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That's a good point Sean. If the ground becomes electrified, you can be electrocuted by just standing or running. If both feet are on the ground and any distance apart, it can create a difference of potential and a path through your body for those mean little electrons to flow. I can't remember...

Oh yea, that's live line barehand work at it's best Peter! When he's drawing the arc with the wand before and after clipping in, he wouldn't admit it, but it's pins and needles over your entire body. A pretty wild and unpleasant sensation.

Actually Butch, it's to keep you energized at all times (at the same potential as the wire). You wear conductive overshoes with a lead strapped around your leg and the bucket liner is what is normally connected to the wire. Otherwise, you might get zapped every time you move away from or touch...

Your first responders are very fortunate. If it was primary voltage and the lineman handled it with rubber gloves from the ground, it was de-energized at that point. It may have been hot when the first responders got there, but handling energized primary from the ground even with rated gloves is...

Transmission live line barehand work is what's crazy. That's where you energize yourself intentionally. The bucket has a metal liner in it and the boom must be tested daily and if it's the least bit damp or dirty, it won't pass. I did some work on the 69,000v lines but we had crews that did up...

Genius!

Whatever it takes to get your foot in the door. The PPE part is vital. When you get the job, hustle, be observant, ask questions and take advice. Be humble, nobody wants to put up with a newbie who thinks he knows it all. If you want to be good at it, study it, live it and breathe it. When you...

Exactly. You have two 120v to ground hot legs and a neutral coming into your house. Phase to ground voltage on either is 120, phase to phase voltage is 240.

In most distribution transformers the ratio is 60/1 Jim. Our primary is 7200v, 1/60th of that works out to the 120v that is in the outlet on your wall.

It is induction. An isolated, supposedly dead line running parallel to an energized one will pick up free electrons and become energized, a battery of sorts. A transformer works on induction. There is no connection between the primary and secondary windings in a transformer. As far as the line...

Sad Butch. I worked a fatality last year where a guy on a fork lift got into the primary. Bad deal. http://www.newsherald.com/news/crime-public-safety/worker-electrocuted-in-forklift-1.353818