Exploding Power Pole

[boomshoot1]

1:20 yeahaha so cool now i can do wafles

[troin1983]

In this case that was about a 33 Kv pole so we would replace everything. The insulators to the jumpers........

[Yellowfang213]

That was cool. i wish I could've been there to see it but DO NOT listen to this with headphones.

[Crpetersena]

Like this one, pretty good.. (Have the feeling we have Monday off too) ha.. Well if the pole was not severely damaged, they can usually have most repairs like that done with in a few hours, just a matter a replacing the bad/burned up components. Even if they had to replace the pole it probably wouldn't take more then 24 hours.. Pretty neat video..

[MrLehnerd]

Now if u only had some hot dogs to cook then you had some cooked meat

[NariNaraga22]

That was great! I wish I could have been there to see it happen in person!

[poepei12]

awesome!!!!!!!!!!!

[djkavika]

There's your problem.

[TheGodParticle]

I can watch this shit for hours, thanks for posting.

[TheRacerlover]

Now who is going to black tape that back together? LOL

[Jetli390]

@TheRacerlover LOL!

[vegmatic1966]

The underground cable: MADE IN CHINA

[scotshiers]

Overhead powerline looks like it is feeding underground power cable, possibly to underground vault or padmount transformer. looks like one phase of cable burned in the clear, would not necessarily affect substation (feed point) fusing but would affect power to cust bldg. cross phasing or grounding of one phase (looks like a wye system) would relay cir brkrs in substation, but blown open u.g. cable might just end up shedding load from feeder.

[sabresmiley123]

" hey that pole is on fire." XD hahaha

[Lockbar]

1st Dude: "I'll give you $5 if you put your tounge on that pole" 2nd Dude:'" OK, hold my beer....."

[comediancj1999]

NICE VIDEO DUDE

[FordLTD94]

Imagine how foul that would smell?

[kalowen1]

Hammer Of Dawn 0:05

[Trashman242]

Wow!! For the whole time, I was trying to figure out what truck that tailgate visible on the right belonged to :D

[reyflow8]

@Trashman242 Hahaha

[mrtmcfly]

@Trashman242 2009 EJ Harrison on Pete 320

[hydropyropyropyro]

X, Y, GND, Z?

[TheChipmunk2008]

@hydropyropyropyro Looks like it, if you pause the video dead on the first flash at 0.05, you can see a white label on the crossarm of the third wire from the left, which looks typically californian to me. I am not quite sure why california Delta connects the primaries, I think it may be to do with detecting ground leakage but I am having a rethink on that after watching the power stay on for the whole of this video, excluding the short dropouts from the recloser!

[YaesuFT736R]

Wanna be a lineman????????

[linemanbiermann]

@YaesuFT736R everyday

[TheGirlWhoGames]

haha....i love listening to the people in this video!

[FordLTD94]

Shocking! ;)

[frosty956]

Notice at 0:05 when the arc short the two lines, you can see the wires off to the left repelling each other from the magnetic field due to the huge short circuit current!

[eurasian73]

was this in Orange County,CA?

[ErickGoku7]

1:21 woow yeah jajajajaajajajajajjjajajajajaa­jjaja XD!!!!!!!!!!!

[yettii0077]

lets take an axe and slap the wire off..... POLE---- BUUUUZZZZT JUST TRY IT BUTCH!!!!!!

[OnnomonnomonnO]

I love that boucing wires after short circuit cause of the strong electromagnetic forces :P

[6flgslover]

its funny wen that dude sed we got our own fireworx XDD

[DBLKuba12]

WTF ?! The Power Crews didn't come ?!

[bulullu]

its amazing that as the 3 Phase circut the power wasnt switched off by the high voltage fuses? ? ? Great video!!!

[denelson83]

1:18 - "Just take an axe and slap the bottom and cut the wire off?"

Apparently the power pole did not agree with that suggestion, immediately throwing off a huge arc when it heard it.

[mutanay77]

your laugh sounds like Johnny Knoxville!

[MrGSWAGG92]

OWWW 0:46 - 1:22 IT HURT MY EYEZ LOL!!!!!

[Hiddenjello]

I thought when this kind of thing starts the power relay closest too the area shuts down the line for 10 seconds then sends a test burst through it and can tell if there's a problem then shuts it down or something like that?

[matteng1997]

@Hiddenjello Not always. Reclosers will activate only at a certain amount of overcurrent (generally, the very large arcing kills right away). They may shut down for a mere second or as much as 5 minutes. They usually do reactivate but sometimes when the arcing resumes it is too small to trip (like in the video) and will keep the poer on until the fuse blows out.

[michal98ify]

i jumped when it banged LOL!

[offamychain]

VERY nice catch. I've spent almost 3 decades playing with electricity, everything from meter services to residential planning to commercial electrician. The training I've had from various sources is on the better part of 8 years. I've been on-site for many dozens of electrical incidents. The stuff still amazes me to watch what it does in situations like this.

[XBlackXRoseX868]

Prettiest explosion I've ever seen

[VGabo2011]

Es como si estuvieran soldando !! 

[quirpco]

Anyone know how many volts are running through those wires?

[quantumbits]

@quirpco Must just a guess, but judging from the insulators 30-50KV

[quirpco]

@quantumbits youch!

[flakmonkey47]

Epic!

[naninhobh]

kkkk Eu não me canso de ver essas coisas

[peugteobike]

cool video

[invertigo9867]

its the 4th of july!

[jorologo]

I got a feeling that we've got Monday off too.

Sounds Great.

Buy how you gonna run The Fridge to keep The Budweiser Cold ?

[BankaiIchigo12345]

Also something else funny is happening because periodically I see it do a jacob's ladder effect and move up the wire. But not between wires. One end of the arc is on the tip of the wire. The other end of the arc moves UP THE SAME WIRE to a different point on the wire. So it is arcing to itself. How does THAT happen. An arc have current flowing so it must occur beween 2 points of different voltage. But a single wire will ONLY be at one voltage along the entire length of wire. So what's happening?

[NEEQOS]

@BankaiIchigo12345 I'd guess that the cable is arcing to the by now charred insulation cover. Maybe a lineman or E.E. could tell us for sure.

[BankaiIchigo12345]

1:37, the wire breaks loose and I can see corona discharge also known as saint elmo's fire. But not any ordinary purple corona like with my tesla coil. Rather a BRIGHT WHITE corona. Not sure how it got bright white, as corona is a arc into space and NOT an arc between electrodes. But normally an arc is only hot enough to be white if it has lots of current flowing, but that requires a complete circuit. An arc into space (a corona) does NOT draw lots of current. So how can it be white?

[Clarrisani]

Looks like it set something on fire below it.

[Seravajan]

How it becomes, that after the first bang (start of the video) and the touching of the two left wires that there was not another big bang due short circuiting of the two phases?

[MilesBennetDyson4]

gunshots!



[bahgheera]

Lol at the dude in the background talking about chopping the wire with an ax. Why don't you go ahead and try it dude!

[jorologo]

For all that to happen like that indicates thats there no protective cut devices ie fuse links or earth leakage circuit breakers. Very Dangerous indeed.

[JerryGiesler09]

Near the end of this video, did the electrical fire spread down to the bottom section of the insulations?

Eplosion, probably nitrogen oxide is what give the smoke it brown color. Electricity are known to generate both NOX and Ozone.

[gamefreak0o]

the blue flame is cool looking

[hatchetman29]

Great video -- it's hard to see where it's trying to arc.. Was there another wire (neutral obviously) hanging behind the pole? Or is it grounding down a guy wire or conduit or somethng? I'm not a lineman but don't the breakers shut it down only if 100% of the current goes to ground? Fascinating...

[frosty956]

@hatchetman29 the breakers are connected to devices that can sense different types of fault conditions: they dont always trip for every type of fault, some times if the fault current is 'small' there is a set time delay depending on the fault current.

[FliegenKlappen]

this has to be in california i hear espanol....

[DarkorbitPikkuTurpa5]

1:42 FIREBALL!

[ARR016a]

did he died?

[darpachief]

Man i wish i could generate and control that kinda power through me. My Psycho Crusha would know no limits.

[iTzGuay]

Don't let the blue flame throw you off.

[TrainSounds]

Where was this in?

[clasof96]

nice shot

[superjoe87]

0:29 "Oh shit, dude." Pretty much sums that up.

[stephanosanio]

Power line is having orgasms

[Vietpr3]

That just proved even during a crisis, people still managed to have a good time. :)

[TheKidzify]

@bobbyknight1970 well it looks fake gosh

[bobbyknight1970]

This video is so awsome. It amazes me how electricity can be so loud and visable when it's usually so quiet and so un noticed. Even though I find high powered electricity fascinating, at the same time I'm deadly afraid of it. Electricity is just so unpredictable. I don't like being anywhere close to that kind of power, but only from a distance. The distance where you were from it was okay, but not much closer than that. Great video man. Thanks for posting. One of the best videos on YouTube.

[randomsrvapps]

@bobbyknight1970 actually electricity is very predicable if you know what your doing you should search"tesla coil"

[allen3601]

somebody said that smells good

[tiggerjayeward]

How did you know to film at that exact moment?

[mikillero]

That is an epic jacobs ladder when it's hitting the guide wire!! HAHA epic! Nice job for filiming this!

[mpowellmpowellmpowel]

Wow! What caused the short-circuit? Before it got fixed?

[1990chrism]

never seen brown smoke before

[TheKidzify]

1:24 is it real!?

[bobbyknight1970]

@TheKidzify Ofcourse.

[mrfoxboy]

maybe someone should have called them to let them know there was an untraceable short. The only way a "safety device"( fuses or circuit breakers) will trip is if all the power goes to ground. If only 1/2 of the power goes to ground, the fuse/CB won't trip. I'm a self-employed electrician, and know a thing or two about power distro. You guys seen this? Call the PoCo and tell them their pole was flaming, and they'll cut the juice

[NiklasProd]

ooh shiit DUDE xD hahah

[horsefucker1680]

COOOOOOOL!

[AllCarsAllTheTime2]

old lines my ass. you tried to reanimate a dead corspe. im on to you

[2277Mario]

the guy talking in the back at 1:51 "why cant they hit the switch" they cant get to it yet!

[muscle423]

damn squrriel mustve don it

[runescapeikill]

thats was happends wen u go back yard hunting trying to kill a bird on a wire!

[AriBenDavid]

From the insulators, this looks like a 34,500 volt feeder. Pretty nasty stuff. 20,000 volts to ground. Really making a mess of things.

[kyatisback12]

That's impressive!!!

[epl0si0n]

does anyone know why it gives off that colour smoke on the first explosion?

[mrfoxboy]

@epl0si0n that would be approximately a shitload of power arcing

[klaptrap]

"Just take an axe and smack the bottom-" ZAP

[tall32guy]

It's funny how everytime it starts, they're all like "Oooohhhh". LOL

[TwapsDutch]

sickkkk

[HondaGery250]

AMAZING!  INCREDIBLE ELECTRIC POWER.

[tall32guy]

@HondaGery250  Yep! Doesn't take much to make a bright, loud show! LOL And on the on the other side of the coin, that same amount is enough to Krispy Kritter someone in an instant! :)

[letseeitplease]

that was a great video, what kind of business was this pole at? and how long did it keep the business closed? thanks for posting that video

[thewarrior140x]

holy shit crashing power pole

[vegmatic1966]

Great capture and audio! That is a stupid installation. That service drop has no fused cut-outs, just a lightning arrester, it appears. The autorecloser re-energizes the line after the phase to phase/neutral/ground arcs (the big flashes) and the lines continue to burn.

[chevyloverguy1]

We have those here to there fused in some places in others they aren't

[larkie998]

Oooh, pretty.. I wonder if it could light a lightbulb.. KIDDING. Obviously it would.. Lmao. It takes guts to stay there, if I were there I would be freakin out.

[chevyloverguy1]

acctualy that wire right there is about 7200 volts and would probably make a light bulb explode 120 dosen't do this

[Oskar896producciones]

ya se es en español que estoy hablando pero eso es increiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii­ible ***** Clasificación

[spalding824]

crazy

[trashmaster684]

Woah!

What happened!

How long did it take for the Power Crews to come?

[mrtmcfly]

They spen't all weekend installing a new transformer & wiring.

[trashmaster684]

Wow...

[Broadcastbuddy2]

@mrtmcfly Are these SCE Lines?

[2277Mario]

@mrtmcfly umm not just that but i have seen dead animals do that to

[Bdeta88]

Amazing vid and amazing qquality with that camera. There was a voice earlier on in the vid it sounded just like Chris Burlew's.

[cd8100]

holy cow!

[FormerWMDriver]

Great video! Any idea what started all this?

[mrtmcfly]

old lines i would assume