Exactly

That’s the difference between Union and Co-Op…. That’s nothing Lol. Short handed and overworked, your nuts get bigger!!

Lifting an energized line up and over one's head seemed a bit dangerous.

More PPE and distance inspecting a 480 400A transfer switch. Even at 4160, he got his beard real close to the wires.

I see how you find nothing wrong working as a lineman for 0 yrs. Lol....

BudHound 420 That’s the joke which he is making 🤦🏻‍♂️

i see many problems in this video

I've actually observed something similar. I can't speak to what is wrong or correct, but it was a bit different than this.

Looks good to me, tie it in. 🤪

LMAO, exactly. So odd watching how other places around the US do their line work. JL from IL here.

Funny seeing you here brother!!!!! New to your channel 💪

Been thinking about joining the Navy and becoming a Seabee. Would you recommend it as a career path in the military?

Hahahahahaha

Stupid video with Travolta

especially with all the safety violations if i was that forman i would kill that crew. thankfully they actually made it down shame on those lineman no cover up in the line or pole

Esse trahbalho é muito perigoso. Que Deus abençoe ao todos.

Doesn’t matter how long you’ve been retired as a lineman, or going to school for it now, the amount of safety violations is incredibly high. These men are lucky to be alive with how they are practicing this trade. Numerous times in this video they performed unsafe tasks which could’ve killed the both of them in the bucket instantly because of there neglect to cover second points of contact.

Carefully done, yes. Safely done, no.

Any longer and you'd see where they blow their arms off going phase to phase.

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Wow no rubner gloves on energized primary awesome!!!

Ur safety level is very high.

Im sorry but what you just mentioned is not needed or necessary. They could have used some more cover up but everything was done fine and safely.

what is tiger tails？

@@shenPatrick Tiger tails are insulated line covers. Good to 7.2 generally.

That comment was funny. LOL

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I feel that's the way to go imo. No service assurance is worth making a job 10x more dangerous than it has to be. I would rather my power go off for a couple hours or a day and know the linemen are safer. The job can probably be done faster when power is off too. Ground both ends of all 3 phases and it is safe to work on.

We do both in Aus. But agree with most comments on this page that this is work to a poor standard. Piss poor cover up

@@redsquirrelftw you’d be surprised how much people complain when we de-energize to do this kind of work

That's the harsh reality of US capitalism. In Europe we have more of a "soziale Marktwirtschaft" (not always very social, but for sure better than in the US). Protection of workers has a higher value here in relation to maximizing profit than in the US.

@@dillanglover107 We have deenergizations very very rarely here in Germany. I would assume that we have more backup. When I was a child (30years ago) we had more outages, but the energy supply has improved and I cannot remember any outage over the last years, not even during thunderstorms.

At one point one the guys face was about 2cm (less than a inch) from that live wire (if if was really live)... kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gdiBZJqe3uC3dqs.html

Oh shly

@@a64738 He can actually touch a live wire, because he's insulated from the ground. It'll sting quite a bit (his body would work as a capacitor, passing some of the AC current) but won't be dangerous.

@@AlexBesogonov His body wont just be a capacitor to the environment, his body will energize the WHOLE TRUCK and the capacitive leakage currents will probably hurt him.

Butter fingers on what? They’re not cutting wire tails? 3 wire construction gives you plenty of spacing between yourself and opposite phases. The knuckle on their boom is very low so they basically covered the 2 first phases they transferred for no reason other than the camera. It’s a fiberglass arm if you’re concerned about second point of contact maybe??? Are you an apprentice?

Yeah you’re definitely not a foreman I would want to work for

Nick Deabreu what r they

38 yr retired lineman here, I see what you mean.

Nick Deabreu Everyone is an armchair expert. Procedures change.

@jaw willow a step 3 apprentice here and I see a few but the major safety issue I see is lack of cover up especially pole wraps and cross arm cover

For sure, ive got nothing but respect for these guy working in the electrical field/industry

Gloves. Bucket liner. insulated boom

@@zachbufmack8541 you just blew his mind

no kidding. gotta plumb bob that pole and then if you are guying it or pulling on it leave it cocked to that side a little bit

dysccophresh lolol I noticed that too. Also gotta love two guys nut ta butt in one bucket......can’t afford a second truck damnnnnn

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LOL!!! I notice that too.

@@linehandibew6205 Hell we here in SE Mich have to do this job with 3 total bodies, and beg for a 4th one.

This really is not the safest crew. Many places would have much more rubber up there. With that being said, yes, the bucket has an insolated lining in it so even if you do make contact, it would only bite you, not electrocute you. Many buckets also have insulated booms along side with the insulated bucket. So even if they make contact they probably won't get injured.

Where do you see an uncovered arm? I looked 5 times and saw arms 100% covered

@@TheBanjoShowOfficial at 4:34 when they placed the center line, in the background you can see the white arm of the boom from the winch truck is unprotected!

The bucket truck(manlift) they are working out of would have minimum insulated rating of 46,000 volts, and the upper boom arm is mostly all fiberglass and insulated. In theory the lineman could barehand the line from the bucket and be ok, but the real danger is line to line contact. If they make contact between the two lines, there is no insulaiton to protect them other than the rubber gloves/sleeves they are wearing.

The whole truck is insulated and isolated. For all electrical linemen. Has to be. Or else they’d be fried the instant they got close

Yeah your right if we in the 80s and 90s but The world is changing and the power supply companies have to meet maximum customer outage restrictions - There is a price on human life unfortunately

Thats why you gotta save this kind of work for the real men, stick to your office job.

@@LarryL3g3nd you probably wouldn't last long

Energized work is perfectly safe if done properly.... No need to de energize the line for this type of work.

These are fiberglass crossarms. Most fiberglass crossarms have a bracket which holds a bolt above and below the crossarm. This prevents the crossarm from moving. Hope this helps.

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I agree man. It’s pretty amazing people continue to work like that.

I'm very surprised that the employer allows that kind of risk taking. It's not just a personal risk but if they had lost control of those lines and dropped one on the arm the power would be gone and the cost of fixing the burnt mess would cost dearly.

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Experienced lineman use common sense when they work. Scared or inexperienced lineman, do every little thing the company asks for regardless if it makes sense or not. They did nothing wrong, your company is keeping you in a box. You’re concerned about the boom but look at how far away it is from all the phases. You’re concerned about the energized phases to their backs but look at how far the separation is. Also, they didn’t cut any wire or handle any long tails. What is positive control to you and how would that have been safer than they way they moved the wire? Why would you cover a fiberglass arm? Are you assuming it’s really wet? Are you assuming the pole was soaked in water before they set it? Do you do any logical thinking before you do a job?

Duke sets rubber trees. Fuckin loser.

Could create isolation point in the future

I do not think the jumpers are cut. If they installed a recloser or something like that then they might remove the jumpers but I do not think they were removed.

strain relief. we usually put them for every 7th pole or where there is an angle on the line

What exactly are you wondering? I think there is an attachment for their impact which they can use. It’s pretty close though so I’d be worried about hitting the pole. Hope that answered your question.

If u live on the east coast u don’t have to jump thru that hoop . First energy & Pepco pay for everything up front ( salary & schooling ) . Their desperate for linesman .

This isn’t really a false deadend but it is just a unguyed double deadend. Usually wire tension doesn’t need to be measured(from my observations) but there are special cases when tension needs to be measured.

Sometimes they do sometimes they don’t. I’ve heard of something called polecrete which might serve a similar funtion.

Trucks a fully insulated 3 times, bucket liner, and twice on the boom. You can touch energized conductor so long as you’re fully insulated, as you are in a bucket, so long as there is no crossphasing or path to ground.

Blood, guts, body parts, etc. is what can happen if you ever came in contact with that kind of voltage lololol

The tires insulate a tiny bit but on bucket trucks, there is usually a liner and insulated boom(s). I don’t know about cranes though. Cranes have to be grounded where I live when doing work so it’d probably create an arc.

As an ape you have a lot to learn if you didn’t see the TONS of violations and close calls. Hand line on the neutral?? No cover on hot phases? No guts almost period. Hot line in jib. Spreading wire using tree for anchor. Not pole cover. No blankets. Guys pulling energized line or line within MAD of other energized lines with no gloves and sleeves. No way this was fully energized when they spread.

@@MadNlGER slow your roll there killer I’m only makin fun of other comments

That is a double dead end

insulating gloves with specific... well, specifications, also they're not grounded.

The bucket is isolated from ground, they are made of fiberglass, essentially.

They are like a bird on wire. No second potential

Cranes are usually grounded

Glad I saw this comment. I was getting irritated by all the people talking about how unsafe they were, while I was more annoyed by the fact they worked on the phases from the inside out instead of outside in. Wasted moves

@@Franky8312 fax

Arm is fiberglass I think the insulators are plastic or polymer. They didn’t not apply enough line guards or coverup to protect themselves from the high voltage if one measure of protection failed. You can never be too safe.

The pole holding the lines could be grounded

I’m guessing 7.2kv phase to ground or 12470 phase to phase. Just a guess though based off of the insulator sizes.

Most new ones are aluminum but some old ones are copper. No they are not plated.

No, the rain will actually help the dirt compact around the pole better and concrete will prematurely rot the pole. No utility sets wooden poles with concrete, spoil from the hole, crushed stone or a two part expanding foam.

Lol...ignorance is bliss

They can touch a live line because 1) They are in a bucket that is insulated from the Earth 2) They are wearing rubber gloves 3) They are wearing rubber sleeves which cover their arms up to their shoulders. 4) They only handle one live line at a time. 5) They cover live wires and parts they are not working on with rubber mats. by doing the above steps they never create a path for electricity to go through them. Interesting note: The rubber sleeves they are wearing are usually only used at high voltages so this line they are handling could be a 7000 or greater voltage line.

@@timg6850 man that is insane!!!! They are better than me... I was in the Army for 14 years and you couldn't pay me enough to work on power lines lol.

that foreman is an idiot. if i was that foreman i would have as much coverup as possible. shame on those lineman...smh

Y’all just scared bitches

@@mb61j2 🤡

It’s a good thing you just specialized in high signs and molding. Let me know what company you worked for so I know never to go there.

T&D was nicknamed total destruction and I believe have since changed names due to all their incidents

Cost of installation, maintenance, and removal. Accessibility is horrible. You usually need to take an excavator and possibly a jack hammer just to access a line. I do not think underground work can be done live either.

Those are vise top pins. F neck ones that have the wires that you mentioned do secure the wire if done properly. They also make preform ties which are way faster than a hand tie.

I agree.

7700 volts.

I don’t know exactly but it’s under 15kv phase to phase. My guess is it’s 7.2kv phase to ground

Please enlighten me lol

From my understanding they are not insulated it's a bare wire made from aluminum.

Swamp Ass I meant the guys up there wearing the insulated gear. I wonder if it feels like anything when handling hot high voltage.

Like a vibration

Only their steel balls tingles that's all.

@@jondoh599 🤣