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Okielineman and all others in that area, be SAFE. Prayers sent; and a donation to American Red Cross disaster fund.

For fans of old sci-fi fantasy movies of the 50's and 60's Ray was THE special effects man. Some of his best was "Jason and the Argonauts", "Clash of the Titans", "Mighty Joe Young",etc. Died at his...

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I won't say how it is done in other states but at our Cooperative our Apprentice training program is registered with the Virginia Department of Labor. They reviewed our program and...

Every recloser (single phase, three phase, hydraulic, electronic) when it is set for non-reclose operates one time off of the first curve at whatever it's amperage setting maybe. Example a typical 70...

Every recloser (single phase, three phase, hydraulic, electronic) when it is set for non-reclose operates one time off of the first curve at whatever it's amperage setting maybe. Example a typical 70...

20 years ago we just cleaned the grounds once a year but didn't actually test them. Then after 1910.269 came out in the 90's we started testing. Found out real quick that all the grounds that had...

If the thief had stolen triplex or any insulated wire Dominion and ourselves could not have claimed no commercial use. However what they stole was bare primary conductor. While I'm sure there are...

CLF are used where the Line to Ground fault current exceeds 3000 amps to keep the tank from rupturing on a pole mount transformer. Some companies claim the number of transformers failures from...

Sometimes it seems even when it catch them it doesn't do any good. About two years ago we had 5 new reels of 1/0 ACSR stolen from a material pile on a 3 phase conversion job. When we pointed out to...

Only time we don't is building a new line in virgin territory, no crossings and no parrallels. Even then some of the guys use them just because that's thier normal procedure.

If I did this right it should take you to the tapping of a Jeff Gordon Pepsi Max commercial on You Tube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5mHPo2yDG8

I do it so much that before my wife passed away last year she was doing it sometimes on a long trip if she wasn't driving. She could actually spot broken braces, bad crossarms, and really sloppy work...

Bren thanks for the map. Some of your stories make a little more sense now.

When using armed drones first started they were used to kill people in places that the local government either couldn't or wouldn't arrest them even if we twenty witnesses and three video tapes of...

The coop came up with those hours because they found it covered like 75% of all non-storm outages. In that area most couples both worked so there were frequent calls came in between 5:30pm and 7:00pm...

My previous Coop the line crews worked regular 5 days 8 hour days M-F. However the Servicemen had a complex schedule. Holf of them worked M-F the other half worked W-Sunday. And just for extra fun...

At the Coop I am at now they have used exclusively CCA poles since 1978. This was primarily driven by the Virginia EPA (Department of Environmental Quality) due to the fact that a very large portion...

We are a Union cooperative but if you enter the lineman apprentice program then you sign a contract that has two major clauses. (1) It is an "up-or-out" contract; in other words if you can't cut it...

Newbies are more gulliable and less confident about arguing when management has a brain fart. Some, not all, mangement types like yes men. Personally I prefer the ones that think and then ask...

At our Cooperative Pole Top rescue (climbing) MUST be done by everyone who works as a Journeyman or Higher, they also have to do bucket rescue on the two styles of buckets we have. If you are in a...

I have used 1.5 and 3 kva OH transformers in the past still use new 3 KVA and rehang 1.5 KVA to power street lights and signal lights when no other secondary handy. I have seen one 45 KVA three phase...

I started in the trade in 1978 and the linemen there had been wearing sleeves for a number of years. The first time I saw a lineman working without sleeves was in 1982 in North Carolina.

I think we have been in FR for about 6 years also. Then with the last issue of the NESC we had to start keeping track of ARC rating. Basically from the station recloser/breaker downline we have one...

Our uniforms are FR shirt and khaki pants not Jeans. Ours come from Riverside, they sell the jeans also but the CEO wanted a "uniform" look, so rejected jeans. FR jeans are also available from...

Tman not sure I was reading you right. I have always seen the big unbalanced voltages with a bad/open neutral and no 240 volt loads running. Usually if the there was a 240volt load the legs came back...