hot stick

[Sidewinder9877]

These guys got balls big enough to fill a dump truck messing with that shit.`

[demongb2001]

whos the instructor omg!! duh!!



[ugod519]

Major fail boys. Wouldnt look at a welders arc flash would you? Head's down when you close em up... never know!

[SergioViteriCastro]

its only training no more

[Rangerbelt]

supradood-chill a bit, they were kidding a little, i am sure they are real serious when need be. geesh dood.

[bassboy923]

is this a training course or somethin?

[lwhite79]

@bassboy923 yeah, we were just practicing with hot sticks and fuses

[atrembla41]

Do all pro linemen screw off when training? If these were live lines would they be cracking jokes and acting like fools? I hope not!

[robbierude91]

Hes not looking down like you should when you throw a fuse in.

[supradude26]

@robbierude91 Or looking away when opening the cutout... There are quite a few guys I work with who don't look away when they aren't breaking much load, maybe 50kva bugs and lower, but after seeing a 26kv primary phase to phase arc/explosion when opening a sectionalizer as an apprentice I ALWAYS look away. I'd rather my hardhat get the instant sunburn than my face.

[iiskunk]

I like how lineman #1 provided sound effects when #2 closed the cutouts!

[TexsoInstruments]

Is that a Texso Instruments Universal Spline Hot Stick?

[MrSparks134]

there training!!

[phuckmeimfamous]

what is sad is that he's closing those CC right below them.... god , where is security around here ?

[drdos4]

Camera man sounds like a faggot to me.

[Linecowboy]

hey when you climb you dont have to jabb ur hooks in so much just step and they will go in, unless its a really hard pole

[supradude26]

@Linecowboy I am always telling our apprentices that. As long as the gaffs are sharp you don't need to stomp. I'm 230 pounds and every once in a while I need to stomp a bit when I moving around the pole because last year our utility started buying fir poles rather than the cedars we've been using for over 100 years. They are all about employee safety yet they buy crappy fir poles because they are a bit cheaper...

[drhodesbfs]

@supradude26

Step into the pole lol, stomp in and its harder to get the bloody thing out again

[DetroitLove4U]

Training day.

[denelson83]

The word "fault" carries a completely different meaning in this context.

[beaman220]

I wanna play!

[jeabo0adhd]

i'd never do that

[warner1959]

close that fuse like you mean it...ram it home baby........

[dooleyhart]

Add a loadbust to that stick...

[nicolas555539]

i don't know?

[tufnaman]

what are they doing ?

[Thelosether]

They are proving that the line is dead and therefore safe to work on

[tufnaman]

hmm interesting way... here the powerlines are controled remotely from central unit and no testing is made at the location... i mean to say no testing at all :D thats the most important part :D thx btw

[37fir]

no line is safe to work on until it is grounded.

[lwhite79]

umm..we're just messing around with some cutouts on a three bank...everything was dead. we were in school practicing.

I like your hypothesis tho..lol

[clockworkoj]

They're training. Nothing is hot.

[tufnaman]

wow thats strange you have in school such things to practice on :S here is different, very different XD...

[clockworkoj]

What language are you writing? Yes, they have a school for this. There is one at the facility I'm training at this week. They're only five feet from the ground!

[tufnaman]

how to you mean what language? i was not talking abotu schools i meant that you have training grounds like that, now thats strange... but i guess that here and there are different stiles of working with power grids and power grids alone

[clockworkoj]

Why is that strange? Wouldn't you want training before you worked on live lines? I work for a power company in Florida, where do you work, what country?

[tufnaman]

well hmm because like i said before, here is different practice in working with power lines...so i never seen such things like on this clip... im studing electrical engineering hmmm in europe :D

[yoursuckfo]

I am an electrician, and fuck that, you can't start out working live shit, so I agree. This does not seem strange, there wouldn't be many linemen if you started working live lines, lol.

[drhodesbfs]

@yoursuckfo

We start working live line inside the first year, not a big deal if you know what you are doing.

[mandoman83]

@drhodesbfs I'm with a line contractor in Saskatchewan, I started working with live line and tranny shit after four months. I agree, just sayin.

[clockworkoj]

Can't you see all the stripped poles in the background?

[thegriffithpages]

Nice one, from an English Linesman. The Tx's dont know the words overhere either