This training is intended for new line mechanics through five years’ experience.

D Series – Three Levels

Level One - Introductory Training (two-day session)

• Participate in job briefing
• Safety manual review
• Station entry training
• Care and use of personal protective equipment (PPE)
• Hazardous energy – lockout/tagout
• Conduct pre and post vehicle inspection
• Introduction to fall protection
• Six basic knots
• Use of handlines
• Stretching and flexibility
• Setup of ladders
• Station structure climbing and rescue
• Aerial device (bucket) operation and rescue
• Ground and barricade aerial device

D100 Level (five-day session)

• Pole climbing and techniques
• Complete hazardous materials manifest
• Conduct pre and post trip vehicle inspection
• Using hand signals to direct a vehicle
• Housekeeping
• Operate truck mounted winch
• Hand signals for derrick, cranes and winches
• Using lifting hoist
• Power drills, bits and augers

D200 Level (five-day session in classroom and field)

• Work area protection
• Pole top rescue
• Use of signals for line work
• Hand signals for crane operations
• Principles of rigging
• Testing de-energized circuits
• Installing/removing temporary circuits
• Framing a pole in the air
• Install hold down blocks
• Interpreting Transmission specifications
• Map reading
• Installing expanded anchors
• Handling wire on reels
• Loading and handling long loads (poles)
• Tensioning down guys
• Installing traveling grounds
• Grounding tower structure (permanent grounding)
• Ohmmeter and megger
• Framing a pole on the ground
• Digging a pole hole by hand
• Verifying pole size and setting poles
• Install pole ground (permanent)
• Clean-up construction site
• Seeding/mulching construction sites
• Using hydraulic pole jacks
• Pulling old poles
• Tower rescue
• Aerial lift – victim and self rescue

C Series – Four levels (two classroom and two field)

C100 Level (five-day classroom)

• Review of arithmetic – whole, fractions and decimals
• Angular measures and trigonometry
• Calculating dead-end loads and conductor tension
• Check job location
• Temporary anchors
• Using temporary guying applications
• Maintaining hot sticks
• 765Kv grounding for induced voltages
• Installing temporary guard structures
• Installing dampers and corona rings
• Installing aerial marker balls
• Working with a gin pole
• Installing antennas/microwave dish
• Aligning microwave dish
• Installing lights (beacon and side)
• Installing wave guide
• Inspecting microwave structure and fixtures
• Repairing/replacing microwave coax

C100 Level (five-day field)

• Hanging insulators and blocks
• Installing dead-end clamps
• Installing armor rods

C200 Level (five-day classroom)

• Positioning equipment at the jobsite
• Working in excavations and trenches
• Excavating for footers
• Assembling footers
• Assembling tower structures
• Grading poles for multi-pole structures
• Working platforms
• Repairing structure grounds
• Verifying material issuance

C200 Level (five-day field)

• Operating aerial lift trucks
• Operating truck winch and derrick
• Digging a pole hole with auger
• Replacing 69kv cross-arms
• Installing/replacing suspension insulators (single string – de-energized)
• Installing/replacing dead-end insulators (single string – de-energized)
• Installing/replacing horizontal post insulators (single string – de-energized)
• Installing/replacing vertical post insulators (single string – de-energized)
• Installing/replacing dead-end insulators (double string – de-energized)

B Series – Four Levels (two classroom and two field)

B100 Level (five-day field)

• Replacing poles
• Installing pole stubbing
• Replacing tower members
• Pole change out – Two pole H-frame structure
• Pole change out – Single pole corner structure
• Opening energized loops
• Dead end wire
• Repairing conductor/shieldwire
• Bonding on – Bare-hand method

B100 Level (five-day classroom)

• Installing concrete footers
• Assembling steel poles
• Replacing tower members
• Replacing guys
• Pole change out – Three-pole dead end structure
• Cross-arm change out – Single pole/single arm
• Cross-Arm change out – Double arm/H-frame
• Pulling lean lines by helicopter
• Replacing hardware
• Installing in-line switches GOAB./MOAB
• Adjusting in-line switches GOAB./MOAB
• Performing climbing inspections
• Patrolling lines to locate damage

B200 Level (five-day field)

• Installing hot boards
• Covering secondaries
• Installing hot line protection
• Installing spiral conductor covers
• Using line hose and blankets
• Framing/layout conductors for re-conductoring
• Installing/removing pole in energized areas
• Working energized conductors from a bucket truck
• Tying in conductors (12kV)
• Splicing wire
• Clipping-in wire
• Installing jumper loops
• 345kV stringing (de-energized)
• 345kV suspension insulator (de-energized)
• Installing/removing 345kV suspension (single string) insulators (de-energized)
• Installing/removing 345kV dead-end (double string) insulators (de-energized)
• Installing/removing V-suspension insulators (4 bundled guyed V) D-E (de-energized)
• Installing/removing 765kV dead-end insulators (4 bundled self-supporting) D-E (de-energized)

B200 Level (five-day classroom)

• Care and testing of rubber gloves and sleeves
• Selecting and installing Kellum grips
• Verifying phasing
• Pulling lead lines
• Pulling the conductor and shield wires
• Installation of overhead fiber optics
• Formulating restoration plans and making repairs
• Complete powder magazine (blasting inventory)