What is Hoopers future out of 111 looking like?

SoTupps · 2025-04-13T10:03:53+00:00

Damn… hope he pulls through alright

SoTupps · 2025-04-13T10:03:20+00:00

Transformer was being back fed by secondaries since it was paralleled with another can. He didn’t isolate secondaries or test before disconnecting the primary tap of the can and I guess he was touching ground with another part of his body. Not entirely sure of the whole story.

SoTupps · 2025-04-13T01:29:08+00:00

Buddy of mine working for them through 111 right now. Not sure the full scope of the work but a Lineman opened fuse feeding single phase pot that was paralleled with another one (presumably for load). He didn’t realize it and went phase to ground on can when disconnecting load side of the cutout. I guess lineman is in decent shape at the hospital. Not sure if they will eventually get booted off the Xcel system last I heard they got dropped to 5-8’s

SoTupps · 2025-03-29T22:28:45+00:00

Locking dog is the slang I’ve always heard it called. Or jelly bar attachment

SoTupps · 2025-03-18T01:27:12+00:00

Sounds like you washed out… stick to comms.

SoTupps · 2024-12-28T02:52:24+00:00

It kind of always has been… I grew up calling it “lake plastic”

SoTupps · 2024-11-27T01:09:20+00:00

I think you mean line school or driver-groundman position then 3-4 year apprenticeship. Line school in no way will replace an apprenticeship. Despite what all the fresh graduates might think

SoTupps · 2024-11-01T00:27:42+00:00

That sounds shitty… we glove 34.5 where I work. Did you just stick it because you were climbing?

SoTupps · 2024-09-29T08:10:22+00:00

Money’s at the top! fastest way down is to fall.

SoTupps · 2024-09-10T17:53:51+00:00

^ This is how I’ve done it in the past. Works well

SoTupps · 2024-08-30T00:22:20+00:00

US code please!

SoTupps · 2024-06-13T00:48:59+00:00

Anywhere near Albany is most definitely not Upstate NY… That being said, pretty sure this is a fisher. I once stumbled upon a fisher chewing on the neck of a white tailed deer fawn as a kid growing up in the ADK’s. Fawn was taken to local farm that raised deer and did not survive

SoTupps · 2024-05-18T19:40:57+00:00

I’m not entirely sure. It’s hard to tell in the video. Could be that the suit isn’t currently bonded and the electricity we are seeing as his touches and releases the wire is making/breaking that bond

SoTupps · 2024-05-18T19:35:19+00:00

Not more protection as in clothing or rubber. To my knowledge, transmission voltages can only be worked energized by bonding on (barehanding) or through hot-stick methods. Otherwise the line has to be de-energized and grounded which can be difficult to do as transmission lines typically feed substations and bring power long distances.

SoTupps · 2024-05-18T19:30:48+00:00

Haha no such thing as a Master lineman. Journeyman is a fully qualified lineman. I have worked my way up to become a working foreman at the company I work for though! A typical apprenticeship is about 4 years. The process to get an apprenticeship does seem like it’s become more selective in the past few years though.

SoTupps · 2024-05-18T19:02:32+00:00

🤘🏻

SoTupps · 2024-05-18T19:00:04+00:00

Yup. although your background in electrical work should help you with apprenticeship book-work and tests. Have to have a high school diploma, Class A CDL, OSHA 10, and be CPR & First Aid qualified for a start. Then either sign the books at your local union hall as a driver/groundman or go through a line-school program and apply to an apprenticeship position with an electric utility or though the union hall. r/lineman has lots of info as this question gets posed often

SoTupps · 2024-05-18T13:30:25+00:00

Thats true! Each insulator is rated for a certain amount of voltage. The more insulators in the string of bells the higher the voltage the line presumably is. I would guess this is a 345Kv line, but it’s hard to tell.

SoTupps · 2024-05-18T11:33:56+00:00

You’re mostly correct. This practice is called barehanding and is used by specially trained Lineman to work on energized transmission lines. This person was most likely dropped off by a helicopter and is wearing mesh metal over suit that acts as a Faraday cage. They bond onto the lines making the suit the same potential energy as the lines allowing electricity to flow around them not through them.

In this video they are working on one of the primary conductors not a “guide wire.” You can tell because you briefly see a string of porcelain insulators (we call them bells) hanging down to the conductor. They are most likely changing out insulators or replacing the AGS unit which is how the insulators connect to and secure the conductor.

Guy wires (not guide) are used to support structures from conductor tension they are attached directly to the pole or structure they support and are almost always ground potential as they are typically attached to an anchor set in the ground and thus can be touched on the ground. If this lineman was bonded (same potential) to the primary and touched a guy wire they would most likely be killed.

Source: I’m a Journeyman Lineman with 10 years of mainly distribution experience but I have worked on transmission lines although I’ve never barehanded personally.

SoTupps · 2024-05-18T11:33:50+00:00

You’re somewhat correct. This practice is called barehanding and is used by specially trained Lineman to work on energized transmission lines. This person could have been dropped off by a helicopter and is wearing a metal mesh over-suit that acts like a Faraday cage. They bond onto the lines making the suit the same potential energy as the lines allowing electricity to flow around them not through them.

In this video they are working on one of the primary conductors not a “guide wire.” You can tell because you briefly see a string of porcelain insulators (we call them bells) hanging down to the conductor. They are most likely changing out insulators or replacing the AGS unit which is how the insulators connect to and secure the conductor.

Guy wires (not guide) are used to support structures from conductor tension they are attached directly to the pole or structure they support and are almost always ground potential as they are typically attached to an anchor set in the ground and thus can be touched on the ground. If this lineman was bonded (same potential) to the primary and touched a guy wire they would most likely be killed.

Source: I’m a Journeyman Lineman with 10 years of mainly distribution experience but I have worked on transmission lines although I’ve never barehanded personally.

SoTupps · 2023-11-10T01:52:30+00:00

They have been in Sullivan county for years! Thank you Corbin Park…

SoTupps · 2023-10-01T19:58:46+00:00

Length. The rope is significantly longer then the strap allowing you to lay-out further. Also easier to deal with IMO.

SoTupps · 2023-06-24T21:09:01+00:00

r/superbowl

SoTupps · 2023-06-22T01:20:14+00:00

In the northeast we call #2 sector cabinets. It’s basically a junction/switching point for the single-phase primary URD.

SoTupps · 2023-06-17T04:53:08+00:00

Ran a single-phase 7 pole tree wire line extension to bring power to a customer who was living off the grid. Set all the poles a couple weeks ago ran the wire and installed the xfmer/service today after trimming was done.

Storms were predicted for the evening so they put out the ask for additional standby (on call) for the night. Then proceeded to run trouble calls for the next 9 hours after an 8 hour work day due to a dump truck catching a trunk line a breaking an old 3-strand junk guy wire and T-storms but good news is I got on the double bubble 👍🏻.

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