Hey Everyone! First day back from vacation and the phone rang at 5am lol! Ah well... good thing I love my job!💪💪👊👊🔥🔥 We just picked up a few of these new M18 Fuel Top Handle chainsaws... They absolutely rock! So we'll have a quick peak at that today as well! Be safe all!! 🍻
Another excellent video! As someone who will never be a lineman, but has always been fascinated by high voltage, your videos are a real treat. Thanks so much for taking the time to produce such outstanding content. THIS is what UA-cam is about fo me. Blessings to you my friend!
Oooh ooh 🖐🏻! I know what a Johnny ball is! We can’t get Johnny balls at work anymore. They’ve been phased out. We use fibre rods now on guy wires. We still bond the guy wire to the neutral though. I saw on my Milwaukee feed that they make a top handle saw now. Looks very nice? I like what they make. I’m waiting for them to make a coffee maker. Still no word yet? I know Makita makes one. However we don’t use their tools & batteries anymore. I’ll ask my boss to take my Echo top handle saw for a Milwaukee. The Echo just doesn’t have the balls of a Stihl or Husky. I’m starting to think Echo makes consumer level power tools? I only use Stihl power tools at home.
hey it’s my favorite porcelain cutout , very lucky you found it Aaron , most likely you saved a pole or most important a bigger problem that would cost more for the customers or a serious electrical fault that could cause injuries for an employee or crew
Of course you come back and have an early call in the rain. Isn't that how it always goes? I never thought that a guy wire could become energized. I will have a new respect for those. That's a new cutout compared to the one I have. I think 1930's. I may have found a fuse to display in it. Thanks for the video. Please stay safe, and God bless.
nive video. still a lot of them old cutouts' around hear . Boston NY. nice chainsaw. I got 2 deWalt ones. My tools are DeWalt based. I love them. the 60V 20 in saw is a real cutter. out does most gas saws. That always a problem with 2Cy gas. goes bad quicker . As a electrician I sometimes have to trim trees to clear power lines. years back with gas saws was a headache when hardly use saw. for your use the battery saw is the way to go. Battery tools came a long way. the best change was from NiCd battery to Li-ION . so much better.
Bucket dude for the cable company and I use the same saw. I used the m12 hatchet for awhile because I use the m12 drills a lot and have plenty of batteries for them while also using the 18v drills for drilling poles and mounting equipment, so the saw made sense. My favorite feature is that it has a hook on the bottom to go on the belt when climbing, and it's also super quite.
Nice job! Where I’m from we do that by hand lol while wearing class 3s… question tho why do u have 2 guy wires holding a A1 construction pole…. It’s not really good to use pole top pins because they can rust at the tip and the primary wire can break free… I suggest K lines or epoxilator
I suspect the overhead guy was place during the initial build for the slight corner on the primary... The second guy was then added for the loop going across the Rd. Just a guess, but your right, a bit of a weird setup. We've switched now to fiberglass pins with a type of threaded plastic on the tops. We also don't use porcelain anymore for any insulators... Epoxilators for dead ends and plastic for pole tops.
@@Bobsdecline hopefully in a near video I can see what the fiberglass pins look like… I live on an island call St.Croix and we have a good bit of porcelains I feel we should leave them because glass is the best source of insulation but when we have to do a new construction or repair we use k lines or epox for epox we put a jump from the source side to the load size… we have few pole top pins like the one shown in this video but since we are surrounded by salt water they rust more quickly than on the mainland
Do you have videos on how to troubleshoot WYB Banks? Open & Closed Delta's?? Also any videos on the important safety points to look out for, when patrolling feeders after a Hurricane/Ice-Storm/Tornado came through..back-feed sources etc.
Hey Aaron, can you do a video on your personal experience with dealing with different conductor types of transmission lines? I.e AAC or ACSR, how do you find them different when working on them from a practical perspective?
I saw a video by this guy caleed the Zach life captioned "transformer guts" and he went up in the bucket and disconnected the 7200 voltage line with a hot stick and no gloves and opened the transformer and reached right into the oil and rebuilt the connections and then reconnected right up close to the transformer, and the whole time im thinking of all the rules that were broken
at 3am in an power outage, I wouldn't be the slightest bit upset about loud noise and lights, especially if it was work to bring the power back on! 🤣🤣 but I'm rather a night-owl anyway.🤠
Last week, i did see a bucket truck passing by. In the very short time i did see him it looked the same type as you are using. No company markings. Maybe someone did need to do something only necessary once in the five year.
Great video! A little off topic, but you always talk about single phase and 3 phase, but sometimes i see poles with with two primary. Are those a specific types of pole? Stay safe!
I've heard this construction referred to as "V phase" by one utility and as "open Y" by another... Both are the same thing - a 4-wire Y line with one leg omitted. Mainly where they need to do a trunk for two separate singlephase lines or where a customer needs a small 3-phase service (usually 4-wire delta) in an area where the rest of the load is singlephase.
@@byloyuripka9624 Some companies use 'earth return' neutrals to save on wire stringing costs. One company in my area will run 7200V corner-ground delta on some of their rural substations - the main line will not have a neutral, but the branches to the customers will (and the neutral will be grounded at each pole to make up for the lack of neutral on the main circuit). That company is moving away from this practice, adding a continuous neutral when the lines come due for rebuilds and changing the corner-ground systems to full Y.
Great video! That Milwaukee saw is very powerful(or at least has a very sharp blade). How did you get the camera in and out of the oil tank? Johnny balls are cool especially the super old ones. One guy told me that a long time ago, they may have a break in the primary with those and it is a huge safety hazard if you don’t know that they are there.(one side may be de energized and you may work on other side thinking it is fed from side 1)
So In a situation like this, how quickly does the that cutout insulator get replaced? I’m assuming at this point it’s only a few customers without power now, right?
don't be leave how close the tree line is to p lines here in AU there would be at least another 20++ feet clearance back from the line anyway truly like your input video clips when u can , I thank you for posting
In my neck of the woods, they do trimming about every 10 years and cut back around 20 feet. When they get that close it's probably about due for the big trim again.
Hi Will, I live in the same province that Bob works in . New Brunswick can be best described a giant forest (with a lot of lakes and rivers) were holes are cut out for people to live. there are apparently about 27 000km of powerlines, so I'm guessing its hard to keep up with the trimming. Fortunately ,while we do have forest fires , seldom do we have the huge terrifying wildfires that you guys have. Having said that, I had a power company forester by yesterday to schedule a trimming on the powerlines leading to mine and the neigbours house.
It's been a while since I looked up the rules here, but I think they only get 15 feet out on either side of the pole for trimming along 13kV lines. Further than that exceeds their right-of-way (though that didn't stop their contractors from cutting too far back here...). They also left such bad ruts and so much debris that I couldn't mow until that was cleaned up (which didn't happen until I filed a claim with their insurance and called my County utility manager).
I know Milwaukee is the tool for people who live by their tools, but..... FWIW, for poor old homeowners like me, the $200 Ryobi battery chainsaw is a good tool. When you live with your trees you can do a little work every day (not like you in a storm and everybody's TV/UA-cam is out).
Let’s spice it up a little? Let’s re-energize the line & you take the hot line tap off with the door closed with a shot gun. We’ll see how good you are 😂?
Got to operate one, there is a throttle on the handle that when you push it, revs up the engine and allows the controls to work. When you twist the handle(or the whole thing that the handle is attached to), the boom will rotate(forgot which way is which). Lifting/tilting the handle up will raise upper boom. Pushing it down does the opposite. Pulling the handle back raises upper boom and lower boom. Pushing it does the opposite. Getting only the lower boom to operate can be a little finicky. Platform leveling, jib controls, etc are on a separate thing and may not be on all bucket trucks/in a different location.
I just got the same electric chainsaw two weeks ago! I'm curious to see what you think about it, because I've been absolutely floored. My Husqvarna rancher is just a pain to use in comparison. I'm all in on Milwaukee for battery tools anyways - so, I impulse bought the thing at the big box and haven't looked back. Can't say I'm going to be buying another gas saw any time soon now, I think I'm an electric guy from here on out. Great video as always, by the way.
Hey I’m interested in getting into this career, and I’ve been trying to find company’s that are hiring overhead line worker apprentice positions or overhead helper positions but I can’t seem to find anyone hiring. Does anyone know how I would be able to find a position or where to go because I have all the tools and certificates I need to be successful in this career, I am just struggling to find the job opportunities. Any help would be greatly appreciated. P.S. I love the videos keep it up!
@@Bobsdecline So in your province you can go in the air without a second man? In Ontario you can’t. Once you removed the lead you still can’t touch the switch?
I say "fairly new" as it wasn't one of the brands that commonly goes bad... The brown insulators or white w/brown tops we pretty much remove at any pole that's touched. The black tops are the most recent porcelain that were used... But yeah that was 10 years ago. We don't use porcelain at all anymore.
Чисто лопнул изолятор ,нормальные у вас разъединители и разъединитель и предохранитель одновременно , у нас в России разъединитель сразу идут три фазы 10 000 Вт и на Трансформатор а Предохранители там в Эл Щите и нише потом трансформатор.У вас по другому у вас на Опорах и идёт одна фаза , у нас три , потом три фазы по 220 Вт и провод ноль .
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Hey Everyone!
First day back from vacation and the phone rang at 5am lol! Ah well... good thing I love my job!💪💪👊👊🔥🔥
We just picked up a few of these new M18 Fuel Top Handle chainsaws... They absolutely rock! So we'll have a quick peak at that today as well!
Be safe all!! 🍻
Love ya, stay safe everyone.
Hey Bobsdecline Whare can I send you a video that is power line related for you to see what caused it
Probably IG is the easiest!
Hey, You were in my neighborhood there! Our power flickered that morning between 6:30 and 7:00 AM.
Another excellent video! As someone who will never be a lineman, but has always been fascinated by high voltage, your videos are a real treat. Thanks so much for taking the time to produce such outstanding content. THIS is what UA-cam is about fo me. Blessings to you my friend!
Oooh ooh 🖐🏻! I know what a Johnny ball is! We can’t get Johnny balls at work anymore. They’ve been phased out. We use fibre rods now on guy wires. We still bond the guy wire to the neutral though.
I saw on my Milwaukee feed that they make a top handle saw now. Looks very nice? I like what they make. I’m waiting for them to make a coffee maker. Still no word yet? I know Makita makes one. However we don’t use their tools & batteries anymore.
I’ll ask my boss to take my Echo top handle saw for a Milwaukee. The Echo just doesn’t have the balls of a Stihl or Husky. I’m starting to think Echo makes consumer level power tools? I only use Stihl power tools at home.
We have been replacing porcelain cutouts like crazy, we have had several pole fires because of them
hey it’s my favorite porcelain cutout , very lucky you found it Aaron , most likely you saved a pole or most important a bigger problem that would cost more for the customers or a serious electrical fault that could cause injuries for an employee or crew
Absolutely! Usually we find these when the Pole's on fire!
Of course you come back and have an early call in the rain. Isn't that how it always goes? I never thought that a guy wire could become energized. I will have a new respect for those. That's a new cutout compared to the one I have. I think 1930's. I may have found a fuse to display in it. Thanks for the video. Please stay safe, and God bless.
A lot of utilities now have programs to replace these porcelain cutouts because of their nature and susceptibility to cracking. Great video
Your Eyes are Amazing and this Work is Super Dangerous but your Training keeps you Safe and Alive. 👍🙏
Great Video Aron as always keep up the great work that you all do for us.
Glad to have you back Aaron with the content but vacation reigns supreme!!
what's a pirate's favorite contractor?
an AAARRRRRRRborist!
Chipper is a little noisier than the chain saw. :) Keep staying safe, and thanks for the vids!
Love the Milwaukee chainsaws I’ve used one of the OG models for a while now doing tree trimming it absolutely rips.
We use Milwaukee chains saws in the lineman field works good until they get a good rain on them
nive video. still a lot of them old cutouts' around hear . Boston NY. nice chainsaw. I got 2 deWalt ones. My tools are DeWalt based. I love them. the 60V 20 in saw is a real cutter. out does most gas saws. That always a problem with 2Cy gas. goes bad quicker . As a electrician I sometimes have to trim trees to clear power lines. years back with gas saws was a headache when hardly use saw. for your use the battery saw is the way to go. Battery tools came a long way. the best change was from NiCd battery to Li-ION . so much better.
Bucket dude for the cable company and I use the same saw. I used the m12 hatchet for awhile because I use the m12 drills a lot and have plenty of batteries for them while also using the 18v drills for drilling poles and mounting equipment, so the saw made sense. My favorite feature is that it has a hook on the bottom to go on the belt when climbing, and it's also super quite.
Love it. Keep them coming. Be safe
Thanks Aaron. More Milwaukee great products for our trade!
Good eye spotting that cracked cut out. Im surprised you guys havent gone poly yet like everything down here
Everything new is poly and there was a huge change out for specific porcelain models.... Few stragglers left in the field
JUST A FANTASTIC CHANNEL. KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK!
Nice job! Where I’m from we do that by hand lol while wearing class 3s… question tho why do u have 2 guy wires holding a A1 construction pole…. It’s not really good to use pole top pins because they can rust at the tip and the primary wire can break free… I suggest K lines or epoxilator
I suspect the overhead guy was place during the initial build for the slight corner on the primary... The second guy was then added for the loop going across the Rd. Just a guess, but your right, a bit of a weird setup.
We've switched now to fiberglass pins with a type of threaded plastic on the tops. We also don't use porcelain anymore for any insulators... Epoxilators for dead ends and plastic for pole tops.
@@Bobsdecline hopefully in a near video I can see what the fiberglass pins look like… I live on an island call St.Croix and we have a good bit of porcelains I feel we should leave them because glass is the best source of insulation but when we have to do a new construction or repair we use k lines or epox for epox we put a jump from the source side to the load size… we have few pole top pins like the one shown in this video but since we are surrounded by salt water they rust more quickly than on the mainland
Do you have videos on how to troubleshoot WYB Banks? Open & Closed Delta's?? Also any videos on the important safety points to look out for, when patrolling feeders after a Hurricane/Ice-Storm/Tornado came through..back-feed sources etc.
Hey Aaron, can you do a video on your personal experience with dealing with different conductor types of transmission lines? I.e AAC or ACSR, how do you find them different when working on them from a practical perspective?
I saw a video by this guy caleed the Zach life captioned "transformer guts" and he went up in the bucket and disconnected the 7200 voltage line with a hot stick and no gloves and opened the transformer and reached right into the oil and rebuilt the connections and then reconnected right up close to the transformer, and the whole time im thinking of all the rules that were broken
at 3am in an power outage, I wouldn't be the slightest bit upset about loud noise and lights, especially if it was work to bring the power back on! 🤣🤣
but I'm rather a night-owl anyway.🤠
Last week, i did see a bucket truck passing by. In the very short time i did see him it looked the same type as you are using. No company markings. Maybe someone did need to do something only necessary once in the five year.
Great video! A little off topic, but you always talk about single phase and 3 phase, but sometimes i see poles with with two primary. Are those a specific types of pole? Stay safe!
It is considered as a single phase primary, with two hot phases and a neutral (or if a delta system, no neutral.
@@mxslick50delta... triangle.. three points... but somehow two conductors....... 😅
I've heard this construction referred to as "V phase" by one utility and as "open Y" by another... Both are the same thing - a 4-wire Y line with one leg omitted. Mainly where they need to do a trunk for two separate singlephase lines or where a customer needs a small 3-phase service (usually 4-wire delta) in an area where the rest of the load is singlephase.
@@byloyuripka9624 Some companies use 'earth return' neutrals to save on wire stringing costs. One company in my area will run 7200V corner-ground delta on some of their rural substations - the main line will not have a neutral, but the branches to the customers will (and the neutral will be grounded at each pole to make up for the lack of neutral on the main circuit). That company is moving away from this practice, adding a continuous neutral when the lines come due for rebuilds and changing the corner-ground systems to full Y.
Great video! That Milwaukee saw is very powerful(or at least has a very sharp blade). How did you get the camera in and out of the oil tank?
Johnny balls are cool especially the super old ones. One guy told me that a long time ago, they may have a break in the primary with those and it is a huge safety hazard if you don’t know that they are there.(one side may be de energized and you may work on other side thinking it is fed from side 1)
Do you feel pad mount transformers need lightning arrestors? Is there NEC code that states that?
So In a situation like this, how quickly does the that cutout insulator get replaced? I’m assuming at this point it’s only a few customers without power now, right?
As soon as someone can get there I assume
don't be leave how close the tree line is to p lines here in AU there would be at least another 20++ feet clearance back from the line anyway truly like your input video clips when u can , I thank you for posting
In my neck of the woods, they do trimming about every 10 years and cut back around 20 feet. When they get that close it's probably about due for the big trim again.
Hi Will, I live in the same province that Bob works in . New Brunswick can be best described a giant forest (with a lot of lakes and rivers)
were holes are cut out for people to live. there are apparently about 27 000km of powerlines, so I'm guessing its hard to keep up with the trimming.
Fortunately ,while we do have forest fires , seldom do we have the huge terrifying wildfires that you guys have.
Having said that, I had a power company forester by yesterday to schedule a trimming on the powerlines leading to mine and the neigbours house.
It's been a while since I looked up the rules here, but I think they only get 15 feet out on either side of the pole for trimming along 13kV lines. Further than that exceeds their right-of-way (though that didn't stop their contractors from cutting too far back here...). They also left such bad ruts and so much debris that I couldn't mow until that was cleaned up (which didn't happen until I filed a claim with their insurance and called my County utility manager).
Bita silicone and itll be spick n span
HOW DID YOU GET THAT CHAIN OILER TANK SHOT that wasa cool shot
How come your arresters are hooked up to the line side and not the load side?
It's an older standard that the company tried, we now have them mounted on the TX
Do you ever use drones for inspections?
I know Milwaukee is the tool for people who live by their tools, but..... FWIW, for poor old homeowners like me, the $200 Ryobi battery chainsaw is a good tool. When you live with your trees you can do a little work every day (not like you in a storm and everybody's TV/UA-cam is out).
you have a super eye vision... ❤
so I have a question, how in the world can I get one of those big like 2250kv insulators, like the suspend ones, I really want one for my collection.
That cutout just needs some duct tape wrapped around it and it will be fine.
Nah, needs some super glue in the crack too. With baking soda if parts start falling off.
Let’s spice it up a little? Let’s re-energize the line & you take the hot line tap off with the door closed with a shot gun. We’ll see how good you are 😂?
Oh come on you can't you duct tape for a cutout. That's a job for ELECTRICAL tape
@@thokk10289some super 88 and your good
What, no chewing gum?
Why do your poles have no pole caps?
Why in the heck is that span guy grounded? Do you guys not use insulated rods? Wild
Yes, all guy wires are now on insulated rods. I think I mentioned that in the video; That the crew would make the repairs accordingly.
@@Bobsdecline I think I wrote the comment before I finished the video LOL
Can you do a video on bucket truck how to get it set up and operate bucket?
Got to operate one, there is a throttle on the handle that when you push it, revs up the engine and allows the controls to work. When you twist the handle(or the whole thing that the handle is attached to), the boom will rotate(forgot which way is which). Lifting/tilting the handle up will raise upper boom. Pushing it down does the opposite. Pulling the handle back raises upper boom and lower boom. Pushing it does the opposite. Getting only the lower boom to operate can be a little finicky. Platform leveling, jib controls, etc are on a separate thing and may not be on all bucket trucks/in a different location.
What does it mean to see 'Self Healing' on the side of a pole
👍👊
I thought that was Travis Pastrana
I just got the same electric chainsaw two weeks ago! I'm curious to see what you think about it, because I've been absolutely floored. My Husqvarna rancher is just a pain to use in comparison. I'm all in on Milwaukee for battery tools anyways - so, I impulse bought the thing at the big box and haven't looked back. Can't say I'm going to be buying another gas saw any time soon now, I think I'm an electric guy from here on out. Great video as always, by the way.
Nice to use a electric chainsaw for cleaning up the limbs on electric.lines
I don't think that's how the cutout came from the factory! 👀
Hey I’m interested in getting into this career, and I’ve been trying to find company’s that are hiring overhead line worker apprentice positions or overhead helper positions but I can’t seem to find anyone hiring. Does anyone know how I would be able to find a position or where to go because I have all the tools and certificates I need to be successful in this career, I am just struggling to find the job opportunities. Any help would be greatly appreciated. P.S. I love the videos keep it up!
Ah ya, a word I havent heard in a bit, a "Johnny Ball"... A "502" or "504" strain insulator...
Why wouldn’t you change it or al least remove it while your there?
Can't go "hands on" any equipment or conductors that have ever been energized over 1000v without a second lineman on site.
@@Bobsdecline So in your province you can go in the air without a second man? In Ontario you can’t. Once you removed the lead you still can’t touch the switch?
Yes exactly. There's a lot more specifics of course... Maybe I'll do a vid sometime covering the some of the specifics to regulations in my area 🍻
obligatory comment....here
"Fairly new" should be polymer bud
I say "fairly new" as it wasn't one of the brands that commonly goes bad... The brown insulators or white w/brown tops we pretty much remove at any pole that's touched.
The black tops are the most recent porcelain that were used... But yeah that was 10 years ago.
We don't use porcelain at all anymore.
Чисто лопнул изолятор ,нормальные у вас разъединители и разъединитель и предохранитель одновременно , у нас в России разъединитель сразу идут три фазы 10 000 Вт и на Трансформатор а Предохранители там в Эл Щите и нише потом трансформатор.У вас по другому у вас на Опорах и идёт одна фаза , у нас три , потом три фазы по 220 Вт и провод ноль .
Grab-all, never really heard people call it by it's name before. Can you not call it a shotgun in Canada? (That was a joke) Work safe.