Wow never really thought about all the work going into pylons ..sheer guts and hard work...well done guys thanks for sharing this video and the amazing work u guys do
@JW-th4nn4 жыл бұрын
You've got to respect and admire these workers for the effort, determination and hard work they put to keep the UK alight. That pylon is massive!! That's what you call guts!
@MrJonah5323 күн бұрын
A line of these went right past our house, in the 60s. As kids we spent hours climbing them, (b4 they went live I might add), mother used to go mad if she saw us.
@rarityvalley22716 жыл бұрын
This is the best pylon structure ever especially the finished pylon looking. But looking very nice 12:00 when they bring the tower over onto the land with those 4 legs they have erected and thanks for showing me the video to my friends and in school for resent years for finding this video. How the hell did carry a pylon over with the helicopter that was amazing.
@rarityvalley22715 жыл бұрын
That pylon they pulled into the centre they bulit is massive
@leestevenson4013 жыл бұрын
Thank you.
@Mr.1.i5 ай бұрын
Extremely dangerous errecting the upper halve of the pylon with the helicopter lowering the frame for the work men to splice together while it attatched to the helicopter a gust of wind could easly get hold of it . When they were first made they were errected by hand using hoists with ropes
@soundseeker634 жыл бұрын
Very interesting, I've not seen towers constructed using helicopter in the UK before. A far cry from the old days when it was all men and horses hoisting sections up bit by bit on a portable crane! I just hope nobody looses their fingers as the sections are lowered into place! These towers look to be the L7 design (?) a very familiar design that has been around since at least the '60s! Quite surprised to see more are still being built in fact.
@leestevenson4013 жыл бұрын
It was a first for towers to be erected using a helicopter in the Uk. It was great to be a part of the project.
@alvexok55233 жыл бұрын
@@leestevenson401 I've got a question about those large lattice pylons around the UK, just something I've always noticed but never really asked anyone about. Besides me having noticed several different sized pylons (the largest size has a middle arm longer across than the top and bottom arms, where the second biggest usually has all 3 arms the same lengths across), I've also noticed 2 main types of pylons with all of the sizes, some have insulators on the end of each arm hanging straight down, where others have the insulators sticking out forwards and backwards with the wires making a downward circular loop connecting between them. What are the differences between the 2 types of pylons? Besides, I mean, that it seems that the pylons with the looped forwards backwards insulators apparently change the direction that the electrical wires are going, and the straight pointing down insulators don't. But, are there other differences between the 2 different types of pylons besides that?
@peoplewatchingpeople684 Жыл бұрын
@@alvexok5523 ex National Grid linesman here. So National Grid, owned and maintained the grid towers at 400,000Volts and 275,000volts and so with the higher voltages there needs to be higher clearances to ground, trees, buildings etc. So a standard height 400,000volts L6 tower is 164 feet (50m) high. These are one of the types with the longer middle arm for example. The Suspension towers are the ones with insulators that are suspended vertically and just take the weight of the conductors and are classed as D2 towers, i.e. where they are used in a straight line or up to a maximum overhead line route deviation of 2°. Any greater deviation to the overhead line route than this would require a Tension tower, which is where the insulators hang vertically and take the tension of the conductors, examples of Tension towers are a D30, D60, D90, where each number is an indication of how much line route deviates from a straight line. In other words, suspension towers for straight lines (cheapest cost from A to B is a straight line) and tension towers for turning corners. Tension towers can have very short arms on one side (circuit) and very long on the other side as in a D90 for example where the route needs to turn through a corner of between 61° and 90° (A D60 tower would be used if the angle of deviation was between 31° and 60°, a D30 tower would be used if the angle of deviation was between 3° and 29°). Sometimes a standard height tower isn’t tall enough for adequate clearance of conductors to ground, a number of 10 foot extensions are put in at the time of erection. Consequently, sometimes the standard height tower is too tall in places such as surrounding an airport and then a number of 10 feet sections of the tower are removed from the design or a special low level design of tower is used which isn’t very tall and with one long crossarm that carries both circuits conductors at the same height and the conductors are hung from twin sets of insulators strung at 45° in a “V” shape. Terminal towers are interesting in their design too, these can be found at substations and cable sealing ends (where conductors go underground) as the top cross arm is usually the longest, then the middle crossarm is second longest and finally the bottom crossarm is the shortest. L6 is one of many designs of towers, there are also L2, L3, L4, L9 to name but a few and each design are for some other purpose such as different voltages, different conductor bundles, an upgrade to a previous design etc.
@dylancarter183129 күн бұрын
As a kid I was terrified of pylons, as an adult, I appreciate the complicated nature of them, but the pylons flying on helicopters would have been the stuff of nightmares or child me, lol.
@patbaxter65886 жыл бұрын
Brilliant piece of helicopter control.
@toainsully5 жыл бұрын
Time to construct additional pylons
@Eltoca2110 жыл бұрын
Impressive teamwork and awesome flying.
@catabaticanabatic38006 жыл бұрын
Great video. Thanks for sharing.
@69_MK Жыл бұрын
bro's making a climbing frame
@d.15655 жыл бұрын
Great footage, thanks!
@richardhartley709416 күн бұрын
Fantastic job and pay👍
@dashti70706 жыл бұрын
awesome video
@reddot63696 жыл бұрын
this pilot makes it look effort less.
@Mr.1.i5 ай бұрын
Carefull not to nip your clothing
@aloratangerang3242 жыл бұрын
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@mirosawkurowski44515 жыл бұрын
realy slow
@ardapasaoynuyor64285 жыл бұрын
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@squeaksvids58862 жыл бұрын
Not very environmentally friendly! Why not do it the old fashioned way.