Being a wind turbine tech isn't as dangerous or extreme as many people think. Deaths are almost always a result of neglecting safety procedures. If you use your PPE correctly and follow safety instructions, it is acually a very safe job.
It is very extreme vs other jobs not sure why you would post this. There is no room for human error. Other jobs you can make a mistake and not be killed. So stick your "Very safe job" where the sun does not shine buddy. Most of the deaths among wind turbine technicians happened because of falls. Other common causes of death include being struck by an object and electrocution. Wind turbines can also pose a risk to the general public
I build wind farms. 60 to 70 hour weeks. 6 days a week and they pay me well. I see weird little places all over the country filled with super nice people. It is a fulfilling job when you build massive structures with your good buddies which produce secure, domestic, clean, renewable electricity for 160,000 homes in a year.
@@trevorhuff7213I started as a travel wind tech at 18 and now I’m 19 about to turn 20 and I feel like it’s something I’m not gonna do forever but for a while of course because of the pay it’s good
@@shauna6140 it’s not so much about your hourly rate but More so about your LOA which you get each day. I build turbines in Canada and your hourly at my company will go from 25$-50$CAD 12hr days (usually) 6 days a week. LOA(living out Allowance) Which is non-taxable income I make 175$CAD a day but depends on your company.
Wind Techs dont make shit for the amount of work they do. I was offered a position travelling the world basically living out of a suitcase, and ended up finding a job locally that paid more for significantly less work.
@@Efrain891 Couldn't tell you how to get started with no experience. I worked in turbine repair for about a decade before. It was around 110k before per diem.
@@franciscosotelo3938 Lol, wind techs spend the vast majority of their days waiting. I repaired the blades that were "too difficult" or "impossible" to repair. The scarf and wet layup repairs they do in the field I could do in my sleep. Because I went to a company that actually wanted to pay me for my carbon fiber and fiberglass expertise doesn't make me lazy. I just know what I'm worth. My last project just arrived at the Kennedy Space Center to prepare to launch and return from the ISS this year.
I had to do some work on some equipment located on a wind farm, so one of the wind farm workers accompanied me. While driving he told me to steer far around the turbines, as they always had things falling off of them. Some of the nuts used on them are larger than a basketball and falling from that height it would completely flatten the cab of my truck and anyone in it.
@justdoingitjim7095 "he told me to steer far around the turbines, as they always had things falling off of them" This is not how we arrive at facts. "A guy told me..." Yeah. Not buying that crap.
@@DecernererInitium "Things do fall off them." Whether it happens or not is not the question. Things also fall off buildings and vehicles. The idea that it happens so often that you need to drive around them is simply moronic.
@@DecernererInitium "Because of the vibration and movement they're more prone to loosening than static buildings." This is called moving the goalposts. Pay attention to what the conversation was about. Some guy told you that these machines "always had things falling off of them" to the point where it was too risky to drive under one. I'm calling bullshit on that. Do you have ANY other source other than "a guy told me." Did he tell you how often it happened? How does he know that this is the case with 340,000 other wind turbines in the world? Even it it were the case that some things fell off this turbine, what was the cause? Did someone accidentally leave some things lying on top? Wind turbines cost $2-4 million. But parts just randomly fall off like rain, right? Come on. Be smarter.
@DecernererInitium "It isn't moving the goal posts" You started by claiming that enough stuff fell off these machines that it required you to drive around them instead of under them. You then MOVED THE GOALPOSTS when you backtracked to say "Because of the vibration and movement they're more prone to loosening than static buildings". Those are two different things. "This conversation is now over." No. No it wasn't. I'll decide when it's over for me, thanks. If you want to run away, feel free. And that sure does speak volumes about you. Bit of a dick aren't you?
We earn so much money ,because we stay away from our family for many weeks,with 12h shift almost every day.Currently the rates are way to low for our work, related with how much money the industry is producing!!
They are shockingly underpaid. Should be double as standard', with extras, eg, a payment for every time they have to go out on top (would encourage electric companies to demand better quality windmills). They should organise for a worldwide strike. They would win.
...and besides there are a German small comp. "STORM's" that has developed an advanced concept, where the generators are all under, but the pigs from big comp. malmanagement simple ignoring that fact and preferring to risk life's of the "Technicians" ...
Exactly. I just had an interview for this exact position. Youre at 70k as an entry level worker and it goes wayyyy up after that plus per diem which is 5k a month!@jhonjones-v2r
15k is allot of money in India because of the cost of living. Here in the US or even in Europe you can't live well off 15k but cost of living is so high.
Looks to me that all the hydro carbons used to build and maintain those wind turbines is far greater than any "renewable green energy" that the turbines produce.
"Looks to me..." ==> "In my wild imagination..." The new big ones crank out megawatts day or night for decades. They produce energy for a very low price. The return on investment is huge. The costs of making them sinks into insignificance.
Typically they are in management configuring new ways to cut wages and per diems, travel pay, deny health benefits, add pressure for corporate profit margins. The very few women who put on a harness, get out there on rope and do good repairs are few and far between. I've worked with some great women in this feild and sadly, they move on quite fast. Normally within a year or two they are given management positions in a flurry of female corporate nepotism. Sorry to shit on the birthday cake but that's how it goes.
Wind power produces a low voltage and that is stepped up to a high voltage using a step up transformer. High voltage is good for distributing electricity over long distances. This electricity gets sent to a substation near you where it is stepped down a little bit and then sent to the transformer near your house which steps it down to 120 or 240 volts. No greenhouse gases required for this entire process.
I can imagine the price of changing one propeller blade. Will any profit from producing electricity will be left? The propeller itself probably cost hundreds of thousands of $$. How much can one wind tower, without cost of repairs or maintenance, earn. I like general idea of "green" and renewable energy, but todays technology is fur from replacing nuclear and fossil fuel based power plants. Nicola Tesla told, that he was accumulation electricity from surrounding air. Now, that the way to do it !
They are about 80% worthless, in my view. The blades do NOT always spin. Even when they do? The gear boxes can get torn up, making them worthless. Once the gear boxes are torn up? They are very hard to fix, and very expensive to fix. Indeed, they often do NOT get fixed. Even if the turbine works, and IS hooked up to the grid? What they can contribute varies greatly with the weather and location. Many of them are just worthless. Cost? Often, as much as 10 million a piece. Nobody would even build them without the government subsidy. Once broken? Very few ever get repaired, if they are a few years old.
@@davidanalyst671 nonsense, everything green does not get honest sunrtaniny. Without government subsidies wind would not exist. Same with solar and silly EVs. Complete environmental disasters all.
Being a wind turbine tech isn't as dangerous or extreme as many people think.
Deaths are almost always a result of neglecting safety procedures.
If you use your PPE correctly and follow safety instructions, it is acually a very safe job.
It is very extreme vs other jobs not sure why you would post this. There is no room for human error. Other jobs you can make a mistake and not be killed. So stick your "Very safe job" where the sun does not shine buddy.
Most of the deaths among wind turbine technicians happened because of falls. Other common causes of death include being struck by an object and electrocution. Wind turbines can also pose a risk to the general public
@@Physics072 😂
Only 'safe' for the real professionals out there, not for amateurs.
@@Papitoti Tell that to the insurance companies that won't insure them the same as other safer jobs. The have the stats.
There’s more to health risks than risk of death
I build wind farms. 60 to 70 hour weeks. 6 days a week and they pay me well. I see weird little places all over the country filled with super nice people. It is a fulfilling job when you build massive structures with your good buddies which produce secure, domestic, clean, renewable electricity for 160,000 homes in a year.
If you don’t mind me asking what is the hourly rate or daily wage doing a job like this thanks .. I’m asking as I’m currently doing my rope access
how safe do you feel? and do you think it's a career you could do the rest of your life?
About to attend Airstream renewables tech school. Excited to be apart of a clean future
@@trevorhuff7213I started as a travel wind tech at 18 and now I’m 19 about to turn 20 and I feel like it’s something I’m not gonna do forever but for a while of course because of the pay it’s good
@@shauna6140 it’s not so much about your hourly rate but More so about your LOA which you get each day. I build turbines in Canada and your hourly at my company will go from 25$-50$CAD 12hr days (usually) 6 days a week. LOA(living out Allowance) Which is non-taxable income I make 175$CAD a day but depends on your company.
Wind Techs dont make shit for the amount of work they do. I was offered a position travelling the world basically living out of a suitcase, and ended up finding a job locally that paid more for significantly less work.
How much were they offering and how do you begin the process with no experience?
@@Efrain891 Couldn't tell you how to get started with no experience. I worked in turbine repair for about a decade before. It was around 110k before per diem.
Lazy mf lol 😅
@@franciscosotelo3938 Lol, wind techs spend the vast majority of their days waiting. I repaired the blades that were "too difficult" or "impossible" to repair. The scarf and wet layup repairs they do in the field I could do in my sleep.
Because I went to a company that actually wanted to pay me for my carbon fiber and fiberglass expertise doesn't make me lazy. I just know what I'm worth. My last project just arrived at the Kennedy Space Center to prepare to launch and return from the ISS this year.
Correct
I had to do some work on some equipment located on a wind farm, so one of the wind farm workers accompanied me. While driving he told me to steer far around the turbines, as they always had things falling off of them. Some of the nuts used on them are larger than a basketball and falling from that height it would completely flatten the cab of my truck and anyone in it.
@justdoingitjim7095
"he told me to steer far around the turbines, as they always had things falling off of them"
This is not how we arrive at facts. "A guy told me..." Yeah. Not buying that crap.
@@DecernererInitium
"Things do fall off them."
Whether it happens or not is not the question. Things also fall off buildings and vehicles. The idea that it happens so often that you need to drive around them is simply moronic.
@@DecernererInitium
"Because of the vibration and movement they're more prone to loosening than static buildings."
This is called moving the goalposts. Pay attention to what the conversation was about.
Some guy told you that these machines "always had things falling off of them" to the point where it was too risky to drive under one. I'm calling bullshit on that. Do you have ANY other source other than "a guy told me."
Did he tell you how often it happened? How does he know that this is the case with 340,000 other wind turbines in the world? Even it it were the case that some things fell off this turbine, what was the cause? Did someone accidentally leave some things lying on top?
Wind turbines cost $2-4 million. But parts just randomly fall off like rain, right?
Come on. Be smarter.
@DecernererInitium
"It isn't moving the goal posts"
You started by claiming that enough stuff fell off these machines that it required you to drive around them instead of under them. You then MOVED THE GOALPOSTS when you backtracked to say "Because of the vibration and movement they're more prone to loosening than static buildings". Those are two different things.
"This conversation is now over."
No. No it wasn't. I'll decide when it's over for me, thanks. If you want to run away, feel free.
And that sure does speak volumes about you. Bit of a dick aren't you?
Bolts the size of basketballs, I DON'T THINK SO. Maybe up to 6 inch hex. Basketball, no way jose.
Me at the beginning of this video: This sounds like a really cool job...........Me at the end of this video: I quit
😂😂😂
We earn so much money ,because we stay away from our family for many weeks,with 12h shift almost every day.Currently the rates are way to low for our work, related with how much money the industry is producing!!
They are shockingly underpaid. Should be double as standard', with extras, eg, a payment for every time they have to go out on top (would encourage electric companies to demand better quality windmills). They should organise for a worldwide strike. They would win.
...and besides there are a German small comp. "STORM's" that has developed an advanced concept, where the generators are all under,
but the pigs from big comp. malmanagement simple ignoring that fact and preferring to risk life's of the "Technicians" ...
Yup. I'm an engineer and a rock climber. I'm good with heights. I still say double would be about right.
@@MisterAndyS
"I'm good with heights"
I can't walk across the glass floor of the CN tower. This job is a non-starter for me.
The pay is it amazing there’s guys on my site now earning 13k a month
@@julianmason8290please explain
to be clear - industrial wind farms are not "green" or "clean" energy.. just alternative energy.
I work on these things.. they ain't clean.
Thank you, at least someone stating it…
This seems to be the hidden truth that is conveniently left out whenever "green energy" comes up.
Leave it better than you found it and they would be clean.
@@deedeeodimm lol good one.. these are industrial machines not a park
@desertdesserts6262 I've seen plenty of clean turbines friend.
That’s $66,000 a year paycheck kind of sucks. No thanks.
Even $100k to risk your life like that isn’t worth it….smh
lol $66k before perdiem and incentives
Exactly. I just had an interview for this exact position. Youre at 70k as an entry level worker and it goes wayyyy up after that plus per diem which is 5k a month!@jhonjones-v2r
$66K/Year??? I was thinking more like $660K/Year considering how dangerous this job is.
No joke.
why? they are expendable
@@juanshaftpatel7488Yup. If they die on the job, they’ll find the smallest mishap and politely say it was your fault.
❤ Can the technician be equipped with skydiving equipment ?
onnee 50k🎉🎉 ja äkkiä lisää driftikontsaa, mukava nähä mite kehityt😎
Sure, glad for the added beauty these climate friendly things add to the landscape. I never have seen one in a city like New York.
8:42 - all you left for food !
The statements madel by American girl speakers so often end in a peculiar croak. Does no-one ever draw their attention to this strange impediment?
It does. And the vocal fry ..aargh
Even the automated voice got tired Of saying turbines
That salary had better come with some good benefits with free medical insurance , life & accidental benefits , pension and vacation time !
How many salary got by wind turbine technician in Germany of work experience of 9 years.
probably around 45000 first year but thats without taxes
maybe a little more
In India we getting only 15 k salary 😅
सच्ची में सिर्फ 15000रूपए?
15k is allot of money in India because of the cost of living. Here in the US or even in Europe you can't live well off 15k but cost of living is so high.
@@rogeliocorona6837 inr 15k is not lot of money bro.
Why not make the entire wind turbines out of hard plastic like portable radios are made of then they stand a chance during strong winds
Because reinforced fiberglass is tougher and lasts longer.
I feel like I could do this. It looks a lot safer than what i do now and pays better.
What do you do?
Insane.
Looks to me that all the hydro carbons used to build and maintain those wind turbines is far greater than any "renewable green energy" that the turbines produce.
"Looks to me..." ==> "In my wild imagination..."
The new big ones crank out megawatts day or night for decades. They produce energy for a very low price. The return on investment is huge. The costs of making them sinks into insignificance.
@@MrRobertPogson glad to hear such positive news. Hopefully it’s not fake news
I believe it’s around 200,000 a yeat
Did they really say wind turbines produce electricity without emitting greenhouse gases?
its not a job that pays So MUCH money ! Far from it
now tell us about the cost of living in San Francisco
Thiss Turbans aré é Power-Phull
Lighting magnetic? No thank you.
Normal electricians make more money and it's a safer job. At least where I live.
Where you live? Hiring?
@@ChadFalcone-j5q thats true actually even in my country too.. (south korea)
trading money with your life is a dumb equation. and its only 5.5k a month, a barber can make more!
Risking my lifefor 60k.......nah
Where are all the women ??? ( apart from the narrator that is :)
3 min mark
Typically they are in management configuring new ways to cut wages and per diems, travel pay, deny health benefits, add pressure for corporate profit margins. The very few women who put on a harness, get out there on rope and do good repairs are few and far between. I've worked with some great women in this feild and sadly, they move on quite fast. Normally within a year or two they are given management positions in a flurry of female corporate nepotism. Sorry to shit on the birthday cake but that's how it goes.
Why don't you ask them? Nothing's stopping them from applying.
God those things are just ridiculous. “They don’t put out any global warming gas!” Wow !! How do they get all that electricity to the actual houses??
Wind power produces a low voltage and that is stepped up to a high voltage using a step up transformer. High voltage is good for distributing electricity over long distances. This electricity gets sent to a substation near you where it is stepped down a little bit and then sent to the transformer near your house which steps it down to 120 or 240 volts. No greenhouse gases required for this entire process.
I can imagine the price of changing one propeller blade. Will any profit from producing electricity will be left? The propeller itself probably cost hundreds of thousands of $$.
How much can one wind tower, without cost of repairs or maintenance, earn. I like general idea of "green" and renewable energy, but todays technology is fur from replacing nuclear and fossil fuel based power plants. Nicola Tesla told, that he was accumulation electricity from surrounding air. Now, that the way to do it !
pay me ...
shit energy but hippies wants it instead of a powerplant for some reason
I work for a contractor. We work/sell shit to both 😂😂
They are about 80% worthless, in my view. The blades do NOT always spin. Even when they do? The gear boxes can get torn up, making them worthless. Once the gear boxes are torn up? They are very hard to fix, and very expensive to fix. Indeed, they often do NOT get fixed. Even if the turbine works, and IS hooked up to the grid? What they can contribute varies greatly with the weather and location. Many of them are just worthless. Cost? Often, as much as 10 million a piece. Nobody would even build them without the government subsidy. Once broken? Very few ever get repaired, if they are a few years old.
What a stupid power system and a waste of resources...
Absolutely, complete grift.
shut your mouth genius
yes, other than its 1/3 the cost of the electricity from a nuke plant. So other than capitalism, its a waste
@@davidanalyst671 1/3 of the cost, sure libtard, try again.
@@davidanalyst671 nonsense, everything green does not get honest sunrtaniny. Without government subsidies wind would not exist. Same with solar and silly EVs. Complete environmental disasters all.
I wonder if you can base jump off these turbines
Please don’t kill yourself
you can do it... once
You CAN, but the question would be, "Is it allowed?" I'm a skydiver in school for this career, and jumping one would be gnarly!
“So much money” …Doesn’t even pay a livable wage.