The way I read the new regulations everyone has to go to a 4 D ring belt because you are required to have a fall stop belt (bucksqueeze or equivalent) and a safety to go over obstacles. OSHA has...
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The way I read the new regulations everyone has to go to a 4 D ring belt because you are required to have a fall stop belt (bucksqueeze or equivalent) and a safety to go over obstacles. OSHA has...
I agree man. When I started in the industry a Work order might consist of four pages of paper (1) a sketch (2) a list of the new structures per the spec book (3) materials issued and turned in and...
What many people don't understand is OSHA 1910.269 and Subpart V are Safety Rules, which means they are 90% manufacturer standards and things you can't do. Not really how you do the work. That used...
For my system most fuses are on wood crossarms even new construction. About the only major exception is Dip pole fuses where they are mounted on a steel bracket with the arrestors and terminations of...
Distribution Lineman don't do welding (except when it all goes wrong). At some companies the Apparatus Linemen/Technicians may do some welding but that is an infrequent job even for them. In fact...
If you watch they patted his chest and back for an explosive vest before they walked away from the Taliban guys. Just did a more complete pat down at chopper. Did you also notice the two guys on the...
Linemanfrog:
We don't do the switch maint that you call for, however we read every OCR (they are all vacuum contacts) once a year in the spring. Based on years on the pole, operations in last year...
Lewy from what I see of the bracket in your photo that wire is not going to move thru that bracket. Where I'm talking about radio noise is when the bare neutral is strung thru a clevis around a...
copperlineman; I don't know where you work but we cannot build by the specs you are calling for. RUS and the NESC require all grounds exposed to the public to be bonded together. I have personally...
If moving wire in the jib we pin out sufficient length (2 holes) with the wire handler head on jib. Hose is not required but usually we have it slid up on both sides of jib head. I have seen...
Reppy; like any other legal document easements vary all over the place as to what they do or do not allow. Another variation is some right of ways are on purchased land owned by the utility but most...
Bren what you showed photos of looks like what was done in Northern Virginia in the early eighties. Haven't seen it done in 20 years in this state. Now we open a full depth hole one way or another...
Seen it done three ways over the years. Oldest was small drilled holes that 4-5 foot long bolts were grouted into sticking above ground about a foot with a steel collar that pole butt went into,...
I'm with you; if you are putting a in a guy insulator why would you bond to the guy ABOVE the insulator? The places I have been the bond is made to the guy below the insulator, which is supposed to...
I can't speak for everyone's practice but at all Coops that I know or have worked with you run the neutral on porcelain to cut down on radio noise. A heavily loaded neutral , like a long single phase...
Our area we own about 90% of the poles. If it's a phone company pole they have 120 days to change it from our notice or we change it and take over ownership. Part of the way we own 90%. Our worst...
Our Coop has a cradle to cradle rubber glove and sleeve rule. However only applies to poles with energized conductor. Once line is grounded you can take gloves and sleeves off. Once grounds are...
We were told the idea of the class 2 gloves was there was a chance of some connections between the handle and the mat having measureable resistance and possibly producing several hundred to a couple...
We had a new reel of ACSR stolen off a Job site a few years ago (roughly 5000 ft) which cost us over $1400.00 but because the thieves cut it up in 10-12 foot lengths to sell as scrap they were paid...
Had an outage on our system last night. The outage was caused by an uprooted tree that came down on what is normally the east bank of a river crossing. It was 14 degrees last night with wind and they...
MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL, and how about a SAFE New Year. I would love to see the accident section set empty in the new year.
I sent one of my two construction crews to a coop in the western part of the state. If people are familar with Virginia most of our ice followed interstate 81 thru the state.
Reppy, if T-man has same set-up we have it isn't a case of the Leads don't have the knowledge to evaluate someone, it's they are working themselves and so often don't have the time to stand back and...
Some of us call them "floats" or floating deadend, in this part of the country "johnny balls" is used for secondary voltage lines or guy wires.
I'm scheduled for class on tuesday.