Linework on a Sunday!

[@Moist_burrito]

We just lost power for an 6 days in Oklahoma and it’s been 100+ degrees never realized I took them for granted but thank you guys all of you

[@dontblameme6328]

I highly doubt that would be the first dead bird those kids have ever seen. It's rural. People are real there.

[@Jak0kaj]

16:16 I stress this to any of my apprentices. “ Think about the next person that needs to access or find this. Who knows, it might even be you. “

[@unimog_jason]

Those bushes are certainly hawthorn. I have a lot of them on my farm in Sainte-Marie, I have no idea how many tires I've lost due to those stupid things. I've made it my life's mission to purge every last one of them from my land. I have been told it was the English who brought them over for hedge rows. I wish they had kept them in England, those trees are just evil.

[@CorbinHardwick]

Hey Mr. Aaron, my name is Corbin Hardwick, I’m a 22 year old linework student at Texas State Technical College way down here in Waco Texas and I just want to say thank you for starting your channel. Truly. I grew up trying to grow corn on a tiny sand dune in West Texas where technology is probably 10 years behind and the only real way to learn how to do things is to pry at the old men who try and gatekeep knowledge for sake of “figuring it out” and hearing your passion for the trade in all of your videos and how genuine you are ignites a fire inside of me I didn’t know I had. The biggest motivating factor for me to get out here every day in the 104° weather and climb up a pole is how sincerely relieved the customers seem when you turn the power back on. I can’t wait to get out there and work alongside guys like you because it’s more than just a job to people like us. I’ll finish up my certificate along with my Class A and my OSHA 30 come next month and man I truly appreciate all of the knowledge and support you have consistently provided through your channel. If you have any pointers for landing my first apprenticeship, that would be the icing on the cake! But again, I just wanted to say thank you 🤝

[@rickygonzalez8206]

I’m goin to tstc as well for lineman but way way way really down here in Harlingen tx, how’s it going for you brother?

[@Bobsdecline]

Hey all! Feel free to skip from approx. 13:15 to 14:15 if you aren't interested in hearing the results of the fractal wood burn giveaway!

[@mxslick50]

Naw, that would have ruined the surprise. Besides, this was, as usual, a really great video, love how you show all of the process, and take extra care to not expose the public to the unfortunate critters who find out the hard way that 7200 volts isn't a good thing. Cheers, and thanks for placing me in the top 20. :)

[@JackThelRipper]

Oh I know what you mean dude when it comes to things not being made easier to work on for the next guy or gal. I’ve been a major home appliance tech for 15 years solid now and some of the crap I’ve had to work on is ridiculous on how it was designed. I would give anything to drag these so called engineers with me into the field and force them to work on their own design and see how much of a pain it is and hopefully they go back to the drawing board. Thanks for another great vid and also showing us that fuse link 10amp wire.

[@marvnation924]

As someone who is currently getting into linework just out of lineschool, I hope to work under someone as knowledgeable and as excellent of a teacher as you are and in turn emulate those skills myself. Cannot wait to get started in this field after just getting out of the military and from my exposure so far to the work I absolutely love it.

[@bobbysenterprises3220]

I had the pleasure of speaking with a groundman last week while someone was on the pole. My mother in law called me because her power was being really weird. Sort of rural area but in a subdivision. I went to make sure she wasn't just being funny and I saw 117 on one leg and 60 on the other to ground. Before I measured it I thought her entry or fuse box. (Yes 60 amp fuse service) but it looked fine. Saw the guys up the road looking confused at the transformer that her and 6-8 houses were on. I didn't want to distract but they both were looking all around and the guy in the air was not hands on. So I slowed down rolled my window and said I appreciate their work. I'm glad they are here. I can go to work now. He is said "o see so your seeing this too?). They had actually thought it was just one house that has an issue. Said they had to go back to hq and pick up a new transformer and be back later. Oddly enough my work is a small drainage creek from where they store all their transformers. I'll get a photo of their yard sometime and figure out how to share it. You need a discord server or somthing. Although I appreciate your time into these videos and it must be a lot for you to do for everyone to learn from. Be safe

[@kens.3729]

Great job with Safely Removing the Dead Bird and Restoring Service to the Customer. Thanks! 👍🙏

[@heatherkohlwey8379]

There was a crispy crow that hung upside down from the middle of a side line for at least a year. We don't know how it happened or why it was left there, but it was a local joke. Congratulations to the winner! That is a great example of no matter how we try to tame a natural force, it can always show it's wild side. Thank you for another interesting video, Aaron! Stay safe, and God bless.

[@DougSmith-zt8bn]

As always…great job. Enjoy watching you work.

[@davep6977]

Good job. I used to hate getting a cat pole calls. Especially with the owner right there waiting for me to get kitty down and hoping I get the crt. killed before it moved around too much. Then problem two. They will tear you up. My technic. Get a pillow case from the owner and have a pair of elbow length leather welding gloves (line is dead and grounded). Grab cat, place in pillow case, hold end tight and tell owner don't open until they're in the house with the doors closed. I've had them get out and run right back up the pole. And good comment on not leaving the deceased lay around

[@danielninedorf5502]

The fused disconnect, on some the hot side was a resistor vs insulator. The rain as it was stopping created Corona steps and flashover. Some utilities find these with infrared on a dry day. One utility found 300 hot fused cut-outs and saved hundreds of outages.

[@blokey5160]

Great video once again. I believe those bushes/trees maybe Buckthorns. Very invasive plants and fast growing. I've cut a few down on my property, nasty things!

[@linehandibew6205]

I always think of the other guy when I frame a pole. I try to frame for easy access with an extendo. Too to see ya brother. Great video as always

[@ericmoeller3634]

i remember when I was a kid I watched this squirrel walk along the power line from my bedroom window when it got to this old ass looking transformer i heard a loud bang sparks flew everywhere and i watched this squirrel fall to its death that transformer gave that squirrel a nice little pop

[@RobertRoss-e6n]

Thank You! very much long time watcher in Oregon! You are a true professional!

[@patrickbuick5459]

I learn something with every video.

[@jeffreykornspan9053]

Kind of unusual wiring on the pole with the trip savers. But like you say just a disconnect and a bypass arrangement! Beautiful country up there and thanks for the video Aaron.

[@BartlettTFD]

The educational details you provide in your videos are unmatched anywhere on KZbin. Thanks so much for providing this content👍

[@kb9liq]

Love the learn and you do a great job of telling us what you are doing. Wish you would teach the guys around here. Power was out for the whole town back in June for 3 days. Power was out all around the area and they had crews in from all over the country. Any way they said power was restored to the town about 3 pm one day. Wife found a guy in his truck and when she said we still did not have power he said the whole town was on. Not for the 12-15 homes on our side. He followed her home and when I told him there was a pole down behind a house there he said they knew and it did not feed us. Strange a bunch of guys showed up about a hour later and replaced that pole and our power came back on then. Same thing about 3-4 weeks ago. Power was out for the town again after another storm. Said it was back on about 5 hours later at 1:30am but again the same area was still without power. Took them 4 hours to fix the pole next down the line from the last one that was down before our power came back on. Not sure why they still think that pole and line does not feed us but it sure has something to do with it

[@LtKernelPanic]

Over the years I've got to chat with the lineman that covers this part of town thanks to the local tree rat population deciding to play on top of the transformer on the pole behind our garage and met their maker because of it. I've had to remove several expired squirrels off the roof of the garage or from under the pole. The most recent one was very unpleasant to say the least. Pro tip for when you report an outage were you have found the remains of a squirrel or other animal: If you're fill out a report online mention you found a dead squirrel at the bottom of the pole or if you see lineman flag them down and tell them and they're usually very grateful (and glad they don't have to patrol the whole line). Where we live there's a fused spur that comes off the main line then goes down one side of a three block cul-de-sac then loops back around the other side. For some dumb reason none of the transformers are fused.

[@mxslick50]

Those might be CSP (self protected) transformers with internal primary fuses. Or they could be your POCO being cheap.

[@jolyonwelsh9834]

What is POCO?​@@mxslick50

[@ericcox6764]

Hey! I love the channel man!! Central Kentucky here. I’ve been watching you now for a few weeks and I do believe it's time to add you to my list!! I was a Journeyman electrician for many years and even taught electrical for a couple of years at the college that I went to. I absolutely have the highest respect for you and the crews that are out there keeping the lights on for the rest of us.!! Thank you all for what you do!!! ❤❤❤ When I was in school to get my license, the local power company did a demonstration in one of our labs where they had a cart about 12 feet long, with a bucket transformer mounted on a short pole on each end. They back-fed one of the transformers from a 240 volt panel there in the lab to step up to 7200v. The other end had a transformer which brought it back down to 240, where they had a regular 200 amp service. It was just like the real thing, only 6 feet tall. I noticed before they energized this rig that one of the phases had a solid copper wire attached to it, thus grounding the phase. As soon as he hit the on switch, the 3 amp fuse blue, causing a huge bang!! I likened it to a shotgun, maybe a bit louder. My class wasn't the first to see the demonstration that day, so I was aware of something that was shaking the build every hour or so. Fortunately that knowledge kept me from peeing my pants! The guy made it a point to make sure we knew that was only a 3 amp fuse. He told us to imagine what something much larger would do. He then took several objects, including a foil balloon, a dry broomstick, a tree branch, among others, and showed how 7200 volts can jump right off of the conductors if a source of ground gets too close. We could see arcing tracking along the paint on the broomstick, showing that even a piece of wood that is dry can conduct that high of a voltage. What stuck with me the most about that day 30+ years ago, was when they took a piece of sausage and threaded it on to the ground wire. Using his hot stick, he moved that sausage towards the 7200 vole line, and at about a foot away, a huge arc jumped off of the live wire into that meat. He pulled it away instantly and right away the large room smelled like cooked meat. He then took the sausage off and passed it around the room for us to inspect saying, that was as close as they could simulate what happens to human flesh when exposed to that kind of voltage. When the sausage got to me, I hit it on the edge of the table and it was a hard a as piece of wood!! Up until that day, I actually had some ambitions of becoming a Lineman, but seeing how a microscopic pinhole in a glove could end your life, I decided to keep my electrical career to sources below 600 volts. What you guys do is on a whole different level from pretty much everything else electrical the rest of us do. Be safe out there my friend!!

[@Bobsdecline]

I'd love it if our company had a setup like that for demonstrations! I've watched a few of em online. They're extremely effective at demonstrating how electricity acts in different circumstances. Appreciate the comment very much! Stay safe my friend! 👊🤝

[@ericcox6764]

@Bobsdecline ROFL!! I'm reading your comments under flashlight because a thunderstorm knocked our power out 20 minutes ago!! Yep, I'll be thinking about those crews out in this mess. Shoot, I just got drenched running out for two minutes to stand the garage bins back up! I can't imagine what the linemen are dealing with out there. The setup they had was 100% for sure. They weren't there trying to teach us anything about the nuts and bolts of HV, just basically the hazards associated with that kind of power. I've really learned a ton about the grid and how all of it works by watching your channel. You are an excellent teacher with a good head on your shoulders. I appreciate the fact that you really stress safety and that you don't take shortcuts. I'm also been a rock climber for the past 20 years and we don't think about taking shortcuts there either.

[@imeprezime1285]

​@@ericcox6764The demonstrator should have measured current through the broomstick. I know two cases of people touching 10 kV lines with sticks. In first case kid touched it with wood stick and was shocked but survived without consequences. Current was probably less than 100 milliamps. In other case a fisherman touched it with stick made of carbon fibres. He died instantly being terribly burned down...Well, you should have tasted that sausage. Maybe it was cooked enough 😅

[@ericcox6764]

@imeprezime1285 that is a good idea. It would have been nice to know what the current was. I had brought a photograph of a young man probably in his 20s, sitting on a weight bench, holding a dumbbell with his only remaining limb. He had been a victim of a high voltage shock. Our basic electricity teacher hung it up in the classroom as a reminder on the dangers that we were getting ready to study. People need to know what this stuff can do!!

[@imeprezime1285]

@@ericcox6764 Statistically AC voltages 1 kV- 36 kV are the most dangerous to humans. In many cases when the voltage being much higher , arc splashes over entire body causing mostly just external skin burns ( which is a bad thing but not the worst). There's a case of a lineman working on EHV power line (about 400 kV I think) who survived without any internal injuries but had to undergone several skin transplants later and fully recovered. That was cited as a miracle but actually was just a physics

[@mikehonda7934]

Since finding this channel, I now want to be a lineman. I’ve done work installing collision warning and GPS systems in Freightliners, International MV’s, 7600’s and more for Eversource, Altec, and more. As a kid, I always wanted to do something about lines and poles in my city. They almost always look sloppy. I respect and salute you Bob. Thanks for this inspiration.

[@johnpombrio]

"Sloppy" lines. I would love to hear that service call, "Hey, there are sloppy and old wires hanging from your poles all over town! You got to make them look a lot prettier."

[@BrokebackBob]

A big hello from Bloomington, Indiana USA!

[@rickn501s]

Thanks for a very educational and constructive video that really gives me appreciation for what you do. Stay safe!

[@uTube486]

Bob: On the way back from PEI, I tried to explore the Milltown Hydro dam in St. Stephen. Needles to say it was very well secured. Back in the late 70’s, my friend and I stopped by the Mactaquac on motorcycles, and was given a grand tour. Too cool.

[@TheUtilityExpo]

👍 so much knowledge packed into one video. Thanks!

[@TheKdizzle1971]

cut ooooooooooooooooooooooooooot

[@robertcookjr6100]

Very interesting , thank you for posting

[@grantechsweng5268]

seems my power has been better for the last 12 years. As I watch your vids I can see the new work as I walk the neighborhood.

[@grantechsweng5268]

maryland usa

[@Joshuab3561]

Aaron thank you for your videos I have been binge watching them. As an electronics tech and someone who has dealt with electricity my whole life its good to see a different side of the whole process. Wednesday we had a big storm roll through here in Houston and many are still without power. While on the nextdoor app there were people complaining about our linemen. Having watched many of your videos at this point I reassured them they are doing their best to restore power and that it's not as simple as throwing a switch to restore power. I referred them to your KZbin and told them to watch the videos so they could get a understanding of what it takes. Again thank you for all your hard work and the information you share with us!!!

[@Bobsdecline]

Thanks Cowboy! Appreciate you sharing the channel as well👊🤝. A big part of why I started documenting this stuff. A lot of people have no idea how much work is involved with what may appear to be a simple task..cheers!

[@PinePowerLI]

Wow those thorn bushes make greenbriars seem not so bad. Those flies are not fun either. Welcome to summer in the woods!

[@marccampbell4855]

Really great videos man. I’m an Offshore HV Electrician with a past experience of LV streetlighting overhead lines. Some of your videos totally remind me of the harsh weather conditions I had to deal with and the sometimes difficult to find or unexpected faults that would occur as a result. Much respect from Scotland.

[@ElectroTree01]

I liked the different setups shown in this video. Especially the use of switches in series with the trip savers. Some of the guys that I’ve talked to have liked the ring test a lot like shown in a couple of your previous videos and this one.

[@bigsid1984]

Amazing how little fuse wire. Great video.

[@DeeJaySpy]

Congrats to the winner

[@alasdairmunro1953]

Nice one Aaron, the Hawthorn there seems to have much bigger leaves than here in the UK, and thorns too!

[@PeterMikeSolomon]

Thanks for sharing the knowledge that you have. I’m a distribution design engineer and I really appreciate your videos.

[@bobbysenterprises3220]

I love your videos. As someone who has two cockatoos (yah I'm crazy) I appreciate not showing the bird and taking it away from the area.

[@Bobsdecline]

I've got a huge soft spot for animals... It may sound rediculous, but it sometimes bothers me a bit when I show up to find these innocent little fellas :(

[@t-rodshader9593]

That fractals wood burn would actually mean a lot in a display for me honestly, bc your the only one here in North America who’s offered one and the daily life you live is part of what I’m interested in

[@AvidSurvivalist]

In Maryland, we have Assateague Island which is home to a bunch of wild horses.

[@dir7y]

Awesome updates

[@joelhunter4082]

Thanks for the videos

[@steveyent666]

Nice to get an easy one once in a while Good job, you do your fuses just like I do Congrats to the winner!

[@johnblair8146]

Hawthorns are NASTY. I stepped on one wearing sneakers as a teenager and had to go to the doctor for an antibiotic shot. My foot was swollen to twice normal size and the PAIN!!!!! The doctor said cellulitis. I haven't owned a pair of sneakers ever since. Interestingly, a couple hours after the shot the swelling was down and the pain was mostly gone. Thank God for lineman's boots!!!!!

[@carlubambi5541]

We had a fault that took out a parts plant in Toronto .Some raccoon climbed up on the high side of a 120kv and got between the transformer case and the feed on the top of the insulator .Just left a black spot on the insulator and some hair .The crew came in and washed down the insulator and can of the transformer .Waited for it to dry and they Megger the transformer .Replaced the fuse and re energized .They lost a full day of production

[@mxslick50]

As one of the 20, Congrats to the winner! Many years ago I was awakened by two very loud explosions outside my apartment. I got dressed and went outside , walked up a few blocks and saw 7 spans of 3 phase 16kv (POCO had some odd voltages) completely gone. Near the far end of the spans was a very crispy seagull. The spans that fell before the recloser opened (this was a sideline of #6 harddrawn copper with NO cutouts, fed with large ASCR feeder,very stupid engineering, even the repair crew foreman was surprised) caused damage to a fence, burned some lawns and parts of the road, and burned a parked car, and there were hundreds of 2 inch bits of hard drawn copper everywhere. A length of the center phase was laying on one phase of the 4kv Primary underbuild, and very much live. As I approached the corner, a fire fighter was telling me to step back as HE reached out to move that wire out of the way. I screamed back telling him to stop and look UP, just before he made contact. The Chief (who I knew well) heard me yell, saw what I had seen, and came over and chewed his guy out. A very large crew showed up to fix the carnage, and seven hours later it was done.

[@ElectroTree01]

That had to have been scary

[@mxslick50]

@@liam3284 Indeed, and they didn't bother to add cutouts during the repair. That utility has some serious engineering/management issues, in that same area, there was an underground 16kv cable that failed repeatedly before they finally decided to replace ALL of it. A year later, the underground 4kv feeder from the substation that serviced my apt building and others around me failed. They replaced the faulty section, reenergized, then 20 minutes later another section failed. They replaced that section, powered up and within a minute yet another section blew. About 5 hours in I went to the riser pole to see how much longer for the fix. The crew was discussing bringing in portable generators and transformers to feed the overhead while they replaced all of the remaining sections of cable. I pointed out to the foreman the still functioning underground feed from another substation, and asked why not use insulated hotline jumpers to tie the overhead spans together, if the load was small enough. The foreman, who hated that I knew more about the system than he felt I should, got mad and told me to shut the f up. His boss overheard and asked him to call dispatch, find out what the pre-outage loads were, and get approval to do the tie I suggested. The boss talked to me while the now very angry foreman went to make the calls. He found out my background, and my relation to someone higher up in the company, and thanked me for possibly saving them a lot of time, labor and money. I then went back to my place and within a half hour power was back on. I went back to the riser to see the hotline jumpers in place. I later got a call from that foremans boss offering me a position with the company. 🙂 That foreman got fired a few months later, he evidently was rude to too many customers in the field and did have some poor decisions that cost the company too much money.

[@michaelgagne1911]

Great job again like the way you show the work linemen do thanks 😊 iron river m.i.

[@chrisstorm7704]

Thanks for sharing that bit on the thorns. Back in 2016 I was doing yard work on a home I recently purchased and felt a pain in my arm, not enough pain to suspect a puncture, but upon investigation I could tell something was in there. I went to a local clinic, who actually numbed the spot and was ready to go in after what was in there, but at the last second decided not to. They instead gave me a tetanus shot and a prescription for antibiotics. 7 years later, and I can still feel the foreign object is under my skin. I don’t recall coming into contact with a thorny plant, but the object in my arm is almost exactly the size and shape of those thorns in your video. I had nearly forgotten about the incident until I saw the image of the thorn. I may do some research to see if those plants grow here.

[@thechuckster6838]

Excellent video. Thanks for posting!!

[@PRR1954]

👊North coast ("downeast") Maine USA. Hot today, missed your rain but it's coming. Hawthorn and Blackthorn, the Devil's bushes, can also set-off an immune system over-reaction. Keeps immunologists busy writing papers. Another vicious thorn plant is Osage Orange (mock orange, monkey ball). Most all the orange/citrus trees have thorns, but you mostly find them in orchards in Florida, Texas, Calif. Osage has been planted ALL over, as a cattle fence (before barbed wire) and as an ornament (but it doesn't look like much), and it runs wild. Workers in the US all know Poison Ivy and Poison Oak. If you get called more than couple miles into Maine, read up. (Yes, gloves, but wash the gloves before you touch the dirty side. The oils do not fade over time.) I wonder if that Hawthorn was a cattle fence along the road. I kinda wonder if that very-new ditch is newer than the pole you can't reach; we had no-ditch and silted-up ditches here you could back in and out of until 2 years ago when the town got a better backhoe so the road didn't wash-out so much. That's not a great excuse; I hate demarc and splice boxes facing the wrong way.

[@alexbuilds706]

Great vid as usual!

[@litz13]

Had a squirrel blown off the pole in my front yard. The lineman and I both decided we were just leaving it where it fell. It was gone the next morning, so I'm presuming it was coyote chow.

[@johnhershey4010]

lOVE THE VIDEO

[@corymcgarrity7535]

"could've been a bird or something" lol

[@toma5153]

Thanks for the ride along. You're pretty adept with those loooong extension poles. Good work.

[@rodrickbourque]

Hey Aaron :) I've been watching your channel for quite a bit now. I really enjoy your videos. Always interesting. I'm a tinkerer so anything technical related to electricity always gets my ears perked up. I wanted to be a lineman for the longest time, but with the back problems I have, that pretty much killed that career path. Still very much interested and I'm always willing to learn how our infrastructure works. Also, I'm pretty sure I've seen you last week at an intersection around here which was pretty cool. I knew you were from around here but I've never seen you in person until last week. Glad to see a local lineman having a really nice and educational KZbin channel. Cheers Aaron :) Thank you for your service!

[@Bobsdecline]

Nice! Asides from the back problems of course 😔. Appreciate the message! Definitely stop in and say G'day if ya ever see me parked grabbin a coffee or somethin! 👊🤝

[@inothome]

Easy call-out! FPL near Ft Lauderdale loves the trip-savers. They are all over, even on single phase transformers. That had to cost some money! Too bad you didn't show the bird, people need to see exactly what power can do. Came across a channel yesterday, won't name it, but some yahoo doing distribution work and "doing it like the used to do it". Untrained, thinks he knows better and most of the comments love the guy. I'll give him a few years of effing around until he learns. Stay safe.

[@Bobsdecline]

Definitely love the easy call outs! Hopefully the fella your talking about doesn't learn the hard way :/. .While safety has improved exponentially in recent years, there's definitely still lots cowboys. A lot of old school tricks were/are certainly effective but might dabble into some grey areas of safety... Promoting any unsafe work practices online worries me most with so many watching that are new to trade and looking for insight...

[@NatesRandomVideo]

We had an interesting multiple brownout event here a few days ago along with a recloser trying to save the HV from the short. When the power came back two and a half hours later - still in a heavy lightning thunderstorm - I thought of y’all linemen out there taking care of business. Cheers.

[@bpresgrove]

I have a ton of respect for electricians and linemen. Dealing with electricity is so dangerous and takes a ton of knowledge to stay safe.

[@jolyonwelsh9834]

I'm an inside electrician. Most people take me for granted.

[@bpresgrove]

@@jolyonwelsh9834 not this guy. Worked in industrial facilities most my life and I’ve seen the bad stuff when it happens. Hats off to ya mate.

[@jolyonwelsh9834]

@@bpresgrove thanks, I appreciate it. I wish I could get more respect more often.

[@crabmansteve6844]

As an ISP/OSP guy on a military installation I wish so badly I could record my work but literally 90% of the cool stuff I deal with is behind a NDA or when it isnt its full of mildly to highly protected information so its a huge ethics problem. Lol And that only pertains to the areas where it isn't just blatantly illegal to possess a phone or a camera inside of. Lots of those too. 😂

[@danasheets1774]

Great video and informative

[@danielninedorf5502]

I had a squirrel with nose blown off on top of pole for 3 weeks, called electric co-op to remove, the co-op left it at pole base.

[@scooter812]

How we get electricity to our homes has always been an interest of mine, your videos have taught me so much. Thank you

[@johnhaller5851]

Thanks for this video. I've heard the fuse blow on the distribution line, and it sounds like a firecracker. Now that we in the States are hearing the 4th of July, it's hard to tell the difference. They have installed S&C intellirupter equipment to try to avoid bigger outages near me.

[@strottier1054]

Omg this is sooo awesome!!! Literally the coolest thing!!! Messaging you on Instagram now!!!

[@Bobsdecline]

Nice! I'm online for a few minutes so I'll check right now.

[@mxslick50]

As one of the other finalists, congrats to you sir!

[@strottier1054]

@@mxslick50thank you!!!

[@Diya6587]

Congratulations on winning the giveaway. I hope you enjoy the prize.

[@chris76-01]

Bird got zapped like a fly in a bug zapper. Lol. ⚡️⚡️🐦💥⚡️⚡️

[@jolyonwelsh9834]

Those Hawthorne bushes probably weren't there when that pole was framed, judging by their size. So it probably never accured to them that that would be a problem.

[@rupe53]

Just a wild guess is that pole and its associated hardware were installed when the ground was clear because they had just made that drainage ditch. Those guys just didn't think ahead 10, 20, 30 years with the ground cover growing in. That said, ticks must be an issue for you guys while working in the brush. On another channel (construction) one of the guys stated they use flea collars (for dogs) and wrap one around each boot top. They are good for about 90 days, which is probably about the length of your season up there. On a different topic, our power went out yesterday due to a large branch falling on a primary, which burned through, dropped the line in the street, then burned a good size hole in the blacktop before the auto-recloser killed everything to about 3,000 customers. The FD was jumping through hoops because the intermittent power caused an elevator malfunction in a retirement home up the road. (was stuck between floors) This happened just after 4 pm on Sunday when the restaurants in town were starting to fill up. Several had a full patio when the kitchens had to close due to no exhaust fans... but the bar said they would still serve if people wanted to wait. (cash only, no credit card readers) Took about 4 hours for total restoration, which involved isolation of a few spans with rerouting to pick up most of the area in about 2-3 hours while work continued. All through this I am assisting with detouring traffic and explaining the process of how the power system works to the younger guys because I know some of the local circuits and which way the power flows through town. (years of FD and generator experience kicking in)

[@Lemus4k]

I need our customers to watch your vids and realize what you guys have to go throw to be safe and get the power back on. It ain't a pizza delivery

[@kenmohler4081]

That was interesting about the new meters being checkable from the office. I came home to find an outage a week ago and called it in. The customer said she could see my meter and I should check the main breaker. I did, found it in the normal position, but reset it just to be on the safe side. I went out and looked at the meter and found it to be blank. I checked with the next door neighbor and she said the power had been out for several hours. I don’t know why the rep would have told me she could see my meter.

[@Bobsdecline]

Oh strange, definitely didn't look at something right 🤔

[@ArtStoneUS]

I lived in a condo with a smart meter, and my power company was Duke energy. The way they had it set up, my phone would immediately get a text message telling me my power was probably out. If I was home, that’s no big deal. If it was the power to my (hypothetical) summer cottage, then I would know there was an issue and might take action if I had a freezer full of food.

[@unwired1281]

👍👊

[@AlanTheBeast100]

"Cleared the bird!" Always wanted to visit Sable Island...

[@Bobsdecline]

Lol Almost 3k a seat for an 8 hour tour and booked up for the year! Would be an amazing day trip!

[@AlanTheBeast100]

@@Bobsdecline Ouch!

[@Txepsiyu]

We had a ground transformer fail that blew a 20A fuse at a festival I work at and it sounded like a gunshot. The place was open with a few thousand people there and it literally scared some folks.

[@wolfsix3713]

Interesting video. I always wondered how you guys fix this issue.

[@FosterFarmsOk]

amazing that little wire handles it all. so would that be about 300 amps of 240 on the secondary side?

[@Bobsdecline]

Yessir exactly! Or... 600 at 120V

[@FosterFarmsOk]

@@Bobsdecline ok thanks. I'm an electrician and always wondered how much load those could handle. Sorry you had to get out on Sunday. Never fun.

[@Odinsabenteuer]

Transformer is still on the pole-thats a good sign- no way you said that, in that serious way! made my day!

[@Bobsdecline]

🤣🤣. They rarely actually fall off and when I responded to this same location years ago, it was sitting upright on the ground at the butt of the pole lol

[@kareng2152]

Great videos, even though I'm not in this field, I like watching your videos to learn what goes on. I was wondering of the 3 phase lines on the top of poles but when there are other lines under the phase lines, how are they getting power to them, and could a line be directly connect to the 3 phase line with a transformer to be connected to a home or would be too much voltage????? When I'm driving around, and when I see so many lines on the poles, I say to myself, why so many lines? So I was wondering if you can do a video on explaining how the different lines/wires work. Thank you and to fellow lineman for keeping the power on. God Bless

[@Bobsdecline]

Thanks for the comment! I'll see if can can put something together in the near future. Great idea for a vid! 👊

[@ehkpnwvthuvibaoibx]

enjoy your videos even though I'm a software engineer / musician. Cheers from Quebec, neighbor ✌

[@AlongtheRiverLife]

I have a question, we replaced our 125 amp breaker box with a 200 amp breaker box, 200 amp meter box and weather head. We are still fed by the smaller wire from the power pole to supply 125 amps. Could this smaller feeder wire cause power starvation to our breaker box and home?

[@Bobsdecline]

If you've changed your entrance/main breaker but didn't make any significant changes to power being used it won't matter. That being said the wire should still be upgraded. Basically the wire feeding the house (depending on what size it is) isn't properly rated for the load you could potentially now use.

[@AlongtheRiverLife]

@@Bobsdecline No changes to power load used after the 200 amp box was installed. Just this random double start n the AC compressor.

[@Bobsdecline]

It's nothing to worry about then... If it's not changed after a few months, I'd call the power company and inquire on their policy for entrance upgrades.

[@AlongtheRiverLife]

@@Bobsdecline Thanks!😀

[@davidleary823]

10amp fuse is 72000 watts. Trip savers are just stupid and heavy and we’ve had nothing but trouble with them IMHO

[@veil67]

sadly the worker didn’t think about the next person who will operate this switch , same for the TX when possible to make it more accessible to do maintenance on it !

[@ryanrodriguez-wright9216]

Can you do any videos going over transformer hookups, both single phase and three phase please? I’m struggling to find online resources to learn about transformer hookups. Thanks!

[@andredominic8807]

Hey your welcome ! for stripping that bird wire extra long ,few years ago when the can was on the ground 🤜🏿

[@Bobsdecline]

Lol

[@jolyonwelsh9834]

Does Milwaukee make a lithium battery brush cutter. You could use that to get rid of those Hawthorne bushes.

[@Bobsdecline]

That's a good idea!

[@jolyonwelsh9834]

@@Bobsdecline although I'm not sure if there would be enough room on your truck to store such a tool.

[@billynomates920]

Mmmm a pint of dry Blackhthorn 🍎🍏🍺😋

[@photocontrol]

Congrats to the fractal wood burn winner! I noticed there's a red dot painted on that pole at the road, has it been marked for replacement?

[@Bobsdecline]

I'm not a hunter and someone correct me if I'm wrong... Many of our poles in the country are lined with either red or yellow dots. Red means no hunting and yellow means hunting allowed but by permission only.

[@photocontrol]

@@Bobsdecline Ah interesting that it's marked for hunters. BC Hydro will mark condemned poles with a red dot for replacement.

[@JV-pu8kx]

Good thoughts about the animal remains.

[@mikeburnett7028]

I was called to an outage once where a raccoon met his demise on a transformer and then a hawk flew down to retrieve the raccoon and met the same fate. Thought it was all the same animal but never seen a bird with fir. Confused until I knocked them both off the can at the same time

[@amettamail]

Hey Aaron, I’ve been bingeing your uploads as of late. I’m so curious as to the origins of your channel name, bobsdecline . Makes me thinking of someone I know. Thanks for sharing your stuff!

[@earlestes8649]

I had a honey locust thorn in my foot for over a year, drs couldn’t get it out. I was finally able to get it out with tweezers not fun

[@Bobsdecline]

Oh man, that sounds horrible 😦

[@earlestes8649]

@@Bobsdeclinepainful indeed, and it happened a second time and I refused to leave the ER until the doctor got it out. And I told him why, he was trying to get out of removing it.

[@imeprezime1285]

Not sure if these wood poles are grounded or not. I suppose they are not. Then, if the lightning hits the power line...poor pole

[@GooogleGoglee]

Would be nice at 3:10 to later put an easy drawing and diagram in order to understand it better. It is very hard to understand just in words.

[@Bobsdecline]

I agree! I added a few words after that clip mentioning that I'll follow up in a future video, but turns it out I didn't hit record 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

[@jasondavis9354]

Hard wood slivers will cause the infection also

[@nova481]

Thanks for the videos. Retired member local 400 ibew

[@jeffreyryan1639]

Avian covers could help prevent this and fires that could start from the contact.

[@Oh.Xyshio]

I’ve been wanting to become a lineman for almost a year now and I think I’m actually going to enroll in school. My job pays $57/ hour for their line workers.

[@Jchar55]

I was wondering how you tell what voltage a power line is carrying? Is there any clues or indicators on the pole. Like a nearby transformer, the insulators, etc... that you can quickly recognize the voltage you're dealing with?