Amazing dedication to detail and safety. Great catch by the arborist crew. Awesome job, Mike! Best wishes to you in your continuing career. Thanks for the video, Aaron. I always enjoy them and learn something new. Please stay safe, and God bless.
Speaking of catv I have all the master keys for all the lock boxes ever made everything's all available on eBay FYI and it's perfectly legal to use as well if you can buy it you can use it hell even my old technician left a whole Smorgasbord of tools behind last time and I got lots of DeWalt tools and all a bunch of cable prep stuff and just the whole ton of goodies in a Husky tool box that was left behind fully loaded and I kept every bit of it and I'm not going to give it back because it's mine now
As an engineer on the secondary side (480V and below), I love seeing you guys work on your primary side of things. Appreciate you taking the extra time an effort to record and explain all of this!
Defective Gloves : Exposure to Ozone and or UV will destroy the bonds in rubber best stored in a polythene bag away from light especially if in the location of HV kit which increases Ozone levels. . Surprised issued kit has this damage.
they are usually made with UV inhibitors to prevent UV from degrading the rubber. they were new gloves so it was probably a manufacturing defect, probably during the curing process. It happens quite frequently but rare for the gloves to get passed QI.
@@mikel9567 I think you are right about QI error, My gloves used (ages past ) to have an expiry date, one workshop had an insulation test jug shaped like a hand we disposed of the gloves if they had been in contact with PCBs which was then used in everything. I had some test work at a cable factory, their rubber insulation was made by mixing a little bit of this and a little bit of that with a sprinkle of some magic for the UV. The guys would manipulate large gobs of rubber through heated rollers then off to the steam heated cable extruder, hard and dangerous work, the huge cast iron sub sea cable winding machine was made in 1904 and used to make ships rope. Best
Mike did an excellent job, methodical and careful without wasting time or using unnecessary steps. He will indeed do well and be a solid journeyman soon. He was also fortunate to work with you Aaron. Well done by both of you, stay safe!
Greetings from the great state of South Carolina in the United States Friday we got knocked back to the dark ages and ETA for power back on is like Friday The power grid got fubar'd due to a hurricane
13:13 I saw a pole by my work recently where a new transformer was mounted but not hot yet. The tail (?) wasn't attached to the primary yet and was just dangling in the air. I don't know If they're long enough to touch another phase in high winds but I was kinda concerned. I'm assuming the linemen knew what they were doing and probably coming back soon. Thoughts?
There’s really no hypothetical scenario in which those dangling conductors could cause a fault. A small cutout door is rigid, can oscillate, and needs only a short swing. Conductors are flexible and any motion is self-dampening.
We hang dead cans often on hot poles in preparation of more work. The transformer isn't connected to a hot line yet, so those legs ("tails") at the proper length have no chance of contacting a primary, as they were only measured to connect to secondary which is insulated (except for an open 3 phase secondary which is slowly being upgraded) & neutral for grounding. It's smart that you pay attention! Knowledge is key, amigo
That pesky vegatation.. you have hawthorne out east. On the (Vancouver) Island they have blackberry bushes, as well as trees that are two to three times the height of poles. Those blackbery bushes are nasty as well. And I'm somewhere on the prairies.
Quick question: Do you guys carry any sort of cribbing on your rigs to help level up in the event you can't get within your 5 degree limit? Also good spot by the tree trimming crew, that was almost fretted through.
Good illustration of the step-by-step process in setting up for a job with safety being Job 1 every step of the way. The angle pole at the beginning reminded me of a busy pole on the cooperative's line that was just down the road from our cabin. Not only did the line make a sharp turn (100-120 degrees) on two small 'hi-top' insulators, there was a branch line taking off from the pole (placed so the branch line was effectively the downguy for that angle), AND there was a transformer serving a member. All on the same pole. Dunno if something happened in the off-season, but I remember coming up one spring and seeing two changes: The branch line had been bumped to a new pole further back on the line (eliminating the angle from the first branch pole as well), and those poor 'hi-top' insulators were replaced with two sets of dead-end discs.
It's a loaded answer, but I will say this; Often times guys/girls ask - is climbing school worth it... should I just start working with a contractor... Should I go to the union hall? Or even a lineman college? My answer is always - Of an opportunity presents itself, don't turn it down! Get your foot in the door somewhere, always better off gaining experience whichever ever way you can!
I've been wondering about capacitance with proximity high potential lines nearby. Working in a dual power supply piece of equipment I shorted the system to itself, transformer primary short, but still took a jolt from the adjacent circuit. In that instance I simply shorted all four primary together. Not ideal but I had to test secondaries so I had to keep the two systems isolated from each other.
Heh I don't blame you for sending the FNG into the thorn patch to put up the tag. Joking aside Mike looks like he's going to make an excellent lineman at the completion of his apprenticeship.
Always wondered what it would be like to be a lineman. That's one of the career paths that was on my mind way back. Your videos never fail to feed my curiosity
Have problem with the new install on Friday we ear sparking behind the hydro meter just wondering if your company check lug and wire before put meter in place
Even in HVAC it doesn't take long to put on safety gear it's something you get yourself used to doing that extra few minutes might save you from getting hurt or getting killed
FYI Aaron just to let you know that we energies the guys that do southeast Wisconsin we had taken and cut all that out and put new lineup because we don't do those sleeve splices anymore due to the same fact that these sleeves are useless so what we were instructed to do was run new line
"What is a tailboard?" Different words in different shops. Guys in pickup trucks stand around the Tail Gate of the boss's truck. Boss spreads out the work-order, the blueprints, the special parts, introduces anybody new, and tells everybody what they are doing. I guess Aron' s big truck has a tail-board instead of a gate. There is some formality: persons present sign-off that they were there.
Small-load streets are normally wired one conductor at 6,900V and the other nearly zero, dirt-grounded. You want as much as possible of your system "grounded", so that lightning-strikes and fallen conductors will tend to burn a wire (or a fuse) instead of burning the customers and their houses.
Probably something I shouldn't be asking, but do you know if you'll be coming down to the lower 48 to help other crews with getting the lights back on after this recent hurricane that came through?
It will. I know a lineman who has had to deal with back feeding idiots during storm outages. He said as soon as they ground the line the offending generator usually makes a high pitch screech then seizes and dies. And no the utility is not responsible for the dead generator but will happily disconnect your non-compliant service for almost killing a lineman.
Amazing dedication to detail and safety. Great catch by the arborist crew. Awesome job, Mike! Best wishes to you in your continuing career. Thanks for the video, Aaron. I always enjoy them and learn something new. Please stay safe, and God bless.
As a CATV lineman I love your videos it provides so much good insight on your side of things keep it up and stay safe
Speaking of catv I have all the master keys for all the lock boxes ever made everything's all available on eBay FYI and it's perfectly legal to use as well if you can buy it you can use it hell even my old technician left a whole Smorgasbord of tools behind last time and I got lots of DeWalt tools and all a bunch of cable prep stuff and just the whole ton of goodies in a Husky tool box that was left behind fully loaded and I kept every bit of it and I'm not going to give it back because it's mine now
Thanks for your Dedication to Safety and Detail to keep yourself Safe and our Power ON. 👍🙏
Nice job Mike. Hopefully your journeyman Aaron bought you lunch 😁.
Good luck in Kanas City!
I'm not a lineman but I enjoy your videos. Good luck Mike in the rodeo
As an engineer on the secondary side (480V and below), I love seeing you guys work on your primary side of things. Appreciate you taking the extra time an effort to record and explain all of this!
Defective Gloves : Exposure to Ozone and or UV will destroy the bonds in rubber best stored in a polythene bag away from light especially if in the location of HV kit which increases Ozone levels. . Surprised issued kit has this damage.
they are usually made with UV inhibitors to prevent UV from degrading the rubber. they were new gloves so it was probably a manufacturing defect, probably during the curing process. It happens quite frequently but rare for the gloves to get passed QI.
@@mikel9567 I think you are right about QI error, My gloves used (ages past ) to have an expiry date, one workshop had an insulation test jug shaped like a hand we disposed of the gloves if they had been in contact with PCBs which was then used in everything.
I had some test work at a cable factory, their rubber insulation was made by mixing a little bit of this and a little bit of that with a sprinkle of some magic for the UV.
The guys would manipulate large gobs of rubber through heated rollers then off to the steam heated cable extruder, hard and dangerous work, the huge cast iron sub sea cable winding machine was made in 1904 and used to make ships rope. Best
Induced voltage is crazy! 😮
Mike did an excellent job, methodical and careful without wasting time or using unnecessary steps. He will indeed do well and be a solid journeyman soon. He was also fortunate to work with you Aaron. Well done by both of you, stay safe!
“MP” Maclean Powersystems! We order quite a bit of material from them.
Great video! I enjoy these more than you even know.
Thanks you!!! Our methods guy messaged me shortly after with the same information, it's a great product
The world needs more checks and balances and double-checking. Thanks for keeping the lights on!
Greetings from the great state of South Carolina in the United States
Friday we got knocked back to the dark ages and ETA for power back on is like Friday
The power grid got fubar'd due to a hurricane
I love your videos. Great catch by the arborists! 👍🌲🌳🌲🌳
Good luck Mike in Kansas city
good shout by those arborists.
Excellent work. Excellent explanations of what is happening, and why. Thank you.
"...a lot of times we're probably just day dreaming too..."😂🤣🤣🤣
ALWAYS have the apprentice trudge through the hawthorn. Good call.
Situational awareness....absolutely necessary for the 10,000 possibilities of things that go wrong...Excellent work, as usual
13:13 I saw a pole by my work recently where a new transformer was mounted but not hot yet. The tail (?) wasn't attached to the primary yet and was just dangling in the air. I don't know If they're long enough to touch another phase in high winds but I was kinda concerned. I'm assuming the linemen knew what they were doing and probably coming back soon. Thoughts?
There’s really no hypothetical scenario in which those dangling conductors could cause a fault.
A small cutout door is rigid, can oscillate, and needs only a short swing.
Conductors are flexible and any motion is self-dampening.
We hang dead cans often on hot poles in preparation of more work. The transformer isn't connected to a hot line yet, so those legs ("tails") at the proper length have no chance of contacting a primary, as they were only measured to connect to secondary which is insulated (except for an open 3 phase secondary which is slowly being upgraded) & neutral for grounding. It's smart that you pay attention! Knowledge is key, amigo
Good stuff. Always interesting. Safety is obviously a permanent consideration in all situations. Kudos.
That pesky vegatation.. you have hawthorne out east. On the (Vancouver) Island they have blackberry bushes, as well as trees that are two to three times the height of poles. Those blackbery bushes are nasty as well. And I'm somewhere on the prairies.
OMGosh!! that broken line on primary?!?! I couldn't fathom if any "tree people" didn't pay attention to it and went ahead to work the trees. 😟😧
Quick question: Do you guys carry any sort of cribbing on your rigs to help level up in the event you can't get within your 5 degree limit? Also good spot by the tree trimming crew, that was almost fretted through.
Whilliwags? LOL! Love it! I call them sticker bushes. Same thing. I have seen those thorns. They hurt & suck!
Good illustration of the step-by-step process in setting up for a job with safety being Job 1 every step of the way. The angle pole at the beginning reminded me of a busy pole on the cooperative's line that was just down the road from our cabin. Not only did the line make a sharp turn (100-120 degrees) on two small 'hi-top' insulators, there was a branch line taking off from the pole (placed so the branch line was effectively the downguy for that angle), AND there was a transformer serving a member. All on the same pole. Dunno if something happened in the off-season, but I remember coming up one spring and seeing two changes: The branch line had been bumped to a new pole further back on the line (eliminating the angle from the first branch pole as well), and those poor 'hi-top' insulators were replaced with two sets of dead-end discs.
Can you do a video about how to become a lineman I'm really interested in joining the trade
He actually touched on this subject, you need to go back and watch previous videos
It's a loaded answer, but I will say this;
Often times guys/girls ask
- is climbing school worth it... should I just start working with a contractor... Should I go to the union hall? Or even a lineman college?
My answer is always - Of an opportunity presents itself, don't turn it down! Get your foot in the door somewhere, always better off gaining experience whichever ever way you can!
Great professional work. Best of luck to Mike. Thanks for a great video.
I've been wondering about capacitance with proximity high potential lines nearby. Working in a dual power supply piece of equipment I shorted the system to itself, transformer primary short, but still took a jolt from the adjacent circuit. In that instance I simply shorted all four primary together. Not ideal but I had to test secondaries so I had to keep the two systems isolated from each other.
Heh I don't blame you for sending the FNG into the thorn patch to put up the tag. Joking aside Mike looks like he's going to make an excellent lineman at the completion of his apprenticeship.
Always wondered what it would be like to be a lineman. That's one of the career paths that was on my mind way back. Your videos never fail to feed my curiosity
Have problem with the new install on Friday we ear sparking behind the hydro meter just wondering if your company check lug and wire before put meter in place
Even in HVAC it doesn't take long to put on safety gear it's something you get yourself used to doing that extra few minutes might save you from getting hurt or getting killed
Enjoyed seeing something longer then a few minutes. 👍
Are you or any of your crews going down to Florida to help out?
FYI Aaron just to let you know that we energies the guys that do southeast Wisconsin we had taken and cut all that out and put new lineup because we don't do those sleeve splices anymore due to the same fact that these sleeves are useless so what we were instructed to do was run new line
Saw alot maine power trucks heading down.
All the best to mike on a long and safe career, great job guys, well done !
Thanks for the hands on video that's perfect we love those thanks 😊
What is a tailboard? (Im not a lineman.... I sell liquor wholesale and restore old cars.... but am fascinated by what you do.....)
Usually refers to a safety meeting held by the work crew(s) typically held at the back, or tail, of the truck before starting the job.
"What is a tailboard?" Different words in different shops. Guys in pickup trucks stand around the Tail Gate of the boss's truck. Boss spreads out the work-order, the blueprints, the special parts, introduces anybody new, and tells everybody what they are doing. I guess Aron' s big truck has a tail-board instead of a gate.
There is some formality: persons present sign-off that they were there.
@@LtKernelPanic kinda what i thought.... but wasn't sure.... Thanks....
👆💯🤝
Top notch apprentice and worker!! 🙂
why so many splices in one short piece of cable?
Good job, Mike. Have a great career!
Good luck on the competition .
Great in depth video.
Buena tarde de donde eres bro
Good luck Mike
Great video
10:20 What is the electrical box for on the side of the 8011S001 pole?
And old service for Department of transportation. It's cut off up top now. Must have been for some signage or lighting...
Why does this pole only have one primary hot line. Just curious cuz i just assumed most poles would have either 2 or 3.
Small-load streets are normally wired one conductor at 6,900V and the other nearly zero, dirt-grounded. You want as much as possible of your system "grounded", so that lightning-strikes and fallen conductors will tend to burn a wire (or a fuse) instead of burning the customers and their houses.
Probably something I shouldn't be asking, but do you know if you'll be coming down to the lower 48 to help other crews with getting the lights back on after this recent hurricane that came through?
I likely won't be on this one... A few of my crew mates are down there now! 💪
Those thorns will go through finger nails too, found that out trimming some back
They are absolutely brutal 😔
Hmm, how did they come up with 7200 hours?
😮 I think you're on to something....
what gis mapping software app do yall use?
We use Lookout in our line trucks, but it's a "still" shot of our system that gets updated weekly (ish)
👍👊‼️
Who’s Bob? Is he sick?
Lol, I actually posted a video a few years back titled "who is bobsdecline". It has the full story
I’d still be worried about generator homebrew connectors without a lockout breaker.
I think he's said before that the grounds and bonds would short a generator to ground?
It will. I know a lineman who has had to deal with back feeding idiots during storm outages. He said as soon as they ground the line the offending generator usually makes a high pitch screech then seizes and dies. And no the utility is not responsible for the dead generator but will happily disconnect your non-compliant service for almost killing a lineman.
@@LtKernelPanic I'm surprised. I thought it would just trip the breaker on the genset? That's awesome. F those people.
Willywaggs!?
Haha I've heard from a few people now.... Apparently that's not as common as a term as I thought lol
First 😂