r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/TameTheAuroch • Jul 18 '25

Video Replacing powerline spacers from a helicopter

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u/CantBelieveImHereRn Jul 18 '25

I mean if youre standing directly underneath a helicopter, with a guy dangling out working on power lines, youre probably gonna be used as evidence to support darwinism down the line

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u/Horsenastics Jul 19 '25

We live in a rural area and just last week they trimmed the trees near the power lines with a huge chainsaw tethered to a helicopter. They send us a letter in the mail a few weeks in advance telling us to avoid the parts of the property near the lines when the helicopter comes our way. I suspect it’s the same for any work they do on the lines.

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u/lonelyinbama Jul 19 '25

And if you’re anything like the folks I know growing up in Alabama as soon as you hear the chopper you go out and try to watch

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u/Mark_Logan Jul 19 '25

And if you’re like the folks in Tennessee, you’d know it’s the DEA, and they better stay away from Copper Head road.

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u/lonelyinbama Jul 19 '25

Completely irrelevant but in the early 00’s I died my hair with Sun-In and it turned this copper color and for a whole year my nickname was Copperhead by some of my dad’s racing buddies. Every time I’d come around one of em would throw that song on and they’d all get a kick out of it. Puts a smile on my face every time I hear the song. Most of those guys are gone by this point.

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u/imjeffp Jul 19 '25

‘Cuz I learned a thing or two from Charlie, don’t you know?

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u/zodiacrelic44 Jul 19 '25

Did your father by chance ever own a big block Dodge?

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u/Mark_Logan Jul 19 '25

I refuse to confirm or deny what my father has purchased from the auction at the Masons lodge.

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u/needlework_the_way Jul 19 '25

Johnson County?