My first STREET LIGHT change | Nagy Weekly
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 ก.ค. 2024
- We are FINALLY here everyone, our FIRST HIGHWAYS work changing a street light at a car pack out in Essex. As you can probably tell by the video, I was quite nervous doing this job since my boss was watching every move. However, I now know what is required for a street light change so the next job should be much smoother. I hope you enjoy this one :)
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▶️ Timecodes ◀️
🔵 0:00 - Intro
🔴 0:24 - Boss is looking
🔵 0:36 - Checking out the replacement head unit
🔴 2:11 - Believe in what you want to accomplish
🔵 3:16 - First mistake
🔴 3:56 - Taking off the old head unit
🔵 7:25 - Checking out the internals of the old head unit
🔴 7:49 - Putting up the new head unit
🔵 10:24 - Testing the new head unit
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R.I.P HPS street light. I love those lamps. I need to buy one
As a small business owner in California who's watched you grow over the years, you've been an inspiration. Keep on growing and forget about the haters!
I’m glad I can be of some help Russell, thanks for the continuous support!
Nice one thomas. The old lantern is a old URBIS ZX3
Great video, I Did highway lighting for 2 years in West Wales and loved it ! We would do 3x 8m column changes a day including jointing and you had to go some to do that. 10-15 head only changes a day would be a good day depending on road conditions.
Wago do a tiny little gel filled shell to snap over connectors to stop moisture being able to attack them, either that or R391 compound works a treat if you have to put connectors in iffy spots.
Yep, this woman watches Tom. I am 50yrs old and putting myself through expensive, intense training to become an electrician. I thank you for your enthusiasm, excitement and hard graft to provide an honest symbol of hope....to those who are truly committed, cos it really aint easy. That's what separates the dreamers from the doers. Best of luck.
Well said! I wish you good luck with your adventure in becoming an electrician!
I'm glad you said near the end you could rotate the top and drop the column...
Little tip - always take a clothes peg or two up to stick on the old cable to keep it where you want it - as others have said it's easy to lose the old one!
Up, unbolt, cut, pull re do wires and fit..... I done all this as an apprentice.... The worst was they always decided to do these jobs in the winter, your hands would be frozen.....
Pair of good grippy gloves, I'd all suggest a set up where the basic tools needed you fit to string or magnet strip and even attach to light pole or make a spot in bucket....
Few power tool adapters, angle grinder a must, different adapters a must as you found out different size fitting etc.
Carry cones etc in bucket, if possible, cut down on loss of inner van space.
Cheers for the tips pal!
Good video! i really love the orange glow from the older low and high pressure sodium lamps.
I done street lighting for years, very simple easy work when the weather nice it’s the best job going swapping heads! Little tips I learnt was after taking the old head of tie a knot in the flex or tape it back on its self, sometimes it does fall down the column nightmare trying to get that back up
Cheers for the tip!
The small photocells might look neat but once a bird has sh*t on it the light stays on all the time . The big NEMA socket cells are better and quicker to change
Would like to see inside what you referred to as the "switch room" for isolating the light. Always interesting to see new content though!
Appreciate it pal!
They are normally quite boring. A metal box. Aka a feeder pillar. Depending on the number of lights and set up. It could be as simple as just a cutout feeding the radial of lights. Sometimes they have time clocks. Sometimes they have a more sophisticated fuse and disconnection set up.
@@thomasnagy absolutely cracking mate. Very impressed the work and effort you put into your company Tom!! Bloody well done mate. No one is going to grow and succeed witho taking risk.
@@voltare2amstereo is there, there's very few Scottish trades vlog, hard to find anyway.
@@voltare2amstereo think that might be me 👀
You have a great positive attitude. Top bloke👍
The old fitting was a Urbis ZX3 which were once popular on the M25 and the M4
Watching you grow over the years mate has been unreal, a real motivation well done Tom👍🏻
Cheers for the support!
Fair play for not cutting out the mistakes.
Wow, never would have expected 80W, makes sense with LED's, but even so.
Should have kept low-pressure sodium, yes it was yellow but you could relamp and repair the fittings and they didn’t take any more power than LEDs. And made locally rather than shipped round the world!
Congratulations. Good job sticking with it.
Thanks, really appreciate it!
Thomas for some reasons your videos brighten my day. thanks for being part of the youtube community.
Thanks for the kind words, it really means a lot! I’m glad I can make your day a little better :)
Congrats, you never forget your first.
Yes! Thank you!
Just be mindful of if you change a head without such a long extension arm, that when you take the old head off the flex will fall straight down to the cut out, due to the weight of the cable hanging going up the lamppost, almost caught me out a few times😂
you'd think it'd be pinned close to the top with a releasable gland so that can't happen....alas, it's stupid but it works it ain't stupid.
Yes. Decent tip there. Done it once or twice in various forms. Lost rhe odd tool down a cavity.
Many many years ago not long out of my apprenticeship (early 1980's) we were fitting lights in a lift shaft (12 floors) the conduit was in we pulled the singles up from the pit to the lift motor room. standing on top of the lift car I went to the first fitting at the top of the shaft and cut the cables to go into a clock connector and watched all the singles go zooming down the conduit to make a birds nest in the pit.. You only do it once
Was thinking about that exact possibility as he was disconnecting it :)
The arm that you’ve put the new lantern on may have been suitable for the old lighter fitting but the new led fittings are substantially heavier. The arm has no webbing. It may have been advisable to change the arm for one with webbing or cut the existing arm back close to the column to alleviate the strain. And I hope you’ve got a quicker bucket by now.
Congrats to you and your colleagues Tom, really great to see someone with passion and drive doing well!
Onwards and upwards mate 👍
Much love to the Nagy family
Appreciate it Luke. Thank you for the kind words and continuous support!
Thomas Nagy, some light entertainment 😂😂😂😂
YES SIR!
When your a multi millionaire and you’ve set up nationwide, you’ll drive past that lamp in 25 years time look up and chuckle 😀
That’s the plan!
If you turned the bracket you could drop the column change lantern put it back up and turn bracket back
Congratulations mate. Keep up the enthusiasm
Thanks, will do!
Great stuff Nagy, delighted you're finally getting kicked off with the highway works now!! 💯💯
You and me both! thanks for the support 👍
I am up for the street lighting videos, it fascinates me beyond belief!!
Its good to see you have finally started started get to where you wanted to be. The job is fantastic in summer, not great in winter but with the right clothing it's more than manageable. I've been doing this sort of thing for 18 years now and still don't mind going to work so can't be too bad.
If you do ever get tight grub screws on a bracket like that it's normally easier to cut the bracket arm and lose 50mm then drill out. You can get spigot adapters which are always handy to keep on the van to make the Lantern fit. Also connector blocks aren't ideal in a column, the weight of the cable is constantly pulling against them. But if you do use them it's best to put like a loop on the cable and tape it so the cable weight is on itself not the connectors.
We also can do 30-50 a day when bulk changing, but usually a 2 man crew and traffic management.
Also a bicycle chain attached to the new cable is good for going down the column if you lose your draw wire
Yes. I am female and use to be a civilian sparky for Her Majesty’s Boating company.
Congrats to you Thomas. Tenacity and perseverance does pay off sometimes.
lovely to see how happy you are, keep up the great work, loving the content
Very good video I have a couple of Low Pressure Sodium Street Lights know as SOX I use them as table Lights with a 3 amp plug
Happy for you.
Person: "So what's it like replacing street lighting heads, Tom"?
Tom "Well it has its ups and downs".
Brilliant job Tom.
The old head is a scheder/urbis zx3 or zx2
This is off topic but I just saw your video where you bought all those snacks for your staff from Sainsburys. Can I recommend you get a makro or costco card (you're eligible since you're a business) and buy all those snacks/food at wholesale prices. It's much, much cheaper than buying all of that from Sainsburys or a regular supermarket.
I love videos like these because it brings me back to when I started my electrical journey in London as a Canadian. Back in Canada now doing electrical, but these videos are great and very nostalgic!
Congratulations!!!
Well done Tom.
Congrats Tom!
Excited for you Tom!
Appreciate it pal!
CONGRATS!
Well done!
Nice job Thomas and good luck to the future, up north here they are crying out for contractors to do street lighting so it can be done by guys like your self, It's not being sucked up by big guys like Balfour or amey
Congrats sparky, you deserved it!
Have worked on loads of those posts in the past on a previous job. Have seen a lot rotting away round the pivot point so couldnt drop them. In the end they had to be replaced. Any fitting changes or repairs in the meantime had to be done out of a cherry picker. Commercial and industrial is my preferred type of work. As for testing for dead even if i know power is off i still always check for dead. Is a good habit to get in to
Tbh you are correct on symble of hope. I am starting my own landscaping company. I know it's a little different but on a small scale thing pumping my own money working 6 days a week to get tools sorted etc and seeing you say its hard work but you can get there makes me feel its going to be worth it. Keep up the good work mate and hope too see u back soon
a Comment for the system. Glad to see you still around, and with a moving and growing business.
Congrats!!
Thank you!
Great to see the hard work is paying off. Looking forward to the new content 👌
It’s good to see your continuing your development, following the same leveling up e5 are all about
Great milestone, well done, mate
Great video Thomas!
Looks like an Urbis ZX3.
I wish i could see this switch board for the lights. Great video
Great job
Nicely done Tom
Thank you! Cheers!
Fair play Tom👊🏻
This is absolutely brilliant nice video!!
Hey Tom i watch all your videos i say this as you said not many women watch your video im was 17th edition but dont do it now
Keep up the good work you are an amazing young man who has done really well for your self
Thanks for the continuous support Holly, it’s nice to see women in the industry!
Well done Tom....well deserved....just shows what can be done with hard work and perseverance....
Appreciate it pal!
Awesome to see how far you've come Tom, all the best with your future endeavours too
Thank you James :)
I've done a bit of street lighting maintenance in the past, so I was amazed to see that you let go of the flex when you took the old head off; with the different design of pole we had (all the same, on a big research site) if you let go of the flex it dropped out of sight so fast there was a little sonic boom! 😀
If a new lamp didn't cure the problem or the cutout fuse had blown, we just swapped the head with one of the repaired and tested spares from last time we went round the site, six months before. We would always get called out about two weeks after the clocks had changed in the autumn, as staff were suddenly going home in the dark; reports of defective street lights soon came in.
Congratulations 🎉🎊🍾
Thank you so much 😀
what a legend!
I worked for large university here in the states and we would make repairs on street lights ranging from ballast replacement to lamp replace socket repair and we would knock our approximately 15-20 a day out of a bucket truck
Yep. 40 sounds a bit unrealistic to me.
Used to be employed by the local authority until the street lighting contract was pfi'd to a major utility, on conversions we're expected to do 45+ 8/10 mtr cols or 60+ 5/6 mtr cols a day to hit targets,2 man team.
Fantastic to see all the hard work paid off and great to see you enjoyed it. Keep it up loving the vids.
I'm glad you're enjoying the videos pal!
I'm surprised you wanted to go into street lighting. For the bigger utilities companies I assumed it didn't pay that much. But seeing you do it I can see the appeal. Bad weather would obviously be a negative, but not dealing with the absolute nonsense from domestic customers is a huge win.
A big street lighting service has all the over heads etc and competition for the massive contracts this is a service he can offer to private clients to do 1-10 lampposts which there are lots in London that that others can't
Nice to see business is booming from the idea to the final stretch good work and keep it up
Well done for stepping up and doing it.
Thanks!
Congratulations buddy. All the hard work has paid off. Nice to see.
Thanks 👍 Really appreciate it!
Beautiful - congratulations on fulfilling the dream!
Cheers Chris, appreciate it!
Congrats Tom on all your achievements. Its been enjoyable and informative to watch your journey.
Glad you enjoy it!
9:24 Never a truer word spoken
A very neat light fitting.
Well done Tom! Great to see you and your company progress 👏👏👍
Thank you 😊
Nice to see you progressing in the direction you wanted,hope it all works out.
Appreciate the kind words!
Yes, please show more stuff that is not happening from the first time. This is important, that younger viewers can see that failure is possible, that not all stuff happening in first go, and don`t need to give up!!! Great video, big thanks.
You got it!
Lovely work! Congrats. :)
Thanks pal!
love to see it finally happen first of many
Appreciate it pal!
Congratulations 👏👏
Thank you!
I’d like that ZX3 you changed
Good luck with the new adventure Tom😉, your a decent guy, humble and pleasent.
Thank you kindly
Completely get THAT moment! Started with your channel in the "poached egg intro" days while at college. As you stood by the light head, is how I stood next to my first CU change that someone actually PAID me to do. Sometimes catch myself driving home from a job, in a van with my company name on the side, planning an afternoon windsurfing on MY LOCAL BEACH with a silly grin wrapped between my ears. Well done Tom and team.
Well done Tom and team! Been watching your vids for years and you really deserve all the success in this new sector! Good luck all!
Thank you for the support, it is much appreciated!
Hard work and determination fricking works! Good on you boss 👍
Cheers partner!
Nice one Tom
Thanks 👍
Congratulations…your hard work is paying off. Good on you and your crew
Cheers pal!
Nice job Tom! Its impressive to see your company grow from the the one man job to what it is now.
Cheers pal! Really appreciate it!
I want to see how you deal with a very busy road! that quiet road was perfect for a first job.
You mentioned scratching the itch. I think it makes sense to double check that it wasn't live, good practice if you are aiming to work on railways.
Yeah, we do watch
Well done mate, you've finally done it!
It’s been a long time coming but we finally did it 🤘🏼
Youre a braver man than me thomas.
Superb job sir.
greetings from Brazil, I loved your video.
I just want to say congratulations on how far you have come. Keep up the great work 👍
Really appreciate it pal!
Congrats Tom. You've done it. Cheers for bringing everyone along for the ride. Here's to the future for TN group 😉😉
Thanks for the support, it is very appreciated!
fantastic very enlightening
Glad you enjoyed it