Being a Lineman - Episode 33
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- Опубликовано: 2 июн 2024
- Hey Everyone!
The last week or so has been constant calls like what's in this video! Really glad to see all the rain this week though... Those forest fires were getting pretty nasty.
Just got back from the 2023 Milwaukee Pipeline event! I can pretty much sum that trip up with three letters... WoW!
More details on that soon 🤫
Be safe out there everyone! 👊🍻
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Thanks for allowing us to follow you on an actual call from beginning to end with a very interesting video.
Thanks Rick! I was hoping it was going to be a bit more interesting, but a great example of a routine outage call all the same!
Need some tree trimming done..
It's not raining, snowing, sleeting or hailing on you. This is an unusual situation.😊 Those folks must not experience outages very much. It's great that you take the time to talk to the customers. Please stay safe, and God bless.
😁 Thanks Heather! You're right... The weather is usually up to no good here lol. I should've left the camera rolling for the audio.... The couple was super friendly, had a great chat!
My cousin went to Viet Nam as a helicopter gunner. Yeah, he was one of those fools
who hung out the chopper door with his .50 blasting anything that moved below. He
liked it so much he signed up for a 2nd hitch. When he came home he hired onto the
local power co, Edison something or other in Indianapolis. He worked for them for
years & years hanging out of their choppers doing tower line work. He said it wasnt
half as much fun without people shoot back at him. He's retired now. Crazy bastard.
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Don't worry about Nabors hearing that truck. When they hear it firer up they know the power will soon be back on. You are there security blanket. Take the time to warm that diesel up. In your climate that oil thick give your truck enough time to get a little heat in it. I have a few years until I retirer being a linemen Ben a very rewarding experience for me be safe my brother.
Most people have a Genuine Appreciation for the Power Company and Telephone Company because of the Dangerous Jobs you have with Storm Restoration. 👍🙏
I wish they'd put bushings like that on the pole pig behind our house. About every 18 months I get to chuck another crispy squirrel into the woods and wait for the local lineman to drive by so I can tell him about it. At least now on the online form there's a comments section where I can put "found char-broiled squirrel at the foot of the pole."
Should be mandatory for all new installs. When I respond to an older setup, if there's no bushing guard I'll just close it back in... If I ever get called back or the customer mentions that it's the second time, I'll call in for an extra guy, climb up the pole and install one.
Two guys are required on site to install them, as we must go hands on the high voltage side.
You are so kind and have such a good attitude. Not being all bent out of shape with the "concerned citizens".
As long as everyone's safe! 👊🤝🍻
I Love “Scalloped Potatoes” Hamburger Helper and wait until my wife goes out of town so I can pig out on it along with a pound of hamburger. Thanks! 👍🙏
Quoted from life on the line
( Life is a series of collected moments and experiences that we gather over the course of time. It's more about the quality of life, than the height of the climb.
We are more than 1,000,000 strong, but together we act as one. We walk the line whether hurricanes, tornadoes, rain, wind or sun.
Our main mission is to protect the grid, even if one of us meets our maker. We are lineman, it is what we do, the credo we chant, you are your brother's keeper."
Beau Ginner)
I wish our power Co used a better site like this.
Every outage it says investigating and an hour.
Then investigating and several hours. So I wait. Then decide ok. Get some batteries and inverter or get a generator on and suddenly it's back on.
best way I've learned from my apprenticeship to see whatever fuse size u need is divide whatever kva the transformer is by 3
I work for an energy company in Kentucky and I work in IT supporting all the computer’s and technology. It is very interesting to see what the lineman do out in the field. We thank you for keeping our lights on and respect the major effort you all put in each day.
Neighbor has said to me that Power Co. Reason most of the Time is “Animal” Related. I told her same is True with Phone Co. Squirrel, Raccoon, Bird, Snake.
No sorrow for the blue-jay. obnoxious birds.
Found the problem Capt. the reason for the outage and re-closer to trip was some sneakers hanging from the lines @7:29 lol
Edit: Thanks for another great video!
You have educated me in electrical grid operations so I am more informed when I see or experience problems. Thank you,
You did a great job with the stick! Nothing to apologise for! 😁😁😁
Seeing that pole setup, wonder if the jay caused a flash to another phase? Might have caused a longer disturbance until the recloser cleared it.
Hey Aaron love all the videos, it shows us how you help keep the power grid up and running, bravo !! In this video you found a bird caused an outage, I just saw a message from our police department here in NJ " There is a large power outage in the area, JCP&L is reporting they found a fish on a pole mounted transformer". I bet you never had a fish cause an outage. The supposition is a bird was carrying the fish and dropped it. Crazy right 😂
Great vid, Aaron !! I always enjoy watching them. I really appreciate your diligence in finding the root cause of the outage.
It’s also comforting to hear your interactions with dispatch; it is very obvious by the repeat back-and-forth, it is all about safety for both you and your customers.
Mad respect and appreciation for all you line workers and your entire team that keep my power on !!!
Love the way our trades are so different (you lineman, me humble sparky) yet so similar... you take the info you have, and have to figure out what the hell the problem is. And A1 for being considerate of your neighbours re: warming up the truck
Got to get home and back to the basics… Hamburger Helper😅
What an awesome channel. Im a new subscriber and am really enjoying your channel. Its really cool to see what a little bit of a lineman’s job is. I liked here the radio communication back and forth as it really shows why the safety is so important in the job.
I have noticed here in NY that National grid must have a similar system for the website. They normally will just put on site then if its going longer will update to repair underway. We normally will have power back before the update of resolved shows up.
Thanks again for the great content.
Sometimes determining the problem is most of the work.
Well that was fun! I hope this helps the average customer understand what goes into a restoration - you can't just take chances and guess when dealing with high voltage!!
A long time ago, (1973) when I was around 10, I watched a crew try to restore a single phase line. They patrolled, found nothing amiss, refused and closed in. Just as they were putting the stick away, the fuse let go. Scared me and my buddy a lot. (They are freakin LOUD when you are only across the street.) So, they checked the line again, again found nothing. Repeated the process. Just as they were driving away, the fuse blew again. They stopped, came back to the cutout...this time, the foreman said f-it, put in a solid blade and hold it in. (Even back then I knew this wasn't gonna end well. I knew all about the "penny in the fusebox" trick, and this was a much more dangerous version of that.)
The lineman put up the solid blade, closed it in and braced as hard as he could. For about a minute, nothing happened. Then, suddenly, from down the line, we all heard a very loud and angry buzzing, the line started dancing about, then a massive explosion on top of the pole. The cutout flew open, drawing a rather large arc.
The culprit? A bad lighting arrestor that shot porcelain all over the place. Ears ringing, I could just make out the foreman's smug response..."Ok, now we know what caused this, let's go fix it."
Many years later, after studying power transmission and distribution systems, I realized how incredibly dangerous and stupid what that foreman did actually was. Today, that kind of cowboy attitude will get you fired (and rightfully so.) Available fault currents have risen dramatically since then, a stunt like that will most likely burn down a conductor instantly. I once told this story to another line crew about 20 years ago, the foreman said yeah they fired a crew for doing it, as they not only exploded a 50kva pole transformer, but burned three cars parked nearby, started a front lawn on fire, AND burned down several spans of wire.
Heard a loud bang…. Power went out…..😂😂😂
Your channel has given me a new appreciation for the power infrastructure around us, and a new respect for the all the linesmen who are on the other side of outage calls when it is rainy, windy, and just down right unpleasant.
In a case like this, is it helpful to check, around nearby poles?
@7:33 watch out for the gang bangers, you're on their turf lol.
lol, funny but that's not the USA slums area.
You know your stuff😂
I'm a new Distribution Operator and I appreciate your videos. It is helping me gain more knowledge and understanding about my job and what lineman encounter everyday. It's a bit of a challenge for me but i'm sure i'll soon get the hang of it. Again. Thank you. :)
On more than one occasion I've heard of a neighbor seeing a squirrel cause a transformer primary fuse to blow, and if the squirrel was dead, the hit on the ground jolted it back alive and it took off before the lineman could find it.
your comment about not idling the truck to warm up... well block heaters are your friends i was oncall at one time and i had a super loud truck.. i had ford install a second block heater and ran dual being in a canadian climate i can say this for being turned off within moments getting warm air from the vents and gone to the job in 2 minutes of starting its a godsend...
I’m a system operator in training and its helpful to see the life of someone on the other side of the phone. When you say the phone just rang and they didn’t elaborate, it sounds like someone ran ARCOS or an automated call and didn’t put all the information. When I do a call out, I like to provide as much relevant information as I can to let the person know what they are getting into.
Where I live in out same country my truck will be idling for like 40 minutes it's cold enough to literally freeze oil.
Aaron's the [line]man. Great job on the fuse.
No goodbye for the wife :)
While you were initially inspecting the poles for a fault, i thought to myself "Aaron, you need a pair of binoculars!*.
Then you almost immediately said "I'm going to get my binoculars out.." 😆
I need not have been concerned! Oh, and Hamburg Helper is the ultimate comfort food, isn't it?
Thank you for your videos, so very interesting & educational!
That was nice to see the call all the way through. Reminded me again I need to put a pair of binoculars in my van for what we troubleshoot. I am not sure when this started with me. Do you always seem to carry some kind of food always in the truck. I seem to never know how our days will go. Something can always happen with the truck. I used to carry a can of ravioli. It became a meal on the run if you were busy. Just wondered if you had a favorite go to. Then we figured out we could make a cooler with he AC in the truck. We use a coat stuck in the glove box door to insulate the area on the floor. If the truck is running or a longer trip it keeps the drinks really cold. It really funny how you can come up with little tricks that make a great hot lunch. I have never made a can of something on the manifold yet. I am sure it will happen at some point. Stay safe out there. We have been getting hit with storms a lot lately that has been keeping us busy. It really has been a rough month. I feel now if I see a clear blue sky. I really not sure what to think of it. Got so use to the lightning and high winds. Great video.
I don't know... a fried bluejay might be educational to kids on the dangers of electricity... 😂
Really tho! 😮
Well when there’s an outage there’s no tv so you turn out and watch for the trouble truck! 👍👊
As with the possibility of a failed arrester is an old porcelain pin insulator with a hair line crack. Very hard to see something like that.
Great video as usual! Thank you for your service Aaron!
Thanks Rod! 👊🤝
Thanks for showing us the whole show. Always love to watch things like this I am sure it drives the techs nits
Клёвые ,у вас все видео приветствую с России 🇷🇺 👋🇺🇲
Your channel just gets better and better. Thanks for bringing us along. Great video!
Appreciate that very much BiGD!
Fun vid. And nothing wrong with hamburger helper!
The dinner request is super relatable.
Love Hamburger Helper.
If you were working at the Sunnyvale trailer park Layhey woulda made a nice bluejay burger for Randy no doubt!!!😂
Great video brother. I always love patrolling and investigating the issue. It’s never a good feeling when you can’t find the problem. Sometimes you have to re fuse and send it in order to find the problem 😂😂
I’m on call this weekend too with my MH in the driveway too.
In the winter I plug my diesel in so I don’t need to idle for long before pulling out. I’m able to keep both of my personal vehicles inside. However the garage is not big enough for my line truck. I put my outside lights on at night. I secure my bins & lock the cab to keep everyone honest.
Keep up the great work & keeping the lights on!
Great video and ride along on a job that start to finish. the way you took the time to answer customers question is a job well done. Be safe and God Bless.
Maybe sometime you could use a channel lock Plier 😂😂😂
be sure to check for ticks after walking through the jungle.
I've learned so much from watching your videos. Didn't know so much went into keeping the power on. Living in the big city we're all underground lines so you don't see much overhead.
18:01 Captions: "It's simply a matter of refusing clothes" 😂 (I'm weird and use captions sometimes)
Haha that's awesome!
I've noticed that pole mounted transformers are usually connected with a coiled wire between the bushing and the line on the primary side. I'm curious why they do that, use a coiled or otherwise not straight piece of wire that is.
May I request a introduction to your pup please? LOVE ANIMALS I DO! LOL
Also as someone who has two birds in their house I'm always sad to see a feather friend fallen.
Great work 😊👍 Thank you for sharing the video, greetings from Norway 😊😊
Another great video thanks. I was wondering do you have to be aware of a new hazard... The popular new LiFeP04 power stations that are silent and could possibly be backfeeding if the user doesn't know what they're doing?
Good looking hair cut!!! 👍👍👍👊👊👊👊. 😂
Nothing wrong with hamburger helper!
I hadn't had it in years and one day, a few months ago, my son asked to try it when we were at the grocery store. Forgot how delicious it was lol!
Only commenting 3:52 into video with a prediction, single phase, lots of trees around, im thinkin a maple or a pine struck the lines. Not a huge lead off either tree, but when I got called out to those calls, that was usually the culprit. Or dead ash. Let’s see how right I was. Second guess would be animal. I’ll have to find the picture of the bobcat that fried in a single phase and send it to you Aaron!
Thanks for taking us along brother!
Super interesting process. Thanks for sharing.
That blue jay really electrifying end of life and you were shocked at what the problem was but good thing power is back from former lineman Jeffersonville, IN, USA
You might suggest that Milwaukee design a portable vulture to find the dead animals for you, and a remote control beaver to deal with vegetation. 🥸
thanks for the video always interesting
Since that was a momentary fault they should have a recloser there that would have saved you a trip.
We don't typically have reclosers on small sidelines, but we have reintroduced some trip savers on a few. They would absolutely work great in situations like this!
The cost of a fuse vs the cost of a recliner isn't even close though, wouldn't make sense to put them everywhere.
an short term idling truck that restores utilities sure wouldn't get any complaints from me, as long as they don't idle them the whole night/days/weeks on end(thinking locomotives).
Thanks for your video Aaron.
Always a pleasure seeing ya here Jeffrey!
Good stuff Aaron you make it look simple, good eye! Dennis from Vegas
New subscriber here.. great channel 😁😁 have been telling all my lineman buddy's about 👌👌
Thanks Aaron for an interesting video. Stay safe.
Perfect others have agreed 👍 hell yes so glad you were able too do a video from start too finish great job really enjoyed it. Hope that problem with killing the birds 🐦 was taken care of want more like these when you can thanks
Great video man!!!
Thanks man! 👊🤝
I was driving this weekend, and I saw a line truck like yours. Single rear axle. On the highway Towing a power company Jeep. Only saw the driver. Didn't know if there was a boss or supervisor with him.
Have you ever seen or done this? What might be the reason? Unless driving to another depot?
And re: your thing about educating people around a situation... i am like that with my internet access... if it is out and i have no effing idea why, i am freaking out. If it's out and my ISP are keeping me up to date... i am interested in the procedure \
company should invest in drones to search. Be a great asset.
My power is out right now. The battery/inverter system is on. Plenty enough to run the lights, modem, router CPAP, etc. till tomorrow.
Glad you went t o the Show . Looking to see your Footage of it 👊👊 stay Cool
I can't tell you how many times I patrolled a line while working for my generator company. Heck, I was going to a call anyway so might as well look up while driving. I already knew how to get through the phone tree to get a person on the line so might as well give them the pole number where I saw a problem.
Love it when people do that! Ya can always tell when someone knows exactly what they're talking about too!
I can only imagine the nice feeling you get once a job is done, chest pumped and all... well for the first few months pf a career anyways! From Quebec with respect!
Where you work are first responders like you expected to fully know how to troubleshoot an emergency outage all on your own without the dispatcher's help? I'm a dispatcher and almost all the first responders expect me to tell them exactly where to go, what cutout or breaker to check, and where to check voltage. It's so annoying.
Really!? Yikes 😬.
We get dispatched the call and investigate on our own for the most part. In some cases if it's extremely urgent, I'll keep the radio open with dispatch and communicate back and forth as calls come in to help narrow down the exact location.
Also sometimes the dispatched will call back if a homeowner calls in saying something like; they're stopped on the road keeping people away from downed lines or see a something on fire...
@@Bobsdecline hmm..I see. Thanks for replying :)
What would happen if that customer you checked the meter at needed it pulled for any reason (upgrades, replacement, work on the electrical panel, disconnect, etc.). I assume you would have to cut down that bush or make them do it? If you do it is the customer billed for that work? There definitely wasn't the required working space near that meter, I'm guessing the bush came after the meter as an ill informed attempt to hide it to make things look nicer.
Fundy Albert, NB. Hee-hee!
YES My GF totally does not understand why i like Hamburger Helper and refuses to make it LOL
@25:00 skills. :D
It sounds like your outage tracking is a lot better than where I am, ours updates every 15 minutes, has mostly useless time of restoration estimates, and while sometimes it shows good representation of the area affected sometimes it really rewlly doesn't. Not that long ago the main three phase line that goes near my house and powers an entire small historic town center I live just outside of went out and I know several places reported it, but over an hour into the outage the tracker either wasn't showing the outage at all or was showing it as affecting 4 people more than a mile away, instead of the 100+ (I don't know the number, probably less than a thousand but definitely over a hundred) it actually affected. This is an area with smart meters as well so beyond the reports they should have had a very good map of the issue you would think through that.
Great video and glad you well! If you ever get the chance can you explain how load break cutouts work and how amppack(sic?) compare to normal tap clamps?
south of You They say something Like How can You Not be Romantic about baseball.... ! 22:10 mark and onward . How can That view and replacing a fuse not be romantic!!. Beautiful Sky . Nice work . Great Vid Aaaron. Id love to ask u some quick questions about a portable generator I wanna buy. WestinghouSe 15kw peak 12kw running and Then the duromaxx 15kw peak 12kw Dual fuel... I have an Hvac unit that has an LRA of 98 . 3 ton Unit. Just wanna power that with a few lights and stuff. Maybe you could do an unofficial vid on stuff like this for home use and or interlocks to protect lineman ? BUt yeah curious what ya think My house has basically 20 amps and 10 amps on each lug when I checked with a good Klein and fluke meters on an ac clamp.. Alright Enough of that . Great video Bud.
What did you do before you became a lineman? I worked for a company Asplundh and we did power line clearance for the power company here. Alot of the guys went onto be linemen after being in the trees for a bit. Just curious if you or any of the guys by you worked in tree work prior to going thru the courses. Either way, i just found your channel and its awesome
didn't know kyle busch was actually a canadian linesman
Do you work on any “single wire earth return” systems, that single phase line kinda looked like a SWER. How common are they and what issues or disadvantages are there vs it’s benefits?
The line in this video has a multigrounded neutral thats common with the low voltage neutral in the triplex cable
Very nice.. I enjoyed this one.. Just curious though.. What would you do if you didn't find that bluejay ?
I loled at you saying annnnddd the cutout is facing the wooodddds. 😂
And i don't think you steuggled you did fine!
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@Bobsdecline love the channel man!
I went to electrical engineering school to design systems for the local power company, needed up sticking with my landscaping company but still love electrical and electricity
Oh nice! And appreciate the comments! 🤝
Practice makes perfect. 🙂
Hehe. Don't idle your truck. I just got a new Harley Low Rider...thinking of getting the Neighbor-hater exhaust. Lol. Thing about the truck idling is it just plain stinks(smells bad).
Do the running shoes hanging on a line, touching another line, that we saw present a safety issue?