My husband has been a lineman all our married life. He has worked for co-ops and for contractors and is now working for a municipality. He has worked hurricanes, ice storms, tornadoes, and fires just to name a few. Years ago when our children were young, Hurricane Hugo hit Charleston, SC and he was gone for 6 months restoring power. He would come home for the weekend every 2 or 3 weeks. I'm proud of the dedication he has in making sure that not only is power restored, but, that he puts his men's safety as priority.
As a 30 years plus lineman I can relate to missing many holidays and family functions in the course of doing my work,fortunately I have a loving wife and children who understand my role in helping people who are without power. Lineman and their families are truly special people.
Shout out to all the lineman and crews! Friends and Family of mine are utility workers. People remember with Smart Meters you don't even need to call in an outage hardly anymore, leave that for emergency calls for people with medical needs and or equipment such as oxygen concentrators Etc. They will know when the supply gets cut from the meter. And remember cordless phones will not work without AC unless attached to UPS. Always have at least one corded phone hardwired to a jack because the phone company will have battery standby or diesel and still work! At 5:40, shout out to the farmer with the Deutz-Allis! Air-cooled inline 6 diesel probably one of the coolest tractors ever made! (She's an old girl but run forever, keep that fan clean!!)
I missed 42 years of birthdays, anniversaries, Christmas, Thanksgivings, kids ball games, camping trips, fishing trips, the list goes on and on not to mention 3 marriages. The commitments of this trade takes it's toll.
@@jonathanmelendez1669 I look back and say "yes". A Lineman needs a strong woman and family to be successful and safe. My first two... didn't have that support.
U truly have to enjoy this work...yes, we’re paid well, but all the money in the world cant replace missed christmases and birthdays...sacrifice and holding a deadly product in our fingertips on the daily is the reason we make good $...cant imagine doing anything else...once linework is in ur blood, its the only thing u can see urself doing... stay safe boys and keep the lights on...
Yeah, people always wish for snow on Christmas, I always wish for a clear windless day and night so plow and utility crews can be home with their families for the holiday.
Great video of what goes on in the life of a lineman. I've been a lineman for 15 years now. I'm a registered P.E., but I find working the lines to be a rewarding career. A job that truly seperates the men from the boys!
@@blouslighter663 our rural utility starts lineman at $52/hr but I know in metros like Denver or Minneapolis you are looking at closer to $62/hr starting
Equipment is different than back in the 80's when I was doing this in KY, but the story is the same everywhere. It was always a good feeling to get "the lights" back on.
This remind me of my self always on the go trying our best to keep the power on the life of a linesman. #GUYANAPOWER&LIGHT. GPL. From Georgetown Guyana South America
Hi there i am lineman. I work for a peruvian eléctrical company. This is my story. Twice a month i Have maintenemt outage . we call it here in lima-peru "Maniobra". We changed transformers, overhear cables, concret frames, etc. I feel so exciting when everything is ok . people thank us so much.
To linemen and their company crews, everywhere.... Thank you for your dutiful compromises, risks, sacrifices, and service!👍 🙏🙏🏽🙏🏾🙏🏼Stay safe out there brothers and sisters, in this line of work, We will praying for you all!🙏🙏🏻🙏🏿
@@lipstretcher it's only because the person 'directing' this wanted the viewer to see what he was doing. if he put it where it should go, most people wouldn't know what he's doing.
+Tri-County Rural Electric no I have not, I talked with the Ibew president and assistant business manger, the requirements were your diploma, Algeria course, which I went and took a college course, and a cdl permit, which I have and I'm working on getting full license before interview! This opportunity will be a four year apprenticeship program, which you have a 2 week climbing course before your accepted. depending on where you score on your interview, which is out of 100 people.
Sacrifice time from your kids birthday to get someone's power on who wouldn't give two fucks if you died doing it. I'm sorry for the family's that lost good men cause of this career. That sometimes isn't worth it at all
How much are these employees paid? And how many hours do they have to work? The linemen take care of the vehicles of the company and can take them to their houses?
heclop2008 Pay is generally pretty good. Depends on your position, experience, whether your doing scheduled work or emergency work and other factors. Hours worked kind of depends on the severity of the situation. Generally 16hrs in a day is the safe limit. Widespread destructive weather events can keep crews out 7 days a week for months with few days off. Generally lead linemen take truck home if they are on call for emergency responses. Most general crews respond from a yard after lead is on scene and can assess exactly which components are needed to do a job. Most systems have a huge variety of different components, pole lengths, crossarms, insulators, transformers, wire sizes and span lengths etc. Its not practical to keep every possible component and quantities on a truck and/or trailer to cover what may be needed for every situation. Big items like poles crossarms, transformers and complete spans of wire get loaded at the yard as necessary for a specific job after the lead responder figures out what might be needed to complete the task.
Watching during the Memphis ice storm of 2022. If MLGW linked this video and showed us the process, they wouldn’t have so many angry customers. To clarify, we’re mad at the administrators, not the linemen. We appreciate all of you.
Yes they would. Some people are gonna complain no matter how fast we work. I wish some of those complainers could go on a ride alone during an ice storm only then may they actually appreciate what it takes to keep the power on.
After Helene came our area and were without power from September the 27th to October the 3rd would back on the night of the 30th but trees fell one fell on other end of our street it damaged the underground line and blew the transformer in our neighborhood so half our neighbors had power and we did not we are possibly looking at generator depending on the cost
Very likely a mistake while filming, but I had a cordless phone that had a spot for a second handset battery in the base so you could swap handset batteries if it went dead. If that 2nd battery was in the base, it would power the base station for an hour or so. When I got it, I thought that was a pretty novel idea.
Gonna try for the overhead line worker course at Hudson valley community college in Troy my , then see if my uncle can get me into national grid as an apprentice
funny the power is out but you can use a cordlesss phone also the gas station sign still lit, but i understand its only a simulation but hey for what its worth we in ohio appreciate our lineman at least i do
Panasonic Cordless phones you can install batteries in the base unit and it operated the Cordless phones for a couple of hours depending how much the phones get used
rusty bird Not often. Depends on how badly the wires themselves are pinned. Linemen can usually free them and get them back up as long as the tree isnt blocking the path of the span or pole replacement area. They can also do basic cutting and drag limbs out of the way to get the lines and power back up ASAP and move on.
+Andrew Loisel (InsideOutGaming) Actually Andrew, we made the video to show electric customers that lineman have lives that are interrupted when the power goes out too. It wasn't intended to be a recruiting film. Saying that, this is a special group of guys (and sometimes girls) that really love what they do and wouldn't trade their jobs for any other.
the newer cordless phones back the option to install battery backup so that can work during a power outage and the phone could be also connected to a ups
Dude has it made. He'll retire with 2 million and other than that, his bank account will have probably grown to over a million. Power companies sure do have their choice of guys, as everyone wants to get into it. No school, just straight hired at about 18 dollars an hour and all the overtime you can dream of. Your weekley bring home will be fucking 1500 dollars. I make that in a fucking month, I could just never get the right opportunity to get into power. I couldn't find anyone who'd help me get a CDL to get in the door. I was going to SLTC in Georgia, but my boss fired me at the HVAC company and I had to spend the 10 grand for the school on living. These guys don't know how lucky they are that they fall into these power jobs. They better thank their fucking God, cuz I never fell into it. I fell into communications linework. I was one of those dudes a job always found me. I started at Bell Atlantic, then I knew someone who worked for a communications contractor. I applied at CW Wright, a power contractor but God damn I got the jist when I went in to fill out the application and check on it, "we don't have the work". Only contractor around. Sucks. I like linework. I do. It's a challenge. Plus power pays well. Fuck, I could have actually had a life if CW Wright hired me. They gotta pay 25 an hour.
I'd bet one day that kid's gonna do something naughty, and Dad's gonna say, "You're GROUNDED!" And the poor kid's not gonna understand why Mom is suddenly giggling.
This video has taught me: 1) Service disruptions to gas stations affect their lights but not their electronic pricing signage. 2) The electric company doesn't proactively investigate outages until people call in about them; even when their own employees experience a service interruption during a special event. 3) The electric company has no shame in blaming nature/storms for outages, rather than a lack of redundancies. 4) Electric companies always employ really bad actors. 5) As with most things, the entire operation is really being run by a woman with a floral print shirt on that's working longer shifts than anyone else involved. 6) Rural Pennsylvania doesn't have any kind of computerized field operations, but they do have really clear radios in their vehicles.
Also this video should be teaching you that cordless phones don't work in a power outage. Yet Mr. Farmer at 3:45 manages to make a call using one that not only is supposed to have its base station powerless, but also seems to have a dead battery because the display is blank.
Thank you for all lineman.
Really thank you.
My husband has been a lineman all our married life. He has worked for co-ops and for contractors and is now working for a municipality. He has worked hurricanes, ice storms, tornadoes, and fires just to name a few. Years ago when our children were young, Hurricane Hugo hit Charleston, SC and he was gone for 6 months restoring power. He would come home for the weekend every 2 or 3 weeks. I'm proud of the dedication he has in making sure that not only is power restored, but, that he puts his men's safety as priority.
The unsung heroes! Working whenever it is required!
As a 30 years plus lineman I can relate to missing many holidays and family functions in the course of doing my work,fortunately I have a loving wife and children who understand my role in helping people who are without power. Lineman and their families are truly special people.
Come to me my power is out
Shout out to all the lineman and crews! Friends and Family of mine are utility workers.
People remember with Smart Meters you don't even need to call in an outage hardly anymore, leave that for emergency calls for people with medical needs and or equipment such as oxygen concentrators Etc. They will know when the supply gets cut from the meter. And remember cordless phones will not work without AC unless attached to UPS. Always have at least one corded phone hardwired to a jack because the phone company will have battery standby or diesel and still work!
At 5:40, shout out to the farmer with the Deutz-Allis! Air-cooled inline 6 diesel probably one of the coolest tractors ever made! (She's an old girl but run forever, keep that fan clean!!)
Not everywhere has smart meters
What a sweet family! Super appreciate you guys, it is not an easy life at all.
I missed 42 years of birthdays, anniversaries, Christmas, Thanksgivings, kids ball games, camping trips, fishing trips, the list goes on and on not to mention 3 marriages. The commitments of this trade takes it's toll.
Was it worth it man.
@@jonathanmelendez1669 I look back and say "yes". A Lineman needs a strong woman and family to be successful and safe. My first two... didn't have that support.
lineman are the backbone of the industry
U truly have to enjoy this work...yes, we’re paid well, but all the money in the world cant replace missed christmases and birthdays...sacrifice and holding a deadly product in our fingertips on the daily is the reason we make good $...cant imagine doing anything else...once linework is in ur blood, its the only thing u can see urself doing...
stay safe boys and keep the lights on...
Hi! My name is Kate and I work for Florida Power and Light. We are looking for journeyman lineman to join our team! Would u be interested in speaking?
@@katehampton1674 would you like me to leave a comment with my social security number?
@@bjornegan6421 LMAO
Yeah, people always wish for snow on Christmas, I always wish for a clear windless day and night so plow and utility crews can be home with their families for the holiday.
Great video of what goes on in the life of a lineman. I've been a lineman for 15 years now. I'm a registered P.E., but I find working the lines to be a rewarding career. A job that truly seperates the men from the boys!
I have been a Lineman 33 yrs and I will tell anybody it's a very good great job,I am my brothers keeper 4th generation 🛠🔧🔩⛏🔨💰💰💰😎God bless
What’s the pay for you guys Ik it’s on google but I wanna know from someone with experience
Danny Stone .
p.e?
@@blouslighter663 our rural utility starts lineman at $52/hr but I know in metros like Denver or Minneapolis you are looking at closer to $62/hr starting
The acting in this video is phenomenal. 😂😂😂
This was better acting than on a lot of tv shows and movies today...lol
Equipment is different than back in the 80's when I was doing this in KY, but the story is the same everywhere. It was always a good feeling to get "the lights" back on.
This remind me of my self always on the go trying our best to keep the power on the life of a linesman. #GUYANAPOWER&LIGHT. GPL. From Georgetown Guyana South America
You look pretty fresh after working 16 straight! I work for Xcel in NM. Great video, stay safe. Local 602.
My dad was a linemen and had the same boots
Hi there i am lineman. I work for a peruvian eléctrical company. This is my story. Twice a month i Have maintenemt outage . we call it here in lima-peru "Maniobra". We changed transformers, overhear cables, concret frames, etc. I feel so exciting when everything is ok . people thank us so much.
To linemen and their company crews, everywhere.... Thank you for your dutiful compromises, risks, sacrifices, and service!👍
🙏🙏🏽🙏🏾🙏🏼Stay safe out there brothers and sisters, in this line of work, We will praying for you all!🙏🙏🏻🙏🏿
Belo video. Bela Profissão.
Can’t get over him putting the wheel chock on the back of his tire at home I’m sure he’s parked in a slope facing down hahahahaha damn lineman!
BUZAR OH I think a lot of that is just so they don’t get complacent and think other situations are pointless too.
It's simply to stay in habit if you always do it there won't be the time you didn't do it when you should have.
@@lipstretcher it's only because the person 'directing' this wanted the viewer to see what he was doing. if he put it where it should go, most people wouldn't know what he's doing.
Just saying I literally do the same thing same work and like I said habit is good you won't ever not have it when you need it.
@@lipstretcher i'm just giving a more likely reason than what has been stated so far as to why he put it on the side that seems wrong.
I know the feeling brothers 23 years and I have been called out on Christmas Eve 15 years of them.
Great video. I have always respected what they do but never knew what all it takes to get there.
Wow this was really awesome thank you so much for putting this together.
Wow!
great film, I have an interview coming up in six months with IBEW, looking forward to a lifelong career with this brotherhood!
+Rob Pierson Good luck Rob!
Thank you very much, any advice about the interview or it's process, would be greatly appreciated!
+Rob Pierson Have you attended a lineman school or college?
+Tri-County Rural Electric no I have not, I talked with the Ibew president and assistant business manger, the requirements were your diploma, Algeria course, which I went and took a college course, and a cdl permit, which I have and I'm working on getting full license before interview! This opportunity will be a four year apprenticeship program, which you have a 2 week climbing course before your accepted. depending on where you score on your interview, which is out of 100 people.
Robbobshiskabob Robboboscarpete well how did it go😂
Sacrifice time from your kids birthday to get someone's power on who wouldn't give two fucks if you died doing it. I'm sorry for the family's that lost good men cause of this career. That sometimes isn't worth it at all
Great video.
Takes a special breed to do this...BTW I've never witnessed someone eat a cup cake with a fork before in my 30 years of life
Great public service announcement!
Who eats a cupcake with a fork?
People with beards that do not want to get them loaded with frosting. Be more observant.
fat people who like to be classy
That cake had a cockroach
I do also bee safe and stay away from down power lines
The same people who chock a tire on the uphill side
Love the film! About to be on my journey to becoming a lineman can not wait.
+Austin Wade Thanks Austin! Good luck in your journey to becoming a lineman. You'll be joining an awesome bunch of people!
Howd it go?
I go to lineman school here in a couple weeks im excited
very cool vid. nice editing and filming. thanks for sharing. and thanks to the linemans
any call outs are usually Doubletime reguardless of what day of week it is
How much are these employees paid? And how many hours do they have to work? The linemen take care of the vehicles of the company and can take them to their houses?
heclop2008
Pay is generally pretty good. Depends on your position, experience, whether your doing scheduled work or emergency work and other factors. Hours worked kind of depends on the severity of the situation.
Generally 16hrs in a day is the safe limit.
Widespread destructive weather events can keep crews out 7 days a week for months with few days off.
Generally lead linemen take truck home if they are on call for emergency responses. Most general crews respond from a yard after lead is on scene and can assess exactly which components are needed to do a job. Most systems have a huge variety of different components, pole lengths, crossarms, insulators, transformers, wire sizes and span lengths etc. Its not practical to keep every possible component and quantities on a truck and/or trailer to cover what may be needed for every situation. Big items like poles crossarms, transformers and complete spans of wire get loaded at the yard as necessary for a specific job after the lead responder figures out what might be needed to complete the task.
Watching during the Memphis ice storm of 2022. If MLGW linked this video and showed us the process, they wouldn’t have so many angry customers. To clarify, we’re mad at the administrators, not the linemen. We appreciate all of you.
Yes they would. Some people are gonna complain no matter how fast we work. I wish some of those complainers could go on a ride alone during an ice storm only then may they actually appreciate what it takes to keep the power on.
After Helene came our area and were without power from September the 27th to October the 3rd would back on the night of the 30th but trees fell one fell on other end of our street it damaged the underground line and blew the transformer in our neighborhood so half our neighbors had power and we did not we are possibly looking at generator depending on the cost
Was 'Dean Jackson' calling from a portable phone? Hmm.. Might have been a sat phone..?
😂😂 I was thinking the same
Very likely a mistake while filming, but I had a cordless phone that had a spot for a second handset battery in the base so you could swap handset batteries if it went dead. If that 2nd battery was in the base, it would power the base station for an hour or so. When I got it, I thought that was a pretty novel idea.
some newer phones have the option to install batteries that will allow the corded and cordless phones to operate during a power outage
the gas station has a standby generator because I google-searched the restaurant and look on google street view you can see the generator
Purchase a stand- by generator. It is a great investment.
Yes it is. But don't forget to put an Automatic transfer switch in between because transformers also work step up and not only step down
Gonna try for the overhead line worker course at Hudson valley community college in Troy my , then see if my uncle can get me into national grid as an apprentice
What are those green things on the lugs of their wheels I saw them on a garbage truck the other day but have no clue what they are
Jw im 3:38 into video anyone notice the phone wasnt on
Bucket babies... Bucket babies everywhere.
I like the over night calls overtime pay 💰 is good 90 dollars p/h
Amazing video, but who eats a cupcake with a fork?
These are their stories
Nice trouble truck..Wish we could get dodges here...
wouldve been better if this was in wichita... glen cambell wouldve been proud
funny the power is out but you can use a cordlesss phone also the gas station sign still lit, but i understand its only a simulation but hey for what its worth we in ohio appreciate our lineman at least i do
Panasonic Cordless phones you can install batteries in the base unit and it operated the Cordless phones for a couple of hours depending how much the phones get used
love the linemen but don't forget the Tree crew that's usually there First!
rusty bird
Not often. Depends on how badly the wires themselves are pinned. Linemen can usually free them and get them back up as long as the tree isnt blocking the path of the span or pole replacement area. They can also do basic cutting and drag limbs out of the way to get the lines and power back up ASAP and move on.
Been a Lineman for 12 years, and we do our own tree cutting during storm. We don't need anyone else to a job we can do.
Tree crew's, are usually drunks, drug addicts, and model citizens!!!!, keep em off my job
Bucket truck is parked on a decline why do you chock the back of the wheels??? Power is out everywhere and it turned from night to day lol
nicely done video but i cant help but LMAO from 2:00 to 2:10
How does this make anyone want to be a lineman? LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+Andrew Loisel (InsideOutGaming) Actually Andrew, we made the video to show electric customers that lineman have lives that are interrupted when the power goes out too. It wasn't intended to be a recruiting film. Saying that, this is a special group of guys (and sometimes girls) that really love what they do and wouldn't trade their jobs for any other.
Thank you for putting this out here. People need to know the sacrifices that are made.
Ask a lineman and they will tell you. Appreciate what they do for you when a storm rolls through and takes out your power!!
You see that house
That's so sad! His parents didn't tell him you can eat cupcakes with your hands.
Garyrabii lol
who eats a cupcake with a fork?
people with beards who don't want that shitty frosting in their beards
Good thing you’re linemen and not actors. And who eats a cupcake with a fork LOL.
Good video though
The response time is hell. Took them 5 hours to get more crew to help them.
My grandson is a journeyman lineman with Toledo Edison for 5 years
3:28 and cordless phone wouldn't work with the power out...so fake!!!! hahaha
the newer cordless phones back the option to install battery backup so that can work during a power outage and the phone could be also connected to a ups
Boo. I didnt realize it was fake until I watched a bit into it, and not even "the special moment" when the power comes back on :-(
Damn. Hot wife. ....what time does Daddy come home again? 🤔
Dude has it made. He'll retire with 2 million and other than that, his bank account will have probably grown to over a million. Power companies sure do have their choice of guys, as everyone wants to get into it. No school, just straight hired at about 18 dollars an hour and all the overtime you can dream of. Your weekley bring home will be fucking 1500 dollars. I make that in a fucking month, I could just never get the right opportunity to get into power. I couldn't find anyone who'd help me get a CDL to get in the door. I was going to SLTC in Georgia, but my boss fired me at the HVAC company and I had to spend the 10 grand for the school on living. These guys don't know how lucky they are that they fall into these power jobs. They better thank their fucking God, cuz I never fell into it. I fell into communications linework. I was one of those dudes a job always found me. I started at Bell Atlantic, then I knew someone who worked for a communications contractor. I applied at CW Wright, a power contractor but God damn I got the jist when I went in to fill out the application and check on it, "we don't have the work". Only contractor around. Sucks. I like linework. I do. It's a challenge. Plus power pays well. Fuck, I could have actually had a life if CW Wright hired me. They gotta pay 25 an hour.
1500 a week take home is trash, you really should aim higher, i'm a school bus mechanic that works 50 hours a week and i take home 2250 a week
WTF should of told them it's your kids birthday and you will get the call first thing in the morning... lol
I'd bet one day that kid's gonna do something naughty, and Dad's gonna say, "You're GROUNDED!" And the poor kid's not gonna understand why Mom is suddenly giggling.
Wtf kind of English are you speaking my nigga?
This video has taught me:
1) Service disruptions to gas stations affect their lights but not their electronic pricing signage.
2) The electric company doesn't proactively investigate outages until people call in about them; even when their own employees experience a service interruption during a special event.
3) The electric company has no shame in blaming nature/storms for outages, rather than a lack of redundancies.
4) Electric companies always employ really bad actors.
5) As with most things, the entire operation is really being run by a woman with a floral print shirt on that's working longer shifts than anyone else involved.
6) Rural Pennsylvania doesn't have any kind of computerized field operations, but they do have really clear radios in their vehicles.
😂😂
Also this video should be teaching you that cordless phones don't work in a power outage. Yet Mr. Farmer at 3:45 manages to make a call using one that not only is supposed to have its base station powerless, but also seems to have a dead battery because the display is blank.
call 911 for down lines not utility center
This is the corniest thing i have ever seen
And it works. Lol
You’re all fired. There’s no way a pole in the middle of nowhere took the entire night.
When a power pole is knocked down they have to completely rebuild the power lines if had more help they gotten done faster
The resteraunt has no power but the gas station sign managed to stay on logic think
back-up generator, think logic dumb ass
Backup generator at the gas station to keep the store and pumps running
didnt know i was about to watch high school drama class failures. click bait and reported
Bullshit!