Hoping to get some primary underground terminations on here soon! 😁🍻

I'm not a linesman or electrician but I find this amusing for some reason!

First of all, thank you very much for the shoutout. We use the same trick when pressing the connector, sometimes it can happen that the connector still looks like a banana, but when the rope is in the air and there is 3 tons of tension on it, it sometimes straightens again

"Put dies in pocket, don't lose em." "Where did ya put those dyes?" "I dunno."

Great job!! As a Utility Safety Professional, you nail it every time. One comment.... when using the Milwaukee Crimp tool, I would mention that the battery should be removed prior to placing the die into the tool. This would avoid a possible accidental trigger activation possibly causing a finger injury. Awesome video, keep up the great work !!

I'm a ground hand right now but one day soon when I'm an apprentice I hope to work with many JLs like you. Love your videos & thank you for sharing all this invaluable information.

20 years ago when I was volunteering at Manassas National Battlefield Park in Virginia near Washington DC, they were renovating their museum and visitor center. In the process they were upgrading to a larger 3 phase transformer and running new under ground lines. The last refurbishment of the facility was in the 1960s. As they were digging the trench they uncovered some of the original underground cable buried back in 1940 when the building was built. It was a lead encased, 10 gauge 2 conductor cable, probably carrying 110 volts. Total length was around 500 feet to the street. Power requirements back then were a lot less than what we need today. I kept a piece of it but got rid of it when I moved from that area in 2010.

I’m not a lineman but I thoroughly enjoy your videos

I work on duplex and triplex most days, aside from streetlights. Im going to a line crew in a week or so and im excited! Theyre bringing me in as a C class because of prior experience and im going to bust my ass to learn everything i can and do my best work!

that humming in the background brings back memories

Really like the videos even though pretty much retired after 35 years as distribution lineman. You all probably already know but a index 702 "non bowing die" works real good on 1/0 acsr compression sleeves.

Thanks for sharing, it’s great to see line work close up!

Great video! I appreciate the work you all do to keep our power on. You are today’s cowboys of the grid!

Nice man, thanks for this. It was great to see how line workers do these kinds of repairs.

Thanks. Some helpful tips. I'm an electrician, but we are one of the few companies in the eastern Pennsylvania are that are authorized to crimp triplex. I do a lot of service upgrades, billboards, farms and grocery stores and learning from linesmen seems to be the best education. Cheers

You are a great teacher. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.

Sweet! That was awesome to watch! Excellent video. Working to get into the electrical utility trade myself and these videos are invaluable to me!

Great video! I used the Milwaukee crimp tool on my buddies service entrance last fall. You're so right. That tool is an absolute joy to use!! Latrobe PA--USA

I would think the fewer splices you can have in a given span, the better. According to an old railway superintendent, "The fewer joints you have, the stronger" (he was speaking of railway rail) but I would apply this theory to wire, plumbing pipes, anything you build. The more joints, not only makes a structure weaker, but is prone to future failure.

Watching from Indiana. Much respect for HV team and their outstanding adherence to procedures. I have several friends in campus “HV” (12.7 KV) and have been impressed with their action scripts. Puts meaning into teamwork.

Fist bump from Dallas. Love your channel!

Thanks for the video! As always, helpful and informative (even for people like me, not a line man!) And I can't wait to check out the guy who you gave a shutout to! Communications is in my name!

Great video! You have a great way of explaining what and why you are doing each step!

Keep up the videos brother love watching them

Thanks for your content! It helps a lot!

Great tutorial! I was splicing some number 2 and even with the small triplex splices, you could tell it was bowing.

That Milwaukee sure beats the old hydraulic pumpers.

Good job Bob.

Well done.

I fkng love these videos man. Be safe out there.

T Will Lineman for hire is mint, I really enjoy his content, Wish he had more of it.

👊 Baytown Texas. Thanks for the video.

Thanks for the great content

I'm learning to splice high-voltage power lines entirely by watching KZfaq videos!

I just purchased one. It's awesome as I do a lot of grounding electrode conductor work. I use the BG die.

I used to work at a T&B plant where they made ATS devices. It was funny that you referred to them as “Chinese Handcuffs”. That is exactly what the engineer that was taking me through the manufacturing orientation called them. They were a hit commodity during the ice storm that hit the South and Southeast in the 90’s. The national guard would come and pick up whatever we had and transport them to the Memphis airport for distribution via awaiting helicopters.

Cant wait to see you in the field man. I'm a new casual employee of the vegetation distribution sector in Marysville. Love you videos man keep it up

Cheers from a Rough Framer, Aspire to become a lineman soon!

Great content keep up the videos from Beverly Massachusetts

The 2978-20 crimper comes with a case. You should keep your spare dies in one of the pockets in the case.

Just ran across your site. Kentucky electrician here. Great information….

Damn Canadians....are some of the nicest people! Thanks for the video!

oh listen to this, I was scared of electricity so very much when I was young. I mean I was so bad that I refused to change a light bulb, no joke. Now through years of slowly doing things like watching videos and gaining knowledge, I can and have spliced 2 and 3 phase cords of household items. My husband is a retired underground coal miner, so he spliced mining cables and other things regularly. He was the one who taught me how to splice.

Great content bud ,viewing from Rome Georgia an as a lineman myself great job

Bob, You seem like the HDIC around those parts. Be cool if you made a video showcasing the guy who apprenticed you. My Electrical Teacher taught me a saying heck 25 years ago now: "There's no old dumb electricians". This comment goes out to him. Thanks Jim Anderson SW Florida electrical inspector then teacher. Greatest guy ever.

Hahaha the ladybug on the autocrimp 2:40 Jeez it would be nice to have a electric crimper!

3:30 that smooth design is called "compact stranding" and it's very commonly used in aluminum building wire.

When I was a testman we were issued a phase rotation device brand name Knopps. It has 3 wires, alligator clips stamped A,B,C and the rubber boots on clips were Red, White, Blue. So easy to remember the connections. So if possible we would take a phase rotation before circuit was de-energized. That device was able to handle up to 600 volts if my memory serves me. Nice channel. In my next life I think I would enjoy working for your utility up there in the North country. Thanks

Always great to see your videos. Subed to da Austrian and ivy Nuts.

I've made the yard lol I was like her 36 as in three foot one yard lol watch out it can be shocking and keep on Keepin On 💥😱

There should be paint on insulation similar to plastidip that could be brushed or possibly sprayed on. That would make so many things easier

hmm, never had a power tool when I did those type of connections. All in the arms. Gotta love technology.

I'll have to get you some pictures of the 1000 MCM Cable that got hit today by a bore crew, when we splice it tomorrow.

Milwaukee tool is just up the road from me, they build great tools

great video! i'm a distribution designer and its sometimes hard to picture what the linemen actually are doing with the equipment i design for

👊 Seattle, WA. Not an electrician/linesman, but an electromechanical engineer. Sometimes I think missed my calling though.

I've dealt with a lot of Triplex that was privately owned on a campgrounds / RV property you want to talk about mixing faces up before I got there they didn't even know what I'm phase was lol keep that stick in the air Keep On Keepin On

Great video bro 👊

Another thing to watch for in terms of cross phasing is on a 240D/120 stinger leg secondary. Get that stinger leg hooked to some 120 volt loads, the smoke comes out quick.

Guys down in Eversource Country USA New Hampshire tape up just a couple of rounds of those crimp covers as they tend to pop off at times due to weather contraction expansion or bad locks on those covers. If not wind storms can cause a light show on the poles.

We've found out the hard way that automatics should be used on pole to pole triplex runs that are under decent tension. On a pole to house, 'slack' spans we have had neutral issues..with time, little pressure, add contamination and you can experience intermittent or full loss of contact in the automatic sleeve. Till we figured it out, was a bear to troubleshoot!! Be safe..from Illinois

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I use split bolt connections and insulate with electrical tape on the hot wires and a quick sleeve on neutral..

13:30 just like that it goes back up and good to go? There’s no worry about arcing at all, those plastic covers prevent that?

Nice vid São Paulo Brazil

Wow I wish I had these crimps when I was doing my shed solar lol, would have been overkill for such low voltage but I was dealing with #6 and it was not easy to splice with what I had available to me haha. I tried to solder it, that did not work out at all. I actually have a video where I blow up my heat gun trying it then move to a propane torch. Fun times.

I usually use H crimps for the live conductors.

Thanks Aaron, how about a video on how you sharpen your hawksbill knife?

I tape the connectors, use the black boxes and put tape around the center of the black box. Squirrels either chew the boxes or they fall off over time leaving exposed connectors or as I like to call them...boobie traps

👊 Wallingford, Connecticut USA

All this time I thought your name was Bob !!! :)

Never seen a crimp it before, have only used insulinks for secondary splices, cool to see different ways

Great video F me please always check the rotation of 3 phase installation

It was only a duplex, but the other day i had to re wrap 150ft of #4 duplex feeding a customers light. Took me 45 minutes to get it all untangled and pull it, re wrap it, and tape it good. Then roll it and bring it back to shop because it was clearly no good, the hot opened in nearly 13 places along the entire span, not worth patching. Rolled er up and ill be back out there soon witha new span.

Just curious, when you do your crimps, do you make every other one 90 degrees to the ones next to it?

The U.S. National Electrical Code requires that the phase rotation be in a clockwise direction when facing the panel (left to right, top to bottom, and front to back). I'm sure it is the same in the Canadian Electrical Code as well

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Lost the neutral of our triplex in the last NJ storm. Thankfully a jumper was installed until they could splice it back together!

Do you use sidecam torque connections for triplex or just the crimp connections?

in germany we have like big WAGO click connector for that.

Do y’all use H-Tap and LINKETS or just H-Tap? Great video .. when we use linkets .. we double up our neutral with two service grips back to back ..

👊 im waching frome spokane WA

I have changed out 15 porcelain cutouts that have broke in the past two weeks. I don't know if the heat of the summer is causing it or what. We went all winter not having to change one. But the last two weeks it has been routine.

Back in 1985 when I first got my contractor's license here in California my first job was to rewire a complete Boat Harbor called Richmond Yacht Harbor it had barely any electricity running down to the floating docks so I made poles with cross-arms and glass insulators and ran number two copper all the way to the upper edge of the Gangplank to the floating dock below their I use 2in sealtite to compensate for the movement of the title action which was approximately 5ft per day. I am so happy that Milwaukee is come up with a powered crimping tool as back in 1985 I had to use split bolt kearney's on all the connections on top of the polls which was a lot more time-consuming and difficult to come off of the pole with the triplex down to individual Office Buildings and such on the floating docks I built a metered housing unit that held 20 meters on a 1224 panel to allow for the 20-volt berths on the east side and I did the same building on the west side with 20 outlets and individual circuit breakers for each book birth my project lasted me approximately 3 years as I was working other jobs in between but in the end the owner of the harbor was able to collect rent off of each birthing spot as back-in-the-day somewhere liveaboards using electric heaters and causing his electric bill to rise considerably it was a good initiation into Contracting I learned a lot I am so glad to see Milwaukee's new crimping tool that would have come in real Handy back in the day I'm now semi-retired 36 years later but I'm still highly interested and all new technologies and keep up on the videos available to us in the field your channel is one of the most impressive that I have come across even though you're in Canada I find it so interesting that we are experiencing and using the same material and the same voltages as your mother country England uses all 220 voltage here on the North American continent will use 120 240 and our countries do different have the same types of electrical installations and quality control I really appreciate the effort you put into your videos and find each and every one of them most compelling.KJ's CUSTOM ELECTRIC LIC c-10 468171 since 1985 KJ

I have a question. At the end he mentioned the tape or plastic covers, but it seemed to me to be optional? It seems like that would be required as the metal crimps would be live, and such as today when we lost power to to high winds. If they touched it'd be bad

Would you leave the two blacks stand off like that up in the air as an indicator that it had been spliced?

Only allowed to use compression tension sleeves on neutrals and insa links

What are your thoughts on using an automatic splice on a service drop? I noticed that the neutral of my house's service triplex is spliced with an automatic, and my understanding was that they weren't suitable for slack spans. Is a service drop generally a slack span or is there enough tension to keep it secure? I'm considering asking my municipal utility about this because I would hate to have an open neutral damage stuff inside the house but I'm not really sure if it's actually an issue. What are your thoughts on this?

I have a crazy question: Why is the channel called Bob's Decline, but your name is Aaron?

I just use the ilsco hand crimper when connecting to the service drop.

Just curious, noticed you didn't clean or brush your conductor before you slice it together. At my former company, that was a common practice, also we used triplex with AA neutral conductor. Great video!! SW Missouri 👊

12:45 I meeaan... Not sure if I would use tape tbh. If you lose tension on the N/PEN, the phases can rub and that will be quite the firework when the tape gives way

That’s a great press I just wish they made a nico head for it

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We don't use them sleeves unless it's a primary slack span, we use the 5 inch sleeves for secondary.

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I have never spliced tri-plex but i have spliced ACSR

Another way to cover up the crimpets, mastic tape, its basically thick rubber and I always use electrical over that which gives me 2 layers of protection.

Only time I've ever been flashed was on 240v triplex. Crimping the neutral my crimps caught the black behind it and pinched the black insulation

I am always looking for a good source to buy these crimps. My supply house doesn't stock them and the POCO doesn't like giving them away very often. Do you have a good source online to order this stuff? Thanks for the video!