power lines and 90,000 pylons? Bloody Hell!
that cant be right surely?
@@tilidie5272 I know, right? Sounds hopelessly understaffed, especially given the pandemic.
They're just pre planning the six month long power outage coming to a neighborhood near you very soon. Don't burn wood, that's a £300 fine!
@@mattgayda2840 Parafrasing from WEF: "You will own nothing, starve and freeze to death and be happy..."
They have an awful lot of down time, due to weather and logistics. They don't like employing people to do nothing.
Twenty two thousand pilons yet only a 100 people qualified for the job that right there is dedication to the job knowing your not really making a dent in up keep but still doing the job I bet they get paid a fair whack of money but with the being said well done lads for keeping the kettles brewing
How much money do you think they get paid?
@@margetson09 they are on at least 40k a year
@@margetson09 still a fair wage for the job
Boyo
There are only 100 men and women that can do this job and we have build out an enormous amount of extra transmission lines for Net Zero. No chance.
⚡⚡⚡⚡⚡⚡⚡⚡⚡⚡👍👍👊👊.
They could erect a pilon in one day back then,now a days it would take 6 months for the safety paper work to get signed off,and another year for the council to get it up, different times
A guy I know fell off.
He fell and bashed his abdomen on the lines below before hitting the ground.
He survived, just , but never ate or drank properly again due to the injuries.
😳
Good job for ex para's
"There are only 100 men and women qualified for this work, and they're all men".
Well it is the woke BBC after all. I am surprised that they only mentioned 2 genders lol.
@@johnlesoudeur3653 Channel 4 actually, but same point lol.
@@tom.2900 There are hundreds of men qualified for this job, I don’t know what he’s talking about. I’ve heard of the odd female engineer, but I’ve never seen or even heard of a woman actually working on the power lines.
Guy says we need to use less energy, government tv ads on how to use less, meanwhile government tries to encourage us to invest in heat pumps and electric cars and no incentives for solar panels, hmm
1st!!
Eleventyfith 🤦🏻♂️
Couldn't be doing with that height...
Plenty have died, fall or fried over the years. That man seeing nothing means nothing
How much do the brits pay for electricity rn ?
x5, x8 ?
You re getting so deeply f'ed...
Shush, this was recorded last year and they need to feed the people the party line from the state media
Would love to see a woman do that
Proper men back then, not a harness in sight. I dont mind walking on a roof without scaffold, but climbing a pylon without a harness, phew.
Don't forget the suit jacket and wellington boots (with the tops turned over).
@@s10m0t10nyeah he looked like my old uncle getting ready to step aboard t go t sea 😂👍
@Mark Thompson
Luckily not int' thambulance tha knows 😭 lol
@@jaymac7203 what mate ? ✌️
Death due to ignorance wasn't "proper" it was idiotic. They had ropes and harnesses back then but had an idiotic superman complex still prevalent today.
Tradesmen not engineers.
Incorrect. Network craftspeople have qualifications in Electrical Power Engineering and must throughly understand and apply these principles in multiple aspects of work.
@@djturbine7565 electrical power engineering degree you speak of is a tradesman degree in Canada just like and electrician there's a difference between designing and running both called engineers
@@joesutherland225 It’s an engineering qualification, I didn’t say it was a degree. That said many of the craftspeople I work with have achieved degree level qualifications in electrical and mechanical engineering and are just as capable with a spanner in their hands as they are designing circuits and substations.
They are engineers, not just tradesmen.
Yup I agree some go from trades qualification to engineering qualifications have found those ones to be the best at designing stuff that doesn't need tweaking on install others without the hands on background need 10 plus years before they get anywhere near to built as designed
@@djturbine7565 um I take exception to just tradesmen as I explained most university trained engineers design projects and you get the prints on the job and immediately find stuff that just does not fit as designed then I call the engineer to the job and explain how it's actually be designed only once did an engineer not agree and stamp the change so not just a tradesman a Profesional a peer of anybody involved on a project I'm on as are all the rest of us
Terrible job lol
after 5 years the batteries are dead . they feed you wrong info mate
Well it depends how you charge it and discharge it... If you treat the batteries "correctly" they can last much longer, but then your electric car get half the reach and it complicates the electric car useage a lot.
WRONG. plain wrong. and personal vehicle ownership that has to end were not making 1.4 billion of them ever.
@@H4N5O1O childlabour for cobalt , fire hazard , infrastructure for electricity , how to recycle , emf radiation in a electric car , price ect ect 🤔🤔🤔
'£20 per year of Electric Bill goes on maintenance ...'
HaHaHa ... Martin is spouting more drivel.
Please Guy, don't become a mouthpiece of the scumbags, we could have saved a whole series of program by just heading straight to the accountancy offices of Shell, BP, EDF etc etc to understand why we had the price rises, greed, and you know that already. The engineering stuff you will do will no doubt be interesting and cool, but let's not forget the premise of the program , "Guy does this and that to find out why" .........we know why already !!
You've almost got it, keep digging buddy.... Do an hour of research into the carbon credit scam and who's profiting. The climate change agenda is a scam and you've fallen head over heels for it
National grid costs you basically bugger all in comparison to the "suppliers" who will happily shag you.
No smoking spliffs up there
Guy races bikes at nearly 200mph with a church one side, a lamppost on the other. I'm surprised this scared him
Is it true you still feel a tingle from the electric even when it's switched off
One side of the pylon is still live, and yes you do get pick up
Not right in the head that lad
I dunno bout where you are but here the power company is a money hungry scam factory.
Yes here in Norway the power companies used to be owned by the people and government, now it is all privatized and we have 10 double to 30 double the price to pay to these currupt bandits that sell all the power to Germany ... We the people paid to create the power companies trough our taxes, then our currupt bandits calle "politicians" sold it all and now the power companies is bleeding us dry with high prices of what we did pay for and owned until it was sold for pennies...
Nah... you stick to the vehicles and let Mike Rowe take care of the blue-collar stuff buddy.