Is that because the fault wasn't cleared? Last time one of those blew across the road from me I ran outside to wait for the guy to watch. The squirrel was a little too well-done for my taste but my dog finally got the ultimately chew-toy....
This would have likely been more “eventful” if there wasn’t a current- limiting fuse in the circuit. The current-limiting fuse likely reduced the expulsion fuse energy significantly!
This video does NOT do it justice... The sound is more like a shotgun going off. When this happens when you're doing this from the ground... rain of fire. It's fun. But that is what fuses are for.
These dudes are really special. I've seen these guys wading chest deep in swamp water full of snakes and gators after a hurricane. They really are some heroes in their own right
Well, we were diagnosing a fault, which we needed electricity to do. The bang was anticipated, even welcomed as it verified the problem, which meant we could repair it and get the rather large outage picked up.
Can’t be afraid of heights…. Must be willing to work long hours, weekends and holidays…. Must be willing to work under miserable conditions…. Must be willing to being called out at 3:00 in the morning…. ALWAYS listen and practice your teachings, for all rules were written in blood.
Is there a way to learn on the job to become a lineman with "professionals"? Maybe up North? I will move out of state if I have to. I'm wanting to become a lineman but I have family that are lineman and they say there's a bunch of hazing & stuff and that doesn't fly with me... I'm late 30s, have degrees, and kind of a serious person as In when I'm at work I wanna work and not be a jack@$$. This one family member said they stripped him naked and he had to run down HWY 45 to get his clothes back, & they treated him like a dog for 2 years when he started, disrespected him etc, and this is a very large company where u wouldn't expect grown men to act that way. I want to learn but don't want to end up going to prison or putting up with that kind of stuff. Maybe up North is different? Looking for insight. Thanks.
no hazing here. But you are the low man and you have to pay your dues doing the grunt work and menial tasks.Some chiefs only Know how to yell and be abusive, others are fine and will teach you well. If you can suck it up for a few years and make it to journeyman you will have a marketable skill that you can take almost anywhere.
I am really not familiar with the system in the UK, however any electrical system, whether it be house, car or distribution, has a fuse somewhere, or something we call a recloser, which opens when it detects a fault on the line. Faults can be caused by faulty equipment, bad connections or tree limbs and bad weather.
How dangerous is industrial/commercial work? I’m mostly trained in residential which doesn’t seem too dangerous, with pretty good pay, but if you can guarantee safety in commercial/industrial and make more money I’d be interested
Sometimes you see "rocky the squirl" dead at the base of the pole, and your circuit is most likely good, otherwise face shield, hearing pro and distance.
Can’t even figure out what they’re trying to do here. Looks like a rigged up normal open and they’re trying to tie two different circuits together. I’ve never seen a rinky-dink set up like that with the way the cutouts are wired up. That’s nothing but a booby trap.
Nothing rinkydink… one overhead circuit feeding a step down transformer which feeds an underground circuit. We needed to know if the fault was in the underground or the step transformer, so we isolated the transformer and then energized it. Since we were pretty sure it was bad, the Lineman was ready for the bang.
My dad has worked for an electric company since he was 19. He was a lineman until he was 40. I’m glad I didn’t realize how dangerous it was when I was just a little kid.
The lineman chose to try the fuse rather than using a radar unit to find the burnout out bad transformer. Poor work practice. The original fuse was blown for a reason.
