I've spotted two other problems. 1) There appears to be a fighter jet next to the road 2) There's a train in their backyard

I am an electrician and have done some 13.8kv highline in surface mining - but it was never my "thing". I've found it interesting and learned a lot watching an actual linemen do this kinda work. Thanks for taking the time to film and explain this. Stay safe up there!

Nice old fashion repair, with a bit of trouble shooting! BTW, ages ago I mentioned carrying binoculars on my work truck to spot things like this from the ground. It was also something we did in the fire service to maintain safe distance while gathering as much info as possible at a scene.

You are an awesome instructor, intentionally or not. Thanks for a great educational video.

That is interesting. No easy way to see that from the ground. You have a lot to remember and think about in your work. Nice rail cars in the background. I'll check on those tool holders for our shop bucket truck. Christmas is coming fast. Thanks for another interesting video. Please stay safe, and God bless.

I like this longer video with work being performed! Good job!!

I love all your stuff. 20 years as a Verizon cable splicer. Always respected what was overhead.

1:50 uhhhh are we not gonna talk about the random jet parked there? Also, ever since I changed over to the heavy industry and the insulating gloves became a regular thing to me, I grew a pretty big appreciation to your hand dexterity in them, it's awesome. They can be such a pain but they are a must.

A lovely day on Steeves Street ... (Voodoo made it too easy). Good vid - tricky finding those breaks. This was one of the best vids - working close to 7200VAC - and connecting live. Nice,

Shout out to the New Brunswick Railway Museum! 👍👍👍

Thank you for the first hand view/experience on how you fix issues in the field. Be safe and keep helping the future linemen in the world.

Always always always know not only your own position, but that of your truck & any conducive part of it. I’ve seen KZfaq videos where someone made an oopsie and had their truck accidentally touch high voltage lines…. 😳 As always, stay safe Aaron ( & all line workers) & thanks for a good video 😊

Nice lesson, Aaron !! I admire your (and your company’s) safety practices. As an electrician, I’m limited to under 750 volts, so most typically work on a high of 600. I always appreciate when a co-worker reminds me I’m working on live 347 or 600, and I’ll remind even the most experienced partners they are doing same.

What courage these linemen have! My degree is computer engineering which means I took electrical engineering courses and know a couple things about electricity. I also stupidly burned a finger in college getting it too close to an oscilloscope's flyback transformer. That was a small sample of what linemen face, all my respect to them!

Love these videos! I'm a young engineer doing design work for substations, and it's wonderful to get insight into how day-to-day operations look in the field.

Great video as always Aaron! I work for a company that makes safety devices for distribution transformers but watching your videos really bridges the connection between just products and seeing the everyday work (and dangers!) lineworkers face. Really appreciate and love the channel!

One awesome location after another! The company should pay you a recruitment bonus for showing how great working in Canada can be.

Nice railcars right by there! 🙂

25 yrs as an electrician, mostly commercial, and i always liked, and still like, to watch linemen at work. Thanks for the cool videos. I'm from Quebec, and i noticed that this video is in N-B, by looking at the meter box seal.. The electrical instalations look pretty much the same as here in Quebec. Just for your personal information/knowledge, this is not a 400A meter box. It's a 320A. And Yes, those meter are not reading directly on the lines, like in a 200A. They use CTs. And here in Quebec, to prevent potential backfeed, there is a disconnect in these meter box, so that the linemen can really isolate the building load. Its in the other compartment directly under the meter. Keep up the good work!! And btw, are you sposored by milwaukee? I think they are starting to take over the tool industry with their nice tools. 😎

Thanks for the ride Bob!-) Enjoyable

Nice video Aaron. Interesting that you have to have a second pair of eyes/ supervisor on site when you work with high KV voltages. Loved all your new bucket tool holders. First class gear. Stay safe with all those high winds coming at you.

I worked in a few vaults with the old 4160 open buss systems .Scary rooms to be in but pretty safe when you follow the rules and take your time .Great job .Stay safe ! 🙏

Good inspection on finding the fault cause👍🏼

Sometimes we experience the same issues in our territory (coastal Rhode Island) due to conductor gallop caused by wind, as you know the stranded tap will eventually shear from all the action. Glad to see that cutout being changed out also, those particular porcelain cutouts are very dangerous. Always enjoy watching, interesting to see methods from other utilities.

Thank you for explaining things so well!

Great Video Mr Aaron. As always you are the man

Great video. Thanks for taking us along and the Great Details. 👍🙏

That was a really cool video. It's neat seeing how the line work is done

Loved watching this repair. Very interesting.

Really nice to see how you did that. Very instructive, great video Aaron. Stay safe!

This was very interesting. Thank you for making this video.🤜

Love the tool apron and socket pocket!👍👊

great video !!!....i appreciate the narration.

Love getting some insight into how this work is done and getting to see the Tools used on the job!

Fantastic buddy, I could watch your videos all day

I'm a 4th yr electrician doing residential and commercial work and seeing these videos gets me interested in line work. Did you do any "low voltage " work before you became a lineman? What do the first years look like for lineman?

You men earn every bit of money you make. Your job is much appreciated. Stay safe!

My electrical experience is as an IATSE stage electrician and I do have a decent understanding of AC etc. Regardless, I could watch your videos endlessly. I commend you for your understandable erring to the side of caution and the perfection you display in your work. Kudos, thanks and keep the continuing story coming!

Had very similar here on the low voltage (240v) mains cutout fuse, on the load side. Terminal screws were loose, the 25sqmm cable was central in the terminal but not touching! Very confusing...

Love the old train cars nice video. I just learned about the tools from milwakee. I don't work on high tension but the 750dc we walk over everday and use it for out switch heaters!

I am at the opposite corner of the Province, southwest.I guess you really have to trust your ppe working around that stuff.Good job.

We want fire! Sparks! BURNING STUFF.... just kidding. I love to warch your videos for several reasons... First off: Its an honest channel with real life scenarios. Secondly it gives people the ability to look behind the scenes. Stuff they think is naturally. Plus the fact that you are a kind person with unparalleled care for what you do. Id like to have a beer with you! One day. Cheers man.

Hi Aaron, I couldn’t help but notice that all your hand tools are all Milwaukee? Looked like a plug for their hand tools? LOL! I would have cut off that old lightening arrester. When energizing again there is no telling that could go off like a grenade? I have seen the socket pocket at work. I didn’t pull the trigger on it as I only have a couple sockets I use. Pretty snazzy secondary ground on the pot! We had one that was homemade years ago. Safety department didn’t approve it & told us to not to use it anymore. That’s a nice saddle for the primary. We only have Ampac saddles. I guess you do stick work is because your by yourself? We can go hands on the energized primary even by ourselves because not everything can be installed with a stick. Nice video with the troubleshooting aspect. Those kinds of calls make you scratch your head sometimes. We used to use #4 solid copper covered wire for tap wire for pots & they would fatigue over time & break causing that scenario. It hardly happens with stranded wire though. Try to be careful out there with the stormy weather this weekend? You’re always careful-I know! I continuously plug your channel at work because it’s soo informative! Especially to the apprentices. The way you work is professional & safe. The many different situations your in from weather to the type of work. Troubleshooting & dealing with the public. I’m constantly stressing to the apprentices that lineman hyper communicate with each other. Not everyone can see everything that is going on. Hence having another set of eyes to look out for your safety. Keep up the great content & look forward to your next video. 👍🏻👊🏻👍🏻👊🏻

Love the tool board!!!

@7:48 Thanks for the peek in "your other office". You linemen do mighty work, out of a space smaller than a dog-bed, a long way away/above your main tool crib; it has to be a model of Organization. Thanks! (Yes, I also see, if you use more than a Stillson and a 2-pound hammer, you need the pocket/rack....) It must be embarrassing to have no-power when you can SEE the substation over the Post Office. But no, I sure did not see that break, did not even know it would break there. ("Never assume!")

We used to test all insulated HV tools/sticks at start of daily shift. And yes usually safety observers had to be trained in the procedures being used. The old drop out fuses had problems with hang ups caused by insects plugging the barrels and not letting the spring loaded fuse element slide out. The bolt connection tension will be light spanner only as tension wrench settings are usually less. I liked on call as you get great variety of jobs. Keep those sparks short😀 (retired from live linesman/switch operator/cable joiner/electrician 15 odd years ago Australia)

What an interesting video. Being an inside wireman I find all your videos interesting.

Great videos! Hi from Brisbane, Australia 👊

Fascinating to watch, I did some work at an electricity company training centre and spent quite a while just wandering round the classrooms and their yard, looking at the poles and access equipment, found it really interesting. I figure a drone with camera could be useful but for the number of times it'd be needed for a fault like this it'd be a waste of money, did bump into a guy who'd graduated the training school once though, his job was to hang out of the side of a helicopter taking pics of pylons and insulators for the team who planned line maintenance so I guess he was the analogue version of the drone

Awesome video Aaron

Much respect making sure the genie stays in the bottle,, I worked with the big stuff on gen-set peak shaving season at 30MW site running into a 13kva sub station. Lots of ways to be killed if you were not paying attention.

Hey Aaron. Just want to give you a shoutout and say hello. I knew exactly where you were 30 sec. Into the video. We live in Townsend Massachusetts. Every few years we go up and stay in Alma and pass through there on the way to Moncton. Brought the kids to the museum. Beautiful area, great friendly people. Love New Brunswick! Great job on the repair. Please stay safe out there!

Cool. Not my gig, so I'd really like to see you throw a switch in the house - the grand finale result of all your excellent efforts :)

Fighter jet in the front garden? Nice 😊

Good job Dude!

You do a awesome job

Great video awesome work

The RCAF Tomcat really has no business being in this video and I love it.

Use the top of the blade to clean wire. There’s a little indentation near the handle. Save your edge

That bucket looks to be getting smaller and smaller with the knee knocker. The Estex tool pouch looks slick and you can get them in different colors or have custom slots for your utility. It would make your tool guys life easy to have the same pouch and all the same tools... Stay safe my friend 👊

This is a very cool video

Interesting information on those arresters… explains one pole not far from my place… it was very noticeable as it had the old GE pellet arresters (these were the really long ones, pretty close to 1 meter tall) mounted on the line arm. One day I noticed they were no longer present, and getting closer I see a brand new set of arresters mounted on the transformers.

Great video thanks for sharing

At 13:20? Lol that what we call “ old school work” 😂 you can tell I am old coz back in the day many of a hole was brace an bit before hydraulic😂 an now modern rechargeables

FYI, I spoke to one of your co-workers last month when he came to change my meter for a solar setup and he said he does not subscribe to your channel lol

Great work mate 👍🏼 🇦🇺

At 5 ° is always funny to me. As someone doing Communications work most of the time I and my bucket truck were called to go deal with polls that were only at extreme angles or in bizarre access situations. Granted it was a short wheelbase 450 and 40ft max height

Ayeee I know Ralph the owner of MADI, solid guy👍🏼 good tools for the job

He must’ve had some great teachers of helping you through all of this of your training. Otherwise, you wouldn’t be doing what you’re doing so successful be safe. I like the new tools.

So you said "so" a 119 times. So good video.

Socket Pocket! Cool

I have the same arrangement in my back yard. It took a lightning hit once and blew the arrestor into pieces.

neat video thanks for sharing

nice! we don't need no stinking power! I'm surprised to see issues like that at those voltages.. at least without it having arced and melted something like a wax candle. lol

I got that bucket apron and it's nice

GREAT VIDEO WOULD LOVE TO SEE MORE TANKS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

In Ontario on new install for transformer pole we got to keep 10 ft. Clearance between primary hot and neutral. You definitely don’t have that much space on that pole.

Ever have a porcelain arrester blow up on you when you tap up the hotline clamp? You'll start covering it or getting rid of it completely once you do lol

Master electrician from NJ. I'd recommend you get yourself a pair of binoculars. Had a black vulture cross phases on 34.5kv lines. Wouldn't have seen him unless I had the binos

NA has crazy silly electrical connections. here its usually 3x 25A or 3x35A at 230/400V for a normal household

i can't believe how well you do your handwork wearing those gloves. especially putting nuts on. i have worked maintenance all my life and hate wearing any kind of gloves. now in my 60's my fingers are too stiff for gloves. putting on some 20kv gloves occasionally to throw some 4160 switches i can't imagine trying to put a nut on a bolt while wearing them.

Lmao just a jet on the driveway

Pretty neat work, not that complex given that it's basically a 1-phase and not a 3-phase situation. Personally I think that I'd also have liked to replace the wire between the cutout and the transformer while being there since it did look like it was a bit weathered.

I got one of those things you cut off in the opening, local crew is replacing poles and left bits everywhere around

The one small mistake - trusting the digital meter base is working on visual inspection. Use a known good meter to test on the leads inside the meter base box after removing the meter base. The meter base could have failed and you would not know it (If you didn't see any visual damage on the pole from the ground beforehand). If the meter base had failed, then a simple meter base swap out could be done and save you the trouble of setting up the boom to get to the transformer. Lots of good work otherwise.

COOL!

Honestly would be great to get on the phone with you too talk about the job and what to expect

i wish i could have a helment like your

Current limiting fuse…… always wondered what those were. I see them on other properties. We don’t use them here. Stinger goes straight into primary bushing on our pots. Also we use csp pots so I believe they have them built into them. 75kva and above are conventional pots but we do not install current limiting fuses on them either Widow maker eh!!!! Guess an apprentice made up that cutout

Slope? come down to the tropics! Here in Puerto Rico 5 degrees slope is flat!

Nice work!!

and theres was no disconnect switch on the other end of that overhead line so it could be deenergized while you worked at it. But nice job. what is the arc and safety distance for 7200 volt. for 10 kv it is 300 mm. but it seems to be smaller for 7,2 kv.

Trains planes and utility truck. They should make a movie

Your technical trouble shooting is Excellent. I have about 8 poles Im setting south of you for our Local power company. Maybe you could do a video on calling in locates before ysa dig and the nuts and bolts of really setting a pole, How does your telecom company find out primary voltages if they set poles for you??? we have to worry about 34kv to which we work with the power compamy for setting. It seems 55 class 2 our going up with ever y project

Seeing you that close to 7.5KV is nerve wracking to watch. Safety procedures exist for a reason!

When you were fitting the new syrup, I heard you say the line was slack, could that have fatigued the wire off the clamp ??

ALL THE TOOLS IN MY BASEMENT ARE LIKE THAT I MAY USE THEM ABOIUT 5 TIMES. PER YEAR BUT WHEN YOU NEED THEM THEY ARE THERE

Nice video! This looks like quite a lot of work and training to figure this out. Off topic, in our area, we have what looks like a box connected to the primary mounted on the top of the pole, and a Meter is connected at the bottom. What is it?

Do you carry rubber blankets or hard cover that you can put on the primary to create a barrier when working on the cutout?

Those Dica pads are the bees knees