Favorite work?

[wtdoor67]

For me in transmission it would be clipping, followed by pole changeouts with required hotsticking.


In distribution it would have to be rebuilds requiring reconductors and voltage conversions. A combination of both these I would say was my favorite. Those with lots of banks on a conversion. I liked all the various rigging required to keep everything hot. Having to do innovation I think was why I liked them most. I always thought after a guy did a couple of large conversions that he never had to be coached on his banks thereafter. I have to say that for me I thought distribution was more interesting.

Working alone. Yeah, trouble. Hell I even liked underground on trouble.

[Daddyof2]

I would have to agree. Distribution is more interesting. I love hot transmission, but anymore cold or new build is all you get to do. Gets old doing the same thing for days on end. My favorite is hotsticking from the pole-never gets old.

[Edge]

On steel structures it would be...Clippin deadends on turnarounds with bundle conductor...racing spacerbuggies... sticking out yokeplates and bells from the hook ladder... changing out bundle dead end strings from the hook ladder/trolley
pole structures it would be... prolly clippin 3 pole single arm double dead end turnarounds.. then prolly stickin from the wood/polesteps....

distribution would prolly be bank cutovers... or hell banks in general... I really like conversions and the technical shit (like polarity and impedence...woks better of ya got some number6 on your belt)

substation would prolly be building and adjusting gang switches especially 3 way goabs even more fun if theres a moter operater... I used to teach a class on those gd southern states switches (the ones with the vac airbreak man they can be a bitch) when I was a construction hand...

I also like any job that requires advanced riggin makes me brush off the cobwebs of my knot and splicing skills...

for what its worth...

Edge

oh and almost forgot... I used to love sticking EVH more than anything but with all those new MADs and that GD trolly stick that goes those other new sticks I don't think I'd dig it as much anymore...

[lineman1010]

my favorite work is conversions and old school back yard sets and tranfers.


having the 2 different voltages on your conversions and having to change over your banks, getting your rotation first and building the new bank on a different pole, and go and back feed you new cans and then have one guy open up the cut outs on the old back and then the other guy throws the doors in on the new cans and your outage is real quick, did alot of them that way call it a push pull.

then the backyard sets that you can get a truck to and you use pikes and capspans, its hard work but fun trying to figure out ways to rig to get the pole in the air, off trees frences basicly anything you can use to rig off of you do. then transfering primary off hooks hanging cans ect, they way they use to do it before bucket trucks and line trucks.

to me all things in line work can be fun but like everything the more u do it day after day it can get boring

[wtdoor67]

way ahead of me on the transmission hotsticking. I've only did a few DE bell change outs and a lot of wood pole changeouts and of course tangent bells. Plenty of that crap. Did some of that trolley pole stuff on 345 DE's and that was about it. Some tower changeouts with sticks on 230 and that's about the crop.

Substations. Never helped build any and not sorry of it. Always figured they were hotter hell in the summer and colder than hell in the winter. Don't regret that.

Yeah I remember hanging some 138 switches once. Friggen inspector like to have drove us crazy adjusting those sobs. Power co. dude. Did some once for a Muni. Opened and closed it about 2 or 3 times and the Muni supt. said. Yeah that's alright. We gladly made it up permanent.

[BigClive]

I get the feeling that you guys are targeting the adrenaline component of working live. I also get the feeling that you'd be bored shitless with the work otherwise.

[LOCAL84]

I have always loved working storms....BIG storms! That feeling you get when you first get there and all you can see is miles of equipment....where superdomes and airfields become a lineman nation! You get checked in, meet your bird dog and you hit the streets with your posse. When you start doing some hardcore restoration and you look both ways and everyone is giving it 100%! I have always compared that scene to an antpile that got stepped on...those little bastards work day and night to build their home back the way it was.....JUST LIKE WE DO!! The best part is when you get the feeder back up and you start patrolling laterals, you actually get to back track and see just how much you and all the other linemen there have accomplished. There is nothing in the world more amazing than a mob of linemen hardening and re-wiring a city in such little time! This is the sole reason I have always loved being a tramp!

[loodvig]

I liked running spacer cable. Moving the old wire out of the way, framing for the new, pulling in the spacer, and doing the cutover.

[polehiker]

I was like Lineman 1010, Getting a job where it was in a R/W or through the woods someplace was always a good challenge for us. Course since I am older than dirt, we had to set a lot of them that way along with hanging the cans and all that other good s---. I get lost now reading all the modern stuff the guys talk about on here. I just hope it is still as interesting and full of satisfaction to you guys as it was for my 38 yrs out out on the crew. Stay safe, watch out for your buddy.

[Pootnaigle]

Reckon I most enjoyed seeing the lights come back on because of MY efforts. On a storm job the customers really appreceiated ya too. Many times I would figure out an unconventional way to get the majority of the lights back on while I labored to repair the damage to the rest. I've had trunk feeders down and been able to minimize the outage to 2 or 3 customers.
On Transmission work clippin in was always fun. Ya learn real quick you aint gonna muscle nothin for long and learn how to rig.It was kinda even fun rigging for the ground help to have an easier go at it also.

[markwho]

Being a small muni we get to do a lot. we have 2.4 kv, 4kv, and 13,200 kv. No transmission,though we do have 69kv sub-transmission. Got to build a 3 mi. 69 kv line about 10 years ago. have been busy over the last few years installing urd also, not a favorite though. I enjoy mostly all of it. I guess my least favorite is setting poles. I enjoy troubleshooting and accident/hit poles and other types of trouble. Putting in a new 3 phase line now for connecting a solar project to our system. Will involve some primary metering also.

[Chazz2771]

I have always loved working storms....BIG storms! That feeling you get when you first get there and all you can see is miles of equipment....where superdomes and airfields become a lineman nation! You get checked in, meet your bird dog and you hit the streets with your posse. When you start doing some hardcore restoration and you look both ways and everyone is giving it 100%! I have always compared that scene to an antpile that got stepped on...those little bastards work day and night to build their home back the way it was.....JUST LIKE WE DO!! The best part is when you get the feeder back up and you start patrolling laterals, you actually get to back track and see just how much you and all the other linemen there have accomplished. There is nothing in the world more amazing than a mob of linemen hardening and re-wiring a city in such little time! This is the sole reason I have always loved being a tramp!

You left out the loose women, free food, and the end-of-storm bar bash. I'll agree with you though, storm is definitely nice. Throw in the door and watch the block come to life again.:)

[Koga]

when we did transmission, they actually paid us to take 4 wheelers out and patrol the lines !!!!!

Koga

[johnbellamy]

when we did transmission, they actually paid us to take 4 wheelers out and patrol the lines !!!!!

Koga

4-wheeler's, Rhino's, snow mobiles, sno-cats, jet boats, float planes, The senic beauty, the sunrises, and sunsets I have seen, I still couldn't believe they are payin me for this.

Ya life is good.

[CPOPE]

Ya the scenic stuff in god’s country is great. I enjoy shooting trouble most of all. Much better than maintaining pole change outs out in the woods. The various types of work different every day is the balls/

This photo is of Canal St Malden Mass. Laugh so hard I pissed my pants. Imagine the kids in the Minnie van. Shock of a lifetime for this MILF and her kiddos. Six poles in a row come down cascading failure oil all over the street nobody hurt and plenty of OT. Till this day it makes me chuckell

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