One has to admire a small animal that can take down a large tree with their teeth where we need a chainsaw. Pretty amazing creatures. It keeps your job interesting. Thanks for the video. They are always interesting and I enjoy learning. Please stay safe, and God bless.
@@nicevideomancanada yes but those beavers think they are constructive instead of destructive! Sometimes things have to be destroyed in order to make something even bigger and better. We’ve been doing that since the beginning of humanity.
Hey Everyone! After transferring the files to my computer I found the audio messed up in a few places... Just found out my new phone has multiple microphones that adjust according to "zoom" :/. I have that feature turned off now and shouldn't be an issue on the next vid! I had no idea what I was getting into with this one... turns out to be a beaver call!🤷♂ This video is a great example of how much procedure is involved for a very simple job!. Be safe all!!
On a different note Aaron; do you have up in Canada where two sets of three phase are running parallel on the same pole, but run four lines on the upper crossbar and two on the lower crossbar? I discovered your channel about three months ago, just about caught up watching all of your videos. Thank you for showing this and for the time that you spent editing, we all appreciate it, I know that I do! Best regards; Edward H. in Connecticut, USA
You even get the guys in the garage out for the outage! I bet they loved that. I love to see that you guys use 3 way comms and when the read back isn't 100%, the dispatcher calls it out and makes you read it back correctly. It's a PITA but it keeps everyone alive.
At a former employer of mine, 1000 internet customers lost Internet because a beaver chewed through a conduit and severed a fiber line, caused a 4 day outage because of the remote location. 😂
so, did they put back in rigid conduit and place it on a steel or concrete pole? yeah probably not, at minimum steel shield it (they'll chew down the poles and kill it again) lol
The greatest danger in your job is getting hit by a car because no amount of precautions can eliminate the poor practices of others. Any of those drivers can be sleepy, drugged, drunk, or texting on their phone. A tire could blow at precisely the wrong time. So be careful along highways.
I appreciate that!! Some viewers find that stuff boring butfor many it's "those details" they want to see! That's why a seperate the more in depth videos into the "being a lineman" titles.... I appreciate the feedback 👊🤝
The beaver should be happy, you dropped the tree for them and cut it into manageable pieces. Handy that there was another route for the feeder so you could partially re-energize the area and minimize the outage until the work was done.
With guns, you ALWAYS treat them as loaded and ready to fire. Dealing with electricity like you do, you ALWAYS treated as energized and take ALL necessary precautions, and then some. Be safe.
Classic example of 3 part communication. Great to communicate on the air so everyone else knows what’s going on. Great content Aaron. Keep up the great work!
Interesting to me that the section had to be isolated at the south end to prevent power being delivered from its own north end (the bit that looped to the west before merging with the same circuit). Would be nice to see more content on how the grid is laid out, redundant paths, etc. Was thinking of this channel (sounds better than "thinking of you") when I organized a club visit to a power dam a few weeks ago. Not very big (about 780 MW), but interesting all the same. Got down into the head over the turbine, below the generator. Very warm area. Unusual Kaplan style turbine in a run of the river system (Carillon QC).
Interesting to see that beavers pose a problem to other services as well. I work for a county road dept and we deal with beaver issues regularly. They cause flooding issues for us as well as storm water issues. A few years ago we had a beaver dam burst and it flooded a neighborhood and nearly washed out one of our roads.
Seems like the Beaver made it. Hopefully he got a learning zap for taking out that darn power. They do make some big chips. They are not in my area. Just squirrel that bit into one of the three phases. It took out the building power to the site. That messed up our equipment. Very interesting call.
They are industrious creatures! Once hiking saw a good 3 foot diameter tree that was eaten half way through and it wasn't even that close to the water!
maybe you should large zip-tie the red tags to the poles? considering gusty winds could blow them away from the pole markings or even some reusable ratchet/spring loaded straps with carabiner clips to hold the tag? I only say that knowing how fast wind can whip up and make a mess.
I'm surprised there wasn't a lightly fried beaver at the base of that tree. I would have thought the step potential would have been enough to ruin its day.
@@jovetj True, could have been phase to phase, but at 27:17 you can see that the bark was burned off the tree at the point is was contacting the line, so at least some current was flowing through the tree to ground. Of course, beavers probably have enough brains to back off when the tree starts falling, so that might have kept the step potential and associated current low enough at the beaver's position to be non-lethal.
@@robertlapointe4093 Aaron was talking about phase-to-neutral burn marks on the tree but I don't see those in the video. I only see phase-to-phase burn marks. But I could be wrong. But, yes, electricity was definitely getting into the tree. How much would flow through the roots to a proximate ground line is hard to know. I doubt much electricity can move through the old central wood, it "wood" have to go through the wet newer stuff just under the bark.
Could you do a short video on multipoint grounded neutral distribution systems and how it protects linemen like you and aids in faukt clearing? Phenomenal video by the way
Aren't a lot of the electric lines over in England run underground? Maybe I'm just thinking of things mostly in London, which would be pretty common to a lot of cities anyways, but that's what my memory is pulling up.
California is also re-introducing beavers is some area. They have been proven to restore wetlands and eco-systems. They will restore rivers during droughts.
@@44R0Ndin Very expensive to underground all lines in rural areas. Also buried lines are more difficult to find problems. Overhead lines you can often see the problem just by looking at it.
I've watched a ton of your stuff and not sure if I've seen you or your guys wear rubber sleeves. Am I just remembering wrong? Great stuff Aaron. Be SAFE!!
For simple outages like this, does your company require YOU to tell the dispatcher what devices you're going to open to isolate the fault? Or do you have to wait for step by step instructions from the dispatcher?
We must always wait for step by step instructions.... With one exception. We can open line without permission if there is a fire or for safety (wires down). Once the area is secure we must immediately report our actions and be able to justify them. We can never close a switch without permission.
Really enjoyed that video thank you Bob decline Beaver's strike again at least wasn't a mess like the last Beaver video that you posted keep up the good work and stay safe
Do you ever question the integrity of the neutral you're bonding to as a life-safety device, or is it just assumed that if they're still in the air, they'll always have a good strong path to ground?
It's grounded at every pole but then of course there's the copper theft issue :/. A very important part of our grounding is that our work area is also all at the same potential.
Do you think we're close to having each pole have a reporting point back to HQ? Like a GPS signal but for the electrical grid? - To tell you what's wrong and where? Or will that ever be a thing?
The more you do things like that, and the more you rely on it, the easier it is for nefarious actors to "spoof" an outage when there's not actually anything wrong. It would only be useful if it used heavy encryption, and just so you know, "Heavy encryption" and "power efficient" don't belong in the same chapter, let alone paragraph or sentence. Kinda hard to beat "no power required, go out and look at it" for the power consumption when nothing's wrong, which is the vast majority by such a large factor that I'd have to break out a logarithm-scale plot to fit both numbers on the same bar graph scale and have them both visible for both start and end of the bar (if I used a linear scale, the "normal operations" bar would take up the whole page, and the "fault" bar would maybe take up a few pixels).
@@gordonrichardson2972 In this case, it was a combination of wind and chainsaws, but yes. That beaver is still gonna be eating good for a good long time. To fell a tree that big must take a big beaver tho, right? I'd think that wouldn't be something a beaver born last year is gonna attempt, they like the smaller trees that are not only easier to fell, but the wood is also softer besides.
looks like that device reading green for open is like european nomenclature on breakers. red is hot green is open. house breakers in north america show red when tripped
Things are starting to get confusing over here in North America. We have Red fire exit signs in buildings. But wait! We also have Green fire exit signs in buildings 😂
Are you guys allowed to utilize hydraulic stick saws or gas powered extendable stick saws to keep more distance just in case things get a little sideways?
The computer at our dispatch will highlight the line I'm working on a different color. It will light up that color until it meets each protection point. So it's pretty much computer checked but also involves human confirmation.
Hey there good sir. Im in the cable industry and comcast doesnt want to pay for locates but they want us to pound bond rods right next to those padmount transformers. I cant say ive ever had something bother me so much as driving a rod next to them to the point i refuse to do so. I dont have a hammer drill. I just have a picket post pounder with a 4lb hammer. Do you have any information or statistics as to how i can finding the best location to pound a rod by one of those padmount transformes without having locates? I really dont want to feel the power of whats inside. Does not appeal. Very much apprecitate the content by the way. Im interested in your line of work and you do swell at projecting your knowledge and know how.
I havent started the distribution side of my apprenticeship yet so just a question. In the case of the amptacted switches, could you have also pulled the lead out of the top of the cut out and turned the leads up away from the switch? Since we are worried somebody will close them on us?
an auto-recloser will do 3 strikes then lock out. The timing is more about the load on the line, or how many times a tree blows into a wire over a short time frame. Fuses are a one shot deal. They blow out and must be manually replaced.
Do they have a crew whos only job is to get most trees (pruned) before they actually grow into trees, I've actually noticed in wa st,they seem to,only after storms or ( beavers).
there is routine trimming for maintenance, but in some areas it's only every so many years, based on budget. IOW, every 5+ years and they take chances that will help. The other trim work is based on potential problems and get ranked with a priority when a crew has time to do extra work.
you guys don't use tree crews for trouble??...been a trouble man 25+ years and i would have called for a tree crew the minute i saw how lg that tree was then did the switching to get a part on..
Pardon the dumb question, but I thought electricity could not travel through wood? How did that tree making contact between a phase and neutral cause the short?
Dry wood can be somewhat of an insulator but not a great one. Sticks on low voltage lines generally aren't a problem, but high voltage is another matter altogether.
@@darkpixel2k I have seen a power line arcing to a live tree. This was when I was in college in the late seventies. A late snowstorm (in early May) dropped about 2 feet of very wet snow on Fort Collins Colorado. Trees were fully leafed out and this storm caused lots of tree damage resulting in power outages. While walking around the neighborhood during the storm with some friends, we encountered a power line arcing to a tree branch weighted down by the snow. We threw snowballs at the branch, and managed to knock enough snow off of it so it lifted up and broke the arc.
Dry wood is a pretty good insulator, wet living wood much less so, and once current starts flowing it can carbonise the wood making it even more conductive.
One has to admire a small animal that can take down a large tree with their teeth where we need a chainsaw. Pretty amazing creatures. It keeps your job interesting. Thanks for the video. They are always interesting and I enjoy learning. Please stay safe, and God bless.
Especially the size of those wood chips!!
The most destructive animal beside humans The Beavers are. ;-)
@@nicevideomancanada yes but those beavers think they are constructive instead of destructive! Sometimes things have to be destroyed in order to make something even bigger and better. We’ve been doing that since the beginning of humanity.
One of my favorite series is true facts. th-cam.com/video/s2YXFeraM8I/w-d-xo.html
"not for children, nor adults who don't act like children"
One of the smartest animals imo I have to say a 12 foot high dam the creates a whole waterfowl estuary is a sight to see.
The beavers caused a damn outage. 😂😂
Simple yet funny!!!
Hey Everyone!
After transferring the files to my computer I found the audio messed up in a few places... Just found out my new phone has multiple microphones that adjust according to "zoom" :/. I have that feature turned off now and shouldn't be an issue on the next vid!
I had no idea what I was getting into with this one... turns out to be a beaver call!🤷♂
This video is a great example of how much procedure is involved for a very simple job!.
Be safe all!!
"My new phone has wAYYY BETTER OPTICAL ZOOM!!!"
(From primary meter video)
What software do you use for powerline maps
Beaver problems huh?
no worries! hope your staying grand!
On a different note Aaron; do you have up in Canada where two sets of three phase are running parallel on the same pole, but run four lines on the upper crossbar and two on the lower crossbar? I discovered your channel about three months ago, just about caught up watching all of your videos.
Thank you for showing this and for the time that you spent editing, we all appreciate it, I know that I do!
Best regards; Edward H. in Connecticut, USA
This helps me understand why it takes some time to get a line back online! Thanks! 👍
You even get the guys in the garage out for the outage! I bet they loved that. I love to see that you guys use 3 way comms and when the read back isn't 100%, the dispatcher calls it out and makes you read it back correctly. It's a PITA but it keeps everyone alive.
I don't think you are Declining Bob, You're still in your prime.
Subscribed over a year ago. Watching with interest from Calgary, Alberta.
I bet that Beaver got one hell of a fright when the conductors shorted!
At a former employer of mine, 1000 internet customers lost Internet because a beaver chewed through a conduit and severed a fiber line, caused a 4 day outage because of the remote location. 😂
beaver was probably jelaous of all those wet beavers on the net
so, did they put back in rigid conduit and place it on a steel or concrete pole? yeah probably not, at minimum steel shield it (they'll chew down the poles and kill it again) lol
The greatest danger in your job is getting hit by a car because no amount of precautions can eliminate the poor practices of others. Any of those drivers can be sleepy, drugged, drunk, or texting on their phone. A tire could blow at precisely the wrong time. So be careful along highways.
One of your best videos to date. Lots of detail covered.
I appreciate that!! Some viewers find that stuff boring butfor many it's "those details" they want to see! That's why a seperate the more in depth videos into the "being a lineman" titles.... I appreciate the feedback 👊🤝
10:18 waiting for car to come up and shout "HURRY UP MY POWER IS STILL OUT!!!!" 🤪
Thank you and all other linemen world wide. Life as we know it would stop without you folks.
As a system operator, I learn so much from a Linemans' perspective. With the company I work for, we don't get to ride along. Love your channel.
One of the better videos with great scenery and enough technical stuff to go around.
Life is like a beaver colony, just one dam thing after another.
Beavers are the engineers of the animal world. That’s why MIT has the beaver as their mascot. And the MIT student is the animal of the engineer world.
The beaver should be happy, you dropped the tree for them and cut it into manageable pieces. Handy that there was another route for the feeder so you could partially re-energize the area and minimize the outage until the work was done.
With guns, you ALWAYS treat them as loaded and ready to fire. Dealing with electricity like you do, you ALWAYS treated as energized and take ALL necessary precautions, and then some.
Be safe.
Classic example of 3 part communication. Great to communicate on the air so everyone else knows what’s going on.
Great content Aaron. Keep up the great work!
Man you must have the best job in the world and in a beautiful part of the world - Lucky fella. I love your videos.
Always nice when drivers slow down for workers on the side of the road, it's terrifying working close to high speed traffic
Thanks for another informative video! Your radio disciplines remind me of ATC. The only thing missing is, “read back is correct.”
And the double-click as acknowledgement.
I think your company has better safety procedures than others
Interesting to me that the section had to be isolated at the south end to prevent power being delivered from its own north end (the bit that looped to the west before merging with the same circuit).
Would be nice to see more content on how the grid is laid out, redundant paths, etc.
Was thinking of this channel (sounds better than "thinking of you") when I organized a club visit to a power dam a few weeks ago. Not very big (about 780 MW), but interesting all the same. Got down into the head over the turbine, below the generator. Very warm area. Unusual Kaplan style turbine in a run of the river system (Carillon QC).
Interesting to see that beavers pose a problem to other services as well. I work for a county road dept and we deal with beaver issues regularly. They cause flooding issues for us as well as storm water issues. A few years ago we had a beaver dam burst and it flooded a neighborhood and nearly washed out one of our roads.
Seems like the Beaver made it. Hopefully he got a learning zap for taking out that darn power. They do make some big chips. They are not in my area. Just squirrel that bit into one of the three phases. It took out the building power to the site. That messed up our equipment. Very interesting call.
Beaver chewed away the wrong side for the fall of that tree. 😆
Always a pleasure brother. Great video. Love all the detailed switching and isolating content
Great job as always Aaron, informative and entertaining ❤❤
Thanks
Gotta be the most Canadian reason for an outage ever.
well, I doubt a hockey team would do that, right?
They are industrious creatures! Once hiking saw a good 3 foot diameter tree that was eaten half way through and it wasn't even that close to the water!
😂teach them critters what direction to drop the trees😂
maybe you should large zip-tie the red tags to the poles? considering gusty winds could blow them away from the pole markings or even some reusable ratchet/spring loaded straps with carabiner clips to hold the tag? I only say that knowing how fast wind can whip up and make a mess.
Great video as always. I recently discovered your videos, subscribed, and have watched pretty near all of them. Thank you for what you do.
Excellent work as always!
I'm 13 years old I love your videos
Keep ya eyes open got burnt grounds
Great content
i bet the beavers were very thankful for yalls help lol
Crazy little beavers gotta chew and build
Leave it to beaver.
I knew this phrase was coming!!!
You guys really have your s*** together when it comes to communications. You take "measure twice & cut once" to a new level. Very impressive.
12:10 Not rambling! It's a really good point to keep your head on top of everything going on. Complacency kills.
Looks like they were planning a holdup 😅
Their instinct is to build a dam and stop flow. Flow of water, flow of traffic, flow of electricity... Any of them need to be stopped.
I wonder if your firm appreciate what an excellent Ambassador you are for their company.
A great video Aaron. More tree work on a not so perfect day in your area. Thanks for all your details.
Thanks for yet another great video 🎉
Your videos are always great, you’re like a robot with your procedures but in the best way possible.
Beaver is going to be pleasantly surprised. Not only is it toasted, but pre-cut.
Good thinking
that was a huge tree that Beaver was chewing on and tall nature it is best
I'm surprised there wasn't a lightly fried beaver at the base of that tree. I would have thought the step potential would have been enough to ruin its day.
Depends how much current was getting through the bark at the conductors. Might not have been very much, could have been a phase-to-phase short.
@@jovetj True, could have been phase to phase, but at 27:17 you can see that the bark was burned off the tree at the point is was contacting the line, so at least some current was flowing through the tree to ground. Of course, beavers probably have enough brains to back off when the tree starts falling, so that might have kept the step potential and associated current low enough at the beaver's position to be non-lethal.
@@robertlapointe4093 Aaron was talking about phase-to-neutral burn marks on the tree but I don't see those in the video. I only see phase-to-phase burn marks. But I could be wrong. But, yes, electricity was definitely getting into the tree. How much would flow through the roots to a proximate ground line is hard to know. I doubt much electricity can move through the old central wood, it "wood" have to go through the wet newer stuff just under the bark.
You don't know how much I missed your new posts. Great job Aaron you are the man 😂😂😅😅😊
Cannot wait to start this career! I need to fix my heart first unfortunately. Good content!!
Sounds like those CSX days when I use to have to copy EC-1s to dispatch back and forth lol some how I ended up in law enforcement
Could you do a short video on multipoint grounded neutral distribution systems and how it protects linemen like you and aids in faukt clearing? Phenomenal video by the way
from a second year, fascinating!. also i don't want the responsibility. props to you!
I love a good ooootage
They are re-introducing Beavers in some parts of England, so I guess our linemen better be prepared! :)
Aren't a lot of the electric lines over in England run underground? Maybe I'm just thinking of things mostly in London, which would be pretty common to a lot of cities anyways, but that's what my memory is pulling up.
California is also re-introducing beavers is some area. They have been proven to restore wetlands and eco-systems. They will restore rivers during droughts.
@@44R0Ndin Very expensive to underground all lines in rural areas. Also buried lines are more difficult to find problems. Overhead lines you can often see the problem just by looking at it.
@@dfirth224the beavers should be taught how to "restore" electricity!!!
I am a firm believer of “Save a tree, eat a beaver”
Beavers have now been recognized for restoring wetlands and ecosystems. They are healthy for rivers.
Great video as usual! Been wondering if you were back from vacation, lol. Cheers!
Hey that beaver was just trying to do their job
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I've watched a ton of your stuff and not sure if I've seen you or your guys wear rubber sleeves. Am I just remembering wrong? Great stuff Aaron. Be SAFE!!
Winter's comin' 🥶
😫 haha best show ever!
For simple outages like this, does your company require YOU to tell the dispatcher what devices you're going to open to isolate the fault? Or do you have to wait for step by step instructions from the dispatcher?
We must always wait for step by step instructions.... With one exception. We can open line without permission if there is a fire or for safety (wires down). Once the area is secure we must immediately report our actions and be able to justify them.
We can never close a switch without permission.
In my country they do all the switching by Ipad.
Really enjoyed that video thank you Bob decline Beaver's strike again at least wasn't a mess like the last Beaver video that you posted keep up the good work and stay safe
Grow into power lines.
Do you ever question the integrity of the neutral you're bonding to as a life-safety device, or is it just assumed that if they're still in the air, they'll always have a good strong path to ground?
it may be grounded at every pole
It's grounded at every pole but then of course there's the copper theft issue :/. A very important part of our grounding is that our work area is also all at the same potential.
nice the most Canadian outage
Some of the other tree tops seemed to be touching or really close to the lines. Why weren't those trimmed while he was up there?
We have a professional utility arborist assigned to that exact area. The company will be doing a full trim to that line starting very soon!
Do you think we're close to having each pole have a reporting point back to HQ? Like a GPS signal but for the electrical grid? - To tell you what's wrong and where? Or will that ever be a thing?
The more you do things like that, and the more you rely on it, the easier it is for nefarious actors to "spoof" an outage when there's not actually anything wrong. It would only be useful if it used heavy encryption, and just so you know, "Heavy encryption" and "power efficient" don't belong in the same chapter, let alone paragraph or sentence.
Kinda hard to beat "no power required, go out and look at it" for the power consumption when nothing's wrong, which is the vast majority by such a large factor that I'd have to break out a logarithm-scale plot to fit both numbers on the same bar graph scale and have them both visible for both start and end of the bar (if I used a linear scale, the "normal operations" bar would take up the whole page, and the "fault" bar would maybe take up a few pixels).
I wonder if the beavers still used the wood and brush?
if the beaver is not dead he will finish taking that tree.
Beavers chew through 80% of the tree, then wait for the wind to do the rest. No need to risk getting killed finishing the job.
@@gordonrichardson2972
In this case, it was a combination of wind and chainsaws, but yes. That beaver is still gonna be eating good for a good long time.
To fell a tree that big must take a big beaver tho, right? I'd think that wouldn't be something a beaver born last year is gonna attempt, they like the smaller trees that are not only easier to fell, but the wood is also softer besides.
Beaver trouble!!!! Definitely something you won't find in Southern California🤣🙃
Depends on what kind of beaver 😂
@@chris76-01 yup seems you can find all the beaver problems in california
I'm heading to California this week!!
@@Bobsdecline It's going to be HOT this week in Southern California.....but it's a "dry"heat😂🙃
@@Bobsdecline Oh my! Vacation or?
This is a good vid ..a damn good vid!
Remember: Always dial before you chew.
looks like that device reading green for open is like european nomenclature on breakers. red is hot green is open. house breakers in north america show red when tripped
Things are starting to get confusing over here in North America. We have Red fire exit signs in buildings. But wait! We also have Green fire exit signs in buildings 😂
Active outage 😮
Can't say I've heard "red means bed" before, always "red means dead"
I guess it's the PG version lol
Look who is like a kid in a candy store. They say if you do a job that you love you never do a days work. Arron doesn't work!
Are you guys allowed to utilize hydraulic stick saws or gas powered extendable stick saws to keep more distance just in case things get a little sideways?
work in progress
The Duke Energy Indiana guys don’t have 2 way radios. It’s insane
Are protection points checked by the computer before the permit is issued or is it all human checks.
The computer at our dispatch will highlight the line I'm working on a different color. It will light up that color until it meets each protection point.
So it's pretty much computer checked but also involves human confirmation.
Hey there good sir. Im in the cable industry and comcast doesnt want to pay for locates but they want us to pound bond rods right next to those padmount transformers. I cant say ive ever had something bother me so much as driving a rod next to them to the point i refuse to do so. I dont have a hammer drill. I just have a picket post pounder with a 4lb hammer. Do you have any information or statistics as to how i can finding the best location to pound a rod by one of those padmount transformes without having locates?
I really dont want to feel the power of whats inside. Does not appeal.
Very much apprecitate the content by the way. Im interested in your line of work and you do swell at projecting your knowledge and know how.
Damn beavers!
✊Aaron 🤗
I havent started the distribution side of my apprenticeship yet so just a question. In the case of the amptacted switches, could you have also pulled the lead out of the top of the cut out and turned the leads up away from the switch? Since we are worried somebody will close them on us?
What is the correct setting for an intllrupter, (3-stricks and your out) explain the difference between fast and slow reset cycles?⚡⚡
an auto-recloser will do 3 strikes then lock out. The timing is more about the load on the line, or how many times a tree blows into a wire over a short time frame. Fuses are a one shot deal. They blow out and must be manually replaced.
Do they have a crew whos only job is to get most trees (pruned) before they actually grow into trees, I've actually noticed in wa st,they seem to,only after storms or ( beavers).
there is routine trimming for maintenance, but in some areas it's only every so many years, based on budget. IOW, every 5+ years and they take chances that will help. The other trim work is based on potential problems and get ranked with a priority when a crew has time to do extra work.
Do you remove the tree debris from the area ??
The beavers can do that.
"Red, you're dead"
you guys don't use tree crews for trouble??...been a trouble man 25+ years and i would have called for a tree crew the minute i saw how lg that tree was then did the switching to get a part on..
We only call in tree crews if it's off road and requires climbing/rigging. During storm work we assign tree crews to each line crew.
@mx5219 the trouble man in my area call for a tree crew as well as they have f550's now and there boom won't reach as high as they need to sometimes.
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Pardon the dumb question, but I thought electricity could not travel through wood? How did that tree making contact between a phase and neutral cause the short?
Trees are alive. They have water in them. And given enough voltage, electricity can arc across anything, even air.
Dry wood can be somewhat of an insulator but not a great one. Sticks on low voltage lines generally aren't a problem, but high voltage is another matter altogether.
@@darkpixel2k I have seen a power line arcing to a live tree. This was when I was in college in the late seventies. A late snowstorm (in early May) dropped about 2 feet of very wet snow on Fort Collins Colorado. Trees were fully leafed out and this storm caused lots of tree damage resulting in power outages. While walking around the neighborhood during the storm with some friends, we encountered a power line arcing to a tree branch weighted down by the snow. We threw snowballs at the branch, and managed to knock enough snow off of it so it lifted up and broke the arc.
Dry wood is a pretty good insulator, wet living wood much less so, and once current starts flowing it can carbonise the wood making it even more conductive.
Thanks everyone for the education! Learned something new.
Leave it to beaver…
DAM BEAVERS!
Who authorises the permits?
Dispatch issues & releases permits.
Do you have plans for another chain when you reach 150k subscribers?
I love beaver!
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