Being a Lineman - Episode 36

Hey Everyone!
It's not often we glove live primary during trouble call response, especially when losing daylight! This job however was a perfect opportunity! We were able complete repairs safely without interrupting power to our customers.
Be safe out there everyone! 👊🍻
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[@fredhero]

Smart move with the sun! Real professional move on your part to have that level of awareness.

[@Bobsdecline]

Definitely a hazard that would be easy to overlook!

[@emmettadams3609]

I would too this shit they are doing is not a joke one mistake your doneso have too be aware of all your surroundings at all times

[@grabasandwich]

4:40 love those shots where you have to open the door, place the camera, then go back and pretend you're just coming in 😁 👍

[@Bobsdecline]

Oh no.... That camera is always in there watching the door! 😬🤥🧑‍🦯

[@Boodieman72]

@@Bobsdecline Must be motion activated ;)

[@jfbeam]

@@BobsdeclineHeh. Oh, there are cameras. The question is getting that sweet video for one's youtube channel. (Around here, Duke/CP&L are learning the value of cameras the hard way.)

[@tomschmidt381]

@@Bobsdecline Don't give away your videographer filming secrets :)

[@jimanderson4495]

A great video for those of us who wonder why electric line work takes so long. It’s ALL about safety. Thanks Aaron.

[@_Kirby207]

Aaron, I watch every video straight until the end, rambling or not. 🙂 Maine, USA EDIT: If you know anyone on a crew that came here to help with the last storm we got, give them a fist bump and a thank you from someone to whom it made a difference

[@grant5227]

I love seeing the amount of double checking and having someone else verify that goes into making sure the right precautions have been setup on the right equipment. Everyone working together to make sure nobody misses something that could get someone hurt.

[@heatherkohlwey8379]

That is an incredible amount you need to remember. I guess the motivation is your life and others depends on attention to all of the details. You guys are amazing. Thank you for a very interesting video. Please stay safe, and God bless.

[@kevinmoore342]

All you men get every bit of my respect. Thanks for risking you lives just to keep our Lights on.

[@549BR]

People really appreciate you guys, even though they seldom can communicate that to you. Your's is a tough and risky occupation; thanks so much for what you do for us.

[@rickn501s]

I admire and respect your attention and adherence to safety procedures. Working in such cold temperatures is not pleasant nor is it easy. You handle it quite well. Thanks for taking us along on your job.

[@donh6416]

Having worked in an industrial setting with 115kv down to 12vdc and 800 amps...I appreciate how diligent you and the crew are with the safety aspect. We always said " you only get 1 chance at stayin' alive".

[@malcolmborges2089]

Been watching you for a couple years, doing an electrical diploma and an industrial electrical apprenticeship. Finally got a start in Hydro One as a cable splicer and can’t wait!

[@ericcox6764]

Man Aaron, that was so cool!! I have to admit that my heart skipped a beat when your partner reached up and grabbed that live phase. I saw he was wearing his gloves, but it still freaked me out. I love the redundancy that you use in your communications. It reminds me of ATC talking to aircraft. Thanks again for all the hard work that you guys do, keeping the lights on for the rest of us!! Edit: Your content just keeps getting better every time i watch a new video.

[@rupe53]

One of the better videos here. Not much on trouble shooting to be done, but plenty of safety protocol and procedural stuff. It's the small stuff that takes time out in the field.

[@tombaker2523]

No complacency, great work procedure 😊 excellent communication for procedure and intentions.

[@gradyrm237]

Keep em coming Aaron. Never tire of these videos

[@peanutapt]

Hey Aaron, Commercial Journeyman Electrician here just wanted to say thanks for uploading these videos. whole different zone from what i do but good insight as too how everything comes together in the end. Love the videos man been watching for the past couple years now, stay safe!

[@jeffreykornspan9053]

Another great video Aaron, along with another long day. Thanks for a look in the control center. Stay safe!

[@Spirch]

keep the videos coming! i find interesting how things are being done

[@JonnyFlash80]

Truly impressive stuff. I'm watching from New Brunswick and work for a certain power utility. Big fan of what you do!

[@travisdriggers4027]

That was very interesting. Definitely worth taking the time to watch. Thank you Aaron for posting this video and all of the videos that you share with us. I'm watching from Palatka, Florida. 🤜

[@Bobsdecline]

Thanks Travis! 👊👊 I wish I was filming from Palatka... It's freezing out here now 🥶😟

[@WrenchNinja91]

As always love the content Aaron keep em coming. It's always enjoyable to see the details that go into line work and trouble calls. Thanks for the learning opportunities Watching from Missouri, USA

[@franciscallan2729]

Thanks for the information I always wondered what a day in the lineman was like. You have made me so much more aware of the dangers you must experience daily and not just from the wires and equipment but, from the perdicaments and planning that goes into the traffic time of day and procedures you must follow to complete your task. I for one will be more aware when driving near or working around lineman working thankyou. Keep up these videos Im very interested in your work and appreciate the professional details and explanation.

[@ericclothier2543]

Always love watching your videos Aaron! From the US here, working in telecom. It is fascinating to learn about the upper half of the poles I climb daily. It is also awesome to see the dedication to safety. Keep up the good work, mad respect to you and everyone who handles the power grid!! 👊👊

[@tristanmcewan1829]

As a traffic control person with the company holding the contract with the utility company in western Canada it’s nice to see someone looking out for us not every crew I work with does. Mad props

[@verloaded2564]

Yoooo that was so friggin cool! I'm extremely grateful for your channel man. Awesome work, stay safe and thank you for your service 👍🏾. Watched till the end 😀

[@chrisdwalter]

I did not leave the video until the very end. As someone who wanted to be an electrician sense I can remember and later chose to do limited energy wiring I love your videos. I still trained for 110/220 and 110/208 and am comfortable working on those circuits as well. Including wiring my own house when built. Thanks for showing us how things are done.

[@kens.3729]

Thanks for Practicing Safety each and every Minute of Every Day for the Benefit of yourself and your Family. 👍🙏

[@rayraap3905]

This was extremely interesting quite the treat. Thank you.

[@webworkhere]

Glad to see your glove test. Be safe always man.

[@davidvollmer959]

Hope you have a happy and safe new year. The jobs that you and coworkers do are truly appreciated. Love watching your videos. It's quite an interesting and specialized field of work that you do.

[@tonymidmore7652]

I know a lot of things about a lot of things, but your line of work is something I know virtually nothing about. Fascinating to watch and your detailed explanations are fantastic. Thank you.

[@jimragan9432]

thank you for your service

[@Don-pq5gg]

Excellent video. Helps explain the complexity, dedication to safety, and expense in powerline transmission. Always thought that electrical line work was the height of service utilities. That is - the best work for the best people.

[@gordon9042]

I am always impressed with your care in how you do the job. Your commitment to safe working practices is spectacular.

[@c0rr4nh0rn]

Really interesting stuff, and I am always glad to see how safety positive you are, and those you work with seem to be as well!

[@gordon9042]

Your commitment to safe working practices is always impressive to me.

[@frederickbowman4494]

GREAT VIDEO REALLY INJOYED IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@Bobsdecline]

Thanks Frederick! 👊🤝

[@tomschmidt381]

It is fascinating watching what is involved maintaining electrical power. Lots of respect for the crews. Thanks for showing us what is involved.

[@thelzmovement6480]

This has got to be the safest crew I’ve ever seen

[@pleasureincontempt3645]

You’re a fuckin’ true soul to the cause and experienced as hell; I can’t understand why you don’t have more subscriptions! I mean, I know that this is a pretty niche channel as far as interests go and you have a good solid background of videos on how electricity works. Most people are naive and want to have the shock factor in 10 second tiktok videos. 1. I suggest adding the lowest-common-denominator videos in found footage and why it sucked for the people electro-cuted or electric shocked. It widens the net so to speak, and brings on enthusiats looking for meaning. 2. Tell us what it was like to be a young lineman before you became assured and knowing. New Nurses and Doctors are shitting their pants and quitting due to bullies before they realize their potential.

[@JimwombatLand]

Love a Lineman !

[@jackreed3445]

We had a breaker that was opened by the handle on the front of the switchgear but it turned out that it did not fully open. It relyed on momentum to pull off of the buss. Luckily one of the helpers stopped the boss from starting to reach inside of the cabinet for something. I ended up installing windows so you could see the unit before opening the door. This switch also failed to fully connect one time and it blew the door wide open when they attempted to start the motor. Luckily nobody was in front of the gear at the time. Big brand name gear that totally failed us and made us somewhat nervous and taught us to double check everything more than once before doing anything with it. When I was sitting in the control part of the cabinet to change out the control transformer I saw that the shelf dipped under my weight and exposed the buss in the back of the cabinet. Many steps were taken by the company to improve the design from the things that we noted while using the gear.

[@tjairicciardi9747]

awesome video, appreciate the work you do

[@MikeF1189]

Greetings from New Mexico. Being the desert, we aren't used to -14 C or minus anything C. You boys are up in the air with such thin clothes, you are a tough bunch. I climb cell towers and many are on the top of mountains and can be very windy and older than a Well Digger's Arse. When I'm climbing in the cold, I have 20 pound of clothes on. I have never heard of heated til. Can you tell us more about that and how it works. I would love to have a warm place to put tools. Thanks for the hot line video, i enjoyed that. The most we ever work on is 480v and mostly 208v and 48VDC. We rarely get to use a bucket, usually we have to climb.

[@stanley4006]

Hey Aaron, great video. I am a field service tech, we test and clean medium and high voltage equipment. Like the breakers and gear in the sub and transformers outside in the yard. Great to see everything in the video, a lot of people don’t get to see everything that’s done everyday.

[@Cire605]

Just a wicked floater. I also noticed his harness was not on properly. His lanyard was in between his body and a body strap.

[@johnledger7763]

Thank's Aaron & co workers very interesting information to be able to watch up close. Be Safe.

[@drainageissue2022]

In the future it would be nice to show a hot glove test with a failure and show the various ways they can fail.

[@michaeleberl2104]

i always watch to the end, great content. thanks for sharing

[@allenshepard7992]

Breakers are about five feet tall. Lots of ceramic on the one's I've seen. Those were VACUMM breakers. 4Kv (yes old lines) had oil filled switch with metal blades we could see. Yep, not like 2,000 low voltage (480 v) breaker that has a screw to pull the breaker out. High caloric "Bomb suits" (sigh) not like it used to be. Still would not like to be near one during a closure of a hard fault. BTW, the batteries are in clear thick plastic containers. We had a guy to check the voltage, water level and that the negative pressure ventilation fan was working.

[@nicholasmiles671]

I love the radio comms. It's like listening to a pilot talk to ATC.

[@jamesashley3827]

By looking at your substation switchgear it does have arc flash protection on your breaker or main buss bars in switchgear, I installed 3-15 KV switchgear that breaker rack in or out by a CATE 5 cable that was 50 feet long you did not have to in front of gear to install breaker. To open or close breaker was thur a computer system in another room . Stay safe👊

[@thereview32]

The rubber glove truck huh, that’s a new one lol

[@MikeHarris1984]

At 6:04, you are at panel BOOB 10 Year old me is cracking up. *turns calculator upsidedown* 58008

[@_hotrod_]

Great video Aaron, as always! I love learning something new every time I watch your videos. Your so informative.it’s awesome🤘🏻😎❤️

[@unwired1281]

Great video Aaron thanks 👍👊‼️ stayed till the end👊👍

[@horacerumpole6912]

Pretty darn interesting, start to finish!!!!!

[@michaelmorgan7893]

Years ago, Southern California Edison used to have something called a Lindsay clamp top, where the saddle of the insulator was aligned 90° against the wire, and this is where the bolt that holds the clamp top, fits around the biscuit of the insulator. The clamp had these two shoulders on both sides that enclosed around the biscuit, and the shoe would ride up top, aligned with the wire. Then the shoe portion, had a jaw that could be closed with a hot stick with a socket attachment.

[@johnjones6077]

There’s a video on KZbin of someone doing a safety demonstration on rubber gloves. He showed that if you have the wrong size leather shell (too big) the arc can track and jump the shorter distance at the cuffs. Also he poked a hole with a thumb tac and inflated the glove with a glove inflator and you could not hear or feel air where the hole was. So just a heads up to everyone when inspecting their gloves. Please do so carefully

[@MrJujubean]

That was an awesome video

[@bigdog2024]

So much attention to detail and procedure is required to stay safe as a lineman and to make safe repairs that last. It’s a hard job physically with all kinds of weather and mentally to stay focused at -40 to +120 in wind, rain and snow. Then there are things like bird and hornets to complicate it even more. I have a much greater appreciation of the guys who work to keep my rural co-op power on 99.99% of the time. We recently had a substation transformer fail on my circuit taking out 100s of homes and they had it replaced quickly. It would be an interesting video to see how they work on things like transformers and those HV reclosers/breakers you showed in this video. Does your company handle that work too.

[@Davemte34108]

Racked out/in hi-voltage breakers in the steel mill weekly for down turn maintenance. Also did repair of the breakers in the shop.

[@pedrooropeza3527]

Im glad i found your channel thank you so much

[@gregaluise5727]

ION7330's!!! I used to work on those (and their discontinued big brother 7700)! I never did electrical work, but being in IT I managed a wireless network for remote meters across a college campus and we had a bunch of ION7330s. Also I lucked out to be sent to then "Power Measurement" (now Schneider electric) training. RIP PowerMeasurement! A fine example of Canadian enginuity and engineering! Oh and did anybody else think: "Hot Line Tag... you used to call me on the recloser..." (Instead of "Hotline bling")?

[@Renville80]

I can't be the only one who was a bit nervous with how wobbly that arm was!

[@barryomahony4983]

Amazing work. I think this is my favorite of your videos.

[@NatesRandomVideo]

Enjoyed that Aaron. Thanks.

[@somethingelsehere8089]

I giggled at "They call that testing your gloves" - a bit of gallows humor...

[@MichaelRBaron]

Love the original intro for the long format video

[@rodrickbourque]

Great work!

[@mikeburch2998]

That was a great video. The whole task was smoothly done. Greetings from Arizona.

[@bertblankenstein3738]

This was a really good video. Lots of interesting aspects. I didn't think they would go in between the neatral and primaries given it was live.

[@Huskersnred]

Very interesting on how some of the stuff you are doing is done , and always safety is the number one .

[@repatch43]

Love this, fantastic video, thanks!

[@SodiumInduction-hv]

wow, stay safe!

[@McChungus1234]

Thanks bob, as a grunt I’d like to think I learned something

[@spelunkerd]

That was very interesting.

[@LUCAMTire]

Good to see the channel is growing. Can't remember when I subscribed but I know it was a very low number, few years back, 500-1000 subs maybe? Cool to see things grow. Keep having fun! 😊

[@willrobbinson]

watched to the end with interest , u looked v tide at the end !

[@alasdairmunro1953]

Impressive work Aaron!

[@Scorp7867]

Well done! Waiting for more... Thanks

[@ismaelabregana8907]

Hi sir Aaron! I always watch your video on my phone and on my tv.. i wish we have live line works here in our EC(Electric Coop )

[@cpunut]

Stones! ⚡️

[@HighMansx]

Cool video! Ducking through the lines seems scary as hell, knowing how much I hit my head on things -- I'd be afraid of hitting my neck against a live wire 🤣 Love the videos, keep up the great work!

[@georgew.5639]

-14 Celsius is 6.8 Fahrenheit. That’s cold. 🥶

[@Epictetus1]

Great content. Making me wish I had chosen this career path. 🙂

[@Jcreek201]

I’m surprised they let you film inside the control house so freely. You did a good job cropping the shot but I still feel like this probably still makes NERC compliance folks anxious. 😂

[@timbodtoolman7025]

Great job 👍😎👊🏻🇺🇸🙏

[@mervindiaz9873]

I am a fan of your videos , they are very good.

[@moe85moe85]

Long days great work.

[@steveblanco8812]

Nice work cheers for sharing all the best for year ahead

[@nick8231]

Those are some pretty nice 1950's Canadian porcelain I have one myself they are pretty heavy duty.

[@NSaw1]

They are pretty cool! Always love seeing old equipment doing their job for so long.

[@nick8231]

@@NSaw1 I'm a insulator collector and it's pretty sad seeing them being replaced and thrown out

[@NSaw1]

@@nick8231 Same here! Im always trying to keep an eye out for crews around my area replacing poles with old equipment on it so I can ask if I can have them. I love the really old porcelain insulators that are from the 40s or earlier. I found a 7.2kv one that by my best guess is from the 20-30s that developed a pin-hole through it. Very pretty glaze on it and I was really glad to have found it and that it wasn't broken other than the slight mark where the pin-hole flashed. But my gosh it was so sad to see it and so many other cool insulators in the dumpster. I probably got over 100 insulators from it lol It's always a sad day for me when one of my local old poles gets replaced.

[@jimdayton8837]

Are they really that old? That pole didn't look almost 70 years old.

[@NSaw1]

@@jimdayton8837 Yep it was. Most of the older lines around my area in Idaho are actually mid 1940s. There's still quite a large part of the North American power grid that was built in war time. Although the last couple decades there have been a lot being replaced.

[@AintBigAintClever]

A different centre insulator, do you reckon there's been a previous "popped pin" on that pole or are different ones used for mounting on the pole itself?

[@Bobsdecline]

I suspect someone's been here before

[@robertcookjr6100]

Great video . ! Stay safe out there!

[@Bluenoser613]

What is a rubber glove truck? Anything different about the truck, or just the equipment/work that is done?

[@alan.macrae]

Is your check of one pole above, one below, called a "T-Zone inspection?" Great video Aaron. Stay warm and safe. Cheers! 🤜🤜🤜

[@montanaboy3777]

Another excellent video there "Sparky"!! Love all the different things that have to happen before any work is performed! I am curious though as too how a recloser actually work & and how they set it too count 3 time (We are set that way here in Montana) and can you folks run them manually as well as remotely when needed?? Thanks for the video share!!

[@rupe53]

I know we have some remotely operated reclosers in my area that work via radio. (lower Ct) Most seem to be in rather rural areas and away from a substation. Not sure if they can be switched to manual via radio.

[@Evmoy15]

I appreciate your dedication to safety but the balance of practicality, like not taping off those runs since you knew you'd be hooking them up again shortly.

[@s.e.v.2055]

I have done some minor work in a sub station doing grounding. I have to use composite boot or rubber one boots just wondering if that is for all that enters the gate.

[@craigwatt1303]

3:34 think this should of been being a ninja.