Fuse blows back on lineman

Kevin eats a fuse

[gregdolecki]

There is a reason he's 6+ feet away, using a non-conductive pole and wearing appropriate PPE. There was no mistake here.

[michaelmoore]

Lineman pros: Fresh air, decent pay, great benefits, job security
Lineman cons: You're only allowed one mistake.

[martyhoenisch]

I'm a retired career fire captain and I made it a point to thank these guys every time we ran a call with them. Wires down, underground power box fires etc, etc...these guys work under usually the worst conditions during storms and they come through every time. Huge cajones. You guys are the best!

[spurgear]

My dad was a lineman, used to take me on calls in the truck.
Good memories.
Miss you dad

[larryames]

You'll say bravery. It's confidence, supported by knowledge and skill. Bravery is asking your wife what month did we get married.

[poppabluekent]

I was a firefighter for 29 years,  so I  got to see these guys work many times. They are my heroes and have nards of solid steel.

[JIMMCCRANK]

30 years a lineman and had untold hundreds of fuses blow. Ducked every time .   :)

[gladegoodrich]

While we are snug in our beds these guys are out there in below zero weather restoring our power.
True heros!

[phild]

My father did this kind of job for decades. Made me get an engineering degree.
He did much of it with climbing spikes and belt. up close and personal. Worked closely with PCB's back when they were the liquid in transformers. Also worked with the transmission lines with voltages over 200, 000 volts. Made it home from every job. One of his co-workers was killed while he was on vacation. He took that very personally. His grandson now has some of his old hand tools from that job.

[williamkiely]

My Dad was a lineman beginning in 1947 in Cambridge, Mass. for the old Cambridge Electric Light Co. He was good at it and the city Fire Dept. always told me what a hard worker he was.

[smile-xonr]

knew it would go bang, still made me jump

[todddonaldson]

I was throwing in a fuse like this one day at a trailer park, while the neighbours were arguing with each other. They had just started walking away yelling at each other when my fuse blew back. Everyone thought the other side was shooting at them. Funniest thing I’d seen in years.

[nemo]

I watched a lineman do that with a fuse after the power went out on our short street. But the fault was a pinhole in our underground power cable under the sidewalk at the first house on our street. They brought in a portable generator for the 22 houses on our street. Then their backhoe dug a hole big enough to hide my CR-V. They spliced the cable, filled the hole and we had power again by about 1:30 AM. Thank you, power company linemen.

[mikehiers]

Nothing but respect for these guys. I've worked with 480 volts in my career and have seen dead shorts and it can scare the daylights out of you. The linemen work with thousands of volts and it is very dangerous. They go out at night during lightning storms to restore power too. Good guys.

[marvinostman]

My father was a lineman for MN Power for many years. I heard about those for years but never actually had the chance to see one in action. That was just one of the many things that I heard about. It is a very unforgiving line of work. I am so glad he always followed the rules. He always came home each night with all the same parts he left with in the morning.

[redsquirrelftw]

It's way louder than that in person too. If you're inside the house and it happens outside it sounds like a shot gun going off. I bet that lineman's ears were ringing for a while lol. The hydro execs make way too much money, but these guys actually earn their pay fully.

[katietye]

Videos like this are the reason I pray my husband comes home every day 🖤
✨Thank you linemen✨

[fnorgen]

My granddad finally started telling stories from his time as a lineman back in the 50s, 60s and 70s.
There's a reason he rarely talked about his work when he came home to his family. If they knew how spooky it was to work on remote lines on stormy nights they would have missed a lot of sleep. On one occasion he got electrocuted from a 20kV line which turned out to not be quite as deenergized as he had thought. The shock itself was evidently nowhere near full power, but still he needed 15 minutes to regain his composure as he almost lost his footing some 10 meters off the ground.

[wolfpat]

We lost a phase coming into my manufacturing plant one day. A lineman came out and saw the clamp had come off the feeder. He replaced the clamp.

As soon as he touched the clamp to the line, he was engulfed by a fireball. What we didn't know was that a lightning arrestor had shorted to ground, which is what burned the original clamp in two.

Everything immediately went dark. I waited a moment for a sound that he was okay. Nothing.

Finally, I asked, "Hey man. Are you alright? "

I heard the frustration in his voice as he replied, I'm going to have a hell of a sunburn in the morning."

[davidamoritz]

We have a local ex lineman here in my town named Ronnie Hindsman that lost his arms and his partner died on him during a repair. Its a dangerous job for men with talent and guts, electricity is no laughing matter.