So in this video we're going to go through the whole sequence of a single
person wire pull. This is for when you're on a job by yourself: You got to push the fish
tape. You got to hook up the wire and you then have to pull the wire all by
yourself. So first step we're going to tape up our fish tape end. Start from the
back of the hook, nice and tight. Give yourself a little tail. We're ready to go.
Now with pushing the fish tape, this should automatically come out as you are
pushing. You don't really want to use this to feed the wire out, reason being
is the spool in there can start kind of jamming up to the walls and they can
start you know crisscrossing and that's when you can run into issues. So for the
most part your actual feed, you're just pulling it and it will come out by
itself. So I'm going to start my push, come into the box and I'm just pushing
holding on to it and it's going to feed itself. Now in this particular one I want
to go through multiple boxes, so I'm gonna have to put my fish tape down,
come to the next box, get it started into that connector. Once it's started I
can come back and keep pushing from my original spot. Keep pushing it through!
Once I have the fish tape on the other side, I can get a hold of it and pull out
enough so I have enough room to make up my wires. So now I'm ready to make up my
wires. I want to take the tape off, so I have a fresh end to deal with. I'm now going to
determine what my lead wire is going to be, in this situation I'm going to say it
is the black. I'm going to strip off roughly six to eight inches of
insulation.
Install the wire into the end of the fish tape, about halfway between what I
stripped, make my hook, a little crimp in there just to make it nice and flat, good.
Now I'm ready for my other wires to come in. I have these staggered about two to
three inches.
I'm going to start my tape from the back where all three wires are involved
and work my way towards the fish tape end.
We'll go past the hook to make sure I get that final edge.
Now I'm almost ready to go, one thing about the wire being on the ladder is
that as you're pulling, especially when you're by yourself, these are going to go
this way and that way. You can also run into trouble with the spool is hitting
the legs. So what I like to do is I like to set up the wire about halfway into
the ladder, that way the spools don't have any legs to get caught on. [PRO TIP] And I'll
actually tape the conduit to the ladder. This will ensure that while I'm away
from the ladder on the other side pulling, nothing is going to move. You're
going to use this practice as well for when you're doing multiple
people wire pulls. Let's just make sure that your wire is gonna stay where you
want it and not move around. Good, the final thing I want to look at when I'm
doing a single person wire pull is the angle of the wire going into my box. I'm
gonna be on the other side pulling, so I need to ensure I'm set up to make sure
the wires gonna go straight into the conduit at an angle that's not going to
be hitting edges, digging the box edges, stuff like that. Too sharp of an edge is going
to make it really hard for me to pull it. So I want to set myself up for an even
flow into the conduit with the wire.
Now, before I start my wire pull I really want to make sure this head gets into
the conduit. I don't want to go to the other end, start pulling, only to find
that by the time it gets there, it gets stuck right here on the head and you have to
come back. So always start it and get the wires going in the conduit, at least past
where I taped, so that I know I'm ready to go on the other side for the pull.
So when pulling wire by yourself, a main concern is how the wires are coming off
of the spools. If you're using really jerky motions the spools and wires are
gonna be doing the same. When they're doing that, wires can kind of come off
the spools they can get tangled in between each other and can make the pull
really difficult, so especially when you're pulling by yourself, you really
want to even pull. You want to make sure those wires are just coming off at an even
pace. If you need to stop the pull, don't stop all of a sudden, don't start all of
a sudden make everything very gradual and smooth. So I'm going to start my pull.
I'm not going to just go for it, I'm gonna actually just start real nice and
slow, get the wire spools going nice and even, keep my whole motion nice and
smooth.
Once I have my wires, I know I have enough and I'm done with my pull.