I like it, we had a rear lot can down a hill with no transformer dolly, rigged a guy wire pole to truck slid the can down with roller. Used truck robling to pull it back up no sweat. Love seeing...

Same here a lil tap for extra security. Our 336 and 636 have to be warm to get them to work in winter. We usually put them on the heater.

Our trucks have protection that won't let truck go in gear w pto engaged

Nope we use them everyday

We put mid span loops in open wire all the time, tall ladder against obt, never rest on secondaries
Usually our open wire is pulled tight pole to pole. Triplex seems to give more. Plus we have...

We don't have those mats, never seen them, still no real information on what happened and it's a week later, we were told epz is only for guy on pole, or in bucket on that pole, in theory it works...

How do you eqipotential a down wire? There is no need to speculate till we have the facts, too many stories already

So all of our grounding practices were proven not to work , wheredo we go from here? If there is anything I can do to help the family let me know,

Rusty , I read all this and you never said if it was a rule to wear sleeves, we just started wearing sleeves in 4 kv, our only tested cover up is blankets, just started testing snakes( hose ) again,...

All first energy, started with bucksqueeze now only use jelco

All we heard was is he is a newer employee working with transmission on wire down , no other info

We were just informed this morning. 21 years old , 3 years with company.
My prayers go out to the family, we need to wake up and everyone needs to watch out for each other regardless of experience...

He took good care of us, this wind storm was the worst in years the locals have said, bad thing is we have to walk ut everything to find our own work, hopefully everyone will be on by thurs night ,...

So far mon power is the worst, rumor has it they put on charleston first, so the PGA could play, wait till that gets out, been in your neck of the woods a few times ,, not sure if it was you're...

You must be a safety guy to say stuff like that, you probably gooutoftown scamming ot, making people wear vests in a staging area, our safety aholes make rules after people die not before, I'm not...

No I work for CEI , first energy just bought them , west Virginia is a disaster they have no idea what's down, we drove past at least 15 sections of primary down, to go put up a pole feeding one...

I feel like a storm chaser, first Marion ,oh. Then Springfield,Toledo ,now we're in Parkersburg west Virginian, .

Heres a link to a good video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNsHREtBOqc&feature=youtube_gdata_player

We set most of our 33 kv poles hot, especially double circuit, one side is usually on , rarely get both off, we don't use bags at all

This is the same mentality out of town, everyone is there to help and get the lights on but at the bar or dinner they act like Dbags, no one is better than anyone local or contractor, I talk and hang...

Hospitals have two feeds, use the fault wizard, banging cable is a waste of time

Throw the bucksqueeze/ super squeeze away and ask for jelcos , we make all these stipulations for not using it ie rescue, safety , contested pole, just go back to the old way, let it weed out the...

Our personal grounds are not part of the clearance, there is a new practice where you can transfer to a tree guy (trained for an hour on clearances) so you can release to go do other work, it's...

No offense but saying your never going to get lit up is nieve it's going to happen , have you ever gloved in the rain and got bit on the back of your neck , leather gloves will protect you just...

We have a few windmills installed w protection toour system , but the dumb asses hooked it to our delta system, so whenever a ground the windmill is off , customer mad but our system still works w...