The rubber room! (Lineman rubber glove work)
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- Опубліковано 26 гру 2023
- It's some quiet here at the office 😯... quiet day too, only 5 trouble calls! lol
Calling for freezing rain now this Friday 😦🥶.
Hope y'all are having a great Christmas and enjoying time with the family!👊👊
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Do you ever send the rubber coverup out for testing?
Great question! I totally should have thought of that in the vid...
Yes. The trucks take a trip to our central office annually to have all rubber cover up professionally tested.
Pinned!
@@Bobsdecline I work for the Toronto Transit Commission and we do somewhat the same thing. We inspect it before use but if we can't read the expiry date then it goes into a bin to be sent out for testing.
After some of the storms you get, some of you could probably use a rubber room. Thank you for all you guys do. Praying you all have a great and safe year ahead.God bless.
Rubber saves lives. When i first started as a commercial electrician (local 26) one of my first jobs was a 600amp enclosed breaker/ disconnect in a motor room.. my foreman decided to cover everything in the panel with rubber blankets and treat it as if it were live. Sure enough we found a generator transfer switch a few feet away that the engineers didnt even know about. Point being is always work SMART and work SAFE. Thankyou for the videos and have a great day
I agree that rubber saves lives: if you don’t want to have kids. 😂😂😂
Rubber saves your adult life too... Keeps the kids away! unless you have a stong pull out game... haha.
My first job out of college was with Salisbury in Chicago. It was a cool experience
It was very busy. I worked eight straight days 15 hour days looking after contractors Hydro, Quebec, EEA,ENE powerline so yesterday was my first day off spent Christmas day down in Saint Stephen, delivering goods and bringing transformers back hats off to everyone who worked because it was a big job, cheers
Thanks for your help! 🤝👊 We had a few local fellas there!
Important bit, always remember to put the rubber back on the truck after cleaning. The number of times I've left my arc flash gear in the laundry room 😅
Good to know the critical safety equipment is taken good care of, you guys deserve all the customized equipment to make this possible, I hope they do the annual tests to the highest possible standards to keep you safe. You guys keep the world turning! Don't let anyone tell you otherwise!
You are the true front line of of our society. Stay safe this year. It’s great to see how you maintain your gear. This really makes me happy that you understand the risks.
From national linemen survey: 42 for every 100,000 lineman are killed on the job each year. This makes lineman jobs one of the most dangerous only behind loggers and manual laborers in agriculture.
Glad you covered holes and cuts. Just like gloves, voltage will go through the hole to what ever leads to a lower potential. (that could be us)
Thanks for all you and your team do. Few understand your job and these videos are great. Hoping that 2024 is a great year. Best to you and your family. 👊
my neighbor is a lineman and brings me the old blankets they throw away, they are great in back of the truck to put cooler on keeps it from sliding sun doesn't seem to effect it
Oh nice! Sometimes we'll cut em up and use them for flaps over our grounding bails access points on machinery. Keeps the dirt out!
That and kinda like you mentioned... Liners for tills and tool boxes.
@@Bobsdecline I'm guessing as long as they're cut up enough where they clearly can't be mistaken for good rubber is enough?
I would say that's right, but would definitely be an unwritten rule kinda thing.
looks like something someone would make cheese in 😁
Great idea to.have that rubber that is a great thing to protect you from the high voltage lines
Really interesting thank you.
Thank you to your company and contractors for getting our power back.My power was only out 22 hours but some was 6 days,it looked like a way zone in some places.
In the early 2000s I use to perform high voltage integrity tests on bucket truck fiberglass booms. Worked in the utilities test department. One of many functions within our group.
We're getting your storms hitting us in the UK now. 70kt gusts here on Anglesey. Not even a light flicker. the old substation near us was recently upgraded and we have a 400kv line that runs to the island, so we're pretty resilient.
Loving your videos. I'm impressed with your attitude to safety.
JJ
( UK military ATC)
Where are the rats?
Unusual winter in Michigan this year … BUT I am not complaining 😂😂😂😂
Thanks for your video Aaron. Happy Holidays and a safe New Years to you and all your fellow Line workers and staff. Hopefully it will be a quiet January first.
Very cool thanks for the walkthrough
Im glad things finally calmed down to let you get a break. Happy New Year!
Oh, are those rubber or silicone mats?
Great video thanks for sharing
I was crazy once…
They put me in a room
A rubber room
A rubber room with rats
And rats make me crazy
Crazy?
And remember,IF IT'S NOT ON,IT'S NOT ON!!!
😁
cool!
Happy holidays and happy new year
Thanks to all the line workers in the path of that storm!!
I know I’ve said it numerous times but thanks for your vids man, still trying to get into the power side of things but God hasn’t opened that door yet so patiently waiting over in telecom! Stay safe!
Appreciate that Rylan, I wish you all the best in following your path 👊👊
Same !
Do you guys also wax the fiberglass sections on the bucket trucks?
Dawn Robinson Good ok 👍
We had our gloves and sleeves tested on 6 months and blankets, lines hose 12 months
I would bet cleaning these things is like anywhere else. Some guys take a lot of pride while others go the "slap-dash" route and figure the routine testing is good enough.
do you have to put....cornstarch or something like that to keep it from sticking or making it easier to use?
he showed using silicone spray
Do you use any brushes or equipment to clean the rubber? Or basically limited to soap and rags?
Abrasive bad
@@jovetj Sure, but they do make soft brushes. Doubting that a toothbrush could do any damage, for example.
The cover up you rubbed your thumb over at the 1:19 mark... since that part is damaged, is it still usable or not? 🤔
Where it's just the lettering that's raised above the blanket, I wouldn't be worried about it. Scuff like that can accumulate dirt much easier tho, so I wouldn't use a blanket that had a long scuff across it.
A simple a pinhole or slice is much more dangerous and allowed high voltage to pass right on through
Tx Arron very interesting. Stay safe out there 🤛
We have an actual centrally located rubber gloves, sleeve, hose & blanket shop at the main campus. They clean everything there. They test everything there. The rubber sleeves & gloves are reissued quarterly. Our next change out is January 1. Blankets are washed & tested. They are swapped out periodically. The hose just gets washed. We use the silcon oil on new hose on the inside so it slides on easier.
Nice heated garage there! I see you use Posi-Plus booms. We use strictly Altec. Not great but works. I think the problem is our employer buys the least expensive equipment & puts their trucks & chassis together with the same thought process? Our trucks are stored under an over hang. Not in a garage. Personally a garage would be better? I keep both of my personal trucks inside & they last a lot longer. We have one heated garage bay we use if we need to thaw a truck out if the body is filled with snow & ice? Or if we are working on it.
Hoping you had Christmas off? Keep up the great content Aaron. I look forward to your videos!
Hi I have a neutral from the utility pole of 5.9, they say it poses no imminent danger, is this true?
Amps? Volts? Either way they could be right... Amps would be completely normal. Volts could be normal depending on the way it's wired, but could also be a problem
@@Bobsdecline Thanks
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ok, so a channel called side projects put out a video the same minute you did, and the thumbnail is the same as your video title. Dont get me wrong, they have nothing to do with eachothers content, but i really found that kinda funny
Oh weird! 😯
Hah crazy! I just found it 😄
@@Bobsdecline im not shilling for the channel, but its one of simon whistler's many channels. sadly i cant share screenshots here, but yeah, what are the chances eh
Yea for sure! Even the chances that you happened to notice at almost the exact moment they were posted too! 😯🧑🦯
I think the algorithm does some weird things sometimes. I have screenshots from a few years ago where two thumbnails in a row looked strangely similar.
As always the content is awesome, curious how common it is if you have a cross arm split like enough to where the pin is unusable on the end of the arm that you would put a rubber eel over the cross arm as a permanent repair. For a single wire 7.2kv on a 3 phase line. Thanks!
Using rubber helps alleviate unfortunate outcomes in both personal and professional life 😜😜
take care and be safe
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I avoid any life work. It's just not worth me.
Especial low voltage I want to stay away fron for obvious reasons.
Ground off/De-rated, Needs to be flagged. Its a trap not to, someone did.