Easter egg 🐣 - What song am I whistling!?.... It's been stuck in my head for 35 years 😧🤦♂️lol Don't forget to check out Hook Holster and use coupon code "Save25" for 25% off! I don't gain anything from these clicks or purchases, just another helping a brother out from down south with their new idea! Link is in the description. Be safe all!
Here in British Columbia we were a hot stick only utility until about 15-20 years ago when rubber was gradually phased in. Having come up through my apprenticeship and several years as a lineman I worked on pole change outs, 1-3ph conversions, and many,many stringing jobs. Installing ampacs, risers, stringing , sagging etc all with sticks. I’d have to say, I like rubber better for most jobs. Definitely easier on the neck and shoulders. Also, HAHA, yup , snow is magic for making things disappear!
Awesome videos !! So interesting to see up close what you guys really do up there! To all the lineman world wide, thank you for risking your life to keep the world flowing ! God bless and keep safe!
Now, when you mentioned induction here's something from a first hand. Years ago I measured current through the footing of a well grounded (grounded to the rail) railway pole (carying 25 kV, 50 Hz catenary). It was like 4 mA. Month ago, there was an incident when a person touched railway pole which turned to be ungrounded/badly grounded. The person was electrocuted! That tragedy raised many questions how that was possible
"tricks with sticks" - In college around 1950 my father worked as helper to the one lineman in a one-town electric company in the middle of the midwest. Lift-trucks were too new, it was all ladder-trucks and hot-sticks. WOOD hot-sticks. There was a whole routine around keeping the sticks dry enough to not kill you with leakage. (Fiberglass sticks are less trouble.) One big job for the helper was putting the sticks back in the drying oven at the end of the day-- this lineman drank and would forget. (Maybe why he was on a pole on the prairie instead of dams in the NorthWest.) I saw some hot-stick books from the period. They did amazing things with special sticks and cantilevered ladders. I notice my father became an EE, but refused to actually touch wires and such. THE hot-stick book was by A.B. Chance, 1954, and is expensive.
Great video, does your Co. ask you to be a trainer? You are very detailed and mathodic . I use to work for Comed in Chicago I will split between going to overhead or being an underground Splicer I took the underground Splicer position and looking back I wish I would’ve stayed with the overhead construction. I am retired now, but I look at your videos and the way you explain the process of your task at hand. Gives me great memories of how important it is to be conscience of your surroundings and doing everything in a methodical way in order to avoid any accidents. Great work Stay Safe.
It has been 20+ years since I had to work on a snowmobile on the trail, but I totally understand how you can drop something in the snow to never see it again! #stephane
@@linehandibew6205 he didn't want to cut the stirrup off the live side with the lead still connected to the broken cutout, so he cut the lead first, which then left no way to support or capture the falling stirrup. hence me saying he'd have needed three hands or more(two people in buckets). even if the vehicle/items underneath are total junk. you cannot just wildly cutoff and let items fall.
Usually it will stay on the jaws long enough to grab it, but I didn't want to risk it falling and bouncing off the cover-up then onto the roof of the car
Would have been nice to show cleaning the primary conductor as well before installing the stir-up. Not trying to nit pick you but it is an important step good job overall keep up the good work. thank you.
Any concerns with that car below the worksite? It doesn't look to be in great shape but someone might treasure it. Im not in the air but i try and avoid being near any cars, etc. I try and avoid any reason for complaints.
Hi lineman, I assume you are doing as per the regulation. But one detail is not well regulated. You connect the clamps on the main line before the tension point. That's bad. After a few years, corrosion can cause poor contact and sparks that can cause the main conductor to break and fall to the ground, posing a danger to people, animals and property. I'm not saying it's your fault, maybe it's poorly regulated, but, THE CONNECTION TO THE MAIN LINE MUST BE MADE BEHIND THE TENSION PLACE. I wish you all the best.
Easter egg 🐣 - What song am I whistling!?.... It's been stuck in my head for 35 years 😧🤦♂️lol
Don't forget to check out Hook Holster and use coupon code "Save25" for 25% off! I don't gain anything from these clicks or purchases, just another helping a brother out from down south with their new idea! Link is in the description.
Be safe all!
Am I the only non-lineman who like watching? Been a far for a few years, I just love the "inside scoop".
Same
My son works in the industry at Custom Truck One Source in Florida.
No, not a lineman, but am retired from the industry.
nope, i work in industrial automation (PLCs, control panels, and pneumatic systems mostly) and i always enjoy seeing what it's like in other trades.
Not a lineman. Heights and electricity are not my thing, and I'm completely riveted by his work!
I am not a lineman but enjoy watching
Me too
Could call these instructive segments "Tricks with Sticks" ... it really is an art to do this and do it safely.
excellent video on a routine task where one just needs to be careful so as not to create a new problem.
Love your channel Brother. Stay safe and thanks so much for sharing what you do.
Appreciate that man! Be safe out there on the roads! 👊🤝
Here in British Columbia we were a hot stick only utility until about 15-20 years ago when rubber was gradually phased in.
Having come up through my apprenticeship and several years as a lineman I worked on pole change outs, 1-3ph conversions, and many,many stringing jobs.
Installing ampacs, risers, stringing , sagging etc all with sticks. I’d have to say, I like rubber better for most jobs. Definitely easier on the neck and shoulders.
Also, HAHA, yup , snow is magic for making things disappear!
Awesome videos !! So interesting to see up close what you guys really do up there! To all the lineman world wide, thank you for risking your life to keep the world flowing ! God bless and keep safe!
Thanks for your video, Aaron.
Now, when you mentioned induction here's something from a first hand. Years ago I measured current through the footing of a well grounded (grounded to the rail) railway pole (carying 25 kV, 50 Hz catenary). It was like 4 mA. Month ago, there was an incident when a person touched railway pole which turned to be ungrounded/badly grounded. The person was electrocuted! That tragedy raised many questions how that was possible
I enjoy hot sticking. It’s a special skill that requires coordination and foresight. I retired after 45 years teaching the skills.
"tricks with sticks" - In college around 1950 my father worked as helper to the one lineman in a one-town electric company in the middle of the midwest. Lift-trucks were too new, it was all ladder-trucks and hot-sticks. WOOD hot-sticks. There was a whole routine around keeping the sticks dry enough to not kill you with leakage. (Fiberglass sticks are less trouble.) One big job for the helper was putting the sticks back in the drying oven at the end of the day-- this lineman drank and would forget. (Maybe why he was on a pole on the prairie instead of dams in the NorthWest.) I saw some hot-stick books from the period. They did amazing things with special sticks and cantilevered ladders. I notice my father became an EE, but refused to actually touch wires and such. THE hot-stick book was by A.B. Chance, 1954, and is expensive.
Good job Aaron........
Respect!
Yhea dropping stuff in the snow. Good luck, finding it could be done but it'll take a while.
Especially small hardware, like nuts ... heavy and they go deep in the snow ... tools, too. Like wrenches, pliers.
Great video, does your Co. ask you to be a trainer? You are very detailed and mathodic . I use to work for Comed in Chicago I will split between going to overhead or being an underground Splicer I took the underground Splicer position and looking back I wish I would’ve stayed with the overhead construction. I am retired now, but I look at your videos and the way you explain the process of your task at hand. Gives me great memories of how important it is to be conscience of your surroundings and doing everything in a methodical way in order to avoid any accidents. Great work Stay Safe.
It has been 20+ years since I had to work on a snowmobile on the trail, but I totally understand how you can drop something in the snow to never see it again! #stephane
Can imagine how much of a klutz I'd be with these sticks on a warm dry summer day, no wind, no special clothing, no power....
I have lost so, so many 10mm sockets, and robitson driver bits to snow
man you are braver than me,. i got gloves! i'd never go near those lines
dang i never did the air test into my rubber gloves.
Why didn’t you use the hot cutters to cut off the old stirrup off the hot side also?
A gift for the next guy 🤣
needs two hot sticks and three hands? one to hold and catch it from falling, other to cut. I don't think the cutters work too well with one hand.
@@throttlebottle5906 but he cut the one on the load side with no problem
@@linehandibew6205 he didn't want to cut the stirrup off the live side with the lead still connected to the broken cutout, so he cut the lead first, which then left no way to support or capture the falling stirrup.
hence me saying he'd have needed three hands or more(two people in buckets).
even if the vehicle/items underneath are total junk. you cannot just wildly cutoff and let items fall.
Usually it will stay on the jaws long enough to grab it, but I didn't want to risk it falling and bouncing off the cover-up then onto the roof of the car
👊👍‼️
Hello Aaron great video . Was surprised you left the old tap clamp on the line or probably not necessary to remove it?
Do you normally use 60 FPS? Video quality looks great!
Would have been nice to show cleaning the primary conductor as well before installing the stir-up. Not trying to nit pick you but it is an important step good job overall keep up the good work. thank you.
What is with those trees completely in contact with the wires.
I have no doubt that the engineers know what they are doing, but I would expect a fuse wherever a cutout was placed 🤷♂️
I have an old aluminum tap clamp in my collection 😊
Arron that silver metal is most likely whats called white metal its easy to cut .
Or aluminum.
Not cheap for the hook holsters and they don’t seem to have them for Kleins
Any concerns with that car below the worksite? It doesn't look to be in great shape but someone might treasure it. Im not in the air but i try and avoid being near any cars, etc. I try and avoid any reason for complaints.
Hi lineman,
I assume you are doing as per the regulation. But one detail is not well regulated. You connect the clamps on the main line before the tension point. That's bad. After a few years, corrosion can cause poor contact and sparks that can cause the main conductor to break and fall to the ground, posing a danger to people, animals and property. I'm not saying it's your fault, maybe it's poorly regulated, but, THE CONNECTION TO THE MAIN LINE MUST BE MADE BEHIND THE TENSION PLACE.
I wish you all the best.
f that. i like digging gas lines.