What if it is running next to an energized line? This is why guys are always dying on deenergized or "grounded" lines. You shouldn't leather glove anything that hasn't been truly equipotentially grounded and why equipotential grounding is so important to understand.

Willey Poboy brand new line bud....

Do you wear rubber gloves when installing a breaker panel in a house with no service drop installed yet as well? Would you wear gloves while handling a spool of primary cable? Lol

@@ke6gwf I have been a lineman, troubleman, switchman and back to lineman for almost 26yrs. The utility i work for is the largest in the world.the division i work for years high voltage gloves and sleeves from cradle to cradle and even when working extendo sticks. And even to train and pole top rescue. You work how ever you like. And I dont install breaker panels sir

@@willeypoboy6052 great to know... I guess even top companies occasionally hire know it alls lol You should probably wear gloves and sleeves when installing barbed wire fences too, you never know when a primary wire might fall on it, or if it will get some induction from an overhead line.... And yes, I am being sarcastic, because if you are treating a new line that's no where near power like it's live, then you should treat any other long wire with as much respect and care.

@@ke6gwf damn you just hit the nail on the head and you don't even know it . I guess you've got to be a comedian to keep your arms these days sir...

Brady Hansen brand new line .....obviously it’s de energized because it’s just been run and laying in steel dollies.

you still put grounds on new wire!!!! induction from long spans of new de-energized wire can still bite you!

@@tonycepeda8054 It looks like the line they're replacing is across the highway. The only time we used grounds and rubber is when the new line we pulled in was close to the energized line (The line puller was always grounded). I've never experienced what your talking about. I remember removing a guy from a de-energized line that was arcing off my wrench, but it was directly under a transmission line.

I’m 100% sure that where the wire is deadened it is grounded they wouldn’t be up there otherwise

@@tonycepeda8054 Throw Trips on One end for Induction drain, not full Grounds at every structure. That's a waste of time

It’s not energized or they would be in rubber gloves and sleeves , the ground doesn’t have to be right there where they are working it is probably a few spans down.

Well for safety they hold a tail bored covering all safety topics an concerns....as well as a Forman and groundman on the ground to keep the area secure. As for checking for voltage this is a new line with grounds applied on both ends of the conductors. If this was a single point ground for climbing I would imagine they would have a cluster ground mounted for equipotential grounding method.

Hell no

Dead wire!!!!! Pay attention lol

The fact they are sitting in metal pullies and they are climbing between the phases kind of gives a hint they aren't hot as well lol

Possibility of backfeed...why risk your life when you can work safe

Nature itself is an excellent source of direct current, including clear-sky current that can build up some rather nasty static charge on an insulated and elevated line. Heaven help you if you're near a thunderstorm.

There's one on the ground and one in the air. These guy's are apprentices. They probably need climbing time, and the experience in their hooks. Not to mention this is a video that was recorded for a purpose so yea...

Always good to climb from time to time. Stay in the bucket all the time you get soft

Need a groundman also, I'm not running between poles to run a hand line. Could of just had one guy grunt and the other climb then switch off but you would have to work in your gaffs on the ground or take them off every other pole.