Sagging triplex when you're alone 

Awesome trick brother!!!! In that situation I’d usually slack off at the pole side so I can soft side the house because it’s easier to take up sag at the pole for that exact reason . I’m definitely going to use this. On thing is it would need to be set up differently on a house where the service mast is strapped on the side of a 2 story house and point of attachment is a screw eye in the house and the service is pvc. Still great rigging tip. Can be modified for that particular situation

Please accept my condolences on the loss of your co-worker. I am shocked and saddened that a person's life was lost while serving the Province.

As a Troubleman I’ve tried many things. Having a long set of small blocks is the way to go. Run up the ladder and hook into service attachment, pull it out to the ground and hook it on the wire. Then you can pull it up while standing on the ground and no danger of anything pulling you off until you see it’s capable of holding the weight. Thanks for the video brother.

That was a nice find at the very end of the video! My father noticed he had occasionally issues with the lights flickering and one day measured 110v on one side and 130v on the other! Utility came and found no less than 4 spots on the triplex where it had rubbed out or melted and was shorting out!

I saw the terrible news from Atlantic Canada and am hoping you're safe and well. My thoughts are with the families of those two linesman. Stay safe out there.

Even though I'm not a lineman, I still want to say thanks for sharing this information, not just for the nice trick but also the safety aspects of what you were doing there! I've known about using a solid anchor and using block and tackle methods of winding up ropes to gain more leverage, but never thought about it from this angle (quite literally the angle and in my mind 😆) One thing that I think it worth calling out, not sure how much of a risk it is in your environment, but how using things like block and tackle pulley systems, especially when the rigging gives you over a 2:1 mechanical advantage - is the amount of extra load that the anchors take on, usually minimum of 2x the weight/force, and for each additional pulley, while decreasing the human workload (except in terms of amount of rope pulled), it increases the load on each pulley or block that's part of the system. Then again, I'm also not somebody that works with block & tackle systems, so I could just be speaking out my arse 😅 (If I am, somebody respond with more correct/proper information, please) Anyway, cheers from Seattle, hope you had a good Christmas and New Years!

this is an amazing trick that alot of lineman dont ever utilize. ill 2 block almost every time im dead ending anything. saves me from having to crank up multiple different times with the hoist. also is nice when dropping out wire with a bit of tension on it. I love your channel man. maybe one day we will work the line together. have a good day

Be Safe man, heard about the loss in the NBP crew. My Condolenses

Nice Rope trick Aaron. Never saw that one? I usually just walk up the ladder with a long set of slackies & pull the service up to sag that way. Nice bobblehead! You should use duct seal & set that on your dashboard. Using insulinks on a house service is not a good idea. We use parallel groove connections & plastic bug cover. Insulinks are ok on a temp service (100 amp). Keep up the great work! 👍👊🏻👊🏻

New merch Bobdecline bobbly head. Would be something to consider. Cool gift.

The bobble head is great, it was really well done, your Mom did awesome! Cool video! :)

Just awesome content ! Been watching you for a long time !! Keep going !!

Stay safe out there Aaron, hope all is well with you and the fam!

Great educational video, Bob. Kudos, sir!!

i love linemen so much. in my opinion, they are up there with firefighters in terms of cornerstone of rural life. i live in the sticks (not too far from where these videos are filmed) and when the power goes out, its the linemen that we rely on to get the power back. even for people with LP heating, they often still require main power to run. same goes for wood pellet heating. it doesn't matter what time it is when the power goes out up here, its ALWAYS back on in less than 2 hours. there have been a couple of exceptions where it was a catastrophic failure that required a full day of work, but that's rare. last time it was over 2 hours to fix, someone hit a pole so hard that the pole snapped into three pieces and damaged the poles on either side of that span. they had to replace the pole and run a new length on either side. it was crazy seeing a chunk of telephone pole swinging around over that wreck. dude was easily going 70 mph on black ice (drunk driver in a 4wd). turns out 4wd doesn't make your car into a magic carpet!

I love your serious safety attitude!

Nice trick. I am a electrician and usually don't do triplex feed. hear in Boston NY ,The power company does everything from weather head to the pole. Some times I do a over head feed to outher building that is after main breaker. I have a pully rope like yours that you showed but did not use. What gets hard is a 3 phase with natural . great job showing how not to get pulled off the ladder. Snow or no snow I always tie off my ladder. working with a extra guy is great . even if you can do it alone. The extra pair of eyes is a good thing even if just looking out for a person or animal coming threw the work area. That way I can focus on the job . love that bobblehead that is great. thank you for showing that. 😀

Best practice and due-diligence will bring you home to your family. It’s so crucial to always be observant and wary towards even the minutea tasks that you’ve done a million times. Thanks for sharing.

As always, Great video! Always feel like I learn something. 5:33 I hate that especially on huge wire(have a section of underground like that). Very interesting trick but the thickness of the rope is way thicker than the pulling eye. That might crush the rope. Just something to consider.

I started watching your videos before lineman school and now that I'm in it, this stuff is starting to make sense! :DDD Very similar procedures down here in the US.

I like the bobble head story. Sounds special to you. Any ideas of selling those as merch? I think it would be cool seeing all the trucks with your bobblehead on the dash. Hey i watch that guy too 😊Maybe a special shout out if you see one on vaca or whatever.

The heat of car fires was an interesting statement. I wonder how different electric car fires are since they burn longer.

10 different ways of doing the same thing, I dig it and enjoy watching even the little things as their is always something to learn.

I'm an electrician and know all the area lineman, that do hook-ups, we all have a small block and tackle set we use and it also has a locking feature!

Love your videos!

Great Video Aaron. Lots of good advice. It was a good thing that mast was secure.

Hi Aaron, been a follower for a while now. My dad was a lineman for Saskpower for 45 years. I was curious if you could make a video explaining your company procedures for a black out startup aka bootstrapping. Every company has a different procedures. Curious how your hydro company handles such an event from the black start source plant to the base load plant and anything in between like opening switches at sub stations to get the plant back in full operation. I watched a video on practical engineering that somewhat explained it. Would be some great content I'm sure. Cheers

Very useful video!!

We recently needed to get our lines company to swap the feeder from the poll to the transformer 200KVA transformer 11kv ok the HT and 415 on the LT I think a rat chewed though the 11kv line. Hello from New Zealand.

LOVE the bobblehead! LOL!!!

Southwest Missouri here another great video

I appreciate how you talk through your jobs. Just make sure videography doesn't impact your ability to work. ...cuz "Doctors" on TikTok are starting to get hit for malpractice because they TikTok on the job.

Great Video!

your mom seems cool... that bobble head is great

great tip !!

Yep customer planted all those trees directly under the power lines and they’re the ones first and most pissed off when their power is out because of THEIR trees falling on the lines or getting into and going phase to phase or phase to ground!

Thanks!

Why do houses and garages burn down and cars and trucks burn up?

U just saved my ass man !! Thanks a million!!

HAPPY NEW YEAR

Make it easy for your ground man!?!you’re too nice of a lineman lmao be safe out there brother!

We have what we call snatch blocks. It's just a small 2 block set up but the block has a spot that you can lock the rope once you get wire pulled up

@2:50 What is the "primary" wire on the "pin" used for? Ground? Lightning protection? Thanks for posting this informative video.

Love the bobble head ❤

Hi iam lineman in India

Lol your mom is getting into the merch business for your channel already

i use one of those clamps but never heard it called pork chop. I’ll use that from now on.

9:18 Wow, that clevis clamp is pretty loose! Given the tension on that conduit, I'm surprised there isn't a guy installed onto the roof. What kind of conduit is that? It's kinda weird how it is reduced down right above the meter box.

Don't they teach all this in school of course they do I miss when I first started watching you had more of day to day of your job in the streets it seems you are more turning into classroom videos 📹 I enjoyed that more but great job as always turning more of classroom videos stay safe 👍 hope too see more of what you do than classroom which I'd hope linemen of course take thanks

Nests in engine bays can be common. It just doesn't normally get large enough for the fire to cause damage. Ever had a random burning smell in your car that went away? Could have been a small nest.

What’s up Aaron! Hope you have been good.

Your rope work is impeccable! You ever rock climb? I’d trust you on the other end of my rope anytime!

On one of your videos you talked about an app were you can do transformer banking. How do I get that? Thanks

@9:00 some lineman ingenuity

Are You trolling us by looping your ladder lanyard around the back of the meter as a ladder strap??!! if sooo kudos. Im wondering if that was an easter egg You were waiting for someone to complain about. Or did ya actually be like ahhhh seems secure just as a tid bit to keep ladder from slipping out. I cant imagine that being a Local practice??. OTher wise another good vid Aaron.. So many people dont understand the advantages of creating an advantage . I use a truckers hitch or forms of it without pulleys. Such a great advantage many probly dont realize...

Never stopped to think how much weight/pressure was on the stand-off

What happens to the cable you cut down? Reused or added your scrap bin at home?

From my armchair, I feel like if a tech doing this work didn’t know this already, they shouldn’t be there.

Those wires are so much heavier than people think, had a few hit the ground

Kinda funny watching this video and my power goes out hahaha

What kind of gloves you wearing?

Did you fix the other junction that was made up incorrectly?

Slack blocks are all I need

I love the bubble head your mom got you

Have absolutely no idea what we were accomplishing here?

Here we don't call it a pork chop but a dog leg. That is a very fitting name tho. Use a short puller but it had a leather strap instead of a rope. Have no idea how old it is.

Hello, Can you do a video on EV charging stations, like a Direct Current Fast Charger (DCFC) Stations Infrastructure Site Architecture be it Tesla, Electrify America, EvGo, etc... Most stations from what I see have have numbers on the green boxes of 1000, 14.4, 480. Can you talk about how all these numbers work to say charge three cars. Thank you

mule grip? we always called those pork chops.

Pork chop... lol A.K.A a Dutchman

Work smarter not harder!!!

Did it many time's in my career.

But, but you didn't 'sag' the line. I've seen people thump the line and count the number of seconds until the wave returns back from the pole. That's what I was waiting for you to demonstrate.

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11:04 The neutral/messenger between the clamp you put on for pulling and the end near the service head looks pretty messed up. Were you not going to replace that triplex? Or splice it or?

What’s with the porcelain holding the secondary? I realize it’s company standards, but it looks like it creates more work and doesn’t improve the appearance. Less is more.

what's saggin backwards

Is your truck running all the time? If yes, why?

That service mast is a mess

that fire-damaged meter is a lot like me - fully functional but definitely useless!😃

9:15 The service mast isolator should have been replaced IMHO..

Needs to put in underground conduit and run new service underground

110v to a 208v on a single line

Just make a longer set of slack blocks

SWS (saggy wire syndrome) probably a pill for that😉

Wow never seen a meter like that. By the way it's quite common for mice to make nests in cars and chew all sorts of wires… Not fun!

why not just leave the drop , unless there going to do a complete service change upgrade ?

Tighten that spool rack 👍

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No reason Tobe out there alone this is an unsafe act.

So why not just have a couple proper pulleys? With a couple carabiners and double pulleys you can get up to 5:1 if you needed and you could even do most of your pulling from the ground.

seems like alot of work for nothing..why not just use "pony" blocks or as some say slack blocks??...been using them for 35+ years and is alot less strain with out all that excess rope....by the way love your vids..

You better not be stealing my copper I dont have anymore and it is important my cat needs wwater wtf

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I want one of those bobbleheads😁