I hate working in holes. I do IT work mostly fiber optics, POTS and low voltage and I have PPE gear, hardhat, vapor meter, and harness on just in case something goes wrong down there..
Never seen a joint like that is there a reason you use them? We either use shear off connectors and heat shrink individual cores or put the whole joint in a mould and fill it with cold pour resin
The crimp sequences of the cable lugs is wrong because when you crimp a cable lug, you must pull the Cable inside the cable lug during the first crimp sequence and the first crimp has to do at the end of the lug. This is in my work as usual with elpress lugs up to 240 mm². What cable cross section, what crimp tool and cable lugs were this in the video? Greeting from Vienna, Austria!
Kenneth Johnson Johnson Just to clarify, gas meter was below the camera. Second of all the manhole only measured 5'x8'. Tested, verified, and grounded all circuits at the adjacent vault which we replaced.
Big Mike, the harness is required in confined space work so that the workers topside can remove the workers in the vault should they become unconscious. It isn't for fall protection.
Johnathan Bell yes, the reason is that since it’s been sitting so long the the semi becomes brittle, once you heat it up and and it expands that’s when you know you can remove it. If you don’t, this task may take a really long time.
Carlos Machado awesome job. I watched your lead splice to. Well done. We are out of 1186 Hawaii. I'm doing 13 this month and will come across old xlp. I'll be sure to heat it off. Are the other cables in the hole energized?
No hard hat under the MH opening, no ventilation hose and an open torch in a confined space…… sorry guys I am going to have to write you up for safety infractions.
To all of those armchair quarterbacks complaining about this and/or that, post the links to your videos showing us all how to do it right, or just STFU.
I was thinking that the first guy who is directly under the hole opening is the first to take off his hard hat in the one place he probably actually needs it.
There’s no arc proof tape covering any of the lines that surround u or the one you made... I respect what you do but safety first guys from one splicer to another...
Carlos Machado I'm in the U.K. We use 3 different colour systems old colours Red, Yellow, Blue numbers L1,L2,L3 and new standardised European colours of Brown, Black, Grey then Neutral is blue and earth is green or Yellow/green
@@carlosmachado482 God job..I'm in Chicago and we use phase marks one for alpha, 2 for bravo, 3 for charlie. I enjoyed watching...we don't use elbows in the manhole out here...only in switchgears or transformers depending if they are Tbodies or not. 💯
Ha. Fuckers are making about 30 or 40 dollars an hour taking their time. They better thank that company to death that the company hired them. They better. Alot of guys try and get into this field of work and never get hired. AND, believe me, there's always another guy who'll be willing to come in and outwork you and do twice the work you do for that paycheck you get, so these guys best be GRATEFUL their company hired and kept them. I tried to get on with some electrical contractors. None of them hired me. So I got into tire work, shit work for Sam's Club Tire Dept. for 12.75 an hour. Yea. Don't go to Sam's Club Colonial Heights VA for tires. Members ask me "did yall check the tire pressures?", and right in front of the member the guy who worked on the car says "naw, I rotated the tires, isn't that enough?". Think about it, if they won't even check your tire pressure, think they have the safety of you and your family in mind when they put your tires on? Wire brush the studs? Replace worn lugnuts? Clear the rust off the back of the rim and hub? Clean your bead on the rim? Replace valvestem or sensor pack? Yeah right. Takes too long. Damn I wished a contractor would have hired me.
