Mine was out for 4 and half hours due to Blizzard conditions. In Minnesota. Thanks to those lineman who went out in the storm to get us energized again.
Actually some jobs you are working around energized lines. Regardless you assume all lines could become reenergized. Once everything is isolated you still maintain your safety.
I hope all the negative commentors realize, he's does it this way because, he's on film. These are the rules his company demands he work from. So, the name calling is quite unfair. It just goes to show that every linemen is a critic and believes he can build it better.
Sure wayne. We are all critical. Or maybe we see through bs and recognize some kid got handed a job by daddy and it’s insulting af to the real linemen.
You're both shit talking losers taking his words right out of context. He made a mistake, extinguish instead of distinguish. He might be underslept, exhausted. You're both losers.
@@ashfordminer2390 Actually, he said distinguish instead of extinguish. And this in no way is taking words out of context. That's exactly what he said. Yes, he made a simple mistake, just like you did. Mistakes are to be acknowledged and avoided, not have excuses made for them.
@@stargazer7644 This video is a joke. Real lineman are heroes, but they don't look or talk like this. They don't casually walk on-screen in a group when they show up. They don't stand in the middle of the street making a video when they should be opening switches after lines are down on the road. They don't pull out a piece of paper and proclaim "It shows here that IM IN CHARGE". This isn't 1980, the information about an outage (which they all have since they showed up in the right place) doesn't come on a piece of paper. They have a sense of urgency and if they're just arriving on site they're looking up at the problem and the work they need to start preparing for (while discussing it), they're getting on their radio getting work authorization, parts, additional resources and help, and they're assessing risks to safety and property, as well as assessing other damage. They don't stand there like minions awaiting commands from a dweeb with a god complex that has to tell them "it's overhead".
Yes in a perfect world everyone should have a lock however in this industry there's not always a lock so the lead puts the tag on the poles on both ends. Also before you heat anything up you call dispatch and they will aslo tell you if anyone else is work on the line
I’m a labor in facility maintenance department at a company. A lot of the safety stuff is CYA. Cause we’re open to the public when we work, you never know when the insurance or powers that be are watching. After being a private investigators assistant, we’d get calls all the time to check if company’s have traffic cones, safty vests, caution tape and such out while working. My boss hated doing these jobs and would charge crazy amounts just to try to avoid them. The companies that hired us ended up not caring about the price and would send us to places to see if safety were being followed.
Everyone must have lockout locks. Everyone working on the job should have their lock on that disconnect lockout. Be safe don't trust anyone with just one lock on there with your life.
LOL First thing I thought of was he`s a company suck ass! I could only watch so much of this because it was starting to make me sick, as to how he is saying look at me i'm the boss and all you lowlifes are below me and need to kiss my ass if you want to keep your jobs. oh and dont forget safety first!
I am not a Lineman, although I have worked with up to 500KVA..... and this is painful to watch. WHO IS THIS GUY? Where did they find him, and has he ever done this before?
I'm actually surprised. Every seabee i talked to loved their job (until they were forced too cross rate). I just finished 5 years as a EM, did a little construction and roofing and thinking about being a lineman. What about the job is the worst? (Edit: I tried to convert to construction electrician in 2016, 23 ppl applied and 2 ppl got it in my command)
Austin Crane line work is easy more than it’s hard. Worst thing is working with dumb asses or someone that knows it all. Or working with ppl that’s there just for a check. Transmission is the way to go, that away from distribution.
Linemen used to be rough guys. Pull everything with ropes. Nowadays linework is like navy seals. It isn't too hard and every big kid wants to do it. I climbed with no buck squeeze and let me tell you when you're 90 foot up, looking down with 2 spikes 1/4 inch in the pole, you lose it for a moment. One slip you're done. I slipped coming down and not falling is the only fucking thing God has done for me. I slipped on a step down and one knee jammed into my chest. Those bucksqueezes save lives, but allow some pussies to be linemen. Alot of guys wouldn't do it without bucksqueezes. I'm all for them though. A safety measure to save someone from lifelong impairment is a good thing. I think they waited so long to make them because linework was "mans" work. It's kinda like tight rope walking. Everyone'll do it if there's a safety to keep you from falling. Nobody will do it, very few, if there's no safety.
@@jonathanwillard663 You: "This safety equipment means some pussies or doing the job" Also you: "This safety equipment saves lives" Also you: "I'm all for them". You sound like a moron, nobody is a pussy because they demand standard safety equipment.
@@jonathanwillard663 I work for a cable company and we dont use buck squeezes. just your regular climbing strap. I had a co-worker slip down a pole, he hugged on to the thing and boy did that pole fuck up his stomach and chest. we dont need to climb as high as power lineman, i think the highest ive climb was 40 - 50 feet high,, but after 15 feet, whos counting. thats high enough to kill. still though, it never bothered me, i feel safer strapped to the pole than on a extension ladder on a downhill line. have you ever been on a 30 foot ladder then have it slip only to have it hanging on by the tip of one strand hook? it takes nerves of steel just NOT to jump off.
@@jonathanwillard663 you’re a fucking moron. Imagine degrading someone for being safe. I’m sick of all you old school lineman calling out the new guys because they use fall protection. I have a family to go home to. I’ll be god damned if I’m going to put myself at risk of losing that. You realize being a lineman already is dangerous and they’ve come a long way to making it a safer job... the idea of fall protection just makes the job that much more safe. Quit bitching you idiot fuck.
Hmmm, I've worked cable before. Funny, I could have swore that we worked at height, in trenches and alongside power. I guess that wasn't electricity flowing through my lines to power the amps that bring your TV and Internet into your house. Hmmm, I guess I didn't read that safety bulletin about the cable installer who was killed because an electrician back fed power onto CATV causing the installer to be electrocuted. I guess those classes I took in electrical theory and engineering must have been a dream. I'd like to see you do the job. Bet you wouldn't last a day. I worked great with the power guys and they worked great with me. At least I know what channel to block from RU-vid now.
@@mikel9567 Listen here, young man. You haven’t touched or even heard of electrical equipment. Now go on and get back to your TikTok videos and your MP3s. Your generation makes me sad. Yes, I’m talking to you Mikey-boy.
God bless him, he is an enthusiastic guy who no doubt worked his way up the ladder of the power game. BUT . . . .not at all a polished speaker and the presentation content is harmed badly by the style and various idiosyncratic things about him. The ear ring complaint however is silly. Hell, what if he wore three ear rings? Just wish they had held a long practice session for this poor guy before putting him on camera. Safety emphasis was excellent.
James Lee he knows the set up and should have practice if he didn’t. If you don’t don’t something every day your not gonna be good at it. Besides, we just dumb asses doing a job nobody else will do.
foreman on jobs like these are always sitting in their pickups in california. The guys on the ground do all the hard work. Most forman.... not all... but most don’t know how hard it is to do the work and need it done “NOW” and “FAST” Also guys that work on the “line’ don’t have rings on their fingers
mrpatt1983 ... exactly...comment above is ignorant..Foreman is sitting on his ass because usually he's done what the crew is doing about 1000 more times than them..lol
I’m a lineman in New York. My title is “working foreman “ I work with my guys. We are a team. I am not above my brother. I’m just a JL that writes all the paperwork and takes all the responsibility
Ok Popofab and ChrisB. Just briefly. He uses the word "I" in a "Team Event" a little too much. 2nd) once the Crew arrive, you don't dictate anything. You ALL WALK OR DRIVE the Lead or a portion of the Ckt, to make sure nothing else has broken or come down. Once in a while you'll find a smoldering body under a Line. During this ride /walk visual, WE, come up with a Plan, NOT "I"He talking to Office Folk so a lot of what he HAVE to say is not the reality. The rest is just stuff that us Lineman are laughing at when we watch this. It's not a Critique on this LineMech or the Crew. STAY SAFE MEN!!!!
Gary Nelson fuck it bruh, I’ll help ya. Ear ring, one wheel chock, no gloves running the hand line, no one checked the pole before climbing and no one checked the adjacent poles before work started. All should have been covered in the pre job briefing. And for heavens sake let the damn hoist out before u try to put it on. Put ya grip on the conductor first. Might wanna let every one know the out riggers r coming down. Didn’t barricaded the trucks so I guess they were grounded. Ok I might have missed something. I ain’t scared to call somebody out. Oh, the 7yr lead man is in charge if ya didn’t know. With the clear glasses on. Ok I’m gonna stop now. 🤣there ya go popofabulous and Chris.like he said, as a linemen this is hard to watch. Ok I’m done, no for real this time I’m done. 😂🤣. He didn’t check them rubber gloves.
@@scorpion5700 Your right,. THe guy is an ego maniac. How bout the we been doing this with block and tackle for thousands of years and that type of stuff. I mean come on man. Yeah long hrs. then gopes on to say I work 16 then go home for 8 . etc etc. Its embarrassing.. I think even some of the Bell Guys would have an issue working with this lineman.. The dude is a joke with his ego. cant work for someone like that. where its me me me me me. not we we we we. this dude is a real charm i bet to work with i bet...!!! LOL. embarrassing. But hes trying hard he probly just doesnt know how to talk to the general public without sounding like a General on the battlefield who isnt really a general..
Why the negative feedback? I think it's a good video. he's going in detail of what the procedures are. just like you would in a classroom/field training. For the ones that want to rush, go ahead and forget the details climb up and pray you don't end up Barbecue.
this is older, but lineman should be trained as arborist to handle smaller issues, clearly not whole massive trees, split in half whole trees, but small to mid size branches they should be capable of handling
Most other areas, the crews take a look at what is needed to safely restore power. They notify the operations center and then do the work. They notify the operations center when the power is back on. They make notes and sketches of any changes that were done and provide the notes to the records department for updating the records of any changes. This guy is doing an over-production on what needs to be done and how long it takes to do the restoration. I would have three areas restored by the time this guy does one area. If this guy worked up in Vermont, New Hampshire or Maine where the temperature in the winter time is often at or below -20 degrees, he would learn to work a little more productively and do less talking.
Blocks and Tackles for "thousands of years".. Ok... i didnt know they had electricity for that long.... And Yes those pickles do come off... Seen them fall off before!
I work in plant maintenance for an isp. We’re banned from using pickles as they are all failing on us a few years later. Pretty dangerous for some guys up on their ladders hanging drops haha. We use straight preforms only now.
Shame on you, nasty remarks individuals. You have no idea! Have you ever smelt a dead body burned? Also most linemen are aging out..also having hard time to find young people to do this type work! Gotta be a person who can deal with all elements rain,ice,heat and be able to climb! The new linemen are VERY hard to find! A pin hole in your gloves can kill you. Many young kids would rather be playing video games 🎮. So hush! I worked for major utility company for forty years.
My full and undeniable respect for these very brave and highly skilled men and women who put their lives on the line... no pun intended... everyday to make this world a better place to live in. God bless them and keep them safe.
“Alternating current continues to rotate around through the process of electricity” wut ? Lol I give him credit cause he’s just shooting from the hip... thumbs up for the line crew tho ...
He’s trying to dumb it down for the people. He could definitely start talking ohm’s law, amps, watts, volts, grounding, transmission, transformers, insulation, the electrical properties of metals used for wires, the purpose of step down transformers, how what he’s working on gets down to house current etc… but the presentation would be a few days long and half the people there wouldn’t understand any of it.
You can usually just wear rubber gloves and rubber boots and safely solder two downed wires together to restore electricity more quickly. The electrical company will probably come along later and do their own more durable fix, but if you don't want to wait for them, it's easy to do on your own. Just always remember to wear gloves and ground yourself by attaching metal spikes to the bottom of your footwear and stand on soft dirt or grass (no crushed rock, it can permanently reduce the voltage which leads to costly replacements).
Your an idiot. No one should be touching any lines or doing any repairs. Even a trained professional shouldn’t be touching or repairing any lines without consent.
@@LawFarin I agree you should totally get consent beforehand, but anyone can fix a downed power line, it's easy. There used to be a lot of tutorial videos of how to do it on youtube but they all got taken down for copyright claim because they were playing Puddle of Mudddddddd in the background, which is the best and most badass music to listen to while handling live wires.
I am not a lineman but I been in the corporate workforce long enough to get the feeling this guy is just a boss and really does not have a clue what they are doing. Matter a fact I bet he is a college boy and the closest he had ever been in a bucket was when his mommy gave him a bath.😀
@@MrPatt1983 That would probably describe you. I worked my way through college as a lineman. Depending on the number of outages that guy could be a lead lineman on a job one day and up on the pole with gaffs the next. Also as a supervisor/foreman to inspect a job lineman did you have to go where the lineman was. Up a pole or down in the hole. When I graduated and worked my way to become a field engineer, on rare occasion, you where up the pole or down the hole as well. If this was the military and you saw his ribbons and badges you would know he’s worked his way up doing the job. Yes a little politics is in everything, but he’s no poser.
1) There's no way everyone "understands" what work is going to happen because the only thing you told them about the job they're going to be doing before asking them if they understood was that they're going to be "maintenancing" which isn't a word. 2) Your truck had better not be the only one with a first aid kit and emergency blanket. 3) "I want those primaries back up in the air" -- yeah? really? you don't want them all over the street? 4) "You're going to be doing grounding over there" (with a vague hand motion) is certainly extremely descriptive and describes exactly where the safety grounds need to be applied. Let's not bother with any kind of pole numbers or actual location information. 5) Why isn't the primary de-energized and checked for potential before dude #2 gets that close to it with a bucket? 6) Alternating current oscillates, it doesn't "rotate". 7) "It has an insulating property around the wire", yeah that would be called insulation. 8) "De-energized" is a verb, not a noun. You don't "test for de-energized", you either "test for potential" or "test for de-energization". 9) That's not a long stick. A long stick would be the 50+ foot fiberglass extension pole that he should have been using from the ground to test for potential before getting within arm's reach of untested primaries. 10) You didn't see your family for 14 days in 2010 because they had better things to do than to listen to you scream about how you're a LEAD LINEMAN. 11) Mister Shapiro thinks you look like a loud Elton John
and ring... Ridiculous. But Hes trying hard. Hes Just not a good presenter . Its not his best job to do presentations. Though I would beleive he may be good at his job ..
@@MadNlGER bruhh these dudes are straight newbs lol I'm sure that one guy still trying to get that wire into that sleeve with that hoist sucked all the way in😂😂
I have never seen a lineman climb. And judging from the ages of some of the seasoned lineman, they are not required to climb. That’s for the younger guys.
3:10 A pocket full of keys is not a good thing. Key's in your right pocket will require a skin graft from your left thigh if electrocuted. Trust me, I've seen it happen.
This guy is a pain in the ass. When I show up on site the service men go hide out somewhere. Once we show up they bounce. I would definitely tell this guys to kick rocks
I love how this foreman took the opportunity to tell us he was in charge at least 10 times that I counted. I can't help but think he has some inadequacy issues. Just sayin.
23:10 Talk about Safety hu? Working 14, 16 Hour Days. Maybe he shudda had keep that one hush. Also whats with the earings and the rings, ah i know perfect way to check if line is energized, beats using a multimeter right?.
