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That would be a real no no IMO. Some of those distribution lines are now over 21,000 volts. If you try with your hot stick and gloves on a damp day and you have any little flaw you will not live.
I know two guys that have died from electrocution.
One was in a bucket truck with his son working in 4160 v line. He accidentally brushed a hot line and his son could not touch him and the father was dead when the son got the bucket on the ground.
Utility lineman I knew accidentally had a chain in a bucket that contacted a new power line that was not hooked to power. But it was next to a hot 340,000 v line. There was about 70,000 volts of capacitance emf on the dead line. Killed the young worker instantaneously. I studied and calculated capacitance emf in engineering school. Of course the unpowered line should have been bussed off to each line and to ground.
I would never do as you propose. It is not worth the risk.
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