Seriously funny but serious

[Pootnaigle]

Many years ago I worked with a lineman name Pete. He was an affiable feller but highly excitable. In any case Ole pete was climbing over some tri plex that was double deadended on the pole and had jumpers around the pole. He managed to step in a hot phase and in doing so he burnt the gaff completely off of his left side' This not only left him stranded but in his highly excited state had him taking that step down over and over again yet going nowhere. add to that he occasionly wud brush against the damaged triplex which had a pole ground behind it and would fire up. Truth is it was the funniest visual you would ever wanna see. Someone else climbed the pole and hung a handline off and we lowered him down. He wasnt hurt but his pride was seriously damged.

[Highplains Drifter]

Had a grunt jump in a hole to throw out some rocks, a tarantula jumped on his shoulder …the look on his face…..priceless……. He tensed up so hard that trying to get out of that hole and away form that spider, he wrenched his back so bad he was off of work for about ten days.

[reppy007]

Had a guy working in a urd van,fell out on the last step,which was only a foot above the street.How does that happen I was asked,you would have to know this guy that fell,even in pain he wouldnt make up his mind as weather to go to a hospital or not.So me and the 3rd guy continue to work on the loop,finding a bad bobo,or elbow far far away.When we finally came back to the van,he's still on his back,and I beg him to go to the hospital.After it was all said and done he had broken ribs,ect.By the way someone always gets the blame,and I was that somone. Even the forman got involved,accusing me of pushing him out.If you knew this guy anything that could happen would happen,he was that type of guy,we would even call him the fall guy.

[topgroove]

Something so simple as stepping out of a truck... You wouldnt believe how many twisted ankles and lost time injuries happen each year.

[reppy007]

Something so simple as stepping out of a truck... You wouldnt believe how many twisted ankles and lost time injuries happen each year.

And the bad is.It can happen to anyone,especially when those young bones get older.Funny how things can happen,the one who pulls you into the office to investigate a fall thats hard to explain,can be the same guy that will fall and injure himself the dam next day.

[Pootnaigle]

Ummmmmmmm one of the coolest thangs onna linecrew wuz when sumbody dun sumpin stoopid like that n looked to see if enybody wuz watchin. Always kracked me plum up. I member once when I wuzza grunt makin a loop outta the handline puttin it unner my feet, Passin it thru the belt on my britches n pullin myself up the pole. One span down anudder grunt tried the same thang but didnt pass it unner his belt n pulled his dumm azz over baccakrds n landed on the sidewalk. Furst thang he dun wuz to look n see if enybody wuz lookin....... whudda hoot

[bren guzzi]

I was showing the aprentice in New Zealand that the new wrenches we had just got were longer than the old ones and could bridge out the phases if you were not careful. Showed him too well. Bridged out the two phases .... Blinded myself with "ARC EYE " was of work for a week bandaged up. Melted/ welded the wrench shut..... Man what a laugh .. KIWI SOLUTION". Hack saw two inches of the new wrenches... (We've bought dozens so we are gona use them). . Also renamed them "Brens Blinders".

I'm to embaressed to post this.....

[Lineman North Florida]

We was pulling a butt cut off of 80' we had changed out a while back and had been waiting for phone and catv to get off the pole, anyhow we pulled and rocked and pulled some more and couldn't get the last 4' to come out and we were on a busy intersection so we decided to cut it off and push the butt back in the hole, we un-rolled the auger and sat it down on that butt sticking up about 6" above ground level and put down pressure on it till it raised the stiff legs and the butt didn't budge, we took the auger off of it and were standing there looking at it in amazement when 1 of my co-horts says he will get it and runs and jumps on it being funny, well he no more than hit it and it went and he disappeared into the pole hole, when the dust settled and all the sand stopped blowing out of the hole there he was, nothing but his head sticking out of the hole unharmed but whipped out. We laughed about for the rest of the week, still mention it every now and then.

[reppy007]

I wonder how many times this has happened,and wonder if its done the same way today with all this sensitive training.We all can relate to cutting a conductor too short and sending it up on a handline,that one mistake will get you called everything that you can imagine,and more.If any mistake is repeated it probably isnt that one,wonder why?Id like to see a video on that,funny when the other guy gets upset or chewed out,but not so when it happens to you.

[hotwiretamer]

I had a seasoned lineman argue with my apprentice that he wasn't going to climb this pole, and they were racing to see who would get to the pole first. The veteran smoked the apprentice tooling up, and turned to run to the pole from the truck where he had tooled up. His gaff got hung up on his dangling safety strap, and he landed face first in a patch of Scorpion weed. (It's can have a reaction like poison ivy). I laughed my ass off!