My Pop's a Lineman

[@t.r.4496]

Love these old videos, did a pole change out the other day. Found a pole tag with 1938 on it. I took a minute to think about all the lineman that had climbed that pole over the years.

[@koda7820]

Where I live all the poles in the mountain are all from the 30’s and when one falls or whatever they don’t replace it with a new one, they just leave it and the wire at a long span.

[@t.r.4496]

@@koda7820 we do that every now and then, but most of the time we will build a road with a dozer to change it out. Sometimes we can't get by with it.

[@YumYum820]

I get the same way setting and framing new poles. It's a gift to know the construction will be there decades after I die supplying energy to customers homes. Just last week my crew set up DB for new lots, pulled 4/0 service, 350, and #1 15kv primary, put the terminator at the pole side and energized the pad. Knowing it'll be there for those new homes for years is humbling...I got to be a part of that history.

[@richardbates8023]

Found 1934 nails myself.

[@jlo13800]

Bill builds an overunity generator with his friends tapping ZPE and his dad has a stroke see it.

[@debpotthast693]

OMG, Thank you so much for this! I have been searching for this for years. The lineman is my grandfather Herman C. Potthast. Bill, his son is my late father and the homeamker is my grandmother. I remember that malt machine and everything. Thank you!!!

[@MattMorris481]

Deb Potthast What a great keep sake to have of your grandfather. My dad was a lineman, and so was I in till I got Hurt.

[@FDEE30]

I bet you have some Awesome old school pictures as well 😮

[@rapman5363]

I see that Deb Potthast passed away about 1 year after making this post. I am glad you got to see your grandparents and father in this video. I didn’t know Deb ,however may she Rest In Peace.🙏✝️

[@uwastetimehere]

This is a great bit of history. Thank you for posting. And its still relevant in many ways!

[@SECOenergy]

Thank goodness for two-way radio! Love this. Thank you for sharing!

[@NATHANFREDERICK-rs7yb]

A better world back then.

[@SodiumInduction-hv]

yeah i bet it was

[@kentbarnard5110]

Thank You for posting. My father, David Barnard, Directed the students. I remember going to meet Mr. Potthast! My Dad made quite a few films at Stout - Electrical Safety in the Home features our feet (I'm the toddler) walking over the cord under the carpet.

[@wd2616]

13:25 I’d never volunteer to sit inside an energized vehicle!

[@xrebxtoc]

Took a chocolate box down today actually! Crazy how some of the old stuff still does the job.

[@eddygilbert9906]

still operating these in toronto hahahahah

[@ziggybammurphy191]

Theyre everywhere on the 4kv in the northeast....built to last

[@t.r.4496]

Only thing about them is you can't hang the barrel with a stick. I've tried every way to do it and it just don't happen for me.

[@wd2616]

I’ve been a lineman for a long time but I’ve never heard the term chocolate box can you please tell me what it is

[@765kvline]

@@wd2616 I've never heard the expression "chocolate box" for an enclosed fuse cutout--however . . . "widow-maker" was the moniker I often heard in reference to these. Typically, the open-style cutout was more likely used on 9-kV and up voltages. Early enclosed cutouts were used here and this is probably because these Distribution cooperatives in Wisconsin were early REA-period borrowers.

[@DeepakKumar-zy3dg]

This video is most important for every people. Thanx this video

[@ElectroTree01]

Interesting. A lot of the stuff in the demonstration was new at the time but now is something you collect due to rarity.

[@Gravenhorst1]

Thanks for sharing!

[@ronbennett7885]

Around 3:53 says high tension wires are insulated. That's news to me. Generally, they're not. Or maybe they meant to say isolated.

[@Morgul03]

Don't forget about step potential!!

[@imark7777777]

Would I be right in translating that as potential voltage across the ground and the need to shuffle away after jumping clear. As there is a gradient of voltage on the ground if the line is touching.

[@gregmarbury9432]

I would have ran that line out before I refused and tried closing cutout. Especially in daylight.

[@wd2616]

That’s exactly what I thought.

[@wd2616]

So what would they have done if it would have held?

[@heronimousbrapson863]

This music is more appropriate for a runaway stagecoach.

[@ОляП-д4х]

Great video!

[@joejohnston2035]

My pop was a distribution lineman after Korean war with TVA then went to IBEW #309 Illinois Power Co

[@reb21286]

Not a bucket truck in sight. Back when linemen were real men.

[@GCSalinas]

-office worker

[@debpotthast693]

Kay Barnard, my mother knew and remembers you folks! I hope we can get in touch.

[@jneisius]

Deb, Hi, I'm Jolene, the person who had this made digital and out online. I spoke to Pay a while back and she's on Facebook...and she responds to messages if you want to get a hold of her.

[@imark7777777]

3:32 does the same job as a circuit breaker eh, would I be wrong in assuming (due to poor video quality) that's a federal fire pacific panel or similar vintage panel with similar issues?

[@djscrizzle]

Zinsco and Bulldog were 2 others that were en vogue at the time.

[@wadebaker2910]

10:58 Best Accident Scene Ever

[@ABC.0552]

Hi jolene thanks for move I am a lineman

[@TheMauss1933]

Nice Movie.

[@kaybarnard9676]

Sorry--Dave just reminded me that Bar-B-Que scene was in the "Electrical Safety in the Home" film. Kay Barnard

[@wd2616]

5:53 Wtf Energized a downed conductor to those farmers! Could have killed one of them.

[@imark7777777]

That's OK the farmers can get back at the lineman by firing up their generators without a transfer switch using a suicide cord.

[@wdmm94]

WTF one is ALWAYS told rule number one is to stay away from down powerlines in the first place. They knock a tree on live wires and they shouldn't be messing with it AT ALL anymore.

[@kaybarnard9676]

Hi--would like to have you correspond with us. I'm Kay Barnard, wife of David P.Barnard. Interested in how the former students have been doing. See my facebook page . Remember shooting the barrb-que scene? Cheers Kay

[@hondacivicacura]

I was born in Menomonie lol

[@alsehl3609]

Little did these people know what was about to hit them, the 1960s! And the nearly constant panic and hysteria of the Media since! THE SKY IS FALLING, THE SKY IS FALLING!

[@paultanner2007]

Nice service truck but Richard Dawson is the best on family feud

[@ОляП-д4х]

this is retro vidio

[@陳金松-u9o]

1950年代的美國!