obviously you know what youre doing but i cant help but think why you use an impact on those terminals. Surely an insulated t handle or ratchet would be better and safer? You can then also properly torque the terminal..

Hope you're all having a great weekend! 🍻👊I apologize in advance if this one makes ya dizzy in a few shots! 🤦‍♂🤦‍♂

I've watched a lot of the other videos I am just blown away how these wires are pretty much just stuffed into this top mount box

Brilliant. As an electrical code expert here in the US it is always nice to see our friends up north following great safety practices. Enjoying the channel, great job.

Thank you for your service

Had a scenario where I was working on cable plant and multiple customers came out to say their lights were flickering ever since I've been outside. Told them to call power company and its a good idea to shut off main breaker until they get there. I stuck around because I was curious, turns out the fargo block (I think that's the name of the splice block) was never torqued when it was installed, there was zero deformation of conductors you'd expect from being torqued. Customers were happy it was fixed, and an added bonus was the 2 street lights powered from that box worked for the 1st time since the development was built.

Just passed inspection on install of 20kw Kohler & ATS. Thanks to your videos stressing correct work practices for safety sake I did it myself. In my area ( ocean park Washington Coast) willing civilians are allowed to wire with permit. A feeling of accomplishment & saved a boatload! Really appreciate your effort with these videos.

Here watching from the US, NM to be exact. Going to be starting line school in a month and I’m stoked about it. Watching your videos just gets me excited about working in the trade. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and experience, it has helped me a lot to get a better view and understanding of the trade.

Great videos, thanks. I've lived my life on the other side of the meter base as a home owner. I've also done one dimming system install by myself in a multi-room banquet hall where I learned, too late, to up the conduit size by one from the code for the feeder. Even now I learn from your videos and appreciate your attention to detail. I can tell you love your job, or should I properly call it your craft. Stay safe and healthy. Thanks from Taylorsville, Utah. P.S. I've always been fascinated with the grid and its distribution. Thanks for your earlier substation tour - nice to learn what each item really is.

Having worked as an electrician’s helper while in college, I really appreciate your videos👍 Watching from the Memphis, TN area.

Would have terminated those connections with an insulated T handle due to how short the feed was. Takes any chances of grounding out the impact on anything.

Great video. Good to see how a typical domestic connection differs to ours. Watching from southern Ireland. Just home from the UK after a week on a HV SAP training course.

I've never seen a URD box that small or with it's cover above ground level. All the URD boxes we have here are flush to the "grass" as it were. I was also quite surprised that you didn't do an insulation resistance check on the two "hot" conductors to the neutral and to ground. We always use a 1000V Megger to check ours. Those molds are also very strange looking, Ours have a 1/2" hex bolt for attachment with a crimped lug you have to install on each conductor. As well we discard the supplied mold covers and apply 600V heat shrink over each of the connections on the molds which permanently seals them from any moisture. I too can't believe how short the "mains" on each mold were. We always leave a good amount of extra conductor to make hook up of future circuits easier. Also, as SuPrAmAd101 commented, we never use impact tools on these connections. Just a 1/2" drive ratchet and a socket. And one last thing we apply a bit of ALUMA-SHIELD on the lug to mold connections before covering them up with the 600V heat shrink. Thanks for another great video!!! Stay safe out there Aaron.

I love your videos. I learn a lot from them. I'm from Texas, USA. Keep up the great work! Keep those videos coming!

Hey there, "Bob" we're from North carolina. Originally grew up Watertown , New york. For those who do not know where that is. It's 20 minutes from Canada off of lake ontario. BEAUTIFUL NORTHERN WEATHER.

quick work stripping those cables and i liked the way, soon as you finished using it, you just dropped the knife. that was how i was taught. completely different work but my boss told me: slice it like that, one go cleanly, then put it down. this spindle keeps spinning, if you keep hold and it gets caught up, that's your hand, then your arm and then if i'm paying attention, i might get to the stop button before the rest of you goes round.👌

Funny story on using an impact to tighten lugs. I had to in an emergency replace a motor and compressor on an ammonia refrigeration system. When I went to tighten the lugs i used my impact and messed up the strands, this caused the wire to come apart and single phase the motor. Since then I do not use impacts on those lugs.

Watching from Ontario, nice to see how service hookups are done. Thanks for your videos

I am retired ComEd in Illinois. We always continuity conductors and definitely test before connecting service wires.

I'm a Canadian and live in Missouri. This is the second video YT has suggested so far . I've been to ArkFlash class and two classes at UL University Vancuver WA. I like those gloves you have.

In Puerto Rico, we are required to use a meter puller, arc flash face shield and our gloves. Great job. Love. Your dedication to the craft!

Awesome … you do it all line work , underground and trouble work.. amazing job and also being safe is key

Great video Aaron. Great catch on the neutral being in the wrong place. Safety first. That URD handhole was a mess.

Thank you for all the great videos ! As a narrowback from AK, I would continuity meter check the new branch conductors to ground before stripping and terminating into the splice blocks

Awesome video! I signed up with NEAT here on long island NY last year and just waiting for a phone call. Can’t wait to start!

Retired Accountant watching from W Wales UK. UTD on regs and keeping it safe. Love your videos.

Hey Aaron...watching from RI, USA. Love the videos and your take on what's being done. I'll be watching for the video shorts too. We have a lot of improvements going on down here on our local high voltage grids. Thanks to you, I can look at what our local crews are doing with more understanding of what's actually involved. Happy Holidays to you and your family!

Now I’ll watch video hahahaha. So in Canada you call them a “mini-home”. In the states we call that a trailer park 😂

I don’t care for shorts, but you do you and what works for your channel

On a nice day like that it is great to be a lineman. Thank you for sharing your occupation I find it very interesting.

Good job Aaron, very professional.

Nice work as always, Aaron. Merry Christmas to you and your family. Stay safe and healthy! 👊👊

The missing neutral also reminds me of another incident that was a bit of a hard lesson. We used a bypass plate to give the customer service while we were working on their meter in the van. When doing services with a Form 3S meter, those bypass plates are handy for ensuring the CT secondary remains shorted (never trust an automatic bypass in a CT meter socket). This of course relies on a dangerous assumption - the lower right jaw MUST NOT BE CONNECTED! Anyway, at this location, there was so much debris in the meter socket that I didn't see until too late that the electrician that installed that 3S socket ages ago had tied that jaw to system ground! Normally, not an issue with 3S meters, given that the 5th jaw carries the return side of the voltage circuit. Long story short - I blew the transformer fuse (longstanding coop practice in the US was to use a spring-link fuse between the top of the transformer-mounted arrester and transformer bushing - but coops are now migrating to standard practice of a separate cutout) and ruined one of my bypass plates! I certainly took more care to check ALL sockets from then on!

Looks about as fun as opening a shallow 4 square box with two extension rings on it

The shorts are pretty neat. Nice little tidbits of what's going on or to come.

Another nice video! I personally like the shorts you have uploaded so far! Keep up the great work!

Even With the constraints of this work order it was great job well done bro.

Awesome channel, thank you for the inside look at being a lineman. Watching from pensacola Florida

Another great video Erin! Huge differences here compared to connecting a service in the UK. First when working in the connector box (link box in the uk) we would have to wear a full face visor in case of a flashover. Before connecting the tails we would carry out an insulation resistance check of all three conductors to ensure they’re open circuit. We would also short out the meter terminals and do a continuity test from the box to confirm we’ve got the correct set of tails. After energisation we would then carry out a voltage, polarity and earth loop impedance tests. Really interesting to see the differences around the world.

You Canadians have good sense to run power lines underground! Smart’

Dude post as much as you want if people don't wanna watch then they don't have to! Love the videos Rochester NY here 🤛

Keep the videos coming brother.....Thumbs up! Ottawa, Ontario. 😎

Nice! Sometimes things done in the past are concerning! My electrical contractor instructor (also my father in law) used to say sometimes, "I would not sleep there!"

There is always a worker who just doesn't care to take pride in there work

When I worked as a meter tester (contractor outfit), I remember coming up to one place and counting no less than FIFTEEN splices in the open-wire span from the meter pole in the yard to the coop member's house. The member spoke with me, complaining of trouble with low voltage. Gee, I wonder why...! I tried to feed back information on that member's power situation as well as stuff I saw like a pole on a 3-phase feeder with a badly split top, a melted rubber chicken (polymer dead-end) on a branch line, etc., but my supervisor intercepted my notes and told me that we were there to test the meters ONLY. Still makes me grumpy thinking of it 20+ years later.

10:23 The ring was touching the case tho. Lucky man 😂

I enjoy your video and watch from cape cod Massachusetts Merry Christmas and Happy New Year stay safe and Healthy

Wow that overhead wire tree must have taken some dedication to make. Looked awesome. Use of the impact would have been prohibited for us, we would have had to use insulated tools for any connection onto live terminals.

Seasons greetings and thank you from Cedar Hill Texas.

The hazard pay must be amazing!!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year for Missouri

Thanks. Nice M18 torque wrench.

I appreciate the camera angles, top notch

Great work. Never seen inside one of those boxes before. Merry Christmas from Stockbridge, Georgia!!!

Sometimes I wonder why they didn't run all electric lines underground. Wind and ice storms wouldn't knock out service anymore, but then again being out in open air it helps to keep the lines cool and linemen can easily access power lines for service. Plus it would cost billions to change everything over to underground power.

Good to know it's not just telecom peds that can look like absolute trash :D

Another awesome video thanks Erin. Watching all the way from nz. Yes I must say I prefer the shear off insulated K199 submersible carriers for LV. Must be standard for underground connections these days. Thanks NZ sparky.

BROOOOOOOOOOOO!! JUST FOUND YOUR PAGE BY ACCIDENT AND I JOINED CUZ I LOVE LEARNING!! I KNOW A ALOT ABOUT ALOTTA STUFF FROM BUILDING A HOUSE TO BUILDING A ENGINE AND EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN LOL BUT ELE WORK I ONLY REALLY KNEW OUTLETS. WHAT YOU ARE TEACHING IS SOOO DAMN INTERESTING!! JUST SAYIN!!!! THANKS, F.M.V.

I really like your longer vids. Watching from Colorado

Dam splicers never thinking about the next guy😂

Relaxing after a Steelers win. Love the shorts. Hope the ones you post are the only ones we run into, if you know what I mean... 😉

Thanks for the video, I'm going to sign the union books soon!

Thank you for this video.

Steve watching from Massachusetts. Thanks for the videos. Be safe. Happy Holidays

from AUS missed out being a line y / sparky , maybe in next life ! love your posts & details been following for many years now

that powerline tree is awesome, must have been a pain to put together though. I'm watching from Central Illinois USA lol

Lenoir City Tennessee. Merry Christmas, Stay Safe.

Thanks for sharing

Watching from Las Vegas NV. Be safe out there

Thanks for posting. It is good information to digest.

Sorry, forgot to say, yes for the shorts! Its hard to post content consistently and have a full time job, and shorts are a good way just to keep to say hi to subs if nothing else. Might try it myself, I've tried to post every week but the day job takes over. Great channel, keep em coming!

I like the low voltage connector very much👌. 👉 work under voltage 👍(PPN 👉praca pod napięciem👉work under voltage👌) at the highest level😃.

It's so interesting watching how it's done where u live. The UK has so many regs etc that make simple tasks take so long, I don't mind because it's a lot safer but it can be annoying at times

We call those ground boxes " Flower Pots"

Watching from northern Ontario, love the videos!

Watching from Caledonia, Wisconsin, USA.

Wow that box does look like a pain to work in. It's an odd design, I would have figured it would open from the side and have big terminal blocks. All that water around and in it makes the work that much more exciting too lol.

Seeing water in the bottom of that box just increases the pucker factor that much more...

When you plugged in the meter. I was ready hear you say : let the billing begin. 🤣 As electrician flashes are bad. So I am glad you are not a flasher.😏😉

as a low voltage guy its amazing to watch you strip wire with a knife. I'm like noooo oh wait he can do it.

It is always good to stand in a pool of water too.

Great video learned stuff

Watching from central coast California!

Happy Christmas dude

Hello from Florida, USA.

The way you said about.... You didn't even have to say you were from Canada lol

Do shorts.... I get addicted to those for like an hour at a time.... Drives lots of recommendations to your channel

I would have rather installed the meter with the stabs dead. I never thought twice about it until I saw a training video where something went wrong and the guy's helmet/face shield saved him from a nasty flash burn. That was before balaclavas were required and the flash still burned him a little around the back.

Hey there! I've watched quite a few of your videos, and I apologize I didn't hit the like button, but I was so distracted by how cool your career field is! Anyways I hit like and I even Subscribed! Stay safe and keep up the cool videos! Thanks!

I dunno how anyone expects the next guy to be able to work on that shit. Whatever cable length you think you need… you need more.

Watching from Iowa USA

Electrical Engineer here, not surprising seeing the electricians screw up. It's nice seeing someone knowing what he's doing. 😅

How's it going Mr. Bob? I enjoyed this video. I have one of them green boxes close to my house, now I know what they're for

Gotta love the downspout right next to the box lol. Flood out everything 🤷‍♂️

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in Germany we say: 1. Freischalten: Die Anlage allpolig vom Stromnetz trennen (Schutzschalter oder Hauptschalter abschalten) 2. Gegen Wiedereinschalten sichern: Ein irrtümliches Einschalten der Anlage muss verhindert werden (z.B. durch spezielle Schlösser) 3. Spannungsfreiheit feststellen: Mit einem geeigneten Messgerät (zweipoliger Spannungsprüfer) muss die Spannungsfreiheit allpolig festgestellt werden. 4. Erden und kurzschließen (ab 1kV-Anlagen): Alle Leiter müssen mit geeigneten Werkzeugen kurzgeschlossen und geerdet werden, um ein Auslösen der vorgeschalteten Sicherheitseinrichtung (bei irrtümlichem Einschalten) zu verursachen. 5. Benachbarte, unter Spannung stehende Teile abdecken oder abschranken (ab 1kV-Anlagen): Benachbarte unter Spannung stehende Teile müssen gegen Berührung geschützt werden.

Quite a bit of moisture in the ground there hey.

In the US we call have stand-alone service panels we call a "trailer panel"...they're actually great for a separate service for EV charging applications (for site-built homes as well).

Impressive camera work!

Cheers mate .hello all the way down south Florida Miami Florida last town before you got into the keys and do some awesome fishing