For any of my guys going through NLC some words of wisdom from an alumni, GET YOUR CLASS A CDL BEFORE YOU GRADUATE (air brakes and combination) trust me on this guys, getting into power is extremely difficult without it, best of luck to you lads! Work safe out there

@Raptormeatx

Жыл бұрын

Did you go to CDL school? I’m looking for a good school currently

@jawneesofresh

Жыл бұрын

@@Raptormeatx i went to a local trucking school in town which cost 3k but california oroville campus should have it as an elective now. Help u get your cdl

@erikrobles5727

Жыл бұрын

Can’t you buy the books on line then just pay to take the test

@jawneesofresh

Жыл бұрын

@@erikrobles5727 i think theres a new law on feb 4th or 7th 2022 that you need certain cdl class time to take driving test for california that is. Idk about other states. Might have another way but this is what im up to date on

@fogstain

Жыл бұрын

Yes Its all controlled by the federal gov now. The schools have to teach federally approved classes and they have to apply and be granted permission to teach the classes.

This guy's communication to the crew is excellent 👏

@jawneesofresh

Жыл бұрын

Facts!

Hello,just come across this,I was a linesman with northern Ireland electricity for 43 years,I loved the job,at the start I thought I would never last,but I did,watching this brings back a lot of good memories, I worked in a 10 man squad,all pole holes were hand dug,and pulled up with a tractor,know mewps then,I miss it ,I'm now 70,bye

@jawneesofresh

8 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing, and thank you for your service that nobody recongize 🙏

As an old ironworker, I've always had a lot of respect for linemen. Its funny, when you're good at something, it looks easy to people that aren't familiar with it. Like you guys going up a pole, we climbed columns. It never occurs to some that not only do you have to be able to climb, you have to carry 50 pounds or more of tools with you, and be capable of using those tools when you get up there. Cool video..thanks.

@hellfire66683

Жыл бұрын

Was a tower monkey, 20 pound Deadman bag, and also hauling up 200 feet of 2 1/2 to 3 inch rope.

Kris is a great instructor! He was just starting out the month I graduated, and taught me a lot in a short amount of time!

@jawneesofresh

Жыл бұрын

Heck yeah he is! I think he was the main key to success!

Just went through NLC California august semester 2023. Kris was one of the best instructors there! Both in the field and in the classroom. Ivan is also badass 😎

I’m about 23 years into my machinist career, but electrical work has always fascinated me and I love doing my own residential work. At times I get a little jealous of this trade because watching stuff like this is awesome. Great job guys. Learning is life-long! 👍🏻 👍🏻 👊🏻

I like the fact that the instructor articulates well. Good job and much respect to everyone! Be safe and think ahead!

excellent video. I wish it was as easy as you made it look. I was never able to master the art. Thankfull for the bucket truck and a small town.

Good luck in your career, brother. I’m retired now but there is nothing like the feeling of climbing and getting your work done!

@jawneesofresh

Жыл бұрын

Thank you sir, slowly but surely building experience and learning everything I can from the older folks, I am trying to retire as a lineman also. Thanks for stopping by the channel!

I used to climb poles for a living in West Texas. I spent lunch upon a pole and ate my sandwich just to keep from coming down and have to go back up while sagging in lines we were pulling up. Working through lunch helped us get things done in time to make it home just before a storm rolled through only to go right back out and do it all over again. Only I didn’t have a smart belt like he’s displaying in this video I had an old Telephone lineman’s belt. Not safe or comfortable. I had to wrap tape around it to make it stick to the pole the way you needed it to, to be able to control it. And all while these Black Creosote soaked poles were bleeding all over you, burning like fire on your wrists, arms and face! A Buddy of mine still has a big scar on his Temple due to the Creosote drop he refused to wipe off until after we broke for lunch on our first day on the job, grounding a load of new poles. That was in the Good Ol’ Days that weren't always Good as Billy Joel once said! Looks like somebody built a great belt, since then and got rid of the Creosote soaked poles. Nice! Good job Buddy.

@co8539

Жыл бұрын

Gnarly stuff

@scottrevia1611

Жыл бұрын

Man. You brought back memories. My back still hurts and it’s been 20 years

@jawneesofresh

Жыл бұрын

Its our turn in west texas, working right here in midland, monohans pyote

@johnnyringo4899

Жыл бұрын

My grandpa worked on telephone poles in western Oklahoma back in the late 50s-early 60s. Sounded like it really sucked in the winter weather!!

That guy seems like a really good teacher.

Thank all you studs for keeping the power on!

I'm a tree climber and had to laugh when he said looks simple right....LMAO

@alltree78

Жыл бұрын

Me too, now put your under cut in, tie your knot, make the cut, wait there tell the rooe gets back for the next one

Wow. Made it easy. I'm a climbing arborist, I had to teach myself that move. Wish I had an instructor like that.

I'm enjoy to watch your video, 😊❤️👌 I am a meralco lineman trainee here in the Philippines🇵🇭. And proud to be a lineman Keep safe❤️🙏

I washed-out of pole-climbing school, back in 1980 when I was an apprentice for HL&P. Back then, we couldn't buckle-off until we reached the top! The instructor told me that I never looked comfortable up on a 80 ft. pole. It's not for everybody, for sure.

@elonmust7470

Жыл бұрын

That's insane.

@kerrykalls7732

Жыл бұрын

As a current third step apprentice, I wouldn't have gotten here if free climbing was not only allowed BUT ENFORCED

I used hear “give two hands to the company” all the time!! Work safe guys and know I respect you guys way more than I respect fire, elms or police you guys are working everyday with stuff that will KILL YOU many times a day! Thank you for all you do to keep the power flowing into our homes!

Love you Kris One of the best instructors at NLC

Great instructor man, don't know the guy but his manner of instruction is great.

I used to be a line apprentice for local 456 in New Brunswick, NJ. I never had anything out that far, but it’s actually pretty cool when you get stuff like that.

Step 1: don't bring all your gear Step 2: wait for colleague to search entire truck Step 3: realize you've got all your gear and start working Step 4: don't tell colleague to stop looking

@YumYum820

9 ай бұрын

😂😂😂

Thanks for posting as the guy on the other end of a crane set its interesting to see what you guys go through. Local 12 SoCal baby!

@jawneesofresh

8 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing!

kris is the man!! i was at the term when he first started last summer. nice evo btw !

@jawneesofresh

Жыл бұрын

Heck yeah he is and thank you brother. Hes one bad ass instructor!

My dad who would now be 92 if he was alive worked for a power company in Ontario Canada from 1970 to 2005 he told me linemen were the best arm wrestlers and from this video I can see why . I don't think theses guys will need to hit the gym after work. Total respect.

Great instructing!

I would love to take this class. As a window cleaner I got to do a lot of fun shit. Adding this to my list of fun shit would be awesome. Mad Respect To Yinz 💪💪

@jawneesofresh

Жыл бұрын

Yessir I had lots of fun at here would do it again if I could. Just great group of people to experience it with.

Starting in December at Orville. You seem like a great instructor hopefully it’s the same over there! I’m sure it is though

Chris was an awesome instructor

I’m running through the winter term in Idaho , my instructor is not letting us do it this way , he wants us to kick our bent leg across the pole and twist til our locked leg toes are pointing to the ground . It’s a little harder to do but a more comfortable position when working

So good to have the buck squeeze now days way more safe than my day with free climbing and hitch hiking. A big lean out was nerve racking then if you could not go over a strand. Nice to learn on a brown pole but they need to experience that rock hard green pole to just to get the feel.

@jawneesofresh

Жыл бұрын

True we got that hard pole on the H structure. Where we gotta be a man and stick her in 😂

@digibyteorjustnibble9486

Жыл бұрын

The buck squeeze is not foolproof, I fell 18 ft with the buck squeeze on in Charleston West Virginia luckily I landed on my feet

@killianmyers3009

4 ай бұрын

​@@digibyteorjustnibble9486 I had a similar issue the second time I climbed at my trade school I climbed about 20ft up the pole and I hadn't tightened my ez squeeze and I dropped 10 feet down the pole before it caught lucky it didn't slip the full way

Never did something like this but damn that looks so cool to Learn

Thats cool ! Just keep in mind two types of linemen. Those that have had a pole burn down and those that haven't yet! Concentration on the job at hand! Its dangerous on those poles after or during storms! God bless you for the job you all do ! Stay safe 🙏 !

just tell em it looks cool LOL that nervous laugh from everyone is great

Seems like a great instructor.

@acog_quarks8753

Жыл бұрын

Kris is an awesome instructor.

If you haven’t climbed you have no idea how hard that actually is

@jawneesofresh

2 жыл бұрын

100% but thats why there are demos and practices to better yourself

@fullthrottletreeservice4101

Жыл бұрын

Yeah I LMFAO when he said looks simple right....I'm a tree climber....ain't nothing simple about it

@elonmust7470

Жыл бұрын

I'd rather spend 5 hrs battling my wsy up a 6' DBH 2nd growth Sitka Spruce (limbiest bastards alive beside hemlock) than climb up a telephone pole! Scary as hell for some reason. I think deep down all the "this tree is DEAD" alarms to off in the back of my head..

I’ve been looking for lineman programs around me because college is getting a little boring. I like to rock climb and want a hands on job so I thought being a lineman would be a cool job. Would you recommend becoming one if I have no technical knowledge about this job? Will I learn everything in the program?

@itsrukkre1877

Жыл бұрын

NLC is great, you don’t need to know anything. Just make sure to ask questions about anything and everything you’re confused on

@austinbronson47

Жыл бұрын

If you want technical and to work with your hands, be an "inside" wireman. Don't do residential, that's easy and practically learned in two weeks even though the apprenticeship is 3 years. The inside wireman apprenticeship is 5 years union, 4 years non-union. Lineman WORK and not always at home, and they're usually on call. Inside wireman get their 40 hour work week and go home at the end of the day, and there's a good mental challenge. Lineman usually make more money than Inside wireman, but that extra money comes at a cost. And don't believe a lineman when they say you wouldn't have a job without them. While it's half true, it goes the other way too. Otherwise we'd just have a bunch of stump jumpers climbing trees instead of running their lines... Just kidding, nothing but respect to linemen. They do what most won't.

Bro are you Laos? I came across this video looking up tips on how to climb and clicked on your profile and saw Laos words on one of your old videos 😂 I’m 24 and currently in the fiber optic business doing aerial work I’ve never climbed before, I’m a bucket baby, & we have a new contract coming up in VA where we’re not going to be able to bring our bucket trucks and will be having to climb poles to run fiber. Do you like climbing? Is it hard?

KRIS TANNER MY GUY !!!!

Twenty year retired lineman here. Glad I never had to do any of that double safety/hitchhike nonsense.

@kylewilliams450

Жыл бұрын

These guys will never know what it's like to free climb. Or burn a pole. But, they'll have a career for a longer life span than us old school climbers. I'm not a fan of the squeeze either, but shit changes for the better sometimes. Hope your not giving the new generation too much shit. It is what it is....

Respect ✊🏽❤️🤌🫶

Facinating

I'm impressed...I'm from Philippines

Can we get a video of doing overs and unders?

As a former certified tree worker in utility line clearing this position was an everyday occurrence, pay attention to your body and equipment it's your livelyhood. Good luck and be safe.

@jawneesofresh

Жыл бұрын

Thank u sir

It's incredible that you were able to zoom in that close from that boat that was rocking wherever it was.

This is what men do. Work to build the world and make it a better place. At least I’m America. Respect to all linemen, nationwide.

I've never done this kind of work so I have a general question why not just have two separate primaries so when you get to an obstacle you just attach the one going over the obstacle then you can simply just undo the first one and keep going up there would be no need to take off the first primary then reinstall the first primary again if that makes any sense. Like taking off the primary just to reinstall the primary seems like a waste of energy...?

@killianmyers3009

4 ай бұрын

The secondary is just a rope to catch you on the obsitical below you can climb with it but the fall is not gonna be so pretty your primary chokes the pole so you won't fall at all also there is certain safety guidelines you have to follow and you can only go so high above a obsitical with a secondary

I would want to try it but my belt can't stretch to that limit

I"ve been well over 150' in Douglas Fir & Sitka Spruce to top them, but climing 40' telephone poles scares me more.

love it man definitely got an amazing instructor what do you think of it so far? im thinking of joining but nervous of the climb like everyone else

@jawneesofresh

2 жыл бұрын

I already graduated but every instructor has different dutys with hella experience, there is climbing, underground, transmission, digger derreck truck, transformer and more. Gotta face your fears but it is super fun after your comfortable.

@oscardelvalle5114

2 жыл бұрын

@@jawneesofresh definitely 100% hows has your journey been since you graduated?

@seizure5072

2 жыл бұрын

im week 8 in at the Idaho campus. came in hating heights at 25 feet. now were up on the 55 H structures transferring to ladders. 110% worth it

What’s the math like I will be attending soon and wanna refresh before I go

We used to do lean outs without a belt in the Marine Corps.

Did one of these during a climbing assesment for a new job and got called a cowboy. 😂

@jawneesofresh

Жыл бұрын

lol get it cowboy

When leaning out, spin in your belt around your hip... Always try to have super squeeze in triangle shape to prevent pendiluim swinging. When good a confident, should be able to spin all the way around one eighty on the pole... It's possible

@nancysmith9487

Жыл бұрын

In your belt while gaffed in Like superman

@nancysmith9487

Жыл бұрын

If your tighten belt, you can practically stand straight out, to reach out farther... Another trick use lanyard off arm for stability... Williams, James recommend Local 94 IBEW

@nancysmith9487

Жыл бұрын

Also when climbing keep belt loop around pole looser, old school straight belt didn't get caught up around pole... Longer belt helps with ease around chafing pole... Another trick screw driver in pole for lanyard transition from belt to belt, safety...

@nancysmith9487

Жыл бұрын

Be safe, be well... He's available for adjuct assistant instructor

@nancysmith9487

Жыл бұрын

He's also a teamster local 177... Troubleshooter, cheiflineman retired, meter,relay, maintenance, underground, worked with dispatcher, traveling operates, job foreman, look up inspections... lineman jobs?

19 yrs old and I wanna get into the NLC any tips? Hesitated on signing up since I have zero experience

@jawneesofresh

Жыл бұрын

Dont need experience you will learn there just got to believe and push yourself. There are 19yr old guys that go there when I was attending there. its a fun experience you should try it and great career path.

@03alexx30

Жыл бұрын

@@jawneesofresh thanks man I appreciate it 🙏🏽

Is this class associated with the IBEW?

@jawneesofresh

Жыл бұрын

No every man for themselves jk get in line and sign like others 😂

wild I was in this term

This wonderful video really highlights the stupidity of the companies who won't allow their employees to use the Buckingham super-squeeze, and forces them to stay with the Buckingham Ez-squeeze. The ropes are clearly superior to lanyards.

@jawneesofresh

2 жыл бұрын

Facts well said. I trust in my bucksqueeze. 100% on my life.

@ShinobiXRevived

2 жыл бұрын

@@jawneesofresh It's a supersqueeze. Bucksqueeze is the original from 2008. Ez-squeeze is the second generation. The latest one, shown in this video, is the supersqueeze.

Boom trucks work wonders

Thats how you end up with a bad shoulder by time you're 55.

what homie on the left doing at 6:40??? he eating something he just pulled off his skin

@goaheadmakeourdayscooterpe9644

5 ай бұрын

Found a tick😂

6ft lean out and grab a lasher

The best part is when you get to do all that with rubber gloves and sleeves on to work energized lines.🤔

Come up to New York company’s are hiring linemen left and right

Trang bị tốt quá, kỹ năng tuyệt vời...!

Been there done that... a LONG time ago 😆

Do you have to be tall to be a lineman?

@jawneesofresh

Жыл бұрын

No. there are short guys. Just gotta show what you can do

How many guys have blown their knees out doing that lean out & have slipped & then their gaffs caught , just looking at this it looks to me that your knees would not last long doing this lean out repetitively.

Brooooo We had to do this at the top of a 65 foot pole

Dude @ 6:50 popped a pimple and ate its contents. Definitely works for a utility now.

Wow that's superman shit 👍👀

68% LEAN

I switched to the wrap around style of climbers. Much better than gafs

I’ve seen girls doing that in a thong with no gear…

Is NLC hiring?

Ft we just put a ladder midspan.

Sooooo much opportunity in this country if you want to work hard and develop a little passion. Work hard when you are young then you can relax a bit when you hit your 40s.

Is this a young mans game or is early 30s fine to get into. Labored 12 years

Mathew Mchaunahey ??? Hahah

Most will become "bucket babies" .

Teaching them unsafe practices. Yes this may work but eventually someone fall. I'm referring to 6 foot lean out

I am now a certified line man! 😀 -Wait no i'm not.

@jawneesofresh

Жыл бұрын

Now i am got em

@choke666

Жыл бұрын

@@jawneesofresh That's bad ass! My fear of heights and sweaty palms just from watching the video alone would prevent me from doing so. Much respect my man.

@jawneesofresh

Жыл бұрын

@@choke666 heck yeah brother, we all had height fears but when we kept practicing and started to trust in your equipment, the fear just slowly goes away and you get more comfortable!

not a lineman just a boring old commercial/industrial electrician... lmao, but what a great instructor!

Mike? Su pinche no bee es Miguel! Hahah

I climbed trees for a few years. This looks like easy money compared to that. Send on fella

Why men get paid more then women, no hate but facts.

I’d be impressed if he can do that at 45’ up at that height I can do that and I only climb a few times but once the pole starts swinging and you don’t know history of pole how hollow it is your mind set changes . Show is worst case scenario not ideal ones

Tein tuon jo 1983-vuonna ollessani tolppa apinana 🐒 ✨🧸✨ 👶🇫🇮

As soon as you leave school and enter the workforce,please do not walk up the pole in the same manner as the teacher. I am a lineman and that is a very big nooooo

Concentrate on school and put your damn phone away

My dad could do all that.

Use a bucket truck

If I had some kid asking for likes and subscriptions before we started our job that'd be his last day. Gtfoh with all that. Do the work and shut up.

Looks easy at only 6FT.

Now try it without your little sissy fall restraint

Wow, people learning actual skills that earn good pay instead of racking up debt to get a BS "-studies" degree that only gets you a $12 per hour job.

And why are the students in white hard hats???

@jawneesofresh

Жыл бұрын

Why not? PPE baby. We wear it every time in the field and at work. Things can fall from above when your in the hole. Its your last line of defense. There are many things that can fall down and especially with our tools on us when we climb and even when we send stuff up/down. We are wearing white hard hat because that was what was given to us and will be given to you on a real job. Why is this not normal to you?

@brianpayne4549

Жыл бұрын

@@jawneesofresh I’m not against PPE. I AM against students wearing white hard hats, and the instructor wearing yellow. White hard hats should be reserved for bosses.

@TurkeySandwichJr

Жыл бұрын

@@brianpayne4549 🙄🙄🙄 Because every company has to have your preferred color coordination? Sups at my job have blue hats.

@brianpayne4549

Жыл бұрын

@@TurkeySandwichJr no, every power company I worked for, with the exception of Jersey Central, wore yellow for the everyday worker, and white for the bosses

@TurkeySandwichJr

Жыл бұрын

@@brianpayne4549 oh ok thanks for filling us all in about the hard hat colors of a couple utilities in one particular corner of the country 👍

💦 ρгό𝔪σŞｍ

Wow, this guy thinks he’s too cool 😎 for school.