Means a lot 🤝 thank you for taking the time to share! 👊🍻

@@Bobsdecline I love you videos keep up the good work

NOTHING FOR GRANTED. THANKS FOR SHARING

Ain't it the best? He does a tremendous job of explaining the situation.

​@@BobsdeclineI just subscribed to your channel because I find it fascinating and a unique opportunity to learn about high voltage electricity since I am not qualified in line work or working with high voltage electricity your videos are fascinating excellent quality very well done sir keep up your wonderful work. I'm not sure where your videos are based but I live in the Australian state of South Australia, where household mains electricity is 240 volts, probably nowhere near as high as the voltages that you are used to working with but 240 volts is still enough to deliver a potentially fatal electric shock. I have been electrocuted twice by 240 volts of mains electricity but was fortunate enough to survive with minor injuries. Power Networks SA the company who manages the electrical grid including power substations have issued very clear advice to stay a respectable and safe distance away from downed power lines in South Australia, as a general rule it's advised to stay at least 10 meters away from downed power lines in South Australia, advice that I intend to pay attention to and follow. I'm not sure what the exact voltage is in high voltage power lines in South Australia, but I would imagine that the voltage in our high voltage power lines in South Australia would be more than enough to do some serious damage. I still feel relatively safe walking on footpaths that have high voltage power lines above them because I know that the power poles and power lines have strict safety standards in terms of how they are engineered.

Not just the line workers, us telecom workers work below your lines every day, so we always look very closely at insulators and cutouts before going up to our work space.

sir i am from india i am also doing electrical work like you sir i wanted to know about your electricity board and you so i hope you will answer my comment(can you contact me)

I use this mentality at work, has saved me a few times. Most recently when doing quarterly work on our Cryogenic Hydrogen equipment.

I miss being in the air, doing the grunt work. Thank you for giving me a view I miss. I might not be a pole dancer anymore but the love for it never fades 👌

I.B.E.W?

And that is why so many old lineman have bad shoulders. That, and from using cutters, 052 presses, and manually-operated hydraulic presses. :-(

@Supa Trending Daily how did they die?

He probably doesn’t get ‘performance reviews’ as he’s probably a proud member of the IBEW as all lineman should be.

That lineman knew what he was talking about,you young upcoming lineman,pay attention to them old lineman,they know from experience what they talking about,im a retired REA lineman 32yrs,that's how we were trained by the older lineman

Yes! Excellent advice 💯🙌

@@tinkerwatts7343 100% correct, but I have to laugh because 3 very very experienced linemen were doing a demonstration in safety and they did a lot out of telling about how important experience is. The main linesman did proudly tell that he had been in the business for OVER 4 years, another had been there for 3 years and the third had worked as an electrician for 2 years and one year as a lineman! :-)

@@Bobsdecline If you haven't already, i suggest that you invest in a small drone with a remote camera! That way you can easily inspect these poles from the ground, or even in your truck. And it is always nice if you can inspect broken live wires from a distance!

Please start a channel - sounds really interesting

If you are burying your lines underground,don't you have leading power factor problems due to conductors being in close proximity to each other and the capacitive coupling?

@@joecummings1260 cables are insulated!

@@bartselter5332 that prevents arcing, but only increasingthe spacing between phases or phases to ground prevent capacitive coupling.

@@joecummings1260 no, the earth screening surrounding the cable is getting rid of any power residu

Usually this is the case. Sometimes you can do a job right and still have something fail and you have to redo it again. Typically this is caused by faulty materials used and not really the fault of the person doing the work.

Or: "Why is there always enough time to do it right the second time?" @@Elfnetdesigns True enough but hen's teeth.

My dad used to tell me that all the time in the 1960s... and he was oh so right!!

@@susanclark6987 I got that from working for Ma Bell in the 60’s. There was a sticker in every truck with that phrase.

Nice! Welcome to the trade. Be safe out there👊👊

called him a bozo at 6:59

I'm the same! Spent more time with a network cable along the wall of office... or inside the back of a tower cabinet.

I'm a electrician and perosnally would much rather work with 120v then deal with those pesky network cables. You have to take your time or else it ends up looking like shit or the wire gets damaged and you go and test it and it doesn't work.

And how do u propose they QC it? You want someone coming behind in a bucket truck to verify it? That is a lot of work and expense. Flaggers, traffic control, positioning the truck, rendering the truck safe just to go up and look for probably 30 seconds? Guess how they will pay for that? Yup, your bills will go up.

@@mikel9567 Okay.

@@mikel9567 There is this awesome technology being used now in a multitude of industries, called drones. A single drone operating QC person could inspect the entire run in minutes. Hell, thousands of miles of power lines and pipelines are patrolled via drones instead of manned aircraft now.

Charges? What law do you believe was broken?

@@stargazer7644 None that would hold up in court unless they consider the dangers of true ignorance while performing functions of qualified persons an actual crime. Our duties as Linemen are dangerous enough without the added traps- is all im truly pointing@.

vary true

AND hopefully all of their work gets a second look. Scary

It's been so long, it would probably be difficult to hunt down the exact person who did the work, they might not even be in the trade anymore or have switched jobs/companies, etc.

Lineman dont stab other lineman in the back even if they make a simple mistake. Download the lineman ethos. From "the lineman life". These are the basics of being a lineman. Could have been an apprentice that made a mistake while learning.

@@the_townleys Should be documented. If it was a mistake, it shouldn’t be severely punished, but it should still be documented.

@@the_townleys That's the sort of shit that gets people killed. Safety culture means mistakes get reported so they can be documented and training or policy can be improved for next time. "Lineman ethos" my ass. No matter what industry you work in, if mistakes are getting covered up somebody will get hurt eventually. If it's an apprentice that made a mistake then whoever trained him needs retraining, or the training material they read/watched needs to be adjusted. This goes for management too: Reporting safety violations and other issues needs to be first and foremost about how it happened and how to prevent it from happening again, not about punishment.

​@@the_townleys It's not "stabbing each other in the back" if you're saving lives. Regardless of if he was an apprentice that improper installation could've killed or seriously injured someone. It's best practice to document it, report it then let the admins figure out what they are going to do since that lineman could've left dozens of even hundreds of poles like that over the years. You're basically saying you care more about someone keeping their job than literally everyone else's lives. Crappy employees that cause headaches or worse for everyone else are able to cash out at retirement instead of learning to correct their failures or face the unemployment line early because of people like you.

There’s so many contractors working on are property, it’s nearly impossible to find out who’s doing it. I have found that same problem during storms, just fix it, and go on your way. Most of the time is makes contact with a cutout bracket or grounded equipment.

We've actually used them for a few projects already! Great for difficult access areas

seriously. how the hell?

True Travis. I’ve been in this trade along time, troublemen for over 25 years, and I’ll never see everything. You can learn something new from anybody, even a new apprentice, never underestimate a person abilities. My goal is too find a better and safer way of doing my job. I say to myself before working on a pole, “There’s a trap or hazard and it’s my job to eliminate that hazard.”

Yes and I am a proof of that, even I understood it!! :-)

Haha that's awesome! Thanks Mike! It's right nice oot today eh? 🙌🍻

@@Bobsdecline That comment needs a poutine emoji

Hah! But wait .... Is there a poutine emoji 🤔🧐

Nope, just fries I guess 😔🍟

Thanks Cobra Strike! Always great to see ya here! 👊🍻

Much respect 🤝 and great idea! I'll see if I can put something together. I've seen a few close calls with first responders... Well trained first responders that just happened to be in a very unique situation in which an electrical hazard was present without anyone knowing! It can be quite unnerving, thankfully nobody was hurt on the instances that come to mind! It will be a difficult topic for sure... Usually when you guys are on site, things aren't exactly in proper working order and there are often many other hazards as well. There are many words of caution that come to mind, I'll see what I can put together!

I’ve seen pad mounted transformers 50 years old, but average I would say is 30 - 40 years. I live in Florida, so most fail here because of rust from recycled water & lightning hitting them. Power is like baseball, three strikes and it’s out.

I'm wondering the same, there has got to be a record.

I believe the poles are numbered which means they would be on a work order or at least the street of the job

And this is why inspections are booming business .

At least where I've worked, first time is a no-fault just as with pilots. To do otherwise discourages reporting, particularly of your own errors, and the more important thing is to find the holes in training that lined up with other holes (Swiss Cheese Model) and fix it there so that it doesn't happen again. Of course, if you do it again, you're gone.