Being a Lineman - Episode 30 

I had started editing this one on December 23rd... Then things took a turn :( . My father became ill and we got hit with multiple bad storms. After a real busy month and then some time off for the family, things are slowly getting back to normal. My father was a big part of my life and will be missed greatly. Love ya always Dad 🕊️

Condolences from Germany, may your dad rest in peace. I am an german electrician. My father was an electrician to, but he was gone to heaven as i was 12 years... A great hugh to you.

Very sorry to hear your dad has passed. My best to you and your family

I had a friend who was a journeyman trouble man lineman here in Kansas City and knowing him and knowing the work you guys do I respect you guys more than I do a policeman or fireman you guys deal with voltages and amperage that will kill you every hour of the day/night! You guys work in terrible weather and are out at all times of the day and night! Sorry to hear about your Father passing away! I lost my friend two years ago and I cry and miss him everyday! He and I were closer than I am with my blood brothers!

I can tell from your presence that he was a great man - like father, like son. Peace be with you and your family, and in your spare time, do your best to preserve his history as your father, that his grand and great grand children may learn of his strength and example.

May your father rest in peace. Stay strong!

Sorry to hear about your Dad my thoughts and prays are with you and your family

Sending you courage and strength Aaron to you and your entire family for the lost of your father and friend , i know deep in my heart he will keep an eye on you and to continue protect and love every one he knew 🤗

Brutal weather conditions to be out in repairing like that, much respect!

I'm sorry for you loss. I hope your dad rests in peace knowing he raised a terrific young man.

Even though we're all mostly distant from you geographically, we're family, as electricians and linemen, bro. Appreciate you taking us into your work environments and sharing your experiences and knowledge with us. As always, keep safe, continue to do well and last, but not least, condolences to you and yours on the passing if your Dad. Keep the fire in the wire ✊️

HI ! My name is Roberto and I do the same job as you in Italy, even if it is spoken in English, for me it is the same language, the systems in Europe are different and the way of running them is different but I must say that you are very good!! It's the best job in the world!

Man, I really enjoy your videos. As a residential electrician, it's super awesome to see what happens on the other side of the meter :) thank you so much for taking the time to make these videos. Always appreciated what yall did, but it's still really interesting to see it all unfold. We haven't had a snow like that where I'm from since the mid 90s lol!

All that in one night. Here in Michigan, one flicker of the lights and we start scrambling to prepare for the stone age that will be the next week or two.

Sorry about your pops brother, hope you and the family are doing alright.

Best lineman youtuber ever, greetings from Sweden. May your pops rest in peace.

That a great video of what you do during a winter storm. the work lights on your trucks are great ! I am in Boston ,NY, USA. we has quite a winter as well. 2 major snow storms and a ICE storm. some times the weather is so bad you have to stand buy. what happened hear 80 MPH wind in Blizzard. so much came down in snow and power lines. took a few days to get everyone back on. We even lost a feed to substation . that a lot of costumers out. I think we had linemen from Canada come across the piece bridge to help us out. Big THANK YOU for all who helped us out. Our local fire and Police are very good hear to. I see costumers bring coffee out to workers quite often. every one helps out. That how we get threw it.

This stuff is fascinating. Thank you for making this content. I've learned so much from you.

Sorry about your dad. I am glad you were able to be with him when he passed. He will keep a better eye on you now and give you that extra boost to keep you safe! My dad passed away when I was little and my mom passed about 15 years ago, but seems like it was just yesterday when she did. It does get better. Keep up the good work. ❤

So sorry to hear about your dad.If we had snow like that in the UK the whole country would be shut down. Keep gong with the videos

I don't know why I didn't get these episodes at the time. But my condolences.

This is something I really try to impress on anyone with zero electrical background. Those arcs can do the exact same eye damage as the arc from a welder. The amount of IR and UV light put out by those arcs can cause retinal and corneal burns. It's plenty fine to point a camera at them as they don't damage electronic eyes, but never look directly at them with your own eyes. You are correct even the heaviest tinted safety or sunglasses will not protect your eyes from the arc only a welding mask will provide adequate protection for your eyes from arcs.

So very sorry to learn of the loss of your Dad. Prayers sent up for you and your family. Rest in peace Sir.

My condolences on your dad. We had a little power outage here a month ago. I was at a meeting and my wife texted me power was out, where are the extra batteries. On my way home I saw our local utility guys doing what you do, shining a light on the lines looking for downed wires. They were past our house but when I reached our driveway saw our wires on the ground and the top of our driveway utility pole on the ground. Our house is 600 feet off the road so we have three utility poles and primary running down our driveway to our own transformer. I flagged the guys down and parked at our neighbors. I think they missed the down wire because they were focused on looking at the 3-phase lines serving the road. They quickly disconnected our feeder and ground so they could get the neighborhood back. I big pine along our driveway came down. That would not have been a problem but there were three maples in the way. They all came down and some or all crossed the driveway and broke the top of our utility pole at the street side of our driveway. Interesting the conductors were not damaged and were reused. The utility crew said it was rare for the cable to actually break and more likely the pole breaks. Much to our surprise the utility crew reset the pole that night and restrung the wire along the driveway but did not connect power. The tree crew, also that night, did a fantastic job cutting down the tangled mess of four trees. They left the trunks but cut them so they are below the comm wires so it will be easy for me to drop them when I get everything cleaned up. The next morning another crew reconnected us. I noticed they grounded the phase wire like you do for safety. They also installed a fuse at the street so if this every happens again we will not take out the neighborhood. I've notice that on new installs each transformer is individually fused. Back in the olden days fusing was used more sparingly. Thanks for posting your "adventures." Because of your videos I knew exactly what to expect and how crews go about restoring power.

Thanks for taking us on this ride along through a winter storm. I just started as a groundman in the trade and your videos are really inspiring. We don't have this kind of weather where I live in the southwest US, but one day the dream is to be out there as a troubleman just trying to figure it out in the worst of it. Cheers Aaron 🤙

My condolences on the passing of your Dad. You are a real hero for working under such adverse conditions.

Not a lineman but as a firefighter I've seen arcing wires that took a long time to be shut off melt through granite. One was sitting on a rock shelf and the spot where it had been arcing was bored into the rock and even after pouring a lot of water on it this hole was still flashing it to steam and burping out this molten material.

Sorry for your loss. Quite the patrol, good fix. Thanks!

My dearest condolences, I wish you and your family lots of power in these tough times.

That driving in the Storm makes me wanna go log rd cruising/rallying.......haa

SOOOO much respect for you and your crews. You are the man!!

You guys need trucks with tree shakers (they use them to knock leaves off trees in some places) to lighten that snow load in problem zones. They need to make line shakers too for that matter. Could make quick work of those bucking phone lines.

Sorry to hear about your father. My condolences to you and your family from here in Tennessee.

Very nice too see the actual work you do great job 👍

Wow super melted and cold!! Damn Aaron that is brutal. Condolences Aaron on your Dads passing, many blessings to you and your family🙏

Very sorry to hear about your Dad. Great video. Very interesting on how/why it can take so long for the power to be restored. Thanks for sharing

My deepest condolences on the loss of your dear father. May he rest in peace. Thank you for your interesting content. I'm sure your Dad was very proud of the work you do.

Hi Aaron and so sorry to hear about your dad being Ill around the holidays. I've been watching your weather every few days and have seen all the snow you guys have been getting. Great job with terrible weather conditions. Thanks for your video!

Great work getting the power restored in the snowstorm. Sorry to hear about your father, condolences.

Prayers to you and family, Great Channel, the content is great - much respect working in deep snow.

Rest In Peace to your dad, I always watch your content he raised a great man

Great video, enjoyed hearing/seeing the interaction between you and your coworker.

Thanks for the great video. My sincere condolences to you and your family.

I've said it before, you guys are worth every penny. Thanks for posting.

I don't know why these videos keep getting recommended to me, but as someone who lives in a VERY tree-torn prone area in the midwest of the US, I appreciate just how much transparency this provides to what you have to do when weather knocks out power, makes me understand even more why it may take a while to get electricity back on after a substantial outage in a region

Really sorry to hear of your loss Aaron, please accept my sincere condolences. Immense respect to you guys working in the snow like that. Take care, be safe.

These are great videos!! Thanks for posting. Safety first. We need you around to keep educating us.

Yesss! Been waiting for the next video! I find this series fascinating

Im sorry for your loss. I lost my father in 2018 and its tuff working this job and trying to take care of a loved one especially when a storm hits! Things get better as time goes on, my father was a lineman too and i like to think hes keeping the lights on up there! Hang in there brother!

Condolences from the Hudson Valley of NY. Your videos are extremally important for the younger guys to watch.

So sorry for your loss of your father I feel your pain praying for you and your family that looks like it was hot hot hot on that pavement thanks for sharing

That was quite the storm! Thanks for the work you do keeping power on even in bad conditions. Any time we have big storms here or even at our sites at work I think of the linemen working on it. Sorry to hear about your dad.

I have worked for my local utility company for 16 years now, always in support roles for the Field Ops teams (office work). Your channel has given me a profound respect for work that linemen do and a much better appreciation for the technical aspects of the job. You are making me better!

Sorry for your loss🙏. RIP Sir / Thanks for all you guys do... 👊 (Upstate NY)

Bob, sorry to hear about your Dad... I just wanted to say thank you to all the Linemen out there you have my utmost respect. I live in Southwestern Ontario, on past week we lost power to my neighborhood the Linemen of Grandbridge Power came out in an ice storm and found a broken pole and had the power restored in three hours. I was very appreciative that they left there warm of their homes and families to come out trouble shoot and resolve the issue. To that you guys have my utmost respect.

Condolences to you and your family, may your dad Eddie rest in peace. You and your family are in my thought and in my paryers.

Your dad raised you well - my condolences on your loss. Doing the lord’s work there - looks like a tough night!

The reason we quit 70 years ago whit these above ground lines, Always trouble in bad weather,.... Only our main hv nets are stil above ground in the netherlands thaths the 600kv lines and sub lines, the rest underground. you got a hell of a job... Respe ct!

That was my favorite of your videos. I know the snowy nights are not fun, but they make the best videos.

My condolences for your loss.

Pretty keew video great content I'm learning alot friggen interesting 😮. 🤔.

Transmission lines out in the desert, when they get a break, the transmission linemen will look for the "glass" and many times the glass will be hollow tubes......never seen one but I'm sure they exist. I have seen "sidewalk glass"

WOW! Great job. Whatever pay you get you should get double what you make now. Thank you this video.

Sorry for the loss , prayers , RIP , stay safe always !

Hell yeah, love the night time heavy snow blowing winds fun!! I envy you guys out there doing what ya do...nice job for both of you, (Didn't hear who your partner was that morning). Sorry to hear about your dad passing - never an easy time or fun handling the legal stuff. I am sure though that your dad would be proud of you doing this type of work and keeping people safe - warm - and with lights. * Fist bump* good job!!

Thank you for your service. God bless love you

Man, I'm in the UK - a domestic electrician but I love, love, love these videos - don't stop

Belated condolences on your dad's passing.

Sorry for your loss but be thankful that your farther didn't suffer needlessly . I completely enjoy your channel. The town i live in is home to what use to be A.B.Chance which was bought out by Hubble Power systems. They make ground anchors, pole hardware, switch gear, cutouts screw in pole bases you name it. Anything and everything to do with electrical line systems they do. They also make the hot sticks and telescopic poles you all use daily. Take care and be safe.

Much love and support for ur family.

Condolences from a lineman from Pembroke Maine.

May your father's memories be blessings. Stay warm!

So sorry for your loss of your dad my condolences to you may he rest in peace

Looks sooo cold work, stay safe

So saddened learn of the passing of your dad, Aaron. My heart is heavy for you and your family. Losing my dad was my toughest adult experience. 🙏🙏🙏

I feel for you man. I was in a similar situation on 30 of November 2020 when 3 feet of snow fell in as many hours. It tore the power line off my house. Fortunately I had a very reliable generator. So I was able to keep the lights on for Three days. I ended up having to reconnect the power line to the house myself as there were no linemen available to do it because of the storm.

My prayers for you and your family. He will always be with you in your heart and watching over you as a guardian angel. That looked like a very dangerous night to be out. Thank you for all you do. Stay safe, and God bless.

This would definitely satisfy Dr Leo Marvin. Good job Bob. Stay safe.

Down in the states the power companies hire tree guys to trim all the trees away from the power lines so when snow hits it doesnt take down lines. Sorry to here about your Father.... look at them snow drifts you bucking there.. hats off to you linemen and women whom put it all on the line for us

Sorry to hear about your father. Everyone who complains when the power goes out should watch this video. You guys work hard in conditions most of us wouldn't go out in doing a dangerous job, all due respect to you.

Awesome video!

Sorry to hear of your Dads passing Aarom there always with us.

So sorry for your loss. I know its difficult. Prayers.

Nothing like some free hand welding by mother nature.

My prayers are with you and your family. sorry for you lost Rip

My condolences to you regarding your father. I found that interesting about the snowing causing the wire sway. There was a huge line I use to observe sometimes (im guessing ‐300kv) used to really start to resonate from a light spinkle with no wind- all those little droplets popping off on the wires, and they'd really start swaying hard as the resonating built up. They lines would be full on dancing to the symphony of 60 Hz rain drop pops.

Aaron, my sincere condolences to you and your family. I lost my dad in 1999 and my mom in Dec. 2021. I had studied linework back in my Air Force days and didn't pursue it because I am deathly afraid of heights and would freak out climbing poles or being in a bucket truck. You have a great knowledge and your company has very solid safety practices as evidenced by your videos. Stay strong, stay safe and know that like many others have posted here, we share your loss.

Condolences to you and your family 🙏

Be safe out there. We all need you guys

So sorry to hear about your dad I just lost my dad 2 years ago and he was 2 years younger born in ‘56. Stay strong man

My condolences from Tennessee.

Was linemann 71 to 90 great job got high and drunk everyday . Sold old balconies from Xbox poles to hunters $100 each made a ton of $$

Condolences on the passing of your dad. The "galloping" is worsened because the cables are moving at their resonant frequency. If the pole spacing changes then the resonant frequency would change (assuming same snow/wind conditions on the cable).

I see your partner with the extendo stick, and really want to yell "three tries for a quarter!"

You certainly earn your paycheque. Those are horrendous working conditions. Much respect from the UK.

Need a boom truck with a small jet engine on it instead of a bucket that can be used to blow the snow off the lines and sarounding free limbs . And some sort of spray wax system that on the Warner days of summer they can wax the lines to reduce stickage of snow .

seems like you need giant propane cannons onboard. BOOOM and all the snow gets blasted off everything for a good radius!. 🤣

Man am I glad I’m retired. I hated working winter storms, especially with the high winds. Take care out there brother

Very interesting how different things are in driving snow. Here in my part of the California Coast we get wind and rain but almost never snow. And not enough to cause anything like the type of problems you had. I'd be interested in seeing how you handle high winds in drought conditions, not that I wish that on anybody. Anyway great video. You taught us something new and we appreciate you for doing that for us..

While I love the concept of snow, and I would love to play in snow, I don't fancy the prospect of working in snow.