Maintenance Work on Hendrix Cable

[Pole_Cat]

I am looking for any information available on the maintenance of Hendrix Spacer Cable. I would be interested to know if there any written work procedures available for the maintenance of Hendrix Spacer Cable in your areas? We operate under the principle of "insulate, isolate, barricade and ground," but have no specific written work procedures available for hands on work when gloving 14.4kV. The manufacturer doesn't have any procedures available for hands on work other than construction.

Post any info you have on this subject and I'd be interested in how you work it in your part of the Country, if you in fact have written work procedures, how you ground it, rubber protective cover-up specifics, minimum approach, etc. Do any of you have construction standards that provide you a means or way of isolating stretches of this conductor or are you basically de-energizing the system, applying your grounds & cover-up, etc. if you have a span of wire down/broken pole/tree on the conductors, etc.?

Thanks!

Pole Cat

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oday, 08:08 PM

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Pole Cat, I see you are a consultant. Who are you a consultant for? Are you employed by a Utility? If yes, is the workforce organized? If the workforce is organized, you should contact the LU who has jurisdiction and discuss work practices with the Business Manager there.

Hendrix cable presents specific safety problems that are inherent with covered aerial conductors. Namely, you cant see what is under the insulation. Bad stuff, worst flash I have ever witnessed was on Hendrix, flash melted the bucket liners down inside the basket.
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