Being a Lineman - Episode 13
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- čas přidán 12. 12. 2020
- Hey Everyone!
The last few weeks has been crazy busy! There was a ton of rain, and we had to call in some extra crews to help out. Most of the footage I got was just bits and pieces of some jobs, so I figured I'd put together some shots mostly involving work around tap clamps and cutouts. 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!🍻👊
Keep in mind my videos are to be used as guidelines only!
There are many different ways to preform the tasks shown in this videos.
Always adhere to your own company's policies and procedures.
This work should only be preformed only by those whom are both trained and authorized to do so!
Huge thanks to my Patreons! 👊👊
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Work safe guys!
Cheers!
audio courtesy of:
Corncob Country by Kevin Macleod
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We call it a hotline clamp
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! 👊🇨🇦❄️
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!
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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👍👍👍😎🇨🇱
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
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.
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.
Crazy, I'm watching this December 12, 2021......... Watching from Irrigon, Oregon
Cannot wait to hear your story on your username! Love the videos as always! Penrose Colorado.
Seasons greetings from Hamilton, New Zealand.Keep up the good efforts 🍻🇳🇿👍👊👊
Great job as always
Watching from Kentucky in the states keep up with the awesome videos I love these 👊😁😁😁
Cheers!🍻
@@Bobsdecline 🍻
Really cool video, thanks! Watching from Arizona. Most everything is underground where I am.
I don't do HV line work, but the first thing I learned, always assume and treat it as live and deadly!
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
Southwest Missouri here, really appreciate the in-depth explanations you give
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!
👊 Baytown Texas
That's some good swish-and-flick. Hermione would be proud.
Had to google Hermione 😅✌️
👊 Saskatchewan cool content stay safe.
In Jamaica we call that clamp a hotline clamp
Retired engineer watching from Dorset UK. Power lines round here don't look that different! Stay safe, Merry Christmas!
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.
Must need some serious cajhones to use the potential detector on 500Kv 😝
👊🏼 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!
I am looking forward to the video where you tell us more about yourself and Bobsdecline. San Diego, CA
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
Awesome video. Keep up the good work!
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
love to watch, MERRY CHRISTMAS and a HAPPY NEW YEAR 👊
Cool post, always fascinated by what you guys do and how you do it. Stay safe out there.
Great video extremely in depth! More vids like this please
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
Love watching your videos from spring Texas USA
This is the type of pole and equipment I would do a lot to get and set up at my place!
Great videos ! watching from New Jersey. Stay safe
seasons greetings from nova scotia. stay safe my friend!
Right back at ya! 🍻🇨🇦👊
Another great video learning so much from Mr. Bob and his team 👏 I enjoy thank u Mike from iron river m.i.
Watching from Sydney, Australia mate!!! Love your work!! 👊👊
From Wallingford Connecticut USA. Stay strong stay safe 👊
Great Video. Greetings from Central Florida. We've had all four seasons this week, rain but no snow
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!
Watching from Arizona
Watching from Maine USA 👊
Like your videos, watching from Northwest Ohio...
Stay safe from Ontario. Merry Christmas
How does rain figure in on the ratings of the insulated sticks you work with
Watching from Saxilby, UK.
watching this makes closing the cut outs look easy, holding that stick and doing it right most likely takes practice
Watchng from Wichita. Great video! Man you earn everything you make and more.
🤜🤛 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
Thanks for fixing the arcing. The rfi generated really screws up radio receivers over a broad spectrum.
Watching from Quebec city. Thanks for your explanations. Your videos are great !
Thanks! Worked with many from Quebec, a great bunch! 👊
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 CZcams 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
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
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
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.
thanks
Watching from Calgary, AB. I design outside plant for communications (don't worry, mostly underground).
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 😮
Groveland Ma Bob’s your uncle Nice video Keep your stick on the ice😎👊🏻👍
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
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Edmonton ab,good stuff to know.
i like the stile of the vid
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 think the rating of the arc chute on the isolator depends on home much debris has collected in there!
👊 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! 👊🍻
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.
Having used a long pole saw i cant imagine how much forearm strength you have to control your tools so delicately.
Mostly technique and allowing your body/muscles to learn how to work together and maintain control without too much strain.
You certainly can't be a weakling but like most things, training and lots of practice goes a long way!✌️👊
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
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.
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 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 👊🍻
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In Queensland Australia we have had about 300mm over the last 2 days
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 :)
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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
Check out at 3:10 the back feed, wind static, etc arcing across the lightning arrestor
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...
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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?
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
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?_
Or a hotline connector
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?
OHH...lol
I just assumed that it was your real name.. Bob's D. Cline...lol
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?
I want to know the origin story behind bobsdecline. But, not enough to dig through comments for it. Stay safe, Merry Christmas, and keep warm and dry in those 3am calls!
Wheres the link to view the loadbuster installation? I caht seem to find it. I need a locate Aaron! Thanks!
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has that pole now got 3 generations of cutouts on it now?
What do you do between calls?
Anything above 12 volts is seriously dangerous, especially AC. You don't want to mess with anything above 12. You double check and triple check your safeties every step of the way for a reason. Every safety procedure and code is written in blood. I had a near electrocution at my house because a toaster failed and the exterior went to live voltage. If it wasn't for the RCD protecting the whole house, I would have needed to figure out how to deal with removing bodies.
TEST YOUR RCD's REGULARLY! YOU NEVER KNOW WHEN YOU WILL NEED IT!
some guys call them hot taps or pelicans. i've seen a hot tap melt on to a line my company doesn't use stirrups they just stick them on the line and when they have a melted one they have to splice the wire. work safe Aaron 👊
Thanks for the info 👊👊 we've got a few directly on the line, but they're on old copper wire overhead lines. I haven't heard the term pelican 😀
@@Bobsdecline ya they do it just because they don't use stirrups.have a nice day man 👊