How to Repair a Downed Wire
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
- With summer just around the corner, Pepco has been hard at work, prepping its systems, and testing its processes and procedures, all part of the company’s efforts to provide safe and reliable service for its more than 842,000 customers this summer.
a piece of cake DIY project for a typical homeowner!
You go right ahead, I think I'll leave playing with that to the pros.😆
we’re in a power outage n i’m ab to fix the wires myself.
You must be friends with Jack Mehoff.
Great informative video, very surprised this does not have more views!
What they don't tell you is those gloves are insanely expensive, and are triple insulated. Don't fuck with power lines.
Great now I know how to repair wires, thank you sir.
Something that seems scary as shit even after it’s been verified the lines have been de energized is touching the cables still at least for me to watch. Even with the gloves and all. Creeps me out still to watch.
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How come the moderator doesn’t show up on our jobs?
How much does one of those trucks set you back?
I think it would be a lot safer to use some information system with a keyboard and a display to communicate all that stuff that he spoke into the radio. With a radio there is so much risk of the receiving side hearing something wrong or not being able to keep up and just saying 'ok' instead of 'repeat please'. If you type something, then the sending side sees literally what is going to be send and has all the time in the world to correct typos before the receiving side even knows about it, saving confusion, and the receiving side will have all the time in the world to do the right actions with the information. And text in an information system is logged automatically, easy to search back into history what happened back in time.
My guess is that really wouldn't be any better or safer. They probably work with the same folks most of the time so their communications skills are probably pretty sound. Having to operate a keyboard with heavy gloves is very cumbersome, and given they are in a bucket, it would probably be pretty small, with a high possibility of bad typing. Also remember most of this work in the field occurs after a snow or rainstorm, and it still maybe doing either at the time of repair. Additionally, they really don't have all the time in the world, as they are trying to restore power as fast as possible.
It wouldn't work in the snow or rain.
Was hoping for more of a diy this looks like a lot of equipment just want to weld it back into the line had a tree fall and split our house line in two now PGE says they can’t get their trucks down my driveway and won’t come fix it. I have flex sealed my entire bucket on my trackhoe moved the broken line off the ground and it is now tied (not connected) by twine I tied around the insulation on both ends so they look up but are not connecting and I am stuck in the medieval era currently.
it's not something that's meant to be "do it yourself," a downed line requires work that a state doesn't trust their homeowners to do. Linemen need up to 4 years of training.
@@fadingkoz well fuck your opinion I did it after two years I figured I could just thread a cylindrical hollow magnet to either end of the line and just connect it and watch it weld itself back
@@mediawkwardy7230 that's too much work. I usually just use gorilla duct tape when fixing broken power lines. The last job I did was 2 years ago by myself and it's still holding great.
@@mediawkwardy7230 how the fuck do u not care about 3 phase power going into ur heart and killing you
@@BlazeBacon 3 phase is not the issue. Just a single phase anything above like 600 volts toasts a person instantly. Those lines are usually like 7500 volts or 11000 volts. One mistake and there is no chance of survival. If you come into contact with that you'll hear a loud ZAP for 2 seconds and the person falls down like a ragdoll, smoking, the end. Looking at what actions Medi is doing, and his choice of language, he's not really a bright mind.
I might try it
So once the wire is in the sleeve and lifted up all they do is reenergize it, right?
After it's connected and he's lowered down. Not when he's right next to it
so what happened anyway PepcoTv?
Was the first step to isolate the pole from the rest of the grid? If so who can control that? The linemen or the utility?
The lineman. He turned that crank at the bottom of the pole to quick disconnect it.
He’s wearing rubber gloves in a bucket on a grounded line, yet he is letting the conductor touch his body. Defeats the purpose of rubber gloves never mind the sleeves.
Give me the dame wires ill fix this shit myself... 4hrs!!!
A Power Outage
This guy again…. Why is he wearing an earring
Next time how about ya don't let the 477 Sleeve dangle inside the bucket and rub all up on your belly ...just food for thought ...