Those guys are nuts.
I was never a tech, but I learned how to climb a pole because i managed them. Climbing a telephone pole was as high off the ground I ever wanted to get.
The “hum” of the power lines was a real turnoff to me. LOL.
Yes, similar to the Seneca Indian Union Iron Workers from NYS that build the skyscrapers down in NYC.
Guys that are willing to walk out on a 10” wide steel I beam 70 stories up in the air. No thanks.