As a Lineman on the East Coast of Canada there isn't much I haven't seen . From the richest to the poorest everybody needs power. I decided to start a channel not only to share some of the crazy stuff I see from day to day as a trouble response truck, but also to help educate people on how things work in our world . I also will be uploading videos on tools and equipment, as well as techniques within the Line trade .Along with videos about powerlines I'll be sharing videos about many other random things that I may have found interesting , or funny :) I have an adventurous group of family and friends whom all love to try new things :) Subscribe to my channel as I try and keep a steady stream of new and entertaining or educational videos!
Bracket grounding like that is technically wrong. Electricity takes all paths to ground, so if the line becomes energized you can still potentially bridge yourself, the currents going to pass through you to that other ground and another path it finds. You’re better off using a ground chain to jumper across.
Very good work ! That bad splice could have broken at anytime. A strong wind could have broken or the tree removable people could have had a branch hit the wire and it would have broken. That was a very good catch and that got in video . This will help many to know what to look for .Linemen and arbitrest from all over the world can learn from this. Cheers from USA !
Oh fckn Joy. At 7200 hours he gets put into the On call roster. lmao. Once your mortgage is paid off how the heck do you get out of that roster? I hated the OT because I didn't need the money. I needed a life.
I used to ride my bike under 500 kV AC lines as a kid. The capacitive coupling would give a constant mild buzz if you continuously touched metal bits on the handle bar. If you didn't touch the metal bits you'd eventually get zapped hard from static build up, the spark jumping between the handle bar and some unfortunate part of a hand. I seem to recall it jumping up to an inch. Fun times!
@ 20:40 Is Mikes auto leveler in his bucket not working? Or is it a manual leveler? It really sucks working in a bucket that is not level. As a matter of fact that is dangerous.
When you guys have a large amount of customers or key accounts out, do you cut inlines in depending if you think the restoration work is gunna take a long time?
That pesky vegatation.. you have hawthorne out east. On the (Vancouver) Island they have blackberry bushes, as well as trees that are two to three times the height of poles. Those blackbery bushes are nasty as well. And I'm somewhere on the prairies.
Quick question: Do you guys carry any sort of cribbing on your rigs to help level up in the event you can't get within your 5 degree limit? Also good spot by the tree trimming crew, that was almost fretted through.
@@Failure_Is_An_Option Because of mutual assistance after widespread storms. There are millions of people across nine states without power. There are only 120,000 linemen in the US that also need to keep up with daily work, so having a thousand come down from Canada is actually a big help. Then when something like an ice storm happens, US linemen come north.
FYI Aaron just to let you know that we energies the guys that do southeast Wisconsin we had taken and cut all that out and put new lineup because we don't do those sleeve splices anymore due to the same fact that these sleeves are useless so what we were instructed to do was run new line
Good illustration of the step-by-step process in setting up for a job with safety being Job 1 every step of the way. The angle pole at the beginning reminded me of a busy pole on the cooperative's line that was just down the road from our cabin. Not only did the line make a sharp turn (100-120 degrees) on two small 'hi-top' insulators, there was a branch line taking off from the pole (placed so the branch line was effectively the downguy for that angle), AND there was a transformer serving a member. All on the same pole. Dunno if something happened in the off-season, but I remember coming up one spring and seeing two changes: The branch line had been bumped to a new pole further back on the line (eliminating the angle from the first branch pole as well), and those poor 'hi-top' insulators were replaced with two sets of dead-end discs.
Greetings from the great state of South Carolina in the United States Friday we got knocked back to the dark ages and ETA for power back on is like Friday The power grid got fubar'd due to a hurricane
Even in HVAC it doesn't take long to put on safety gear it's something you get yourself used to doing that extra few minutes might save you from getting hurt or getting killed
I've been wondering about capacitance with proximity high potential lines nearby. Working in a dual power supply piece of equipment I shorted the system to itself, transformer primary short, but still took a jolt from the adjacent circuit. In that instance I simply shorted all four primary together. Not ideal but I had to test secondaries so I had to keep the two systems isolated from each other.
Always wondered what it would be like to be a lineman. That's one of the career paths that was on my mind way back. Your videos never fail to feed my curiosity
Small-load streets are normally wired one conductor at 6,900V and the other nearly zero, dirt-grounded. You want as much as possible of your system "grounded", so that lightning-strikes and fallen conductors will tend to burn a wire (or a fuse) instead of burning the customers and their houses.
Heh I don't blame you for sending the FNG into the thorn patch to put up the tag. Joking aside Mike looks like he's going to make an excellent lineman at the completion of his apprenticeship.
As an engineer on the secondary side (480V and below), I love seeing you guys work on your primary side of things. Appreciate you taking the extra time an effort to record and explain all of this!
