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Gareth56

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During a recent trip to Austria I noticed attached to the wires on some of the electricity pylons in the fields what looked like steel or plastic balls/spheres (perhaps 12" diameter, hard to tell from the ground) spaced at intervals along the wire. These balls/spheres were not on every wire just one length. I was wondering if anyone knows what these are used for. They don't seem to have any of these objects attached to the wires on pylons here in the UK.

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Was there an airfield or airport nearby? I have seen brightly colored plastic balls on a powerline (half red/half white about a foot in diameter) used as a visual obstruction warning in the landing/takeoff path of a small dirtstrip runway here in the US.

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