Climbing a pole to install a new light!
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- Опубліковано 29 лип 2020
- Hey everyone! I was lucky on this one! Transformer only fed the one house, and nobody was home ..lol. Actually 99% of the time we do this while energized and its no problem.
Have a great week everyone!
** Keep in mind, while watching any of my videos, they are to be used as guidelines only! Always follow work methods and procedures set forth by the company you work for. This is not a "Do it yourself" tutorial. This type of work is to be preformed only by those that are authorized to do so. **
Audio courtesy of:
"All good in the wood" by Audionautix
and
"If I had a chicken" by Kevin Macleod
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Thanks to all those that wished us a great vacation :) We had a blast! Back to the grind now ... Set my phone on the back of the truck, and was able to capture a few tips today on the job. Hope y'all are having a great summer so far - Cheers!🍻
Fistbump Aaron! - Perry, FL! - Keep up the good work and keep the excellent videos coming :p
is nova scotia power offering LED lights for private property pole lights yet, and if so, do you recomend them over the sodium ones? i have 150w one currently...
When using the hot stick it's probably best to have very good vision.
Hey Lineman sure liked the way you handled your hand line utilizing it to drop the old light and pull up the new I been trying to teach that way of thinking to my apprentice 👍
Snohomish, Washington. I'm a street light geek, and I own a company that makes conversion transformers for 6.6A series street lights (I doubt you have any series there aside from airfields, but I'd love to be corrected if I'm wrong. You guys definitely like those Brand "L" LED heads (I'll refrain from mentioning the brand.) It's pretty much all I see in your videos. But it makes sense given where they're made. I went to their factory in Amherst back in 2010. it was neat to see. Those Brand "C" HPS area lights were also quite popular in Canada but you rarely saw that design anywhere in the US that I've noticed, and I travel a lot. Keep up the good work! Love your videos.
It's kind of cool to know that someone is watching these videos and "cataloging" the street light types they see. Thanks for the comment.
Snohomish!!
Snohomish!!
345KV of power is just crazy! Just thinking of everything those lines are serving from simple phone chargers to broadcast transmitters to whole factories. It boggles the mind! Thank you and all linemen for keeping the fire in the wire from a nobody in Missouri.
You think that's crazy, try a 735kv line. You get shocked by the grass tips touching your legs. lol
Watching from Oklahoma . Glad too see ya posting its been a while .Hope the Vacation was good
Me too
Had a great time! Thanks and hope your able to get some time away as well! Cheers!
Glad I’m not the only okiehoman that watches!!!
tristan loftis same love this channel
Hey look at all them okies.. well here's another one.. cheers :D
Watching from the UK, really enjoying the channel. You are doing a great service to your trade, working safely and with integrity - as well as providing an insight for potential newcomers to this really interesting job. Full respect to you!
Very smart guy and glad you share it with us.
Watching from Maine. Enjoy the videos, thanks for taking the time to make them. I work outside plant maintenance in cable, so I'm always looking up at power when I boom up. Worked alongside power lineman many times, especially in the windstorms we have had in the past couple years. Always fun to watch.
The tip on rolling up the rope is a good one; thanks!
Greetings from Austria✊
I've been a lineman since 6 years an i love to see how other countries do thier work to lern new tricks for myself💪
Keep up the great work👍
You were correct in calling the coupling between lines to be inductive in this case, not capacitive. You potentially have an air-core transformer between the low voltage lines and the high voltage lines when the lines run parallel. If the high- and low-voltage lines cross at near-right-angles, there will be very little inductive coupling between lines.
Capacitive coupling occurs when two metal plates are parallel and near each other.
Thanks for making these videos, the provide a rare insight into this kind of work. Watching from Seattle.
Hey ! Thanks the great explanation made simple! Cheers to Seattle!
Hey quick question, so what exactly is coupling? Went to line school and they never mentioned it
Tanner Goodwin It’s when currents in one wire cause currents to flow in another wire that it’s not physically connected to.
Tanner Goodwin It’s the time-varying magnetic field created by the current in the high-voltage wires. That magnetic field then induces current & voltage in the lower-voltage wire. The strength of the coupling is strongly dependent on the distance between the wires and how parallel they are.
Ohhhh induction I gotcha, I've never heard it referred as coupling but makes sense thank you
Your videos are more valuable than most of what's played on the news. Real life, safety oriented, educational problem solving. 👊 Watching from south Florida.
Love all the tips and tricks you always put out! Currently halfway through my pre apprentice lineman school and love the trade already. Be safe!
What an amazing professional! Bravo!
Watching from Johnson City, Tennessee. I’ve been a traffic signal technician for the past two years now. Thanks for providing us with awesome vids 🤜
You really know how to change a light bulb and make it interesting. Enjoyed watching.
Watching from Saint Lucia in the Caribbean. Really love your videos.
Thanks for making these videos! I really enjoy them.
Central Florida. Great channel!!!!
Nice to see you back. Demonstration that there are two ways to work on lines - the safe way and the quick way.
👊👊👊 Cincinnati,Ohio👊👊👊 Keep up the good work. I am inside wireman but love seeing the different trades doing work. I have learned a lot from your page. Thanks!!!
Good to see you back regards from UK
👊 Watching from South Florida! great video.
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Climb up, get 'er done, climb down, done. This man knows his job 👊 from Michigan
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👊 Thanks for the tip on coiling up wire. I'm not a line man but often use that elbow to thumb / index finger wrap around to coil up wire. I'll try it your way next time!
I used to cut trees and used the same method for longer and bigger ropes. Never a tangle throwing from an aerial bucket.
It was really interesting to watch him teach that. I have a heavy gauge extension cord, and an air hose that both want that 1/4 turn method. The cord and hose "taught" me basically the same thing!
Great job
great to watch
Watching from Western Kentucky. Back in the early 70s I worked for an electrician. I was the bosses helper. Many years later, I'm in Nuclear Safety, now. I do enjoy your videos.
Never was a lineman but always admire your service. Love the vids!! 🤜 from Nashwauk, Minnesota!!
Thanks! 👊👊
Thanks for the entertaining video. I found it was neat to learn how the voltages in each set of lines differ and that 'capacitive coupling' differs from induction. I am watching from Greater Toronto Area.
Watching from North Carolina, USA Thanks for the videos.
That is the same way roadies & stage techs roll up microphone cables, & snake cables, the same way climbers roll up their climbing ropes and the same way smart people wind up extension cords. You can chuck the XLR end out across the stage and the cable follows it. We made larger loops with seismic cables but those were larger and longer.
Keep up the great work. I'm a firefighter from Virginia, learning much from your videos,.
I find leds to be a harsh nasty light when used in streetlights. I wish they made them soft like the old mercury vapor lights, or at least had orange leds. The technology is there its just a matter of what shape they cast the lens in. I drive around with my sun visor down at night now to avoid that nasty sideways led glare.
Agreed! I loved the warm glow of the sodium vapor lights at night. LEDs are so harsh. Had to install blackout curtains. No way I could drive at night with them.
There is usually no transition at the edge of the light pool either, the ground is either super lit or dark. I guess that's progress.
Here I’m Quebec they started installing orange/yellow LEDs and I can tell you they are way more confortable in many cases. We even moved some of the white LEDs to highways and put orange ones closer to houses.
I still prefer white ones on highway though, just like a prefer having a car with white LEDs beams.
@@cedricpomerleau5586 Orange / Yellow would be much softer warmer light, probably better in snow conditions as well?
Here in Australia LED are being sold on their energy saving/efficiency benefit. So most tend to be of the 6000K (intense blue white) to get the maximum light for the power used. In Australia where I live it gets very hot 40 - 45 C over summer, LEDs don't like the heat and some lamps end up going into a strobe mode flashing rapidly within a few months of use. horrid things.
@@raygale4198 Honestly, even when there’s snow, white LEDs do not get bright to the point of being annoying when driving, that’s why I said I prefer them on the highway. The issue with them is really when you’re in a city during winter. They are really bright, they are everywhere, snow reflects it up and clouds (it’s pretty much always cloudy during winter time here in Canada) reflect it down. So you end up that it looks like you’re in the middle of the day even if you’re not directly under a light and that annoys a lot of people living in those towns. Yellow light, having less blue component to it, makes it easier for people to sleep.
Hello Bob. Nice to meet you. Happy New Year to you and your family. Hope all is well with you all. I'm doing well. Great video. Awesome job Bob.
Pennsylvania, Great videos, keep em coming, thanx👊
Watching from Wisconsin, starting lineman school at the end of August!!
Thanks Aaron great video and I enjoyed the rope winding lesson at the end I am watching from Vancouver BC
Keep up the good work! Watching from balmy southern NH!
Watching from California! Can’t wait to start the trade, live the videos keep em coming
Watching from New Zealand, love the videos keep them up.
What a great song!
General electrician here watching from so. Cal
Great demonstrations always & thanks👊 🔌
i just like how natural you climbed up that as if it was just a simple ladder
I've used climbers a little bit. I was surprised how easy he made it look because it's not.
It’s like wrapping a guitar cable at the end there. Cool to see man! Hello from Texas!
What’s up Aaron my man. Prior to watching this video I told myself the steps I would take to do this job having never done it before… And it was exactly the way you did it. Cheers and kudos
Nice! The only difference is most times I leave the secondary energized and therefore use 1kv gloves
Good sense of humor about changing your shirt!
Good job I always like teaching the trade
👊🏼 glad see a new video up man! Always lookin forward to it
👊👊 Glad to hear from ya! Cheers!
Watching from Tuscaloosa, Alabama That trick you did with the rope is very useful
Indianapolis, IN, Power grid operator for the midwest US. I enjoy your videos
Austin, Texas! I enjoy the channel!
These videos are WAY cool! I have always wanted to know about my electrical service and how it's taken care of! I'm in Bloomington, IN
Watching from Mississippi. Work in Industrial Maintenance at a food processing plant. Biggest stuff I mess with is 460 volts so mad respect there. Been really busy though. Take care and be safe.
Atlantic county NJ, i gave it a like, thank you for posting and sharing.
Watching from London England hope your good dude, some really interesting videos you're able to show us, it gives the general public an insight in to the dangerous job you do as a lineman, and helps us understand why it takes a while post outage to re energise the lines, hope you enjoyed your much needed downtime, stay safe brother , have you found there to be more calls re outages since this pandemic, was wondering because the demand due to people working from home surely is causing issues for you and obviously there could be less of you working due to having to self isolate etc , stay safe dude and can't wait for your next upload
It is a really nice feature that the light do turn on when you put power on it. That is a feature specially made for installers so they can quickly verify it works without climbing the pole again. I can imagine the light in the future will have a remote control, so you can monitor and turn it on / off, or setup based on time of day, instead of daylight, so can test it from the phone, or know which ones are busted easily. Many modern lights do get time and location from GPS these days, so they know precisely the sunrise and sunset times, etc.
👊Loving it. Watching from Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland
New subscriber from Tennessee. Awesome videos dude! Stay safe.
Greetings from Twin Cities, Minnesota. Cheers from an IBEW Inside Wireman. Great work
Great piano player. catchy tune.
Cheers from the City of Angels, where we run helpers with our Troublemen. Work safe!
Watching in San Antonio, TX. Great job!
Damn remembered when you had 500 followers! Keep killing it!
Watching from Staten Island , New York. Very interesting to see your proceedures and the safety protocols. George Y. Bramwell.
Cool that you're able to climb alone. Our troublemen havnt been allowed to do that for years. They'd be so jealous if I showed them this 🤣
Fun to watch 👌 Upstate NY
Trying to join the local linemen union, great video!
Liked your hand line tip at the end. Have tried for a long time to teach sweet wife why but without being up a pole in the middle of a blizzard (no bucket truck) as key part of the lesson she wraps the elbow. Blizzard? Military in NH. Watching in Florida.
thanks for the vid. i would have liked to see some of the wiring of the light. nice rope maintenance at the end.
👍👍👍👊 Thriple thumps up with a fist bump, I been watching your videos for a few months now, I am going to line school next year, and trying to join local IBEW also in the meantime. Glad to see inside the trade, very excited to start. Keep it up and stay safe. Watching from Minneapolis, Minnesota
2:50 this had me laughing. Nice choice Bob 🤣
Watching from Western North Carolina.
Watching from northwest Ohio, keep up the good work!
Sweet pointer on rope handling. Well cooled rope can make the difference between a good, safe day and hours of misery.
watching from Michigan
Great video, welcome back to reality.... Cheers from Edmonton Alberta!
Reality is wayy less fun then water skiing 🏄 Haha! But fun none the less 🤟👊 Cheers to Edmonton!
Watching From North Carolina. Cool Videos!
Thanks Ethan! 👊
Watching from Michigan. Would love to see more content
Thanks Paige! I'll try my best ✌️💯
Watching from the Republic of Ireland 🇮🇪
Awesome! 🍻👊
Induction will give you a good scare on secondary. Installed a streetlight 20ft below a transmission line in Ontario and even with class 4's I got a wack upon initial contact. It even fried the motor in my drill I had at the time, so always use brushless
Watching from California 🇺🇸
Hello, nice video, hello from Houston , TX.
Oh ya I've always been very... intrigued? (I guess that's what to call it) with the small substations supplying one or a few buildings in a remote area off a transmission line. I haven't seen very meany of them, the only places I've seen them are, one in southwest Idaho and two in central California.
Watching from Louisiana!
🤜🤛 Aberdeen Scotland. 👍 Love the content,
It would be so chill to work in Canada. Here in the UK I would have to give the customer 10 working days notice before I turned them off. As it was classed as live working it would be a two man job. If I needed HV isolation I would have to put a request in with network control and carry out the operation in conjunction with control, although we were just pull the LV fuse so no need for HV switching. This job would take half a day in planning and half a day in delivery just for one light.
Great video! Watching from California 👊🏻
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very cool. Connecticut here
Watching from Birmingham uk stay safe👍🏻
watching from Franklin, NC
Another great video Sir! Also a good habit to be in, is to sound the base of each pole before climbing to test it for rot spots. I’m sure you probably did and it didn’t make the video. Just wanted to mention it for others that are new to the industry. Cheers brother! 👊🏼 Watching in central Minnesota!
Great advice to bring up for sure! Appreciate the comment, Cheers! 🍻👊👊
Watching from Lawton OK.
Watching from Abbotsford, British Columbia. 👊
Arizona 🌵 ☀️
Watching from Manitoba.
Exactly how I do my ropes so I'm doing something right
Watching from Fort Wayne,Indiana
Western Kansas. Fellow lineman
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