Just a note... The image you'll see of the car ripped in half, nobody was seriously injured. Everyone both living and working in the impacted areas of Hurricane Ida, BE SAFE. Look after each other out there! 🙏👊🙌
"Can't use the chain saw, but I can use the sawzall" That's what I like about you man. You work and not complain. That's how I think about work, if something can be done, even as small as cutting a path for the other guys, its worth doing. Hope all is well Aaron!
Thanks Mike! All is well 💪hope all is well with you and yours! Your absolutely right! We all have our bad days, but if we try our best to keep a positive attitude and work hard, it becomes contagious 👊👊
@@Bobsdecline Yes sir, that is the truth! I can't dread going to a job or something where everyone is complaining about this or that. Just do it! I'm guilty of it myself sometimes but life is so much better if you stay positive. I've noticed the positivity is contagious too. I've even had guys tell me they want to better themselves and ask me how I stay so calm and not complain so much. The only thing I can say is never forget that no matter how bad you think you have it, there are other people that would kill to have your "problems" compared to their problems. My grandfather and his family were taken away by the nazis when he was young and placed into a labor camp. He said they would steal the cats food because they were fed better than the people. Anytime I start feeling like complaining or how bad something is, I just picture myself there, forced to do hard manual labor sun up to sun down, rain or shine, watch animals get fed better and people get shot and beat simply for talking, freezing cold and no thermostat to turn up or extra blankets or clothes. We have such an easy life now a days and most of the "problems" we have and like to complain about are brought on by our own self and our own actions. You're a good man Aaron. Certainly a great role model for the young guys too. Sometimes the SOP may seem pointless or goofy but it's all in effect to make sure everybody goes home at the end of the day and I highly respect your attitude towards it and the professionalism you display in everything you do.
It is always good to hear safety steps. No hot shots. These videos show there is a lot of things that have to be done. Before the final switch is closed. Long job = lots food in the cooler.
Just hired on at the power company entergy in Baton Rouge been working a mounth and a half went to climbing school I’m super excited to work this storm
@@Sicktrickintuner it's looking like months to a couple years for full repairs. Though I think the plan is temporary feeds in a couple months. Though no one will know for awhile
Greetings from beautiful midtown Oil City, Pennsylvania. I am not a lineman, but my neighbor is an executive for Penelec Power. You give us non line operators a great appreciation of what our power providers go through, and the conditions they work under. I remember the dangers of high voltage while I worked on Navy Aircraft Radar, as well as the temp lines we could run on the ship during battle conditions. I am curious who's armed forces you served in. Thank you for your service in the military as well as providing power to your community.
This has become my favorit channel, please keep posting these! After watching these for the last year I've been convinced that I must become a lineman, and am now enroled to a 10 week lineman school.
Too much of it to take care of. Tree crews are out all day, everyday clearing lines. Just not enough time or people to do it before it all grows up. These back woods ones go untouched usually too until there is a problem.
They are too busy/have too little personnel to take care of every pole in some backwoods. That being said people concerned with trees around a pole should call that in so a trimming can be scheduled.
I just found your channel and wanted to say, I love it! This is such a cool channel. I was a cable tech for many years so all of this is very interesting to me. Keep up the cool videos!
I just wanted to say thanks for the great videos,my dad was a lineman for Philadelphia electric co/Excelon for 25 years and a director for 5 before he retired,his brother was also a lineman too .you’ve given me an insight into how hard and dangerous my dads job was and a new appreciation.I could have followed in his foot steps but he was retiring and I got offered a railroad engineer job ,we watch your videos together and I bug him when there is something I have questions if he’s ever encountered the same thing ,keep safe ,thanks
This was a great episode, really enjoyed this one! I’d even go as far as saying this was one of the best as it really helped give me an understanding of what you do that I have only seen broken up before into bits.
Really do enjoy your videos and the detailed troubleshooting. You should get that seat belt checked. Appears to not be functioning properly for safety. It's suppose to automatically tighten up to be snug across your hips and chest. Need to be safe on the lines and in the truck.
Interesting watching the entire thing. All I could thing about watching you walking through the brush was I hote Ticks are not as band up there as they are in NH. Must be a pain keeping the right of way open for tree cutting when the line takes shortcuts off the road.
Love your work effort, completely different as I work in IT but I've had it before where I've had to take kit to site to fix a problem and there's 2 types of people that would be waiting for me on site. The one who's taken out the old kit and prepared it as much as they could so it was a 5 minute job for me to slide it back it and get it connected then the other type that's like I couldn't complete the job so I didn't bother starting it
man you are like the only RUclipsr out there that does this stuff anyway we want to see from start to finish you may think its boring to you but to us its not so please full process of a job and storm response we love those to
Good job 👍. I really must clean up the access route to one of the cut outs on my land to make life easier for the linemen to get to, its a regular failure, and on top of everything they have the electric fence to get over on the way out.
Always awesome content, Aaron! Learned a lot as a stray voltage technician and watching your videos for the past 3 years. I am excited to move forward in my career as an electric distribution GIS technician. Thanks! -New York
u look damn good for being in the trade 19+ years! no homo man. i’m in school right now in alabama and will go back home to north seattle hoping to land an apprentice. i would travel to california and all over if it’s worth it for sure though!
I’m not a lineman but I’m a wireman local 917. Man I see yalls inspected equipment and I can’t help but think about the old junk we work with at the chemical factory I work at. We r safe and usually always work dead high voltage but our hot suit and gloves and hot stick probably never been inspected since I been here 13rs. We call those saftey sheets jsa. Job safety analysis.
It's just confirmation that everyone is on the same page - it's very common in safety critical contexts. You'll hear pilots do the same when talking to air traffic control.
@@ickipoo ... fire dept also does that. The idea is the call may be recorded for liability reasons and repeating everything is just to make sure the party on the other end heard EXACTLY what you said.
Thank you for telling us what you look for when inspecting the lines during an outage. From the customers, me, it looks like a joy ride with lights flashing. I have a great deal of respect for all linemen. You do the best work under tremendous pressure and adverse condition. I'm in Midcoast Maine. Ther's a storm blowing in right now. I wonder if we'll lose our power tonight, 9/8?
Hi Aaron! 2nd video, general, untrained public. Diagram is plenty big on my mobile. Keep a tight grip on that cuppa so you're not wearing it. Stand down for lightning, charge in the clouds induces charge in the ground. Not Foggy Mountain Breakdown, it's soggy mountain breakdown, banjo tune. Thanks for the vid!
Our company mostly provides our tools. In some cases, we can by something ourselves and put in an expense for it, but it's not common practice. An example, I sometimes help out with 3 phase metering: I'm not well rug up for doing the work though and if I need a particular tool in a pinch, it would likely be approved. The particular sawzall in this video I requested along with an argument as to how it would be useful for me. The boss approved it and purchased it for me. Now it has been added to a list of tools that can be requested through our stores Dept. We are allowed to purchase and use our own tools and safety gear, but it's our responsibility to make sure we do our diligence. An example of this is, I often buy my own safety glasses. I don't get reimbursed for them since they are already provided and I must make sure they are z87 approved. Tools that require testing or are designed for live line used would have to be approved. Any tools provided by the company are carefully considered on a case by case basis and not given out freely
Great video buddy I’m a little bit envious I can’t show anything to do with my company it would definitely make it easier to create content keep up the good work👍
I dont know if you have ticks that far north but if you do I hope you spray your pants and shoes with Permethrin that is some thick brush! Definitely wouldn't walk through anything that thick without it. Who knew hiking would be part of being a lineman!
We call them Toolbox Talks along with a pre-job risk assessment. Interesting to see the travel involved, I still can't get my head around the size of the area you have to cover.
Not sure if you have portables or not but being in a rural area on a call like this at the 12 min mark. Has your company ever thought about putting repeaters in the trucks and give you portables that you could have comms with ur disptacher should u get hurt in the woods. Seems like you have alot of areas with no cell service but your radios still work. It could be added protection should something happen and you cant make it back to the truck? Thoughts? also, IS your radio system Digital Like 800mhz or VHF, UHF? Might be a cool vid for you to do?
Hey Aaron my man! Dan NJ again! im curious do you survey and discuss in your prejob the side of the road you are parked near...and if a hazard exists due to loose soil or erosion? You seem to be so good at this job, i would think you discuss this as well. thanks for all this great content. Be safe brother
I don't know - a "boring" one could also be interesting to see too. We have had several "circuit out" outages for no apparent reason lately that are very short (under an hour) and I really wonder why on an otherwise good day it can just...go out. And for such a short time.
Surely there are cases where something fell on the lines, tripped a breaker, then fell back off...? Or squirrel short-outs, etc. Then the lineman be like oh, burnt branch or fried squirrel on the ground, we have our cause, the wires are fine, let's switch this thing back on? Without all the rigmarole that has to be gone through, as here, when a wire must actually be spliced or re-strung.
Like porcupines make love... very carefully? I'd guess at the least before dealing directly with any loose or fallen high wires they wait till any thunderstorm is past, but they can still cut off power to a section if necessary for safety, preferably by whatever means doesn't entail raising a wet pole to a breaker while standing on the ground. I thought he mentioned that his cherry picker has an electrically isolated bucket. In one of his other videos he showed a ground-based breaker facility. That would make sense during a rain/thunder storm. Amirite?
Should you check for potential to put grounds and bonds and unexpectedly detect potential….perhaps someones generator back feeding, how to you deal with that and make the work area safe?
Basically, investigate further! A generator backfeeding wouldn't last long, trying to pick up all the line load. We'd basically follow the line until we find the source. It could even be induction from a nearby transmission line. Even a grounded line can give a nasty shock...
@@Bobsdecline This is why there is a rule for how close the grounding has to be to work being carried out, right? To minimize the chances that induction could generate enough voltage in between the grounding point and the worker to get through a work glove. I've heard the warning about not connecting a generator to house wiring without a proper transfer switch quite often. I believe all modern generators have that warning in their instructions. But that's a good point about the load. Unless it is under peculiar circumstances, a home generator feeding into the utility mains would likely be trying to feed a large number of other customers, and its own breaker would trip. But again in a situation like this one, where there are maybe three residential customers at the end of a long run, only one of whom is home to even care about the outage, that might not happen. You'd have to find the house that had the wrong generator hookup, spinning his meter backwards as he did.... Once the line is grounded and work is under way, a generator then connected would essentially be shorted out, and definitely wouldn't feed the line for long.
Is that the Bay of Fundy or the Northumberland Strait? Great video by the way. I wanted to become a lineman I left the navy but ended up being a computer geek.
Fiber splicer here. Noob question. Is that phase making that neutral and the whole ground network hot when you ground it? I see those left up there in my area from time to time. Love your videos.
Assuming you have one, how often does your Vegetation Line Clearance team get out there. That is crazy that they would have to maintain an area like that. I would not expect them to catch all of those trees. SanDiego, CA 👊
We've got a ton of crews (mostly contracted utility arborists) clearing lines everyday! In crazy off quickly vegetation grows around here. When a new single phase line is built on private property, the property owner must clear a path for the lines. It's then up to them to control the vegetation on their own property. Problem it once it gets out of control, they aren't allowed to touch it, as it violates minimum approach distances. An example would be 2 or 3 freshly planted maple trees about 10 feet from the lines. It's bad idea planting them there in the first place, but If the owner has them professionally maintained it likely won't be an issue. Problem is having them professionally maintained by someone who is certified is VERY expensive. So what usually happens is they grow out of control until they become a hazard, at which point we may have to intervene. This happens on a grand enough scale that there are literally thousands of work orders for inquiries into cutting healthy trees. Our main focus is on 3 phases lines, danger trees or any tree/situation that could be dangerous to the public or our lines. Another barrier is trees that are on private property and a fair distance from the lines, yet tall enough to reach them if they fall. We cleared lines with 20 feet on either side only to have a tree 40 feet away fall a year later. It's often a sensitive topic and constant battle. One neighbor may want all the tree gone, while the other doesn't want them touched! Problem is they just keep growing and getting planted lol
I thought distribution lines were either three phase or single phase where a neutral is just derived at the transformer, so the two wires you see are the two phases of a 120/240 split phase system. Didnt figure youd see a neutral going across spans unless a customer was far from a transformer.
@Jordan Rodrigues The result of incurring a fault on a wire on a circuit done that way (say one gets shorted to ground and its breaker trips) could also be some kind of weird brownout in the area, which would be undesirable. Some equipment can be destroyed by undervoltage. With one hot and one neutral, the power is generally either on or off.
Just a note... The image you'll see of the car ripped in half, nobody was seriously injured.
Everyone both living and working in the impacted areas of Hurricane Ida, BE SAFE.
Look after each other out there! 🙏👊🙌
Same to you bud. Stay safe and do what you do best!
Very good news on the car vs pole.
a few weeks ago we lost 5 15 -16 year olds car was ripped in half.
Have you ever done a job where you went to red tag a pole and it was already red tagged for another job? What do you do?
"Can't use the chain saw, but I can use the sawzall" That's what I like about you man. You work and not complain. That's how I think about work, if something can be done, even as small as cutting a path for the other guys, its worth doing. Hope all is well Aaron!
Thanks Mike! All is well 💪hope all is well with you and yours!
Your absolutely right! We all have our bad days, but if we try our best to keep a positive attitude and work hard, it becomes contagious 👊👊
@@Bobsdecline Yes sir, that is the truth! I can't dread going to a job or something where everyone is complaining about this or that. Just do it! I'm guilty of it myself sometimes but life is so much better if you stay positive. I've noticed the positivity is contagious too. I've even had guys tell me they want to better themselves and ask me how I stay so calm and not complain so much. The only thing I can say is never forget that no matter how bad you think you have it, there are other people that would kill to have your "problems" compared to their problems. My grandfather and his family were taken away by the nazis when he was young and placed into a labor camp. He said they would steal the cats food because they were fed better than the people. Anytime I start feeling like complaining or how bad something is, I just picture myself there, forced to do hard manual labor sun up to sun down, rain or shine, watch animals get fed better and people get shot and beat simply for talking, freezing cold and no thermostat to turn up or extra blankets or clothes. We have such an easy life now a days and most of the "problems" we have and like to complain about are brought on by our own self and our own actions. You're a good man Aaron. Certainly a great role model for the young guys too. Sometimes the SOP may seem pointless or goofy but it's all in effect to make sure everybody goes home at the end of the day and I highly respect your attitude towards it and the professionalism you display in everything you do.
Paid as well as he is, (which he should be) he damn well shouldn't complain. But then again he is perfect.
I am really enjoying this more "raw" format. It is super interesting to see the normal day-to-day of the job!
Solid work with the saws all. Fist bump
what a big mess that was a good job keeping the lights on stay safe
It is always good to hear safety steps. No hot shots. These videos show there is a lot of things that have to be done. Before the final switch is closed.
Long job = lots food in the cooler.
I’m a tree trimmer who does a lot of storm work and I think I speak for all of us when I say I commend your effort👍 lol
18:50 "aight lets go for a rip" That's the most canadian thing i've ever heard you say!
Love your content.
Hoser English eh!
Just hired on at the power company entergy in Baton Rouge been working a mounth and a half went to climbing school I’m super excited to work this storm
Hope yall stay safe were possibly sending extra cruises to your state in assistance from Virginia
We got crews from Massachusetts on our way to help you guys out.
Gonna be busy, just heard major supply lines are on the ground down that way
@@Sicktrickintuner it's looking like months to a couple years for full repairs. Though I think the plan is temporary feeds in a couple months. Though no one will know for awhile
Good luck and stay safe out there.
You live in a beautiful part of Canada man. The Maritimes are awesome.
Greetings from beautiful midtown Oil City, Pennsylvania. I am not a lineman, but my neighbor is an executive for Penelec Power. You give us non line operators a great appreciation of what our power providers go through, and the conditions they work under. I remember the dangers of high voltage while I worked on Navy Aircraft Radar, as well as the temp lines we could run on the ship during battle conditions.
I am curious who's armed forces you served in. Thank you for your service in the military as well as providing power to your community.
Like the new format!
Best lineman videos on RUclips. Love that style of call to power back!!
call coverage would likely work up in the bucket too. :)
This has become my favorit channel, please keep posting these! After watching these for the last year I've been convinced that I must become a lineman, and am now enroled to a 10 week lineman school.
That's awesome news! Thanks for sharing 👊🤝. I'll try my best to keep up the content. I wish you the best in line school!
@@Bobsdecline
Thanks Bob, I have already learned a lot from watching your videos and I'm sure it will give me an adge.
@@davefish84 how did school and becoming a lineman in general go?
Beautiful woodsy area.
Love the sightseeing moment.
Love the longer format! Thanks!
Love the long format and light editing!
I'm always surprised how close they let trees grow next to power lines. They create buffer zones for transmission,but not for distribution lines.
Too much of it to take care of. Tree crews are out all day, everyday clearing lines. Just not enough time or people to do it before it all grows up. These back woods ones go untouched usually too until there is a problem.
They are too busy/have too little personnel to take care of every pole in some backwoods.
That being said people concerned with trees around a pole should call that in so a trimming can be scheduled.
I definitely liked this style of video. Would love to see more
I just found your channel and wanted to say, I love it! This is such a cool channel. I was a cable tech for many years so all of this is very interesting to me. Keep up the cool videos!
I used to hate dudes with their hat on backwards, you truly make it cool!
I love "that's enough of that nonsense".
Raw format is really great, became an apprentice because of these videos and enjoying every minute of it, well, maybe not all but most of it.
Thanks again Aaron! So interesting seeing how y’ all do this!
Wow Beautiful place to make your phone call!!!!!! Stay safe!
I just wanted to say thanks for the great videos,my dad was a lineman for Philadelphia electric co/Excelon for 25 years and a director for 5 before he retired,his brother was also a lineman too .you’ve given me an insight into how hard and dangerous my dads job was and a new appreciation.I could have followed in his foot steps but he was retiring and I got offered a railroad engineer job ,we watch your videos together and I bug him when there is something I have questions if he’s ever encountered the same thing ,keep safe ,thanks
That's awesome Stephen! Thanks for sharing 🤝
Lots of fun, in the marsh, with the skeeters on a much bigger than expected job.
Good video. I like hearing the the thought process that goes on.
Great video Aaron! Nice to see all that’s involved.👍🏼👍🏼😀
Beautiful scenery
Great video!
This was a great episode, really enjoyed this one! I’d even go as far as saying this was one of the best as it really helped give me an understanding of what you do that I have only seen broken up before into bits.
Great video Aaron. Please show more videos like this thanks and be safe.
Really do enjoy your videos and the detailed troubleshooting. You should get that seat belt checked. Appears to not be functioning properly for safety. It's suppose to automatically tighten up to be snug across your hips and chest. Need to be safe on the lines and in the truck.
And I thought I was the only one wondering about that...
Enjoyed it!! 👊local1 retired hanging out in Mt Pleasant Iowa….
This helps me to understand how it’s so difficult down in New Orleans to bring pieces of the city online without endangering the crews
This is the first video in a while I've seen a video with no dislikes
Wait for it .... I've got a serial dislike'r lol !
@@Bobsdecline not yet lol
Sweet! 😀
Very nice
Liked the sightseeing interlude! Beautiful bit of the world, but am biased as a Canadian :)
Excellent Video Aaron.👊
Found you a few days ago and really enjoy watching your videos. I’m a cable line tech so I work with power company often.
Great video Thanks for sharing 👍
Interesting watching the entire thing. All I could thing about watching you walking through the brush was I hote Ticks are not as band up there as they are in NH.
Must be a pain keeping the right of way open for tree cutting when the line takes shortcuts off the road.
Love your work effort, completely different as I work in IT but I've had it before where I've had to take kit to site to fix a problem and there's 2 types of people that would be waiting for me on site. The one who's taken out the old kit and prepared it as much as they could so it was a 5 minute job for me to slide it back it and get it connected then the other type that's like I couldn't complete the job so I didn't bother starting it
🤜🤛 Southern California USA.
Hey man we just finished some restoration here in Jamaica from a tropical storm Grace alot of broken wires and poles some burnt transformers
Awesome video. Liked seeing the steps in real time! In general, your videos have been too short to fully enjoy and learn!
Thanks for you dedication 👊👊
Seems camera drones might be useful out there -- if navigable. I like the long format. Much more engaging than edited shorts. 👍
@Jordan Rodrigues If the utility was doing it, it wouldn't be "someone else's equipment."
@Jordan Rodrigues Hydro One here in Ontario owns 8 drones according to their website.
man you are like the only RUclipsr out there that does this stuff anyway we want to see from start to finish you may think its boring to you but to us its not so please full process of a job and storm response we love those to
Good job 👍. I really must clean up the access route to one of the cut outs on my land to make life easier for the linemen to get to, its a regular failure, and on top of everything they have the electric fence to get over on the way out.
Always awesome content, Aaron! Learned a lot as a stray voltage technician and watching your videos for the past 3 years. I am excited to move forward in my career as an electric distribution GIS technician. Thanks! -New York
Rockin' the Ray-Ban Wayfarer 😎
The air quality must be excellent with all those trees. They remove the CO2 out of the air.
Your braces are off! looks rad dude
22:05 have you ever run across and bear or moose when bush wacking?
Loved the more in depth vlog Gavin.Following you from NZ
Stay safe always sir !!👊
Great video to see the real " wait time ", per normal procedures. Customers don't realize the safety issues. You explain it well.
u look damn good for being in the trade 19+ years! no homo man. i’m in school right now in alabama and will go back home to north seattle hoping to land an apprentice. i would travel to california and all over if it’s worth it for sure though!
Thank you Brother! Be safe NJIBEW 269!
You too Jason! Heard you guys got lots of rain in NJ 😮
Awesome, Aaron! Being a lineman in your territory is definitely challenging. Did I spy that the braces are gone? Stay safe my friend. 👊👊👊
Yessir! Your the first one to notice!
Likewise my friend 👊👊 great hearing from ya as always!
I’m not a lineman but I’m a wireman local 917. Man I see yalls inspected equipment and I can’t help but think about the old junk we work with at the chemical factory I work at. We r safe and usually always work dead high voltage but our hot suit and gloves and hot stick probably never been inspected since I been here 13rs. We call those saftey sheets jsa. Job safety analysis.
20:50 sounds like half that call is just repeating the safety procedure back and forth.
It's just confirmation that everyone is on the same page - it's very common in safety critical contexts. You'll hear pilots do the same when talking to air traffic control.
@@ickipoo ... fire dept also does that. The idea is the call may be recorded for liability reasons and repeating everything is just to make sure the party on the other end heard EXACTLY what you said.
Half the call is exactly that! Everything that is said, is repeated back and then acknowledged.
I cant believe all the trees and brush around your lines, around here they keep a contract crew cutting out right a ways.
Sightseeing for the win. Always take the time to appreciate the view.
Thank you for telling us what you look for when inspecting the lines during an outage. From the customers, me, it looks like a joy ride with lights flashing. I have a great deal of respect for all linemen. You do the best work under tremendous pressure and adverse condition. I'm in Midcoast Maine. Ther's a storm blowing in right now. I wonder if we'll lose our power tonight, 9/8?
Thanks Roy! How did you make out with the storm? Hopefully the lights stayed on !
@@Bobsdecline Where I am in Bath, we haven't gotten the rain yet, 4:14 PM on Thursday, and the wind hasn't been bad.
I bet a drone would be really helpful for that think bush, you could just fly on top of the lines and look.
Great job its really never just a east plan is it. But great job do like start to finish vids great job keep them coming Mike iron river m.i. thanks
Hi Aaron! 2nd video, general, untrained public. Diagram is plenty big on my mobile. Keep a tight grip on that cuppa so you're not wearing it. Stand down for lightning, charge in the clouds induces charge in the ground.
Not Foggy Mountain Breakdown, it's soggy mountain breakdown, banjo tune. Thanks for the vid!
28:45 when you buy tools for your job can you expense that to the company? Like blades or sawzall?
Most jobs employees are not allowed to buy their own materials for liability reasons.
Our company mostly provides our tools. In some cases, we can by something ourselves and put in an expense for it, but it's not common practice.
An example, I sometimes help out with 3 phase metering: I'm not well rug up for doing the work though and if I need a particular tool in a pinch, it would likely be approved.
The particular sawzall in this video I requested along with an argument as to how it would be useful for me. The boss approved it and purchased it for me. Now it has been added to a list of tools that can be requested through our stores Dept.
We are allowed to purchase and use our own tools and safety gear, but it's our responsibility to make sure we do our diligence. An example of this is, I often buy my own safety glasses. I don't get reimbursed for them since they are already provided and I must make sure they are z87 approved. Tools that require testing or are designed for live line used would have to be approved.
Any tools provided by the company are carefully considered on a case by case basis and not given out freely
@@Bobsdecline
Are any tools “attached “ to the truck ie, as part of the inventory of tools on the truck? Like the hot stick?
Really enjoying these videos - great insight into the trade.
Any tips for someone looking to get an apprenticeship as a linesman in New Brunswick?
Great video buddy I’m a little bit envious I can’t show anything to do with my company it would definitely make it easier to create content keep up the good work👍
I dont know if you have ticks that far north but if you do I hope you spray your pants and shoes with Permethrin that is some thick brush! Definitely wouldn't walk through anything that thick without it. Who knew hiking would be part of being a lineman!
They've always been around, but only started being a concern in recent years. I haven't heard of Permethrin but I'll look it up! Appreciate the info👊👊
We call them Toolbox Talks along with a pre-job risk assessment. Interesting to see the travel involved, I still can't get my head around the size of the area you have to cover.
Not sure if you have portables or not but being in a rural area on a call like this at the 12 min mark. Has your company ever thought about putting repeaters in the trucks and give you portables that you could have comms with ur disptacher should u get hurt in the woods. Seems like you have alot of areas with no cell service but your radios still work. It could be added protection should something happen and you cant make it back to the truck? Thoughts? also, IS your radio system Digital Like 800mhz or VHF, UHF? Might be a cool vid for you to do?
Great video
thats a jacked up excuse of an easement
Go to other provinces daily find something strange nutreul wire from the pole grounding Whit the guide wire
Hey Aaron Waving from Oklahoma great video. Is that the line with the Step-up Xfmr on it that goes to the lighthouse ?
Hey Aaron my man! Dan NJ again! im curious do you survey and discuss in your prejob the side of the road you are parked near...and if a hazard exists due to loose soil or erosion? You seem to be so good at this job, i would think you discuss this as well. thanks for all this great content. Be safe brother
Hey Bob have a question for you what are the voltages on the secondary side you use the supply your customers Ariel?
I don't know - a "boring" one could also be interesting to see too. We have had several "circuit out" outages for no apparent reason lately that are very short (under an hour) and I really wonder why on an otherwise good day it can just...go out. And for such a short time.
Surely there are cases where something fell on the lines, tripped a breaker, then fell back off...? Or squirrel short-outs, etc. Then the lineman be like oh, burnt branch or fried squirrel on the ground, we have our cause, the wires are fine, let's switch this thing back on? Without all the rigmarole that has to be gone through, as here, when a wire must actually be spliced or re-strung.
sorry if i missed it, do you have to let anyone know where you work? Since you work alone
allahu bless you care and health for work I am Indian (Kerala)god's own country Lineman Navas
How do you work in the rain around high voltage wires?
Like porcupines make love... very carefully?
I'd guess at the least before dealing directly with any loose or fallen high wires they wait till any thunderstorm is past, but they can still cut off power to a section if necessary for safety, preferably by whatever means doesn't entail raising a wet pole to a breaker while standing on the ground. I thought he mentioned that his cherry picker has an electrically isolated bucket.
In one of his other videos he showed a ground-based breaker facility. That would make sense during a rain/thunder storm.
Amirite?
Should you check for potential to put grounds and bonds and unexpectedly detect potential….perhaps someones generator back feeding, how to you deal with that and make the work area safe?
Basically, investigate further! A generator backfeeding wouldn't last long, trying to pick up all the line load.
We'd basically follow the line until we find the source. It could even be induction from a nearby transmission line. Even a grounded line can give a nasty shock...
@@Bobsdecline This is why there is a rule for how close the grounding has to be to work being carried out, right? To minimize the chances that induction could generate enough voltage in between the grounding point and the worker to get through a work glove.
I've heard the warning about not connecting a generator to house wiring without a proper transfer switch quite often. I believe all modern generators have that warning in their instructions. But that's a good point about the load. Unless it is under peculiar circumstances, a home generator feeding into the utility mains would likely be trying to feed a large number of other customers, and its own breaker would trip. But again in a situation like this one, where there are maybe three residential customers at the end of a long run, only one of whom is home to even care about the outage, that might not happen. You'd have to find the house that had the wrong generator hookup, spinning his meter backwards as he did....
Once the line is grounded and work is under way, a generator then connected would essentially be shorted out, and definitely wouldn't feed the line for long.
Is that the Bay of Fundy or the Northumberland Strait? Great video by the way. I wanted to become a lineman I left the navy but ended up being a computer geek.
bet ya she's full after the rain yesterday.
I'm seeing a lot of stuff on hazing new guys etc, is it like that in Canada or is it only a Texas thing
Fiber splicer here. Noob question. Is that phase making that neutral and the whole ground network hot when you ground it? I see those left up there in my area from time to time. Love your videos.
Glad I’m not the only telecom guy watching. Where do you splice?
31:38 We call it Pre-Job Briefing in Chicago
Assuming you have one, how often does your Vegetation Line Clearance team get out there. That is crazy that they would have to maintain an area like that. I would not expect them to catch all of those trees. SanDiego, CA 👊
We've got a ton of crews (mostly contracted utility arborists) clearing lines everyday! In crazy off quickly vegetation grows around here.
When a new single phase line is built on private property, the property owner must clear a path for the lines. It's then up to them to control the vegetation on their own property. Problem it once it gets out of control, they aren't allowed to touch it, as it violates minimum approach distances.
An example would be 2 or 3 freshly planted maple trees about 10 feet from the lines. It's bad idea planting them there in the first place, but If the owner has them professionally maintained it likely won't be an issue. Problem is having them professionally maintained by someone who is certified is VERY expensive. So what usually happens is they grow out of control until they become a hazard, at which point we may have to intervene.
This happens on a grand enough scale that there are literally thousands of work orders for inquiries into cutting healthy trees.
Our main focus is on 3 phases lines, danger trees or any tree/situation that could be dangerous to the public or our lines.
Another barrier is trees that are on private property and a fair distance from the lines, yet tall enough to reach them if they fall. We cleared lines with 20 feet on either side only to have a tree 40 feet away fall a year later.
It's often a sensitive topic and constant battle. One neighbor may want all the tree gone, while the other doesn't want them touched!
Problem is they just keep growing and getting planted lol
I thought distribution lines were either three phase or single phase where a neutral is just derived at the transformer, so the two wires you see are the two phases of a 120/240 split phase system. Didnt figure youd see a neutral going across spans unless a customer was far from a transformer.
@Jordan Rodrigues The result of incurring a fault on a wire on a circuit done that way (say one gets shorted to ground and its breaker trips) could also be some kind of weird brownout in the area, which would be undesirable. Some equipment can be destroyed by undervoltage. With one hot and one neutral, the power is generally either on or off.
Is a lighthouse being out considered a priority, or do they have a backup generator ?
why dont they have smart meters out there, reception?
If a tree falls in the middle of the woods and there's no primary to catch it, did the tree even fall?
Hi BOB I have a question for you do any of your circuits in Canada have automatic closures.
They need to get you a drone with camera for jobs like this