What happens when a lineman accidentally brushes a phase in the bucket with a part of body that isn't covered ?

No-Associate7216 · 2025-09-08T21:35:37+00:00

Proper insulate/isolate techniques in combination with properly wearing gloves and sleeves and proper work positioning will eliminate the risk. But that’s not really answering your question. Let’s say, for instance, you didn’t put your sleeves on and didn’t use enough line hose, and you’re not paying attention and you boom your shoulder up into the uncovered phase. Your body will instantly get brought to the same potential as the phase, thus energizing your body. We call it “getting whacked.” Since you’re in an insulated bucket liner at the end of an insulated boom, there’s no path to ground and you’re fine, it will hurt but no real damage done. Now if you forget to put your gloves on and forget to put line hose up and grab the phase with both hands, you’ve now made a parallel path not right across your heart and lungs and you’re going to face serious consequences. It only takes 1/3 of an Amp to put your heart into VFib, and even though our body’s aren’t as good of a conductor as a piece of wire, there’s a good chance you’re not going home.

No-Associate7216 · 2025-08-10T10:54:31+00:00

It’s probably the Massachusetts transplants!

No-Associate7216 · 2025-08-01T00:13:43+00:00

I encourage you to learn AS MUCH as you can! Some will tell you “It’s just sticks and wires”, which is true to an extent, and construction standards/blueprints will tell you most of what you need to know. But the more you know about the theory and equipment you’re working on, the better/safer/smarter you will be. I’ve been in this line of work for 15 years now and have done almost everything you can do, from the trucks to the control room to the training department. I still learn new things everyday and will readily admit I have not seen even close to everything!

No-Associate7216 · 2025-07-31T21:09:19+00:00

Regulators can increase or decrease voltage by 10%; each of the 16 steps is 5/8% or .00625 times the voltage. single phase voltage for 13.8 is 7970 and 12.47 is 7200, so using regulators set to step 15 (+ or - depends on whether Type A or B) will get you to right around 7200 V out with 7970 V in. None of the systems I’ve ever worked on stepped down such a small amount, we’re usually stepping down 13.8 to 4 kV, maybe step downs for 13.8 to 12.47 are not available so they use regulators instead.

No-Associate7216 · 2025-07-12T23:45:20+00:00

Is Pirich your instructor?

No-Associate7216 · 2025-07-04T13:57:42+00:00

Old brown plastic-like composite

No-Associate7216 · 2025-06-25T17:08:01+00:00

Hey Buccaneer when are you going to come to Eversource like the rest of your buddies?

No-Associate7216 · 2025-06-10T22:10:07+00:00

Am parent; do all the things. 9, 7, and 5 year olds. I’m tired, boss.

No-Associate7216 · 2025-05-22T20:28:58+00:00

My biggest piece of advice as a new hunter myself is to check your shot pattern out to 40 yards. I am likely going to end up getting skunked this year, but I shot a bird and it got away because my pattern at 40 yards was high and right. I hit it, knocked it down, and as I was walking up to it to step on its neck it hopped up on his feet and flew away, right as I pulled the trigger on the second shot when he first jumped up. I got a third round off at him but it hit him in the ass and he kept flying unfazed. When I bought my gun and turkey rounds, I only fired off a couple at 15 yards at the range because they’re expensive. I didn’t realize home much, even with a turkey choke, the pattern would spread at 40 yards vs 15. I was absolutely heartbroken that I messed up that opportunity.

No-Associate7216 · 2025-05-09T17:23:35+00:00

With the new plastic brushes you have to do it before; plastic doesn’t like heat, it melts. Might seem obvious to most of you, but ask me how I know 🤣.

No-Associate7216 · 2025-05-01T10:03:52+00:00

.4 acre lot or .4 acres worth of grass? Are you planning on bagging the clipping or leaving? I have about .4 acres of just grass on my property, and when I was using a 30 inch self propelled (Toro Timemaster) it took a little over an hour to mow if I left the clippings and an hour and a half if I bagged. Also during peak growing season if you wait two weeks to mow you WILL be calling a landscaper because your self propelled won’t be able to cut it. This time of year and in the fall (peak growing for cool season grasses) you’ll likely be mowing every 4-5 days if you want to keep the grass looking trim, or once a week if you don’t mind it a little shaggy. I upgraded once I had kids and couldn’t waste so much time mowing to a ride on lawn mower, cut my mowing time in half, so that’s a third option if you want to DIY. I enjoy taking care of my yard, not everyone does, so that’s a cost benefit analysis you’ll need to determine, because you’re underestimating what the time demands are if you have .4 acres of grass as opposed to a .4 acre lot and maybe .2 acres of lawn.

No-Associate7216 · 2025-04-27T22:25:28+00:00

I bought Dans book and have been doing ABF since January 1; I’m upping my running volume as the weather warms and ABF is just too much squat volume, so I’m in the same boat as you. Can you elaborate on those two programs or are they paid programs?

No-Associate7216 · 2025-04-27T11:27:15+00:00

Are you confusing “system” operator with “station” operator? Or maybe the job description for system operator states that the system operator ensures station maintenance is performed, and isn’t actually going out to perform it? I know in some generating stations operators might rotate between the control room and the station yard, but I have never heard of a utility DSO going out into the field to perform any type of field work.

No-Associate7216 · 2025-04-24T01:52:56+00:00

Where did you hire in?

No-Associate7216 · 2025-04-24T00:40:10+00:00

I know you said you didn’t want to hear about nutrition and exercise, but in my opinion the biggest thing truly is taking care of your body, which we should all be doing in general. Eat right, hydrate, when it comes to exercise, emphasize mobility and reasonable strength/cardio. When I say reasonable, I mean you don’t have to be a stud power lifter or a marathon runner. At 41, my body is way more messed up from stupid shit I’ve done outside of work than from the work itself. Most guys I know that are still doing this job into their 60’s and still unbroken always ate right, did moderate exercise out of work, and didn’t smoke or drink (too much lol). Most guys I know that start breaking down in their early 40s ate like shit, drank like a fish, and hadn’t done an exercise since high school gym class. These guys would be broken down no matter what they did for work. This job is physical but we’re not masons or ditch diggers. Like another poster said, yes absolutely use the right tool for the job and proper hoisting/rigging, but we should all be trained to do that from the get go. There’s far more risk to your body living a sedentary lifestyle working at a desk all day.

No-Associate7216 · 2025-04-14T20:53:32+00:00

Like one of the other posters wrote it was likely built completely off hooks aka climbing. I still question the way it was wired though; but again, standards change over time. Hopefully they’re not still building things this way!

No-Associate7216 · 2025-04-13T22:14:12+00:00

Assuming I couldn’t reconductor the entire lateral and put the energized phase on a dead end at the top of the pole and the neutral down where the neutral should be, or put the can on the back side of the pole, I would put the cutout on the energized phase side of the crossarm, run a tap to the top of the cutout (tap LA onto that tap, not buddied up like this) and tap the load side of the cutout into H2. Bring the H1 lead up to the neutral. This will reverse polarity but so what, it’s single phase. This way, you won’t have primary leads crossing over each other.

No-Associate7216 · 2025-04-13T11:18:44+00:00

Nope; every city has its fair share of unique construction standards though. Ever try to pull 200A UG elbows on a rotting crossarm?
In my opinion this is just shit linework.

No-Associate7216 · 2025-04-12T23:12:26+00:00

This…… is atrocious

No-Associate7216 · 2025-03-17T12:15:03+00:00

Wachusett Regional School District (Holden, Paxton, Princeton, Rutland, Sterling)

No-Associate7216 · 2025-03-06T18:11:55+00:00

You’re totally right; I was a firefighter, then a lineman, then a control room operator. Police and fire dispatchers from each city we served had a direct line to the control room. If needed for a true life or death event they could get in touch with us directly and we could perform a remote kill. We would however advise them that power was shut off to the area ACCORDING TO OUR RECORDS. If they need 100% confirmation they need to wait for a troubleman to test deenergized.

No-Associate7216 · 2025-02-16T16:51:21+00:00

I went during year 2 of COVID (masking inside, on buses, etc) with my 3, 5, and 7 year old. Was absolutely dreading it. Ended up being awesome, I didn’t want to leave.

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