So much Rain !!🙁 The clips with the 3 old green transformers... that entire pole has actually been scheduled to be rebuilt, only temporary repairs were made that night. Cheers everyone! Have a great week!🍻👊
Aww I was just going to say that its cool seeing those old tranys still in use! That is my favorite looking transformers, with the bushings on the side!
I don’t think you heroes like you ever get paid enough! Thank you for rescuing everyone in the dark during the storms! Keep up the good work and for God’s sake, be safe brother👍👍👍😎🇨🇱
@@Bobsdecline Water=Wind! I'm from the Great lakes area and boy does the wind get whipping of those lakes! I could only imagine the wind coming off the ocean!
Watching from Michigan. I'm a volunteer firefighter here. Your videos have been great for learning about power lines and knowing what to do when we get calls for them. Of course we mostly just stay back and let you guys take care of it.
🤜🤛 out of visalia california. Been in industrial production for 12 years and now working for the state, de energized systems up to 115kv. I enjoy your videos and please keep em comming. Stay safe
I'm an industrial electrician so the highest voltage I work with is 480 3-phase. I love watching your videos and getting an idea of the bigger picture upstream. Keep it up!
I work late nights at my job and always enjoy coming home to check out your videos recently however i decided to share some of your videos with my 4 year old daughter .. she is now interested in becoming a hydro worker !!! so teaching young and old. PS thank you for explaining a lot of stuff step by step while i have a background in electrical (took some courses in college) i never pursued them further and find your videos VERY educational and i love the safety aspect of them as well. Now ive taken up wildlife photography a lot of the times i see birds on lines / equipment and its nice to not only know what im looking at but how it works plus what safety precautions i should be watching for when approaching some of the equipment. Oddly hydro substations always terrified the heck out of me as i wouldnt go within 200 feet of them now its more like 50 feet but still feel a bit safer :D
Our stirrups bang on with ampacs. Use my wire brush on the wire before banging wedge on and I brush the stirrup. Also we only use stirrups on main line taps load baring taps...any pots or LAs we tap the hot line clamp directly on line no stirrup needed. Also our hot line clamps we hafta squeeze on paddles and they bolt onto the clamp. Wish we used the ones that you guys have. No paddles needed. Be safe brother great video
@@Bobsdecline I’m so glad I found your channel! I’m a union construction laborer but am looking to do something different! And this I like a lot, I’m 32, it’s not too late to start a new career in being a lineman is it?
Not at all! Quite a few of my buddies started in their 30's even 40's. Definitely brush up on some math skills tho for the written exams and keep the cardio up. Most of the physical work is technique...
Woah 🤔 I didn't notice that the first time around. Good eye! Was likely a small arc from salt spray, it happens on the equipment in this area. I'm right across the street from the ocean 😳🎣
Nice move hitting the tab near the horns of the old chance cutout to drop the door out, i always teach the new guys to do that rather than pull on the ring. Great tip aboutclosing the doors too, im always telling people you dont need to watch that fuse close lol!! 🍻 watching from upstate NY
Well put together footage! You're an awesome teacher and Lineman for taking the time to explain the steps to mitigate hazards and work smart. Keep up the good work
pretty sure that clip with the tree on the line is the road where i live i saw the tree on the line arcing and burning so i called it in and i watched it for a few minutes, quite a light show and a mean sound.
Hey Aaron, I'm going to lineman school in January and watching your videos has made me so much more excited for the career I'm going to be getting into. I love the videos and watch every one of them. You have inspired me to start my own RUclips channel like yours when I get into the field. I just wish you could post more of them, but I know you're so busy all the time. Thank you for posting such awesome and educational content, from a prospective lineman
From Austin, Tx. As a Ham radio operator, power grid arcing also a strong source of radio frequency interference (RFI). I’ve had to fox hunt, and report a few of these .. you don’t always see the arcing.
I agree! We've actually just changed our standards to reflect that. Thanks for pointing that out ✌️👊 much better then picking up a possible dead short with a tap clamp
Ill bet if you rewatch from down in austin Texas Your wishing youd rather be in CAnada right now when he mentions the weather.. Stay safe down there. I have friends and Ive lived down there. IT snowed once 4 inches but it was gone the next day .2003
@@culbyj3665 All true. However, this IS Texas, so while this time last week it was below freezing and snowing, currently it's clear and sunny with temps in the 70's.
When I de energize open or close delta banks I usually go nor pulling doors then cut the tap from bushings and roll to cutout. I get nervous on banks that are tapped directly to primary without a cutout. Always a relief once all the pots are clear
30th! You guys have rain? That's weird. Here in Michigan we have a foot of snow on the ground! Must have been some decent amperage going through that connection to make it glow and arc. Cool to see another upload!
👊 Great stuff Aaron! Watching from central Indiana. Definitely not a lineman! I got interested in electrical distribution after watching a video on Uncle Doug's channel about isolation transformers.
You can send send some of that rain here, mate, getting very dry here, infact bushfires will be my next problem, at the moment it is 30 c here and it s 21.33 or 9.33 pm. I am in Australia.
Florida here, how do you guys handle back feeds into the grid. Like we do have Solar Array's which do feed into the Power Grid of TECO and FPL. How do you guys handle those infeed's differently than normal household one way infeed's because we do push MW of power into the grid and yes it's all grid tie inverters so they shut off when TECO or FPL is not feeding us any electricity but how do you guys know if someone on the residential side has Solar on their end with the potential of a electric back feed of power coming from them to you...
Thanks Aaron I was going to ask since I'm kinda new to your channel. Merry Christmas and I hope you can help keep the lines in good order so Santa won't get hung up in them, hahahaha.
maybe auto-darkening small flip down eye shield on helmet? thinking light weight and fast action (like auto darkening weld helmet). flinching from expecting a blinding flash and bang seems to make many lineman flinch or close eye well beforehand and end up missing target often (aside from hot-stick being flimsy) yeah, we all jump and at times brown our undershorts at sudden violent loud things, it's human nature :)
Hi BOB I’ve watched you guys the way you secure your primary to the insulators with preform I’m from Philadelphia Pennsylvania we use lashing wire and I never seen a primary cable jump off too often it seems stronger than the preform you use I don’t know your specs but I think it would be better if you guys would Lasher wires?
Hey you need to hit up Chris and Dave over at the Amp Hour Podcast.... the were talking about interviewing someone who works ant high voltages than just the typical EE...
I used to put sunglasses on before I closed the fuse just in case there was an ultraviolet light Flash over. At least you won't see visual auras for 3 hours
Something I've noticed when out walking is there's a line up the road that looks to have the wire on both the phase line and neutral line that the tap would attach to, but there's no indication that there was a transformer attached to it as its pretty much right smack dab between the poles and not near a pole. It makes me wonder if what was then CP&L (Carolina Power & Light) maybe reused the line or something.
Hello guys, I'm writing from Serbia, Belgrade. Here we have only 3phase transformers. Primary is delta configuration, secondary is star. Star point and chassis are firmly grounded. That's some kind of German standard all accross Europe. Primary is 10KV phase to phase, and secondary is 420/230V. Most common power is from 250-630KVA. There we have no single phase transformers. My question is what is return path for primary for your single phase setup? Is that the same neutral wire as for secondary side of transformer? Stay safe and greetings from us!
I'm a recent subscriber in Florida, and having worked for for an electric utility (behind a desk) for over 30 years, I find your channel interesting and informative. I recently bought a house with a connector outside that allows me to supply power from a generator to six circuits in the house. If I have a need to use that capability, should I throw the main breaker in the panel before I fire up the generator? Will that protect people like yourself from the back feed I hear you speak of?
I'm not going to lie it would be cool if we got like six feet of snow... WHOOOO... I'm from. New Jersey USA, 2 FEET of snow is a bad blizzard here... 6 feet would ruin us
i’m intrigued......you described the wire size as “4 ot” ? what on earth does that mean? I thought you measured with AWG your side of the pond? here in UK we specify wire size in square millimeters
The 4/0 (4 ot) is actually part of the awg. Typically you'll hear sizes like #12, #10, #8 etc... (Increasing in size). Once you reach #1, the next size up is "0" (zero) followed by double zero or 2/0 (2 ot) Once we reach 4/0 we then convert to circular mills MCM . 250 MCM, 350MCM, 500MCM etc..
Enough rain and the power will flow through the water Seen it happen with a fire hose hitting a power meter I have a generator with a transfer switch No way to have both the utility and the generator connected at the same time
Stupid question re: the potential indicator... Why would you set it to the nominal system voltage when checking that the line is dead? I would think you'd want it looking for the lowest voltage.. (ex. it's set for 12KV, but there's about 6KV on it for some reason, it seems the PI wouldn't indicate, and you'd have a dangerous situation...)
That's a really good question! Where the line is an isolated piece of conductor running for quite a distance, there's a really good chance it will beep if set at 120 volts (Induction, capacitive coupling or even static). That beep won't tell us the difference between the above mentioned and the line still being energized. (If we opened the wrong switch). It's set a full line voltage because I'm not checking for induction or backfeed... The ground once installed will take care of that. If we install a ground on a line that has not been isolated, it will result in an arc flash.
I’m watching from Texas ,my son is in your trade very dangerous when you assume line is dead , his partner was electrocuted,it was a50 50 chance it could of been my son .
So much Rain !!🙁 The clips with the 3 old green transformers... that entire pole has actually been scheduled to be rebuilt, only temporary repairs were made that night.
Cheers everyone! Have a great week!🍻👊
Aww I was just going to say that its cool seeing those old tranys still in use! That is my favorite looking transformers, with the bushings on the side!
I don’t think you heroes like you ever get paid enough! Thank you for rescuing everyone in the dark during the storms! Keep up the good work and for God’s sake, be safe brother👍👍👍😎🇨🇱
Cannot wait to hear your story on your username! Love the videos as always! Penrose Colorado.
Leaving a comment for the RUclips algorithm 💯
This is a great series, I've just watched the first 12 (well, 13 really, since there was an 11.5) and am enjoying it a lot.
Thanks Drew! Appreciate you taking the time to comment 🤝
Seasons greetings from Hamilton, New Zealand.Keep up the good efforts 🍻🇳🇿👍👊👊
Crazy, I'm watching this December 12, 2021......... Watching from Irrigon, Oregon
Nice and windy too eh? Stay warm and safe bud!
Thanks Mike, you too! The tx changeout was about 100 feet from the bay! 🌬️❄️
@@Bobsdecline Water=Wind! I'm from the Great lakes area and boy does the wind get whipping of those lakes! I could only imagine the wind coming off the ocean!
@@mikeznel6048 which lake? I'm between superior and lake Michigan. You are right. Water=wind
Southwest Missouri here, really appreciate the in-depth explanations you give
Watching from Kentucky in the states keep up with the awesome videos I love these 👊😁😁😁
Cheers!🍻
@@Bobsdecline 🍻
Great job as always
Watching from Michigan. I'm a volunteer firefighter here. Your videos have been great for learning about power lines and knowing what to do when we get calls for them. Of course we mostly just stay back and let you guys take care of it.
Really cool video, thanks! Watching from Arizona. Most everything is underground where I am.
🤜🤛 out of visalia california. Been in industrial production for 12 years and now working for the state, de energized systems up to 115kv. I enjoy your videos and please keep em comming. Stay safe
I'm an industrial electrician so the highest voltage I work with is 480 3-phase. I love watching your videos and getting an idea of the bigger picture upstream. Keep it up!
I work late nights at my job and always enjoy coming home to check out your videos recently however i decided to share some of your videos with my 4 year old daughter .. she is now interested in becoming a hydro worker !!! so teaching young and old. PS thank you for explaining a lot of stuff step by step while i have a background in electrical (took some courses in college) i never pursued them further and find your videos VERY educational and i love the safety aspect of them as well. Now ive taken up wildlife photography a lot of the times i see birds on lines / equipment and its nice to not only know what im looking at but how it works plus what safety precautions i should be watching for when approaching some of the equipment. Oddly hydro substations always terrified the heck out of me as i wouldnt go within 200 feet of them now its more like 50 feet but still feel a bit safer :D
Retired engineer watching from Dorset UK. Power lines round here don't look that different! Stay safe, Merry Christmas!
Our stirrups bang on with ampacs. Use my wire brush on the wire before banging wedge on and I brush the stirrup. Also we only use stirrups on main line taps load baring taps...any pots or LAs we tap the hot line clamp directly on line no stirrup needed. Also our hot line clamps we hafta squeeze on paddles and they bolt onto the clamp. Wish we used the ones that you guys have. No paddles needed. Be safe brother great video
👊🏼 much love from central Massachusetts (USA)
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@@Bobsdecline I’m so glad I found your channel! I’m a union construction laborer but am looking to do something different! And this I like a lot, I’m 32, it’s not too late to start a new career in being a lineman is it?
Not at all! Quite a few of my buddies started in their 30's even 40's.
Definitely brush up on some math skills tho for the written exams and keep the cardio up. Most of the physical work is technique...
@@Bobsdecline thank you for all the input Aaron! Very much appreciated!
Did anyone else see an arc across the lightning arrestor around 3:11?
Woah 🤔 I didn't notice that the first time around. Good eye! Was likely a small arc from salt spray, it happens on the equipment in this area. I'm right across the street from the ocean 😳🎣
Oh wow there was one that went to the pin too! Thats crazy! That's 7.5kv right?
@@NSaw1 yessir! ... 7.2kv
Another one at 13:33. Thought it was snow at first.
Like your videos, watching from Northwest Ohio...
Nice move hitting the tab near the horns of the old chance cutout to drop the door out, i always teach the new guys to do that rather than pull on the ring. Great tip aboutclosing the doors too, im always telling people you dont need to watch that fuse close lol!! 🍻 watching from upstate NY
Well put together footage! You're an awesome teacher and Lineman for taking the time to explain the steps to mitigate hazards and work smart. Keep up the good work
I am looking forward to the video where you tell us more about yourself and Bobsdecline. San Diego, CA
Love watching your videos from spring Texas USA
I am an electrician at a large university doing hv switching and grounding really enjoy your videos
Thanks Mike! There must never be a full moment in those studies, a lot to learn and discover! Cheers 👊🍻
Great videos ! watching from New Jersey. Stay safe
That's some good swish-and-flick. Hermione would be proud.
Had to google Hermione 😅✌️
pretty sure that clip with the tree on the line is the road where i live i saw the tree on the line arcing and burning so i called it in and i watched it for a few minutes, quite a light show and a mean sound.
Jacksonville FL here. Love your videos. You must have ESP. Can't wait to hear how you came up with Bob's Decline. Stay safe & Happy Holidays!
From Wallingford Connecticut USA. Stay strong stay safe 👊
Watching from Arizona
We call it a hotline clamp
Hey Aaron, I'm going to lineman school in January and watching your videos has made me so much more excited for the career I'm going to be getting into. I love the videos and watch every one of them. You have inspired me to start my own RUclips channel like yours when I get into the field. I just wish you could post more of them, but I know you're so busy all the time. Thank you for posting such awesome and educational content, from a prospective lineman
Another great video learning so much from Mr. Bob and his team 👏 I enjoy thank u Mike from iron river m.i.
From Austin, Tx. As a Ham radio operator, power grid arcing also a strong source of radio frequency interference (RFI). I’ve had to fox hunt, and report a few of these .. you don’t always see the arcing.
How does rain figure in on the ratings of the insulated sticks you work with
👊 Saskatchewan cool content stay safe.
Watching from Saxilby, UK.
Watching from Sydney, Australia mate!!! Love your work!! 👊👊
seasons greetings from nova scotia. stay safe my friend!
Right back at ya! 🍻🇨🇦👊
Watching from Quebec city. Thanks for your explanations. Your videos are great !
Thanks! Worked with many from Quebec, a great bunch! 👊
Watching from Maine USA 👊
Thanks for fixing the arcing. The rfi generated really screws up radio receivers over a broad spectrum.
Great video extremely in depth! More vids like this please
For those that don't speak snow: Sled in this context = snowmobile/skidoo.
🤣 I thought about that after making the video. Thanks for clearing that up for some! 👊🇨🇦❄️
Great Video. Greetings from Central Florida. We've had all four seasons this week, rain but no snow
Cool post, always fascinated by what you guys do and how you do it. Stay safe out there.
👊 Baytown Texas
Awesome video. Keep up the good work!
Aaron good morning, over in Puerto Rico we connect the lightning arrester feeding from the cut-out.Its a safer for all,stay safe professor.
I agree! We've actually just changed our standards to reflect that. Thanks for pointing that out ✌️👊 much better then picking up a possible dead short with a tap clamp
Watching you from Austin, Texas.
Ill bet if you rewatch from down in austin Texas Your wishing youd rather be in CAnada right now when he mentions the weather.. Stay safe down there. I have friends and Ive lived down there. IT snowed once 4 inches but it was gone the next day .2003
@@culbyj3665 All true. However, this IS Texas, so while this time last week it was below freezing and snowing, currently it's clear and sunny with temps in the 70's.
love to watch, MERRY CHRISTMAS and a HAPPY NEW YEAR 👊
Watchng from Wichita. Great video! Man you earn everything you make and more.
Watching from Calgary, AB. I design outside plant for communications (don't worry, mostly underground).
Groveland Ma Bob’s your uncle Nice video Keep your stick on the ice😎👊🏻👍
thanks
I don't do HV line work, but the first thing I learned, always assume and treat it as live and deadly!
When I de energize open or close delta banks I usually go nor pulling doors then cut the tap from bushings and roll to cutout. I get nervous on banks that are tapped directly to primary without a cutout. Always a relief once all the pots are clear
30th! You guys have rain? That's weird. Here in Michigan we have a foot of snow on the ground! Must have been some decent amperage going through that connection to make it glow and arc. Cool to see another upload!
We finally just got an inch of snow tonight! Lol, it is crazy though... I see quite a few of our neighbors to the south got lots of snow already 😮
Stay safe from Ontario. Merry Christmas
In Jamaica we call that clamp a hotline clamp
Check out at 3:10 the back feed, wind static, etc arcing across the lightning arrestor
watching this makes closing the cut outs look easy, holding that stick and doing it right most likely takes practice
👊 Great stuff Aaron! Watching from central Indiana. Definitely not a lineman! I got interested in electrical distribution after watching a video on Uncle Doug's channel about isolation transformers.
Cheers Aaron! 👊🍻
I think the rating of the arc chute on the isolator depends on home much debris has collected in there!
You can send send some of that rain here, mate, getting very dry here, infact bushfires will be my next problem, at the moment it is 30 c here and it s 21.33 or 9.33 pm. I am in Australia.
Must need some serious cajhones to use the potential detector on 500Kv 😝
This is the type of pole and equipment I would do a lot to get and set up at my place!
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Florida here, how do you guys handle back feeds into the grid. Like we do have Solar Array's which do feed into the Power Grid of TECO and FPL. How do you guys handle those infeed's differently than normal household one way infeed's because we do push MW of power into the grid and yes it's all grid tie inverters so they shut off when TECO or FPL is not feeding us any electricity but how do you guys know if someone on the residential side has Solar on their end with the potential of a electric back feed of power coming from them to you...
👍👍👍
Edmonton ab,good stuff to know.
I'm curious how the streetlamp was still illuminated while they were working on the pole. I wonder if it was fed from a different section of the span?
Thanks Aaron I was going to ask since I'm kinda new to your channel. Merry Christmas and I hope you can help keep the lines in good order so Santa won't get hung up in them, hahahaha.
i like the stile of the vid
Wheres the link to view the loadbuster installation? I caht seem to find it. I need a locate Aaron! Thanks!
maybe auto-darkening small flip down eye shield on helmet? thinking light weight and fast action (like auto darkening weld helmet).
flinching from expecting a blinding flash and bang seems to make many lineman flinch or close eye well beforehand and end up missing target often (aside from hot-stick being flimsy)
yeah, we all jump and at times brown our undershorts at sudden violent loud things, it's human nature :)
Hi BOB I’ve watched you guys the way you secure your primary to the insulators with preform I’m from Philadelphia Pennsylvania we use lashing wire and I never seen a primary cable jump off too often it seems stronger than the preform you use I don’t know your specs but I think it would be better if you guys would Lasher wires?
What is cable spiking and why is it done?
Hey you need to hit up Chris and Dave over at the Amp Hour Podcast.... the were talking about interviewing someone who works ant high voltages than just the typical EE...
In Queensland Australia we have had about 300mm over the last 2 days
I used to put sunglasses on before I closed the fuse just in case there was an ultraviolet light Flash over. At least you won't see visual auras for 3 hours
Something I've noticed when out walking is there's a line up the road that looks to have the wire on both the phase line and neutral line that the tap would attach to, but there's no indication that there was a transformer attached to it as its pretty much right smack dab between the poles and not near a pole. It makes me wonder if what was then CP&L (Carolina Power & Light) maybe reused the line or something.
Maybe one pole in a middle was replaced by two poles to shorten the spans?_
Hello guys, I'm writing from Serbia, Belgrade. Here we have only 3phase transformers. Primary is delta configuration, secondary is star. Star point and chassis are firmly grounded. That's some kind of German standard all accross Europe. Primary is 10KV phase to phase, and secondary is 420/230V. Most common power is from 250-630KVA. There we have no single phase transformers. My question is what is return path for primary for your single phase setup? Is that the same neutral wire as for secondary side of transformer? Stay safe and greetings from us!
I'm a recent subscriber in Florida, and having worked for for an electric utility (behind a desk) for over 30 years, I find your channel interesting and informative.
I recently bought a house with a connector outside that allows me to supply power from a generator to six circuits in the house. If I have a need to use that capability, should I throw the main breaker in the panel before I fire up the generator? Will that protect people like yourself from the back feed I hear you speak of?
What do you do between calls?
I'm not going to lie it would be cool if we got like six feet of snow... WHOOOO... I'm from. New Jersey USA, 2 FEET of snow is a bad blizzard here... 6 feet would ruin us
It would certainly slow thing down here for a day or two! ... Gets cleaned up some quick tho
has that pole now got 3 generations of cutouts on it now?
i’m intrigued......you described the wire size as “4 ot” ? what on earth does that mean? I thought you measured with AWG your side of the pond? here in UK we specify wire size in square millimeters
The 4/0 (4 ot) is actually part of the awg. Typically you'll hear sizes like #12, #10, #8 etc... (Increasing in size). Once you reach #1, the next size up is "0" (zero) followed by double zero or 2/0 (2 ot)
Once we reach 4/0 we then convert to circular mills MCM .
250 MCM, 350MCM, 500MCM etc..
Bobsdecline - Lineman blogger thanks for that reply. every day’s a schoolday ☺️
Hi BOB I see your videos I see you wearing your primary gloves but I never seen you wear sleeves do you use sleeves in Canada?
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Enough rain and the power will flow through the water
Seen it happen with a fire hose hitting a power meter
I have a generator with a transfer switch
No way to have both the utility and the generator connected at the same time
Stupid question re: the potential indicator... Why would you set it to the nominal system voltage when checking that the line is dead? I would think you'd want it looking for the lowest voltage.. (ex. it's set for 12KV, but there's about 6KV on it for some reason, it seems the PI wouldn't indicate, and you'd have a dangerous situation...)
That's a really good question!
Where the line is an isolated piece of conductor running for quite a distance, there's a really good chance it will beep if set at 120 volts (Induction, capacitive coupling or even static). That beep won't tell us the difference between the above mentioned and the line still being energized. (If we opened the wrong switch).
It's set a full line voltage because I'm not checking for induction or backfeed... The ground once installed will take care of that.
If we install a ground on a line that has not been isolated, it will result in an arc flash.
💪🤛✌️
Wait, you guys actually go up and work on high voltage lines while it's down pouring outside?!
I’m watching from Texas ,my son is in your trade very dangerous when you assume line is dead , his partner was electrocuted,it was a50 50 chance it could of been my son .
What's the status of his partner? Did he survive?
Sad
When you're working in a torrential downpour, is there a concern with your insulated pole thing becoming a path?