Taking to the skies for static wire replacement project
It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s … flying linemen? If you were in the right place at the right time near a 12-mile stretch of transmission lines between Tell City North and Bandon Substation in early April, you might have caught a glimpse of linemen tethered underneath a helicopter, soaring through the air as part of Hoosier Energy’s Bandon Static Wire Replacement Project. It was the first time using that approach for Hoosier, but one that delivered in efficiency as wire was replaced across 95 structures in less than three weeks rather than six months. “With the helicopter, everything goes a lot faster,” said construction manager…