I found another pic (it was copyrighted unfortunately) showing the electrician, he was working up the pole in bare feet and only had a rope fixing him to the pole (at least he did have insulated pliers)
and yep lots of people do illegal hookups. Curiously enough in that pic they were using brown and blue cables so they have at least moved on to harmonised EU colours :laugh_at:
still trying to work out where they are getting neutral and earth from as all those service cables are just sending 400v three phase… so they must be using local earth/neutral conductors.
I hope the nearby telephone isn’t metal cased or uses earth signalling :laugh_at:
