Navopache Electric Cooperative (NEC) performs a three-phase energized line transfer as part of a single-to-double circuit distribution upgrade in Pinetop-Lakeside, Arizona.
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@steveschefstrom54832 жыл бұрын
Retired lineman 31 years couldn't believe how close they placed themselves without cover on hot lines 😲
@reggieross4125 Жыл бұрын
Exactly
@kevinbou1 Жыл бұрын
That’s the difference between Union and Co-Op…. That’s nothing Lol. Short handed and overworked, your nuts get bigger!!
@TylerM-j1i Жыл бұрын
Lifting an energized line up and over one's head seemed a bit dangerous.
@allenshepard79923 ай бұрын
More PPE and distance inspecting a 480 400A transfer switch. Even at 4160, he got his beard real close to the wires.
@xJayhawkFANx4 жыл бұрын
"how much rubber you want??" "Huh? What's that??" 😂😂
@stevegillespie64243 жыл бұрын
LMAO, exactly. So odd watching how other places around the US do their line work. JL from IL here.
@frostbitepokin95204 жыл бұрын
I don’t know what they’re doing but I’ll just hate on em too. Why is there no rubber?
@luism.raposo51384 жыл бұрын
That comment was funny. LOL
@blackcreek80s93 жыл бұрын
😂💯
@tcpnetworks4 жыл бұрын
We would have used tiger-tails to insulate the lines. Then we'd be going in with a line spreader pole that squeezes the lines apart and anchors them together. The spreader gets picked-up by a crane to lift them above the pole height. (Our poles are steel and concrete - so very conductive) Then we'd have the machine place the pole into the ground anchor, where it would be grouted in - absolutely 100% plumb. Then the crane would lower the wires to correct height - where line anchoring would occur. We place lines on the top of the cross-arm and bolt the insulator cap down The spreader bar is packed-up and everything looks perfect. Nobody gets between lines - nobody is holding a loaded cable.
@MohsinKhan-gb6xl Жыл бұрын
Ur safety level is very high.
@freethinkingamerican80 Жыл бұрын
Im sorry but what you just mentioned is not needed or necessary. They could have used some more cover up but everything was done fine and safely.
@shenPatrick5 ай бұрын
what is tiger tails?
@tcpnetworks5 ай бұрын
@@shenPatrick Tiger tails are insulated line covers. Good to 7.2 generally.
@gregjames6664 жыл бұрын
Super sketchy, I would want coverup on that phase right infront of my face.
@Newberntrains4 жыл бұрын
While it looks good on camera there should be alot more rubbers up there someone gets butter fingers and u have nice arc flashes
@a647384 жыл бұрын
At one point one the guys face was about 2cm (less than a inch) from that live wire (if if was really live)... kzbin.info/www/bejne/gaO0Ymqjrt-GfNk
@FirstNameLastName-fu8ml3 жыл бұрын
Oh shly
@AlexBesogonov3 жыл бұрын
@@a64738 He can actually touch a live wire, because he's insulated from the ground. It'll sting quite a bit (his body would work as a capacitor, passing some of the AC current) but won't be dangerous.
@emc43613 жыл бұрын
@@AlexBesogonov His body wont just be a capacitor to the environment, his body will energize the WHOLE TRUCK and the capacitive leakage currents will probably hurt him.
@Franky83123 жыл бұрын
Butter fingers on what? They’re not cutting wire tails? 3 wire construction gives you plenty of spacing between yourself and opposite phases. The knuckle on their boom is very low so they basically covered the 2 first phases they transferred for no reason other than the camera. It’s a fiberglass arm if you’re concerned about second point of contact maybe??? Are you an apprentice?
@twilllinemanforhire62664 жыл бұрын
Nice Video guys.. Glad to see everyone made it home safely.
@powerlinekidforsman93603 жыл бұрын
especially with all the safety violations if i was that forman i would kill that crew. thankfully they actually made it down shame on those lineman no cover up in the line or pole
@descent8154 жыл бұрын
Excellent video! Great safety meeting!! Line men totally have my resect! You would never see me up there doing that!
@midcenturymodern93302 жыл бұрын
These guys are pros. No service interruption and a job well done.
@jordansoerries59114 жыл бұрын
So I Interviewed for a lineman job a few weeks ago still waiting to hear back just watching videos to see what I'm getting in to. My question is how are they not being shocked?
@TheOnlyInformant4 жыл бұрын
insulating gloves with specific... well, specifications, also they're not grounded.
@TheSpajman4 жыл бұрын
The bucket is isolated from ground, they are made of fiberglass, essentially.
@marionhendrix28044 жыл бұрын
They are like a bird on wire. No second potential
@ElectroTree01 Жыл бұрын
Cranes are usually grounded
@tbomedeclinelinemanblogger37553 жыл бұрын
Did you make a video with Toledo edison a first energy company
@chrissanchez74444 жыл бұрын
To everyone pointing out mistakes let me know when you have done actual linework talking about cover and setting poles and they should have done this and should have done that and why pull slack out of a tangent to make an over arm jumper ... we’ll be cause the less connections the less things to potentially fail... I would have double rigged to keep equal tension on the double dead end but can’t be a Monday morning qb and say what YOU would have done
@cardbored_3 жыл бұрын
LOL someone feels personally attacked by those safety violation callouts
@ig7cyffufuvug3 жыл бұрын
I do . And that my friend double dead ends was a waste of time and life
@ig7cyffufuvug3 жыл бұрын
U put more strain on that wire will make the next pole tighter and you won't get that slack my friend
@chrissanchez83243 жыл бұрын
Engineers call for double dead not the lineman they get paid a lot of money think they are smarter than the hands out there building the stuff lol right now we are stringing in 336 tree wire and every pole is a double dead end and fully covered fun stuff
@ahawk30084 жыл бұрын
Hard to believe that they set that pole with no cover but on one phase what if you lose control of that pole
@oscar.gonzalez4 жыл бұрын
Fascinating!! Thank you!
@andyapple92 жыл бұрын
How is the vehcile isolated from ground? Just by the tires? I mean imagine accidental touch of one phase to metal arm of the crane you guys are up there.
@ElectroTree01 Жыл бұрын
The tires insulate a tiny bit but on bucket trucks, there is usually a liner and insulated boom(s). I don’t know about cranes though. Cranes have to be grounded where I live when doing work so it’d probably create an arc.
@fitybux46642 жыл бұрын
When they make the false deadend, was the line tension measured?
@ElectroTree01 Жыл бұрын
This isn’t really a false deadend but it is just a unguyed double deadend. Usually wire tension doesn’t need to be measured(from my observations) but there are special cases when tension needs to be measured.
@nomoretolerance7732 жыл бұрын
What happens if these bolts or the polley fell down to the street
@jondoh599 Жыл бұрын
It would hit the ground
@nomoretolerance773 Жыл бұрын
@@jondoh599 🤣🤣🤣
@Loganthe3st3 жыл бұрын
As a Residential Electrical Apprentice, I think you did good
@MadNlGER2 жыл бұрын
As an ape you have a lot to learn if you didn’t see the TONS of violations and close calls. Hand line on the neutral?? No cover on hot phases? No guts almost period. Hot line in jib. Spreading wire using tree for anchor. Not pole cover. No blankets. Guys pulling energized line or line within MAD of other energized lines with no gloves and sleeves. No way this was fully energized when they spread.
@Loganthe3st2 жыл бұрын
@@MadNlGER slow your roll there killer I’m only makin fun of other comments
@FlyEaglesFly191114 жыл бұрын
That was cool. Thanks for sharing
@FirstNameLastName-fu8ml3 жыл бұрын
So they don't use concrete to secure the wood that was inside the ground? Just curious.
@ElectroTree01 Жыл бұрын
Sometimes they do sometimes they don’t. I’ve heard of something called polecrete which might serve a similar funtion.
@matthewmiller60684 жыл бұрын
What's the purpose of having the part over the pole slack and pulling it tight on one side?
@ovehauknes54776 ай бұрын
strain relief. we usually put them for every 7th pole or where there is an angle on the line
@davidb01014 жыл бұрын
Besides the lack of cover up, just putting it in the shoe on one side and pulling up tension til you got your “jumper” on the other side, you know that pole is crooked now, and center had to be waaay tighter to achieve that jumper. So brand new crooked pole and bad sag. Why double deadend it to begin with?
@Braapdude162 жыл бұрын
@davidb0101 I saw the same thing lol, scabs trying to look like superheroes infront of a camera just to get some shotty linework in the end
@Mark_L4 жыл бұрын
So it shows dropping line into insulator. Then dead ends installed and jumper. Does the line dropped in to insulator get cut? Please explain.
@ElectroTree01 Жыл бұрын
I do not think the jumpers are cut. If they installed a recloser or something like that then they might remove the jumpers but I do not think they were removed.
@grumpyg93504 жыл бұрын
That was fun to watch👍👍👍👍👏🏻🇺🇸
@allezvenga76173 жыл бұрын
Thanks for your sharing
@thefeeforfreedom55092 жыл бұрын
Pretty sure you plumb and cant the pole before tamping it in, it’d be impossible to do it after.
@edge12895 жыл бұрын
While it appears to me that both linemen aloft are experienced, if the intention of the video is for instructional purposes the procedures are lacking. I have no problem with how the field phase was worked, the middle phase was tied off outside of the work area so the use of rubber on the line was unnecessary. Once the phase was deadended and complete it should have been 100% covered. The over the arm tap was exposed and a blanket was draped haphazardly over it, if that’s the extent of how you cover, why bother? Then once the middle phase is complete and work starts on the road phase there is no cover on the middle phase over the arm tap!!! Again, why bother with a blanket on the field phase tap if that’s how you cover? If safety man pulled up where I’m at, asses would be really sore. But what do I know, I’ve only done Line work for 43 years.
@Mike-012345 жыл бұрын
I work for utility not a line worker I remember these guys got hurt really bad they said it was from working under a uncovered line. One guy he had to talk with one of those buzzers holding on his neck like people that get cancer from smoking. I guess the line got him in the neck and chest he was all burned up in a wheel chair with one arm missing too. I helped him setup his computer they wanted him to work at a desk he just sat there all day. I think it was some sort of lawsuit thing where the company was trying to get out of lifetime disability. I had heard there was a supervisor who got fired because he was pushing them to do it. The company started training after that anyone had the power to stop work not just supervisor. It was about 13-14 years ago. I'm in Arizona also maybe you know about that's all I can say here.
@Bananahammock884 жыл бұрын
Exactly. Thank you
@StannisTheMannis3054 жыл бұрын
What’s the point of double dead ending a continuous line? We just have big insulators they sit on tied in.
@ucfsub4 жыл бұрын
Probably going to put a recloser or something else up another day.
@Alexa-sk3pn4 жыл бұрын
Wow no cover up on the arm or pole. Not enough hoses either
@igorfigueiredo3933 жыл бұрын
Good night, I'm from Brazil, I also work with a live line. How do I work at your company? Is very difficult?
@blueridgerennsport3 жыл бұрын
That second phase installation looked pretty uncomfortable and more than a little nerve-wracking....
@phirapongpatpoei2407 Жыл бұрын
very nice..come malong 🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂
@AncientAli3n7773 жыл бұрын
I don't know shit about electricity but i've always though if you touch those lines you get automatically burn. Why isnt this happening? Those gloves protecting from so much powe?
@SamsungSamsung-mu2fd2 жыл бұрын
🥰🥰🥰👍👍👍
@Glitch-nr9ct2 жыл бұрын
I wouldn't mind doing this type of work on a beautiful day but it would suck big-time in shitty weather.
@jondoh599 Жыл бұрын
You are only allowed no mistakes. One mistake, you're toast.
@rsgfamer56314 жыл бұрын
My dad works for h and m 702
@Justme-jt1ef3 жыл бұрын
Wow is nobody concerned about the Crome sockets and the impact gun?????
@ElectroTree01 Жыл бұрын
I agree They would probably take impacting to a certain point then explode.
@manojukkala12394 жыл бұрын
Your safety equipments are awesome but not mine
@johncasor96984 жыл бұрын
i would never work for this company just super unsafe... and way to many violations on film...
@ig7cyffufuvug3 жыл бұрын
A pork chop how about a grip also
@jamesrahn83392 жыл бұрын
A lot of cover up not being used
@markmaddox85243 жыл бұрын
They dirtted and tamped the hole before plumbing it. Hahah wtf
@mattgreen85304 жыл бұрын
This is painful to watch that one pole looks like a 8 hr day.
@VlajCo-di8lc4 жыл бұрын
Risking lives for a couple of hours without fucking electricity. Can't see the point of that job. Accident waiting to happen. Bring the power down, get the line grounded and work on it.
@chrissanchez74444 жыл бұрын
This comment section is a joke lol
@ig7cyffufuvug3 жыл бұрын
Y put double deadends it u could have just raise it and kept it straight ..great way to pit someone in harms way ....its just a simple pole set and changeover...suspend the crew and tge narrator
@dysccophresh5 жыл бұрын
I'd bet money that the pole is leaning hard to the side the sagged from. And who tamps the pole before you get it canted and plummed up??m
@nickdeabreu4404 жыл бұрын
no kidding. gotta plumb bob that pole and then if you are guying it or pulling on it leave it cocked to that side a little bit
@linehandibew62054 жыл бұрын
dysccophresh lolol I noticed that too. Also gotta love two guys nut ta butt in one bucket......can’t afford a second truck damnnnnn
@panch81594 жыл бұрын
😂😂😂
@garynelson95383 жыл бұрын
LOL!!! I notice that too.
@garynelson95383 жыл бұрын
@@linehandibew6205 Hell we here in SE Mich have to do this job with 3 total bodies, and beg for a 4th one.
@dcesani32243 жыл бұрын
If one of my crews set a pole and performed this work, I would fire all of them on the spot. This video shows an extreme lack of training, from truck set ups, to proper i&i. Frankly who ever posted this should not be in the utility industry unless this is an example of what not to do.
@joeyatin27343 жыл бұрын
ok
@mervynsands35013 жыл бұрын
Yeap, some may indeed say this is sloppy practice, ( it is ) 🤪🤔🤨
@badasssnow3 жыл бұрын
Can you elaborate? I'm genuinely interested in your perspective of how you would do a 3 phase tangent to dead end transfer?
@brycenanddad14532 жыл бұрын
@@badasssnow cover up for starters. No pole plastic or blankets on pole while setting it. Putting a impact on a hot insulator while the battery is right next to the arm. I mean this was just complete garbage to use as a teaching point. Moving wire without a blanket on the arm or a single hose on the line? What if they let it go? Sure it’s a fiberglass arm but damn. Didn’t look like it was in a jib unless I missed it. Also work yourself out not work your way in. Less cover up. It all electrifies and works but damn I’m surprised they get away with this stuff. Also they tamped the pole before canting it unless that’s just the editing idk.
@FactsOVERfeelings20242 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the honesty. I'm looking to get in the profession so don't know right from wrong so trying to learn as much as possible
@klk19003 жыл бұрын
They seemed very relaxed which is another thing we call complacency. I kept thinking one of these guys is gonna get his face bit. I guess everybody has a different level of comfort. Or lack of respect. If you said one of these guys is dead in 5yrs I wouldn’t be surprised and I’ll leave it at that.
@drink154 жыл бұрын
I spent 0 years as a lineman and i see nothing wrong. Good job guys!
@BudHound4204 жыл бұрын
I see how you find nothing wrong working as a lineman for 0 yrs. Lol....
@Engineer97364 жыл бұрын
BudHound 420 That’s the joke which he is making 🤦🏻♂️
@powerlinekidforsman93603 жыл бұрын
i see many problems in this video
@cherrysdiy50053 жыл бұрын
I've actually observed something similar. I can't speak to what is wrong or correct, but it was a bit different than this.
@t.r.44963 жыл бұрын
Looks good to me, tie it in. 🤪
@bucks12345785 жыл бұрын
Yea if these boys were on duke system they'd be fired. No cover on the arm or pole, boom under uncovered energized phases, energized phases uncovered to their back. No positive control over wire while being moved.
@andrewm12365 жыл бұрын
I agree man. It’s pretty amazing people continue to work like that.
@jonka14 жыл бұрын
I'm very surprised that the employer allows that kind of risk taking. It's not just a personal risk but if they had lost control of those lines and dropped one on the arm the power would be gone and the cost of fixing the burnt mess would cost dearly.
@rickzaparicio51164 жыл бұрын
@,
@Franky83123 жыл бұрын
Experienced lineman use common sense when they work. Scared or inexperienced lineman, do every little thing the company asks for regardless if it makes sense or not. They did nothing wrong, your company is keeping you in a box. You’re concerned about the boom but look at how far away it is from all the phases. You’re concerned about the energized phases to their backs but look at how far the separation is. Also, they didn’t cut any wire or handle any long tails. What is positive control to you and how would that have been safer than they way they moved the wire? Why would you cover a fiberglass arm? Are you assuming it’s really wet? Are you assuming the pole was soaked in water before they set it? Do you do any logical thinking before you do a job?
@Jules.19993 жыл бұрын
Duke sets rubber trees. Fuckin loser.
@VlajCo-di8lc4 жыл бұрын
I would never do that. Just disconnect the powerline and get substation fed from the other side during maintenance time. If there is no redundant line, just get job done without power. Nobody will die due to power outage of a few hours.
@timmiddleton74933 жыл бұрын
Yeah your right if we in the 80s and 90s but The world is changing and the power supply companies have to meet maximum customer outage restrictions - There is a price on human life unfortunately
@LarryL3g3nd3 жыл бұрын
Thats why you gotta save this kind of work for the real men, stick to your office job.
@garrygarrygarry13 жыл бұрын
@@LarryL3g3nd you probably wouldn't last long
@Gmcguy7583 жыл бұрын
Energized work is perfectly safe if done properly.... No need to de energize the line for this type of work.
@nickdeabreu4404 жыл бұрын
25 year retired lineman here. Don't think I have ever seen so many safety violations on one job.Shame on the line foreman. SMH
@danielbab38884 жыл бұрын
Yeah you’re definitely not a foreman I would want to work for
@eldcool32904 жыл бұрын
Nick Deabreu what r they
@davidd13954 жыл бұрын
38 yr retired lineman here, I see what you mean.
@citroenfil4 жыл бұрын
Nick Deabreu Everyone is an armchair expert. Procedures change.
@connorcaneva67264 жыл бұрын
@jaw willow a step 3 apprentice here and I see a few but the major safety issue I see is lack of cover up especially pole wraps and cross arm cover
@9.16TreeService6 жыл бұрын
If you could make these videos longer that would be awesome 🤙🏼⚡️
@bbc454nos5 жыл бұрын
Any longer and you'd see where they blow their arms off going phase to phase.
@pnoygil4 жыл бұрын
87_GN104 has
@HowieDewitt75754 жыл бұрын
Wow no rubner gloves on energized primary awesome!!!
@kentscoffey3 жыл бұрын
No thank you. I'm a licensed electrical contractor. What these guys are doing goes above and beyond. One mistake and limbs get blown off. I'll stick with wiring buildings.
@youknoweverything76432 жыл бұрын
I do industrial electrical and brand new oil platform electrical and plants I have seen 15kv breaker go slap through a brick wall in a plant and down 10 stories to the ground from it blowing up when we was powering up
@fitybux46642 жыл бұрын
Even those gloves they use. Even if they look safe, they might not be. Weird stuff happens with kilovolts. If there is a PIN HOLE on a glove, they could be fried and dead. They have to be pressure tested every day or so.
@bud50414 жыл бұрын
They could have saved themselves some extra cover up by reversing the order they dbl deadended the phases. Throw two hogs on the first phase and proceed to the farthest phase and work your way back out. It will save you having to cover the jumper you just made. Work smarter NOT harder.
@Franky83123 жыл бұрын
Glad I saw this comment. I was getting irritated by all the people talking about how unsafe they were, while I was more annoyed by the fact they worked on the phases from the inside out instead of outside in. Wasted moves
@strangerthingzzz61342 жыл бұрын
@@Franky8312 fax
@donutswithmydad24784 жыл бұрын
If that is actually energized, this is a travesty! I was a lineman for 16 years and have NEVER seen anything like this. No pole covers? A handline hanging from the neutral? Barely any cover on the primary? I couldn't even think of this many safety violations if I tried.
@powerlinekidforsman93603 жыл бұрын
that foreman is an idiot. if i was that foreman i would have as much coverup as possible. shame on those lineman...smh
@mb61j23 жыл бұрын
Y’all just scared bitches
@petram80503 жыл бұрын
@@mb61j2 🤡
@Franky83123 жыл бұрын
It’s a good thing you just specialized in high signs and molding. Let me know what company you worked for so I know never to go there.
@gerardogalindo89433 жыл бұрын
T&D was nicknamed total destruction and I believe have since changed names due to all their incidents
@loosecannon43734 жыл бұрын
I can’t believe anyone would sponsor this video. This whole procedure was the farthest thing from safe or industry standard. Yikes.
@TGoody22174 жыл бұрын
Yeah I just graduated line school and watching this video even I could tell this was super unsafe, they didn't even cover the crossarm, hell no would I be in that bucket without proper insulation
@brettwalton81313 жыл бұрын
It was a fiberglass arm nonconductive
@electricianron_New_Jersey2 жыл бұрын
This work is a lot different than the work I do. Climbing up utility poles with gaffs in the Navy Seabees is about as close as I ever got to being a lineman. Look, lock, drop. Repeat. I rewire old houses theses days and there's no shortage of old houses and work in New Jersey. Thanks for the informative video.
@linehandibew6205 Жыл бұрын
Funny seeing you here brother!!!!! New to your channel 💪
@thatoneunicornguy93665 ай бұрын
Been thinking about joining the Navy and becoming a Seabee. Would you recommend it as a career path in the military?
@alsehl36094 жыл бұрын
He got his face pretty close to the line as he was looking past it at something!
@nicvanorton6795 Жыл бұрын
This profession is completely overlooked and its what keeps the world moving!
@user-winstonsmith4 жыл бұрын
So much for two layers of protection when they handled that energized phase without cover up. Also we call the pork chops, grips and that’s a hot hoist.
@zachbufmack85414 жыл бұрын
Gloves. Bucket liner. insulated boom
@Franky83123 жыл бұрын
@@zachbufmack8541 you just blew his mind
@ulissesfierrouf6 жыл бұрын
Whats the point of the double dead-end? Cant they just keep it as an intermediate?
@simmonsjd154 жыл бұрын
Could create isolation point in the future
@juans66394 жыл бұрын
Just a thought or suggestion from me. Wouldn't it be safer to start with the middle phase and work outward? Would hate to see an arc.
@connormondello14865 жыл бұрын
The 3 phases of 3 wires are live & you'll hear the electricity in contact with the grip on the middle wire.
@freethinkingamerican804 жыл бұрын
Nice video, just watched that while on lunch did some line work myself just a little bit earlier. I like those clamp tops a lot, so nice!
@powerlinekidforsman93603 жыл бұрын
"come with meee and you'll beee in a world of OSHA violations
@RussellBooth19774 жыл бұрын
In my area which is in Australia I think that they de-energize the power lines when doing major work such as that !
@redsquirrelftw4 жыл бұрын
I feel that's the way to go imo. No service assurance is worth making a job 10x more dangerous than it has to be. I would rather my power go off for a couple hours or a day and know the linemen are safer. The job can probably be done faster when power is off too. Ground both ends of all 3 phases and it is safe to work on.
@mrbreezeaau2 жыл бұрын
We do both in Aus. But agree with most comments on this page that this is work to a poor standard. Piss poor cover up
@dillanglover1072 жыл бұрын
@@redsquirrelftw you’d be surprised how much people complain when we de-energize to do this kind of work
@cymbala6208 Жыл бұрын
That's the harsh reality of US capitalism. In Europe we have more of a "soziale Marktwirtschaft" (not always very social, but for sure better than in the US). Protection of workers has a higher value here in relation to maximizing profit than in the US.
@cymbala6208 Жыл бұрын
@@dillanglover107 We have deenergizations very very rarely here in Germany. I would assume that we have more backup. When I was a child (30years ago) we had more outages, but the energy supply has improved and I cannot remember any outage over the last years, not even during thunderstorms.
@joohop2 жыл бұрын
Why Have You Got Power Lines Vulnerable Above Ground ? Why Not Subterranean ??
@ElectroTree01 Жыл бұрын
Cost of installation, maintenance, and removal. Accessibility is horrible. You usually need to take an excavator and possibly a jack hammer just to access a line. I do not think underground work can be done live either.
@------country-boy-------4 жыл бұрын
this is why women live longer than men
@maysiemays67773 жыл бұрын
Is it so hard for someone in the control room to put down their coffee and hit the off switch.
@chasefrank81432 жыл бұрын
Lol...ignorance is bliss
@robprice583 жыл бұрын
Wow safety violation heaven, not to mention bad practices. They didn't even install the plastic shields inside the grab insulators to protect from line vibration damage. Not to mention the guys on the ground not wearing hotline gloves as the pole is being put up in place.
@a647384 жыл бұрын
Are they working with a bucked that is totally insulated? To me this looked like the most unsafe procedure ever, their faces was just a less then a inch from touching the lines several times. You do not want to loose your face and eyes in an arc flash... Also that lifting the electric wire over their heads was scary as hell. A little error and there would be roasted linemen everywhere ?.
@Capslocks274 жыл бұрын
much respect for those that do this kind of work... as an ex-military men, u couldn't pay me enough to do this... i respect electricity too damn much to mess with it.
@simplyella57943 жыл бұрын
are there such thing as line girls? I wanna be one:(
@timmiddleton74933 жыл бұрын
Yes, and because companies are looking for diversity you have really good odds of landing a job. Go and seek a job out you'll be surprised how approachable they are are. (At least this is the case in Australia)
@fz0gtg4 жыл бұрын
Was glad to see the safety briefing at the beginning! I was concerned however at the 4:35 mark to see the uncovered arm of the man lift directly under the exposed live line. Is the boom isolated from ground somehow? Thanks guys for your service and keeping the power flowing, safety has to be the #1 priority in everything we do so everyone goes home to their families at the end of each day!
@xJayhawkFANx3 жыл бұрын
This really is not the safest crew. Many places would have much more rubber up there. With that being said, yes, the bucket has an insolated lining in it so even if you do make contact, it would only bite you, not electrocute you. Many buckets also have insulated booms along side with the insulated bucket. So even if they make contact they probably won't get injured.
@TheBanjoShowOfficial2 жыл бұрын
Where do you see an uncovered arm? I looked 5 times and saw arms 100% covered
@fz0gtg2 жыл бұрын
@@TheBanjoShowOfficial at 4:34 when they placed the center line, in the background you can see the white arm of the boom from the winch truck is unprotected!
@IndependenceIron Жыл бұрын
The bucket truck(manlift) they are working out of would have minimum insulated rating of 46,000 volts, and the upper boom arm is mostly all fiberglass and insulated. In theory the lineman could barehand the line from the bucket and be ok, but the real danger is line to line contact. If they make contact between the two lines, there is no insulaiton to protect them other than the rubber gloves/sleeves they are wearing.
@EphemeralProductions11 ай бұрын
The whole truck is insulated and isolated. For all electrical linemen. Has to be. Or else they’d be fried the instant they got close
@colecionandopitaya42224 жыл бұрын
Amo esse trabalho, é muito bom I love this job, I learn a lot of good things
@juans66394 жыл бұрын
Esse trahbalho é muito perigoso. Que Deus abençoe ao todos.
@RJSAMCRO4 жыл бұрын
I watched a video called Life on The Line with Travolta and my respect for these guys jumped 110% Thank You to all the Lineman who risk their lives for our comfort.
@mb61j23 жыл бұрын
Hahahahahaha
@pahanpahan80932 жыл бұрын
Stupid video with Travolta
@redsquirrelftw4 жыл бұрын
Wow I had no idea linemen ever touched the lines. I know their gloves are rated for it but I still assumed all work was done in a way to best avoid it. Are the bucket trucks fully insulated from ground? Wondering how bad it would be if one slipped up and it contacted their skin such as their face.
@Jules.19993 жыл бұрын
Trucks a fully insulated 3 times, bucket liner, and twice on the boom. You can touch energized conductor so long as you’re fully insulated, as you are in a bucket, so long as there is no crossphasing or path to ground.
@dillanglover1072 жыл бұрын
Blood, guts, body parts, etc. is what can happen if you ever came in contact with that kind of voltage lololol
@michaeltrejo21203 жыл бұрын
Man no wonder so many damn accidents happen!!
@connormondello14866 жыл бұрын
Moving energized wires to a new crossarm and insulators.
@timoleary92 Жыл бұрын
It's interesting to hear the comments from the retired linemen. It's called progress, guys. We get better at things over time. A surgeon who spent 30 years doing open heart surgery with very low success rates would be bewildered watching a surgeon today perform cardiac catheterization as an outpatient procedure!!
@aarongust75517 ай бұрын
Doesn’t matter how long you’ve been retired as a lineman, or going to school for it now, the amount of safety violations is incredibly high. These men are lucky to be alive with how they are practicing this trade. Numerous times in this video they performed unsafe tasks which could’ve killed the both of them in the bucket instantly because of there neglect to cover second points of contact.
@chrispearl14737 күн бұрын
Yea but working with the same electricity that kills you the same as 50 years ago doesn’t give you more wiggle room between life and death. It’s a shit comparison. Rubber protection is good. Saying we are in a new time really doesn’t apply when it comes to good safety measures here.
@timfoster68914 жыл бұрын
No safety department I suppose WTF
@AlfonsoFlorification4 жыл бұрын
Dumb question sorry but what exactly were they doing wrong safety wise ? Just curious
@TGoody22174 жыл бұрын
@@AlfonsoFlorification I just recently graduated line school so not a lineman just yet but this is what I saw, when working energized lines you want to insulate everything around you so that if you accidentally touch something you won't be making a second point of contact (which is why you get shocked) and so these guys didn't cover the crossarm, the pole itself, every conductor, every insulator, and every thing in general, you want everything around you to be covered, this was super unsafe
@jwamerica4 жыл бұрын
Welcome to the real world. Nobody I have ever worked with uses that much cover. And why would you cover a fiberglass crossarm anyway?
@wingsley Жыл бұрын
One question I always wondered about when it comes to these prefabbed cross-arms that use no underside bracing: How does a corss-arm like this maintain stability so it doesn't wag in the wind? Do they use multiple bolts to mount it?
@ElectroTree01 Жыл бұрын
These are fiberglass crossarms. Most fiberglass crossarms have a bracket which holds a bolt above and below the crossarm. This prevents the crossarm from moving. Hope this helps.
@adpanter14325 жыл бұрын
La técnica de aislado sobre aislado es cubrir toda la referencia a tierra y no cubren con protectores ni con mantas se arriesgan mucho
@roosterkerr17804 жыл бұрын
Yeah i think i would have done a few things different myself .
@jg39913 жыл бұрын
The cover-up on this job was not adequate. I would use this video for instruction on how to NOT do the job. The linemen were successful, but didn’t work it properly.
@austinanderson84856 ай бұрын
I mean did they get it done yes but I think there should been more cover as a precaution when setting and then moving phase overhead is fine but should have had cover on it and lift it but the cover upside down so it protects not only you but also anything it could come in contact with
@mikemaben74852 жыл бұрын
Wow. Linemen have a vary DANGOURS job. Electric shock. Falling and. Traffic
@ernestflowers7876 Жыл бұрын
Wow currently a journeyman lineman and there is so much wrong with this video. These guys need to have some better training or some better leadership. At the end of the day a few more steps may be necessary and a few extra minutes to do them but it’s worth it to come home and not get hurt or see a fellow worker hurt.
@dinosaurcomplaints23594 жыл бұрын
When he put the “pork chop” on and I heard ttszzzt! Told me I don’t want to ever mess with something like that!
@baileyquick63 жыл бұрын
For sure, ive got nothing but respect for these guy working in the electrical field/industry
@jmac06433 жыл бұрын
I'll stick with the low voltage stuff.
@justinl89273 жыл бұрын
You don’t need a ton of rubber like everyone is bitching about here. If your in between phases it’s good to have plenty of rubber but if your on the outside of the phase you don’t need it. Just more shit you have to move and waste time and energy on.
@stephenfoster6448Ай бұрын
Why take cover off to move who is training these men keep the ambulance close
@nitetrane982 жыл бұрын
They should have never done this. It's entirely too dangerous. If they don't do it nobody would ever get hurt. The only thing 2 electricians agree on is that the third one is wrong.
@badboy.badboy11773 жыл бұрын
Hi I'm indian from kerala I'm duyig this job on contract in KSEB wil you give job to me.. my english is bad..
@kristopherparker13272 жыл бұрын
One should ask. At the 5:09 mark. I see we have on gloves and sleeves, yet his face seems to defy the use of any gear. Normal & Ok?
@mohinderkaur66714 жыл бұрын
Wont want be anywhere near these energized lines without protective rubber covering and positive control
@lawoull.65814 жыл бұрын
I work em withot gloves all time...💥🤫
@bullhippo90233 жыл бұрын
I can't even watch this work. It scares me so much, ooops! No mistakes, no forgiveness!