Live line safety at its best

[Taupotreeman]

Hopefully this isn't breaking any of the forum rules but if it is I apologise in advance and will take the rap over the knuckles.

 

Driving home from work I see this fella. Local home and property maintenance guy on his aluminium ladder, pole hedge trimmer at the ready waving it around like mad clearing a Pittosporum that is up through the 230v conductors and into the 400v above those. The wires are uncovered. I've already given this guy a bit of a rollocking after catching him working over the top of a 400v conductor in an uninsulated MEWP or EPV. The guy has no real experience working with trees and pciked up a lawn mowing round as a change of lifestyle. I've done a couple of tree jobs for him including the EPV job that he left after removing all the anchor points in the tree. Spent three hours peeling back silver Birch bit by tiny bit from over the conductors with a set of poles while standing in what was left of the tree on my spikes.

[arbwork]

I suppose he is wearing camouflage hoping you won’t see him!