Using the 25kv Loadbuster 

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One safety habit I've used over the years when closing or opening switches is to #1 look over the switch for problems and then line up your shot to close it. #2 ..Put your chin on your chest (this allows the brim of your hard hat to cover and protect your face and neck protecting vital arteries in your neck). #3.. Take a big breath and hold it ( what this does is keep you from sucking an arc into your lungs God forbid something should go wrong because if an arc or explosion does occur it will startle you and cause you to breath in suddenly). #4 Send it home firmly using enough power to close it and not break it. I like your videos "bump, bump"

I used to live with an electrician his answer to almost any of my questions was “a little knowledge will get you killed.”

Can confirm there is no SF6 in the Load Buster

Load buster sounds like a strip club lol. Great video Aaron

Another thing I would have liked to see is a continuity test before and after you break load. So you know it’s working properly.

It's a shame no one can make safety glasses like the welding helmets that auto darken as soon as you strike an arc

So, how many cycles on the counter before it’s taken out of service? I’m assuming that’s the reason for the cycle counter.

An interesting invention, a manual switch mounted on an insulating pole for medium voltage fuses to break the electric circuit under load.

Your fuse looks like silicon sand and air.

So if I understood right, what the Loadbuster does is to form a parallel circuit within itself so that when you open the fuse door, the contacts in the 'buster tube take the bront of the energy and the tube (plus if it has that special gas) arrests the arc while the contacts within separate. Right?

These are the kind of videos I love! The ones that actually show how mechanisms operate, and how particular operations of jobs are actually performed. Nice video!

I'm not a lineman but I enjoy your videos. I'm from Independence MO

Not sure the comments made before on SF6, but SF6 breaker internals are pretty cool. There are interrupters inside and the way it works is when the movable contact pulls from the stationary contact it creates a void inside the interrupter, sometimes called a puffer, and this creates a low pressure area that is then filled by the SF6 gas through ports and helps to blow, or "puff" out the arc. The entire inside is of course filled with SF6, but the interrupter creates this lower pressure area inside the interrupter portion. Oil filled breakers do the same thing, but instead of using a gas to cool and quench the arc, it of course uses oil. But the same principle with an interrupter and a void when the movable contact pulls from the stationary contact in the interrupter. In fact, the SF6 breaker interrupters were designed following the interrupters found in oil breakers, since the oil breakers of course pre-date the gas filled breakers.

I like seeing the tools of the line man! Great video.

Anyone else getting the 'slap chop' advert. Love this guy.

DUDE! Your channel is blowing up! Keep up the good work man, look forward to your videos all the time

Good job Bob! Keep up the good videos really enjoy! Resting my bones in Gallatin TN.

I recently just found this channel, always been fascinated with electricity since I was a kid, and it's cool to see the high voltage side of things.

Where were these videos twenty years ago? This information would be great for Apprentice Lineman.