Back in the 80s before there were easy splice kits, there was a lot of manual work to do a HV splice, my boss let a guy do a splice that had never done one, it blew the manhole cover into the air when it failed, and that was only 5 KV
@@bigredc222 wazzup bigred, wooow to crazy but I guess the effort is respected but you and I know there has to be really good training involved to avoid explosions, we still do the old school training to the most efficient training of today, thank you for sharing stay safe my brother 👍😎
I had a guy next door to a place I was renting stealing off the primaries. I was in his place to fix the overhead bridge crane. He was renting the undamaged end of a large steel warehouse after a coating line at the other end caught fire and destroyed about 150 feet of the building on the other end. Brand new 250KVA pad mount, everything done 100% professionally EXCEPT no metering equipment. Like 2 years later I'm next door looking for something in a storage trailer and and his place was stormed with PECO bucket trucks, company cars, guys in suits, women in business attire, even some lady with nice legs wearing a dress. There had to be like 20 PECO people out there and they all had cameras (1990 ish style). Nobody was smiling at all. That night his whole facility was dark and the next day there was a trailer mounted Detroit Diesel generator hooked up to the building. I always wondered what they did to him for that trick, but we were kind of friendly "business neighbors" and I never brought the subject up. I figured that was a bit of a sore spot
@@joecummings1260 wazzup Joe , I’ll tell you exactly what happened to him, from the fire you witnessed to when they showed up they had been monitoring him and his business and how he was getting power to run his building and the right time came and they came in able and ready to arrest him , what he did was theft of stealing power and that is a federal law felony crime, 👍😂😎
@@ronblack7870takes a long time for them to sort that back then ......we used to steal power to grow weed on industrial levels and got away with it a lot. I'm retired with grown children and I can no longer be prosecuted so it does work lol..... Probably not the best idea to have your name on the warehouse though lol
That's a nice little cable.....I recently had a job winching 380 KV underground lines.....Single core 2500mm2 copper....From Holland to germany (or Germany to Holland, but we started in Holland. Totalled over 160 miles of it. Cable is over 70 Kg per meter.
@@muppetpaster wazzup muppet , woow that’s one big job you guys took care of and finished it’s not easy pulling in huge cable like that, because you find out some equipment is under rated for the strains , that’s what happened to us when we had a job to pull in 1.5mcm , thanks for sharing and stay safe over there brother 👍😎
Do people really not know that house-hold service is stepped down from massive power sources? You can’t even rip this stuff off. It’s too hot. Helluva lesson.
No they don't know. If they are tweakers the brain damage caused by their drug addiction would assure they couldn't remember even if they once did knonw. On average most people have no idea how their world depends on infrastructure. You have college-educated (LOL!!) idiots who think that meat and veggies comes from the store and we don't need cows or farms. Go out to any university campus in the USA and you will find such people!
@ not much! I briefly worked for a company called Harp Line Construction in Montana after I graduated high school. Middle of winter wasn’t much fun. I did that for a few months before I joined the Marines as a diesel mechanic. After that I went to school to become a cnc machinist as a career and never got back into it, even though the owner said he would train me to become a lineman. It was actually very interesting work, and I learned quite a lot about how our power grid works. I was basically just working as an apprentice as I had zero experience. Mostly doing traffic control or being the gopher for the guys that knew what they were doing. I’m retired now but I wonder what life would have been like had I stuck with it.
@ I should have done a machine shop channel. One shop I worked at for a while was full of clowns. Some funny pranks over the years. We made some pretty hi tech stuff then. Jet engine parts, rocket parts, satellite, government, medical.
While I am comfortable working with residential single phase 120/240v, I draw the line for anything above that and just thinking of 34.5KV terrifies the snot out of me. I've seen videos from underground vault fires and could imagine what this blowout might've looked like. When I was younger I considered lineman training but after seeing a lineman getting blown out of his bucket and falling lifeless to the ground 60'ft below, I'm like nope, ain't gonna do that. That is something you never forget nor can unsee.
@@kingjames8283 wazzup king , yes sir very dangerous doing this job comes with that un for seen consequences that this trade comes with, everyday we trust on our training and knowledge and experience to make sure we do our best to get the job done, and yes we have had our past fatalities , but huge respect to you and making a great decision in the career you chose.. stay safe brother 👍😎
I used to work for an environmental cleaning company and we subcontracted for the major electric company in the state. At any rate the guys in the crews would let me have the cut offs of repairs and boy oh boy. The lead sheathing was great for casting my own bullets. And the copper that I harvested was a mini pay day at the scrap yards. They would give me #1 copper price for those cut offs.
@@Johnny-jr2lq wazzup Johnny, that’s right especially the piece of 500 or 750 or 1-mcm , copper boy oh boy yes big money we give away the short end to and one day this guy came back to our same job we were at for a few days and had a case of gatorade’s chips and snacks and looked very happy because he had money 👍😎
@@joes2085 wazzup Joe , you got be very careful with triple pulleys with size of the ropes with that , remember the age of the cable the blown part in the conduit and I believe I said 500 to 600 hundred feet if you don’t pull those evenly out you can cause a wedge effect and it gets stuck inside the conduit.. 👍😎
@@WilliamLutz-dj9zo wazzup William, your absolutely correct but look at my last response to that question as well remember short videos don’t always tell the true story but anyway, remember one thing , don’t just focus on pulling the cable out, look at my last response, sometimes there super easy and some just fight, thank you for visiting my channel stay safe over there brother..👍😎
@@CostelloPlays wazzup cost , wooow different things or possibilities that could’ve happened, maybe insulation break down or overheating or overload amps ..
"This black drain pipe shouldn't be where I'm digging without calling! I'll just cut chop it on each side of this trench real qui 💥" 🤣 I'm aware of what the suspected story is, but also know this happens all the time with people renting excavators and not locating before they dig... Sometimes even when you do call, so atleast it's not on me 😉 Last things hit were a major telecom line for a never finished subdivision planned back in the late 1980s of which the phone company had no records or knowledge of, the other was a natural gas line that was run in the wrong spot because the original installers were going to have to bore and hand dig to correctly follow the property line as laid out on their map... The gas guys located the line, apparently lost it, so just marked where it should be instead of actually following it and admitting it was wrong... I guess they were hoping no excavation would be happening in that area since half the time they are marking stuff far away from any digging just because they have to mark and we can't work anywhere until they do... Also rubbed an underground line 4" deep at the base of a pole recently... The pole crew apparently accidentally set the pole on top of the underground line, so the crew doing the connection buried the cable that would normally turn 90 degrees 24" deep just under the surface after wrapping the pole a couple of times 🫣 The pole was luckily coming out and getting spliced to go across a road instead of over it back to the original transformer... Pure luck that the excavator operator happened to dig around the pole to make sure the underground lines didn't immediately bulge out... He hit the line 4" deep like 3ft from the pole and I helped him uncover the mess from there before taking pictures 🤣 Nobody could believe that anyone would EVER leave that! Obviously the install crew assumed it would likely get cut or pulled in the future because instead of cutting the slack they left about 12' or more coiled around the pole base, starting tight on the pole and going two wraps deep about 3'-4' in overall outside diameter 😂 Even the Utility guys had to take personal photos of that mess! It was old enough to where it was probably undocumented, but we didn't rat then out to the supervisors... It was probably the less than amazing company they use for lots of contract work anyway... I guarantee the linemen did some quiet investigation when they got back just to find out for sure lol, but I knew the guys and they know we wouldn't be complaining because they've saved our butts by putting us first/same day, and we try to make everything easy and fast for them in return... Although cameras are now kind of messing that up 🙄 I mean I get it from a liability giant corporation POV, but the good easy fun days are over now for them... They are now slower than the pictures in the training manuals, because one man using a ladder to pull and splice a residential hook up now requires 8 guys and 2 safety supervisors after waiting months to build a temporary road on a mountain across 2 fences to do the same job that my buddy previously did in 30 minutes by himself, I just helped carry his cordless press and ladder bag, then he told me to stay 50ft behind his ladder following all the old safety rules... I think he finally moved on to a different company position once he wasn't allowed to actually feel/be productive and safe simultaneously without wearing being in sight of a truck camera at all times... 😒 It's a crap show now, even by directly going through the same great supervisors... They know what was once a "Tomorrow before noon" completion is now "Hopefully in about two weeks we can get a crew here for atleast long enough to get started 🙁" They are almost embarrassed to give that answer, but know we understand why that's now the answer... Out of their control sadly...
@@berryreading4809 wazzup berry , thanks for sharing , interesting story ya your never surprised when your working out in the field and start moving or digging or probing, we have called dig alert and still dug into a gas line and there was supposed to be nothing in where we were digging to set a pole , so go figure right stay safe over there brother 👍😎
By the looks of it, the new section you put needs to be joined to the piece sticking out the wall anyway which makes me wonder why you couldn't just cut out the bad bit and join it up?
@11:49 you can see the damaged bit in the middle of the cable. All joints need to be in an accessible space, and with the effort needed to replace these cables it's best to replace the whole thing and not risk there being a second fault in the cable that they didn't see. When you factor in work permits, blocking traffic, and the number of guys it would take to do this a second time, it's just best not to risk reusing the damaged piece.
@billtheunjust yeah, kinda figured it would be an access issue, obviously time and labour too, didn't consider permits and roadworks too, very interesting job
@@IonOtter wazzup ion , it’s all deenergized if that’s what you mean of pixies , any bad move can get you hurt that’s what I was explaining to my co-worker , likewise thank you brother 😎👍
@@tpep1693 wazzup tpep , don’t know really but what ever or who ever maybe thought it was worth lots of money maybe took that chance, and yes it gets expensive to replace, 😎👍
So dei is gonna do this work? These are real working MEN! These guys are badass! I'd like to know who in the next generation of soft boys is gonna fix our infrastructure 😂
So many stupid people believing all they see. There is nobody stealing just the utility company replacing blown cable. But yeah, read the subtitle posted comment did not watch… geez.
well the description says line was cut trying to tap into it someone hurt . so that means trying to steal power in my understanding of words. so was the description bullshit ?
@ wazzup Ron , no your absolutely correct I don’t miss interpret my words sorry if you didn’t understand what I wrote, so what I wrote is correct please read all the conversations I have had about this job , thanks Ron stay safe 👍😎
Not good. You would think LADWP would give these guys better training. Rigging is scary. "LA wheel" Airplane" . I get they aren't crane guys but really?
Wazzup Cam if you gone thru an apprenticeship program you learn as much as possible while your out in the field, and as you know every hole or vault old or new will how your rigging is going to be , yes we get trained but the rest is learned out in the field and with the best of underground journeymen and there experience in some of those jobs when there is absolutely no rigging points and your experience will warrant the use of the airplane sling and the LA-wheel , as for me I love the airplane sling..
Hot tapping a 34kv line... that's a Darwin Award winner right there.
Back in the 80s before there were easy splice kits, there was a lot of manual work to do a HV splice, my boss let a guy do a splice that had never done one, it blew the manhole cover into the air when it failed, and that was only 5 KV
@@bigredc222 wazzup bigred, wooow to crazy but I guess the effort is respected but you and I know there has to be really good training involved to avoid explosions, we still do the old school training to the most efficient training of today, thank you for sharing stay safe my brother 👍😎
I had a guy next door to a place I was renting stealing off the primaries. I was in his place to fix the overhead bridge crane. He was renting the undamaged end of a large steel warehouse after a coating line at the other end caught fire and destroyed about 150 feet of the building on the other end. Brand new 250KVA pad mount, everything done 100% professionally EXCEPT no metering equipment. Like 2 years later I'm next door looking for something in a storage trailer and and his place was stormed with PECO bucket trucks, company cars, guys in suits, women in business attire, even some lady with nice legs wearing a dress. There had to be like 20 PECO people out there and they all had cameras (1990 ish style). Nobody was smiling at all. That night his whole facility was dark and the next day there was a trailer mounted Detroit Diesel generator hooked up to the building. I always wondered what they did to him for that trick, but we were kind of friendly "business neighbors" and I never brought the subject up. I figured that was a bit of a sore spot
@@joecummings1260 wazzup Joe , I’ll tell you exactly what happened to him, from the fire you witnessed to when they showed up they had been monitoring him and his business and how he was getting power to run his building and the right time came and they came in able and ready to arrest him , what he did was theft of stealing power and that is a federal law felony crime, 👍😂😎
@@linemanundergroundworld4854 they let him steal for 2 years??? i don't think so
@@ronblack7870takes a long time for them to sort that back then ......we used to steal power to grow weed on industrial levels and got away with it a lot.
I'm retired with grown children and I can no longer be prosecuted so it does work lol..... Probably not the best idea to have your name on the warehouse though lol
That's a nice little cable.....I recently had a job winching 380 KV underground lines.....Single core 2500mm2 copper....From Holland to germany (or Germany to Holland, but we started in Holland. Totalled over 160 miles of it. Cable is over 70 Kg per meter.
@@muppetpaster wazzup muppet , woow that’s one big job you guys took care of and finished it’s not easy pulling in huge cable like that, because you find out some equipment is under rated for the strains , that’s what happened to us when we had a job to pull in 1.5mcm , thanks for sharing and stay safe over there brother 👍😎
Do people really not know that house-hold service is stepped down from massive power sources? You can’t even rip this stuff off. It’s too hot. Helluva lesson.
No they don't know. If they are tweakers the brain damage caused by their drug addiction would assure they couldn't remember even if they once did knonw.
On average most people have no idea how their world depends on infrastructure.
You have college-educated (LOL!!) idiots who think that meat and veggies comes from the store and we don't need cows or farms. Go out to any university campus in the USA and you will find such people!
Respect to you linemen! Thanks for the work that you do!
@@ScottGunMag69 wazzup Scott, thank you and greatly appreciate it brother 👍😎
@ not much! I briefly worked for a company called Harp Line Construction in Montana after I graduated high school. Middle of winter wasn’t much fun. I did that for a few months before I joined the Marines as a diesel mechanic. After that I went to school to become a cnc machinist as a career and never got back into it, even though the owner said he would train me to become a lineman. It was actually very interesting work, and I learned quite a lot about how our power grid works. I was basically just working as an apprentice as I had zero experience. Mostly doing traffic control or being the gopher for the guys that knew what they were doing. I’m retired now but I wonder what life would have been like had I stuck with it.
@ happy retirement, and I think you would have been a great journeyman and probably started a TH-cam channel as well..👍😎
@ I should have done a machine shop channel. One shop I worked at for a while was full of clowns. Some funny pranks over the years. We made some pretty hi tech stuff then. Jet engine parts, rocket parts, satellite, government, medical.
While I am comfortable working with residential single phase 120/240v, I draw the line for anything above that and just thinking of 34.5KV terrifies the snot out of me. I've seen videos from underground vault fires and could imagine what this blowout might've looked like. When I was younger I considered lineman training but after seeing a lineman getting blown out of his bucket and falling lifeless to the ground 60'ft below, I'm like nope, ain't gonna do that. That is something you never forget nor can unsee.
@@kingjames8283 wazzup king , yes sir very dangerous doing this job comes with that un for seen consequences that this trade comes with, everyday we trust on our training and knowledge and experience to make sure we do our best to get the job done, and yes we have had our past fatalities , but huge respect to you and making a great decision in the career you chose.. stay safe brother 👍😎
I used to work for an environmental cleaning company and we subcontracted for the major electric company in the state. At any rate the guys in the crews would let me have the cut offs of repairs and boy oh boy. The lead sheathing was great for casting my own bullets. And the copper that I harvested was a mini pay day at the scrap yards. They would give me #1 copper price for those cut offs.
@@Johnny-jr2lq wazzup Johnny, that’s right especially the piece of 500 or 750 or 1-mcm , copper boy oh boy yes big money we give away the short end to and one day this guy came back to our same job we were at for a few days and had a case of gatorade’s chips and snacks and looked very happy because he had money 👍😎
Love the shot of the blowout
A triple pulley may have made it a bit easier for the nose
@@joes2085 wazzup Joe , you got be very careful with triple pulleys with size of the ropes with that , remember the age of the cable the blown part in the conduit and I believe I said 500 to 600 hundred feet if you don’t pull those evenly out you can cause a wedge effect and it gets stuck inside the conduit.. 👍😎
I bet the heard the lyric to that song “ blinded by the light ..”. When they cut into that.
@@BVN-TEXAS wazzup BVN , ya right 🤣 blinded by the explosion 💥🤣😆💯
I call exploding electric the dragon, because while it's exploding there a deafening roar and it's spitting fire. That guy saw the dragon roar.
Like the way you guys rigged that, usually made my own, but that choker works well.
@@tpep1693 wazzup tpep , yes sir proven over and over it’s a great tool and won’t slip either.. stay safe brother 👍😎
The supervisor has watched the movie "Dazed and confused" too many times!!
@@WilliamLutz-dj9zo wazzup William, your absolutely correct but look at my last response to that question as well remember short videos don’t always tell the true story but anyway, remember one thing , don’t just focus on pulling the cable out, look at my last response, sometimes there super easy and some just fight, thank you for visiting my channel stay safe over there brother..👍😎
What causes a line that big with that much insulation to blow out ? 👍🙂
@@CostelloPlays wazzup cost , wooow different things or possibilities that could’ve happened, maybe insulation break down or overheating or overload amps ..
"This black drain pipe shouldn't be where I'm digging without calling! I'll just cut chop it on each side of this trench real qui 💥" 🤣 I'm aware of what the suspected story is, but also know this happens all the time with people renting excavators and not locating before they dig... Sometimes even when you do call, so atleast it's not on me 😉 Last things hit were a major telecom line for a never finished subdivision planned back in the late 1980s of which the phone company had no records or knowledge of, the other was a natural gas line that was run in the wrong spot because the original installers were going to have to bore and hand dig to correctly follow the property line as laid out on their map... The gas guys located the line, apparently lost it, so just marked where it should be instead of actually following it and admitting it was wrong... I guess they were hoping no excavation would be happening in that area since half the time they are marking stuff far away from any digging just because they have to mark and we can't work anywhere until they do... Also rubbed an underground line 4" deep at the base of a pole recently... The pole crew apparently accidentally set the pole on top of the underground line, so the crew doing the connection buried the cable that would normally turn 90 degrees 24" deep just under the surface after wrapping the pole a couple of times 🫣 The pole was luckily coming out and getting spliced to go across a road instead of over it back to the original transformer... Pure luck that the excavator operator happened to dig around the pole to make sure the underground lines didn't immediately bulge out... He hit the line 4" deep like 3ft from the pole and I helped him uncover the mess from there before taking pictures 🤣 Nobody could believe that anyone would EVER leave that! Obviously the install crew assumed it would likely get cut or pulled in the future because instead of cutting the slack they left about 12' or more coiled around the pole base, starting tight on the pole and going two wraps deep about 3'-4' in overall outside diameter 😂 Even the Utility guys had to take personal photos of that mess! It was old enough to where it was probably undocumented, but we didn't rat then out to the supervisors... It was probably the less than amazing company they use for lots of contract work anyway... I guarantee the linemen did some quiet investigation when they got back just to find out for sure lol, but I knew the guys and they know we wouldn't be complaining because they've saved our butts by putting us first/same day, and we try to make everything easy and fast for them in return... Although cameras are now kind of messing that up 🙄 I mean I get it from a liability giant corporation POV, but the good easy fun days are over now for them... They are now slower than the pictures in the training manuals, because one man using a ladder to pull and splice a residential hook up now requires 8 guys and 2 safety supervisors after waiting months to build a temporary road on a mountain across 2 fences to do the same job that my buddy previously did in 30 minutes by himself, I just helped carry his cordless press and ladder bag, then he told me to stay 50ft behind his ladder following all the old safety rules... I think he finally moved on to a different company position once he wasn't allowed to actually feel/be productive and safe simultaneously without wearing being in sight of a truck camera at all times... 😒 It's a crap show now, even by directly going through the same great supervisors... They know what was once a "Tomorrow before noon" completion is now "Hopefully in about two weeks we can get a crew here for atleast long enough to get started 🙁" They are almost embarrassed to give that answer, but know we understand why that's now the answer... Out of their control sadly...
@@berryreading4809 wazzup berry , thanks for sharing , interesting story ya your never surprised when your working out in the field and start moving or digging or probing, we have called dig alert and still dug into a gas line and there was supposed to be nothing in where we were digging to set a pole , so go figure right stay safe over there brother 👍😎
Oh boy, 750/3 con cable.. That was a good blast of light!!!
Do you bro's work with network xfrms and protectors out in LA downtown???
Straight to the scrapyard ? Happy days 🎉
This right up my ally, did a lot of pulling cables and trouble shooting in manholes. Always fun, especially when the hole is full of water, ha ha.
By the looks of it, the new section you put needs to be joined to the piece sticking out the wall anyway which makes me wonder why you couldn't just cut out the bad bit and join it up?
@11:49 you can see the damaged bit in the middle of the cable. All joints need to be in an accessible space, and with the effort needed to replace these cables it's best to replace the whole thing and not risk there being a second fault in the cable that they didn't see. When you factor in work permits, blocking traffic, and the number of guys it would take to do this a second time, it's just best not to risk reusing the damaged piece.
@billtheunjust yeah, kinda figured it would be an access issue, obviously time and labour too, didn't consider permits and roadworks too, very interesting job
That's a whole lot of angry pixies to be poking with a stick. You say someone "got hurt"? Define "hurt". What was left of them? Be safe brother!
@@IonOtter wazzup ion , it’s all deenergized if that’s what you mean of pixies , any bad move can get you hurt that’s what I was explaining to my co-worker , likewise thank you brother 😎👍
@@linemanundergroundworld4854 he means the guy who poked it to try to steal power
And what kind of fool would try something like stealing this, and the cost of replacing this is 1000's! Unreal.
@@tpep1693 wazzup tpep , don’t know really but what ever or who ever maybe thought it was worth lots of money maybe took that chance, and yes it gets expensive to replace, 😎👍
When natural selection trips a breaker...
"All right, all right, all right"
You can drop that spool off at my house if you want...
Frying tonight
Criddler Power!
Trust that bull ring
@@geraldgrantz8205 wazzup Gerald , your experience is what’s going to determine your trust to use it or not.. stay safe brother 👍😎
I'm gonna stick to commercial electrical!
👍🏻👊🏻
@@travisfisher594 wazzup up Travis , thank you greatly appreciate it, stay safe over there brother 😎👍
Giggidi
Cool
All right.
I could do that with a vacuum and a fish tape 🤓
@@geordiecs wazzup geo , dang your Mr. MacGyver I knew I would meet up with you one day.. stay safe out there brother..🤣👍😎
@@linemanundergroundworld4854😂 you guys are doing gods work
So dei is gonna do this work? These are real working MEN! These guys are badass! I'd like to know who in the next generation of soft boys is gonna fix our infrastructure 😂
Wtf are you on about gramps?
So many stupid people believing all they see. There is nobody stealing just the utility company replacing blown cable. But yeah, read the subtitle posted comment did not watch… geez.
@@bartowl wazzup bar , no problem thank you for visiting my channel and sharing anyways. Stay safe over brother 👍😎
well the description says line was cut trying to tap into it someone hurt . so that means trying to steal power in my understanding of words. so was the description bullshit ?
@ wazzup Ron , no your absolutely correct I don’t miss interpret my words sorry if you didn’t understand what I wrote, so what I wrote is correct please read all the conversations I have had about this job , thanks Ron stay safe 👍😎
Not good. You would think LADWP would give these guys better training. Rigging is scary. "LA wheel" Airplane" . I get they aren't crane guys but really?
Wazzup Cam if you gone thru an apprenticeship program you learn as much as possible while your out in the field, and as you know every hole or vault old or new will how your rigging is going to be , yes we get trained but the rest is learned out in the field and with the best of underground journeymen and there experience in some of those jobs when there is absolutely no rigging points and your experience will warrant the use of the airplane sling and the LA-wheel , as for me I love the airplane sling..
That is a lot of energy to be released. Even if they live... they will NEVER be the same again.
@@I_Am_Your_Problem wazzup i_Am , for me it’s called experience and training or I would leave the hole . 👍😎