If you want to compare with the manual process for crossing obstacles, here’s a little buggy with a gasoline motor, with the lineman hoisting it past an insulat

If you want to compare with the manual process for crossing obstacles, here’s a little buggy with a gasoline motor, with the lineman hoisting it past an insulator with the help of a pulley, starting around 6:20: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtbtlgAGRaA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtbtlgAGRaA Also related, videos of people walking on the cables after being dropped off by a helicopter onto the live lines: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tzga6qAaBA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tzga6qAaBA A youtube search for 'helicopter lineman' turns up a lot of other material in this vein.