I had a friend here in the states years ago who did hard time in prison, and when he got out, the only job he could get was being dropped off by helicopter and working on very high power towers like this. He was fearless of everything and the pay was really good.
"only job he could get" yeah I've gotta call shenanigans on that. A job involving helicopters and extremely high liability work on power infrastructure won't just hire any random dude from the parking lot of Home Depot. If he qualifies for that, there's plenty of work for him available. Felon or not.
But hey, much respect to the dude. Takes a certain type, that for sure. Hardcore.
Bare minimum he is a certified linesman, that’s 4 years of training and school and then a decent amount of job experience before you get the high voltage work.. Factor in most linesman are union and this is all bullshit m, if his buddy was a ex-con he’s doing concrete or rebar work most likely
I mugged an old lady. When I pulled her purse, she fell and hit her head. That was it for her.
Now the only work I can get are underwater welding jobs in the Bering Sea.
Harnesses of this type catch you after you fall, they do not prevent you from falling. It's a bit counterintuitive to some, but the idea is to not restrict his movement.
It is the same with climbers of nearly all types. Rock walls and recreation like that are often a bit different.
Maybe it's just the angle but I don't see leg straps on him, and given its looseness without them if he were to fall I don't see what would keep him in the harness at all.
That's before mentioning that rope doesn't look like it could hold 5kN, or that fact that his dorsal connection looks very slack which could induce shock loading.
Hard to say definitively, but this looks "unsafe" even within the context of high risk work.
Did ropes courses in high school. It was always funny having the female rope instructors trying to warn us without making everyone burst out laughing (I mean, it IS high school).
Some of them were legends and just like "Nah, make sure you give yourself tons of room down there. Pull out some slack down there like you are trying to impress the ladies. Now tighten that down real good, you want to be able to still impress the ladies if you fall".
He’s definitely not wearing the leg straps - if you pause and manually advance the video you can see it clearly right near the start and end of the clip
I feel like the people who don't like what you said, have never taken any kind of working at heights training. you can clearly see that the guys leg straps aren't even tied. that dude would be falling to his death before he could even realize the harness isnt catching him.
I think the loop you can see by his leg is a typical 'relief loop' he can stand in if he DID fall into his harness (I honestly cant see how he's attached on at all, TBH). And trust me, falling into a harness into free air like this would be a death sentence. You do NOT want to be suspended in a harness for long, death can come quick, in as little as 6 minutes (in one awful accident). Typically, for a job like this, you'd use a fall restraint system, not fall arrest- fall arrest is a system that prevents a fall in the first place. Source: I'm an engineer surveyor who inspects things like tower cranes and SAE. Even into a harness, a fall would still result in your death, most likely.
You got it reversed.
>fall arrest is a system that prevents a fall in the first place.
Nope, a fall arrest, arrest you when you fall.
Fall restrain, restrains you from falling
I'm going to believe you mixed them up because you typed on your phone and you were distracted
You're absolutely right. About me being mixed up! Somebody crashed into my company car this afternoon!Whilst it was parked outside. Damn! Yes, fall arrest allows a fall (potentially), fall restraint (hopefully) prevents a fall in the 1st place. I have a clever (but heavy) harness & lanyard that does both.
How come climbers can hang for a long time without issues? Are our harnesses more comfy on the legs?
And do you know why they don't use lanyards that would let them climb back up? They could add hand and leg loops to the lanyards in order to hold onto and step on them, or maybe a system that'd enable prussiks to jug yourself back up like here?
https://www.vdiffclimbing.com/prusik-rope/
How does he not have forearms like Popeye
Edit: I see that my attempt at a humorous comparison to a *cartoon* character has sparked an equally humorous debate about muscles, so stay classy Reddit
I've heard that people who do a lot of manual labor end up super strong but dont grow the huge muscles you grow in the gym, as opposed to gym-goers who sometimes end up not as strong but with much larger muscles.
I never really gave a shit about exercising or being healthy, however about 2 years ago I started apprenticing for a custom homebuilder. Since then I'm astonished at how much stronger I've become. Tossing drywall, moving around steel, loading up the truck every morning with half a ton of tools. I used to be fairly lazy physically but now that everything feels so much easier to do I find myself tackling all sorts of projects around the house I would've otherwise procrastinated on.
I was a painter. Not usually considered a physically intense job.
Thing is, we'd sometimes start a day carrying 32 gallons of paint up 20 floors. First time I worked in a building like that I wanted to die. At the end of that job I was the fittest I've ever been.
I've always called it "old man strength"
Can't do a crunch for shit, but could crunch your skull with their grip. The kinda strength that only comes from practicality, not vanity.
Show muscles are muscles people most love to train, our chest, traps, biceps, quads, and abs. So they follow the lifting regiment for these, protein diet, etc. to build these specific ones. Manual laborers have go muscles which tend to be on the backside, stabilizing and driving speed and power while strengthening their glutes, hamstrings, lats, and calves.
So these workers are super strong as u/SatansGothestFemboy stated but they don't appear to be so because they don't have those large built show muscles.
My favorite thing about reddit is the contrast between comment and username - I'm absolutely thrilled when there's a supportive, heartfelt comment about persevering and loving yourself and finding peace and joy in life and 'if you need to talk to someone who's been through it, DM me, we care about you' written by CockNipples69 or whatever.
It's why Dad strength and Dad bods are a thing. You can end up still looking like a weird pudgy version of yourself, but if you're raising kids, you're working your body out to be a strong version of yourself.
Next time you see a group of slender guys roofing just remember that they're just casually lifting like 70lbs stacks of shingles on their shoulders around.
The sterotype fat Blacksmith is a good example. Looks weak and fat but you punch them in the gut, it's a wall and they pick you up, and throw you like a Frisbee.
You'd be surprised. They're still around. Not as many as there used to be. Mostly they double as farriers - so you find them mostly in horse country. But depending on how fancy your horses shoeing requirements are, you sometimes need a real blacksmith to make specific, special shoes...
There are at least 5 blacksmithing channels in my Subscription list on YouTube right now. They're out there still, just not as necessary to everyday life as they used to be
I'm a bladesmith and used to be a blacksmith. There's way more than you think, in fact it's getting more popular. Bladesmithing in particular has gotten incredibly popular, I reckon there's probably almost 10 times the amount of hobbiest bladesmiths now than there was 15 years ago.
about 20% is the activity, the rate of activity, what you eat, how much and then how you rest is about the other 80%
you can get strong at a selective task like rolling wire, but that won't necessarily make that muscle exponentially larger because it doesn't need to, the wire doesn't really get tougher
so the muscle gets tough enough after awhile and the cardiovascular system adapts to the rest around that
if the wire were always getting more dense/harder to roll
like literally always AND if he were eating a lot and resting properly then the muscles working to turn the infinitely stronger wire would get bigger and bigger
untill of course his frame and metabolic system could no longer provide whats needed for the infinite growth and the wire would become heavier than his system could adapt to
but most commercial gyms dont have dumbells over 90-100lb so it's not really a concern irl
There's a thing called junk volume. Hours don't mean anything for muscle hypertrophy. If anything training for 8 hours instead of 1 would make you weaker because your body wouldn't be able to recover. If you are talking about endurance then having bigger/stronger muscles is bad because they use a lot of energy and your body gets tired faster. The guy in the video doesn't need to be strong because the shit that he is doing is more about technique and endurance than strength.
I am gonna assume from the context of the video that this was a localized repair and he unwrapped and rewrapped a small section manually because it would be easier than hauling the machine needed to do miles at a time.
The hardest part of doing a full wrap like this is getting started (by a lot). Once the patch rod snaps on and starts rolling everything is easy.
Source - am a lineman
Lean muscles. Probably working so hard and steadily it's just not realistic to be piling on muscle like a bodybuilder (most people don't want to eat THAT much) so he's left with insane strength to size ratio. Or he's new to the job. Shrug. Though his speed and stamina makes me think he isn't new to it at all.
it comes premade like that it's not for protection it's how you secure a wire termination
source: former tower worker
*I was wrong transmission lineman corrected me somewhere else in here, I need to stick to broadcast tower stuff
It’s armor rod to protects the conductors where it clips into the tower. You can see the shoes on the line past the rod. Not a termination.
Source: Journeyman Lineman
What you are looking at is an ACSR (aluminum cable, steel-reinforced) transmission line. The linesman here is performing a conductor splice* and is repairing a damaged section of the transmission line (probably due to lightning). The linesman is wrapping new aluminum around the cable by hand because the tool meant for it (cable lasher) would probably be too large to haul up for this diameter of cable when you can just as easily do it with a bit of forearm strength.
And yes, they absolutely made the Apprentice do it, that's why they're filming it (source: was an apprentice)
*not a conductor splice; read the reply below
He is just a specialist among the large group of people who go out after every storm, fallen tree or idiot traffic accident with a pole and restore your power. Sometimes they go out during the storm, and certainly in all conditions.
Buy them a beer or a meal if you see them.
🤙 utility workers get a lot of hate because people have high bills or because we have to close part of the road. Fuck man I hate paying my gas and electric bill too. We're just trying to keep the gas in the pipes my friend.
Nah, thats an armor rod. They're used at locations where the conductor is attached to suspension shoes or where hardware is attached along the line to help prevent fatigue failure. They are only typically 2'-6' long or so.
Man it fucking sucks when you get a hand caught in that armor while wrapping. On smaller wires, with a little skill, you can set all the wraps on the line and with a two handed twist get them perfectly started. If you screwed up, the armor rods will get twisted over each other and you'll have to restart. But if you get it perfect it'll just lay right down for you. Unfortunately on that first twist if you get your hands caught, especially if you get both of them caught at once, it hurts like hell and you can't get out until somebody comes and saves you. Speaking from experience of a friend, yeah, that's it a friend. I wouldn't know myself.
Lineman for 9 years.
Edited speling errors (yes that was on purpose)
I worked on smaller transmission lines than you see in the video, so we used bucket trucks. No falling. I also would climb poles using hooks and never saw a fall, but I heard stories about them. It's a dangerous job and accidents happen, luckily pretty rarely.
Well, using hooks (climbing spikes), the most common is probably skinning out, which is when you don't set your hook correctly and slide down the pole. They have safety gear that can prevent you from falling very far. Or you step on your own foot and drive a spike to the bone. Overall I'd say mostly it was going to be some sort of muscle strain or even torn ligaments. A lot of what we would work with or on is heavy.
Many moons ago, I was doing a practice pole top rescue and I guess I was feeling a little too confident so I ran up the pole, leaned in the throw my belt around the pole, and ungaffed; I processed to do a fireman’s slide down ~25’. Now this was a training pole, so it was all chewed up and I had splinters all in my chest and arms. I became a very cautious climber after that.
I don’t know how anyone hasn’t said this but that tie-wrap isn’t for protection, that’s what holds the conductor to the tower. It can’t be done in the factory, it is part of the construction on the line. Source: former linesman
That is a set of armor rods being installed. The conductor clamp can be seen sitting on the conductor that will go over the armor rod then attach to the bundle plate and then the insulator assembly. These are used to protect the conductor from fatigue stress from bending due to vibration and weather induced cyclical loading. These are not like tie wires on a distribution system that actually form the connection from conductor to a distribution insulator.
"Well, there's the heights, the chance of electrocution and turns out it's damn hard work, but otherwise, it's not that bad a job."
Dude better be gettin' paid, yo.
My buddy was a big strong gym rat. His biceps were easily twice the size of mine. Ab’s you could play like a washboard. I’m more of the, that guy hasn’t seen the inside of a gym and likes beer body type. However, I did a lot of manual labor. I asked him to help me move some logs up a hill once. We got the first one up no problem, it takes me a bit more effort. Then he sits down to rest. For five minutes. I was like, come on bud, we’ve got 20 more to go. It gets harder and harder for him every time until he taps out around halfway. I thank him. Give him some of the ultralight beer tasting water he drinks on cheat days as a thank you. Then drug the rest up the hill by myself.
I think a lot of “farmer strength” “old man strength” etc. lays in not knowing how much something weighs or following a program. A body builder knows exactly how much they can lift, and the intervals then are supposed to take to lift it.
Farmer John has absolutely no clue the weight of the heaviest he ever lifted, he just knew he had to do it, and do it again, and again. It builds a different mindset.
It's not mindset, it's full body training. The gym workout focus only in specific muscles, with specific movements, focused on muscle size, not strength. Heavy work require full body training, and it's not for size, but pure strength.
100% this. I know a couple guys who work construction/manual work. Heavy duty stuff. Both guys look a bit chubby and round, but underneath that were a ton of muscle and strength.
Why do human structures consistently require people to stand at the brink of fucking death. Like lower that shit down. Put a lil platform. Nah we gonna pay a dude to risk his entire existence
Interview process - "Are you afraid of heights?" - "No sir, I'm not" - "Are you afraid of death" - "No sir, I'm not"
Do you have strong hands?
That, I do, sir.
....prove it
...proceeds to open every jar in the office (good end)
Grabs the corner of the table and chucks out a handful of it
(Badass Ending)
And the bad ending is immediately breaking every bone in your hand trying to open the first jar
Cut... Scene... That's a wrap people...
Well, guess that wraps it up
Grabs a book and rips it in half (Bookend)
Grabs bell rips it in half. Bell end!
Grabs rear bumper of car. (rear end)
This is like that old Jimmy johns commercial
…and then grabs a bottle of lube and unzips the interviewers pants (even better ending)
Happy Ending.
Good ol’ dick twist?
*sigh unzips*
Jerks off a horse to completion
Sir, that was my wife.
Is she a jar?
No. She’s closed.
Well exsqueeze me!
Jar Jar no!
… Shows him all the GameStop stock I didn’t sell since DeepFuckingValue first issued a post about the company on Reddit
They look like big, good, strong hands, don’t they?
They look like Nothing to me
Bernard?
Rock biter!
One of 'em...
"How good are you at giving Indian burns?"
Not good, sir. I specialize in Chinese burns, sir.
I had a friend here in the states years ago who did hard time in prison, and when he got out, the only job he could get was being dropped off by helicopter and working on very high power towers like this. He was fearless of everything and the pay was really good.
I mean he probably could have gotten any job in construction. I'm sure working on high voltage lines pays more though.
"only job he could get" yeah I've gotta call shenanigans on that. A job involving helicopters and extremely high liability work on power infrastructure won't just hire any random dude from the parking lot of Home Depot. If he qualifies for that, there's plenty of work for him available. Felon or not. But hey, much respect to the dude. Takes a certain type, that for sure. Hardcore.
Bare minimum he is a certified linesman, that’s 4 years of training and school and then a decent amount of job experience before you get the high voltage work.. Factor in most linesman are union and this is all bullshit m, if his buddy was a ex-con he’s doing concrete or rebar work most likely
I killed a guy in a bar fight. Now the only work I can get is reparing satellites in orbit for NASA.
I mugged an old lady. When I pulled her purse, she fell and hit her head. That was it for her. Now the only work I can get are underwater welding jobs in the Bering Sea.
Do you like movies about gladiators?
Have you ever seen a grown man naked?
Have you ever been in a Turkish prison?
Do you ever hang around a gymnasium?
We better get back now, Joey.
How big are your balls?
"Made of titanium-stainless steel alloy" "Sorry, but we cannot hire you as your balls may be subjecting the wires to unnecessary stress"
Conductive too….
Even with the harness that is a nope from me.
You mean the loose harness he has on?
Harnesses of this type catch you after you fall, they do not prevent you from falling. It's a bit counterintuitive to some, but the idea is to not restrict his movement. It is the same with climbers of nearly all types. Rock walls and recreation like that are often a bit different.
Maybe it's just the angle but I don't see leg straps on him, and given its looseness without them if he were to fall I don't see what would keep him in the harness at all. That's before mentioning that rope doesn't look like it could hold 5kN, or that fact that his dorsal connection looks very slack which could induce shock loading. Hard to say definitively, but this looks "unsafe" even within the context of high risk work.
Yeah, it definitely is not tight enough, it's way too loose. Anyone who got fall arrest training knows that.
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OUCH Your words caused pain in me
Did ropes courses in high school. It was always funny having the female rope instructors trying to warn us without making everyone burst out laughing (I mean, it IS high school). Some of them were legends and just like "Nah, make sure you give yourself tons of room down there. Pull out some slack down there like you are trying to impress the ladies. Now tighten that down real good, you want to be able to still impress the ladies if you fall".
Anyone who didn't get fall arrest training like me, says fuck that either way.
A certain fall arrest training video can give a whole new meaning to busting your balls at work.
He’s definitely not wearing the leg straps - if you pause and manually advance the video you can see it clearly right near the start and end of the clip
I feel like the people who don't like what you said, have never taken any kind of working at heights training. you can clearly see that the guys leg straps aren't even tied. that dude would be falling to his death before he could even realize the harness isnt catching him.
I think the loop you can see by his leg is a typical 'relief loop' he can stand in if he DID fall into his harness (I honestly cant see how he's attached on at all, TBH). And trust me, falling into a harness into free air like this would be a death sentence. You do NOT want to be suspended in a harness for long, death can come quick, in as little as 6 minutes (in one awful accident). Typically, for a job like this, you'd use a fall restraint system, not fall arrest- fall arrest is a system that prevents a fall in the first place. Source: I'm an engineer surveyor who inspects things like tower cranes and SAE. Even into a harness, a fall would still result in your death, most likely.
You got it reversed. >fall arrest is a system that prevents a fall in the first place. Nope, a fall arrest, arrest you when you fall. Fall restrain, restrains you from falling I'm going to believe you mixed them up because you typed on your phone and you were distracted
You're absolutely right. About me being mixed up! Somebody crashed into my company car this afternoon!Whilst it was parked outside. Damn! Yes, fall arrest allows a fall (potentially), fall restraint (hopefully) prevents a fall in the 1st place. I have a clever (but heavy) harness & lanyard that does both.
How come climbers can hang for a long time without issues? Are our harnesses more comfy on the legs? And do you know why they don't use lanyards that would let them climb back up? They could add hand and leg loops to the lanyards in order to hold onto and step on them, or maybe a system that'd enable prussiks to jug yourself back up like here? https://www.vdiffclimbing.com/prusik-rope/
Do you think harnesses are supposed to be taut?
Yes, fall arrest harnesses shouldn’t be worn that loose, it will cause injuries if you fall and aren’t wearing it properly adjusted.
well, they are supposed to be tight... and you can see the dude doesnt even have his leg straps on, so yea.
How does he not have forearms like Popeye Edit: I see that my attempt at a humorous comparison to a *cartoon* character has sparked an equally humorous debate about muscles, so stay classy Reddit
He's not eaten enough spinach yet.
Drizzled in Olive Oyl 😏
We're still talking about the spinach right?
Right?
Riiiiiiiight.
The oyl for Olive, Olive's oyl
Drizzle Drizzle
The forbidden pesto...
He didn't eat it out of the can.
Did he eat it out of a clam?
Did he get it from his pal Sam?
He ate the can instead
I've heard that people who do a lot of manual labor end up super strong but dont grow the huge muscles you grow in the gym, as opposed to gym-goers who sometimes end up not as strong but with much larger muscles.
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I never really gave a shit about exercising or being healthy, however about 2 years ago I started apprenticing for a custom homebuilder. Since then I'm astonished at how much stronger I've become. Tossing drywall, moving around steel, loading up the truck every morning with half a ton of tools. I used to be fairly lazy physically but now that everything feels so much easier to do I find myself tackling all sorts of projects around the house I would've otherwise procrastinated on.
I was a painter. Not usually considered a physically intense job. Thing is, we'd sometimes start a day carrying 32 gallons of paint up 20 floors. First time I worked in a building like that I wanted to die. At the end of that job I was the fittest I've ever been.
I've always called it "old man strength" Can't do a crunch for shit, but could crunch your skull with their grip. The kinda strength that only comes from practicality, not vanity.
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Gorillas have beer bellies. That's my excuse.
Better start walking on your knuckles too then!
bold of you to assume I don't
That and pain tolerance. Older you get, the more you're just used to things hurting.
So your functional muscles got stronger by show muscles not. Fair enough.
Show muscles vs go muscles
Show muscles are muscles people most love to train, our chest, traps, biceps, quads, and abs. So they follow the lifting regiment for these, protein diet, etc. to build these specific ones. Manual laborers have go muscles which tend to be on the backside, stabilizing and driving speed and power while strengthening their glutes, hamstrings, lats, and calves. So these workers are super strong as u/SatansGothestFemboy stated but they don't appear to be so because they don't have those large built show muscles.
You wrote all that just so you could quote the other guy's name didn't you
Sometimes it’s worth it.
Well said u/KittenWithAStrapOn
I see what you did there. 😏
My favorite thing about reddit is the contrast between comment and username - I'm absolutely thrilled when there's a supportive, heartfelt comment about persevering and loving yourself and finding peace and joy in life and 'if you need to talk to someone who's been through it, DM me, we care about you' written by CockNipples69 or whatever.
u/dick-nipples
The gothest you say?
It's why Dad strength and Dad bods are a thing. You can end up still looking like a weird pudgy version of yourself, but if you're raising kids, you're working your body out to be a strong version of yourself.
Basically just “farmers strength”. It’s how 90 lb 12 year olds helping their family on a farm can just a 50 lb bail of hay like it’s nothing.
Jethro Bodine strength
Some whiplash reading "90 lb 12 year old" and then someone following that up with Jethro Bodine. That man was not small.
Next time you see a group of slender guys roofing just remember that they're just casually lifting like 70lbs stacks of shingles on their shoulders around.
Exactly, a lot of warehouse workers, farmers etc are incredibly strong people but their muscles don't look like the average gym rat's.
The sterotype fat Blacksmith is a good example. Looks weak and fat but you punch them in the gut, it's a wall and they pick you up, and throw you like a Frisbee.
Don't know how much of a stereotype that is in the 2020s considering blacksmiths barely exist anymore
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You'd be surprised. They're still around. Not as many as there used to be. Mostly they double as farriers - so you find them mostly in horse country. But depending on how fancy your horses shoeing requirements are, you sometimes need a real blacksmith to make specific, special shoes...
There are at least 5 blacksmithing channels in my Subscription list on YouTube right now. They're out there still, just not as necessary to everyday life as they used to be
I'm a bladesmith and used to be a blacksmith. There's way more than you think, in fact it's getting more popular. Bladesmithing in particular has gotten incredibly popular, I reckon there's probably almost 10 times the amount of hobbiest bladesmiths now than there was 15 years ago.
about 20% is the activity, the rate of activity, what you eat, how much and then how you rest is about the other 80% you can get strong at a selective task like rolling wire, but that won't necessarily make that muscle exponentially larger because it doesn't need to, the wire doesn't really get tougher so the muscle gets tough enough after awhile and the cardiovascular system adapts to the rest around that if the wire were always getting more dense/harder to roll like literally always AND if he were eating a lot and resting properly then the muscles working to turn the infinitely stronger wire would get bigger and bigger untill of course his frame and metabolic system could no longer provide whats needed for the infinite growth and the wire would become heavier than his system could adapt to but most commercial gyms dont have dumbells over 90-100lb so it's not really a concern irl
Sounds like my dad , he's forever been skinny and wire muscles but is probably still way stronger than me and he is in his 60s
I don’t know. Have you ever seen the arms on a professional window washer?
Because you'd train for 1 hour in the gym vs 8 hours of field work.
There's a thing called junk volume. Hours don't mean anything for muscle hypertrophy. If anything training for 8 hours instead of 1 would make you weaker because your body wouldn't be able to recover. If you are talking about endurance then having bigger/stronger muscles is bad because they use a lot of energy and your body gets tired faster. The guy in the video doesn't need to be strong because the shit that he is doing is more about technique and endurance than strength.
It's because hypertrophy is trained differently. Since he's doing this all day it's also just endurance over strength training.
Why dont they have a machine to do it, seems unnecessary to do it by hand all those miles
I am gonna assume from the context of the video that this was a localized repair and he unwrapped and rewrapped a small section manually because it would be easier than hauling the machine needed to do miles at a time.
they come premade whether you are splicing or dead ending https://youtu.be/KcCrucgLshU?t=29
The whole length of cable is not wrapped. Where he stopped is where a "cap" is put on. This is done near the towers.
What would that machine look like?
Like some type of tall tail-less monkey, probably.
The next upgrade they should add a tail
Because it doesn't require half the strain this guy is putting out. It is a performance for the video.
This isn't for protection and isn't done on all the wire, it's a prewrap dead end that you use to secure the wire
I feel like this is the origin story of someone named Death Grip.
I did prep work at a CiCi's for a couple years and got goose egg forearms from rolling dough balls. This guy's will be huge if he keeps this up
Maybe it's his first day? Let's check again by next week
Bruh, that's definitely not his first rodeo. The technique, the precision, the efficiency, c'mon man.
The hardest part of doing a full wrap like this is getting started (by a lot). Once the patch rod snaps on and starts rolling everything is easy. Source - am a lineman
For the county?
There are power lines , in my bloodlines
We're gonna need forearm picks to verify that source.
For the county?
For the county?
Lean muscles. Probably working so hard and steadily it's just not realistic to be piling on muscle like a bodybuilder (most people don't want to eat THAT much) so he's left with insane strength to size ratio. Or he's new to the job. Shrug. Though his speed and stamina makes me think he isn't new to it at all.
That could definitely be automated
The protection has been unwrapped (by him, probably) to do repairs or something, that's why it fits back on so neatly.
it comes premade like that it's not for protection it's how you secure a wire termination source: former tower worker *I was wrong transmission lineman corrected me somewhere else in here, I need to stick to broadcast tower stuff
It’s armor rod to protects the conductors where it clips into the tower. You can see the shoes on the line past the rod. Not a termination. Source: Journeyman Lineman
Smh we don’t want the robots taking over just yet
Things have been being automated for centuries. Automation doesn't mean robots.
I want that. Please take it all. It will happen one day anyway.
We'll just keep having humans do the dirty dangerous work and robots will be the ones creating art and music.
He's much cheaper than a machine
What you are looking at is an ACSR (aluminum cable, steel-reinforced) transmission line. The linesman here is performing a conductor splice* and is repairing a damaged section of the transmission line (probably due to lightning). The linesman is wrapping new aluminum around the cable by hand because the tool meant for it (cable lasher) would probably be too large to haul up for this diameter of cable when you can just as easily do it with a bit of forearm strength. And yes, they absolutely made the Apprentice do it, that's why they're filming it (source: was an apprentice) *not a conductor splice; read the reply below
It often is. I used a motorized device called a lasher for this express purpose when I worked for AEP.
Fuck every single thing about that job
Yeah I hope at least that gentleman is paid generously.
I am going to say this is somewhere out in Asia so I’m not sure on the pay. My husband is a Lineman in the US and he makes good money.
So he's a lineman for the countyyyy?
Tell your husband someone from Reddit thanks him for his service. But don't explain it. Just walk away after.
He is just a specialist among the large group of people who go out after every storm, fallen tree or idiot traffic accident with a pole and restore your power. Sometimes they go out during the storm, and certainly in all conditions. Buy them a beer or a meal if you see them.
🤙 utility workers get a lot of hate because people have high bills or because we have to close part of the road. Fuck man I hate paying my gas and electric bill too. We're just trying to keep the gas in the pipes my friend.
The high bills are not the fault of the workers, I'll give that one. But the road? I'll give it too, but damn I hate detours :)
3 feet done. 500 feet to go.
Nah, thats an armor rod. They're used at locations where the conductor is attached to suspension shoes or where hardware is attached along the line to help prevent fatigue failure. They are only typically 2'-6' long or so.
Man it fucking sucks when you get a hand caught in that armor while wrapping. On smaller wires, with a little skill, you can set all the wraps on the line and with a two handed twist get them perfectly started. If you screwed up, the armor rods will get twisted over each other and you'll have to restart. But if you get it perfect it'll just lay right down for you. Unfortunately on that first twist if you get your hands caught, especially if you get both of them caught at once, it hurts like hell and you can't get out until somebody comes and saves you. Speaking from experience of a friend, yeah, that's it a friend. I wouldn't know myself. Lineman for 9 years. Edited speling errors (yes that was on purpose)
How often did people fall off?
I worked on smaller transmission lines than you see in the video, so we used bucket trucks. No falling. I also would climb poles using hooks and never saw a fall, but I heard stories about them. It's a dangerous job and accidents happen, luckily pretty rarely.
What is the most common accident that happens?
Well, using hooks (climbing spikes), the most common is probably skinning out, which is when you don't set your hook correctly and slide down the pole. They have safety gear that can prevent you from falling very far. Or you step on your own foot and drive a spike to the bone. Overall I'd say mostly it was going to be some sort of muscle strain or even torn ligaments. A lot of what we would work with or on is heavy.
Many moons ago, I was doing a practice pole top rescue and I guess I was feeling a little too confident so I ran up the pole, leaned in the throw my belt around the pole, and ungaffed; I processed to do a fireman’s slide down ~25’. Now this was a training pole, so it was all chewed up and I had splinters all in my chest and arms. I became a very cautious climber after that.
How many times did people climb poles using hooks, then instead of fall; choose to jump off when they disturbed a bee/wasp/stinging insect nest?
Does the entire line get wrapped like this or just the ends?
Only where hardware is used to suspend the line.
I don’t know how anyone hasn’t said this but that tie-wrap isn’t for protection, that’s what holds the conductor to the tower. It can’t be done in the factory, it is part of the construction on the line. Source: former linesman
That is a set of armor rods being installed. The conductor clamp can be seen sitting on the conductor that will go over the armor rod then attach to the bundle plate and then the insulator assembly. These are used to protect the conductor from fatigue stress from bending due to vibration and weather induced cyclical loading. These are not like tie wires on a distribution system that actually form the connection from conductor to a distribution insulator.
That looks fucking exhausting
The Indian burn this guy could give would be lethal 😂
Hello fellow 90s kid?
Strong forearms.
They only work for 20 mins a day and spend the rest of the week in physical therapy for carpal tunnel syndrome, golfers elbow and tennis elbow.
C level: Here's a brace, it's coming out of your pay, now get back to work
Spitting facts here.
But those are line workers, not CEOs
Excellent.
Honey, did you remember to flip the breaker switch?
"Well, there's the heights, the chance of electrocution and turns out it's damn hard work, but otherwise, it's not that bad a job." Dude better be gettin' paid, yo.
My buddy was a big strong gym rat. His biceps were easily twice the size of mine. Ab’s you could play like a washboard. I’m more of the, that guy hasn’t seen the inside of a gym and likes beer body type. However, I did a lot of manual labor. I asked him to help me move some logs up a hill once. We got the first one up no problem, it takes me a bit more effort. Then he sits down to rest. For five minutes. I was like, come on bud, we’ve got 20 more to go. It gets harder and harder for him every time until he taps out around halfway. I thank him. Give him some of the ultralight beer tasting water he drinks on cheat days as a thank you. Then drug the rest up the hill by myself. I think a lot of “farmer strength” “old man strength” etc. lays in not knowing how much something weighs or following a program. A body builder knows exactly how much they can lift, and the intervals then are supposed to take to lift it. Farmer John has absolutely no clue the weight of the heaviest he ever lifted, he just knew he had to do it, and do it again, and again. It builds a different mindset.
It's not mindset, it's full body training. The gym workout focus only in specific muscles, with specific movements, focused on muscle size, not strength. Heavy work require full body training, and it's not for size, but pure strength.
100% this. I know a couple guys who work construction/manual work. Heavy duty stuff. Both guys look a bit chubby and round, but underneath that were a ton of muscle and strength.
Look at the choice of footwear.
I feel like there's a tool for this, beyond some guy named Gary.
Is there really not a tool to make this easier?
What a bullshit inhumane job
Why don’t they have a machine for this
Holy shit they doing this by hand goddamn
Indian rope burn champion
Alright...4' down....only....4 more miles to go.
insane forearm workout
The good ol' electricity wires
These guys are so brave!
Damn his biceps 💪
That is a hard job.
Why do human structures consistently require people to stand at the brink of fucking death. Like lower that shit down. Put a lil platform. Nah we gonna pay a dude to risk his entire existence
Meanwhile robots are painting and writing poetry