Hand Lines!!!!!!????

[Mooder]

Need some help here!! Does OSHA require a handline be hung on every pole or in bucket while working? If so then where in 1910.269 is it?

[Pootnaigle]

Many companies require a rope to be taken aloft as a means of rescue Most dont specify a "handline" But if it aint a rule it should be, The handline is one of the most important tools of our trade

[reppy007]

I dont believe OSHA says much about the handline.Here it is supposed to be carried up a pole whenever one is climbed,though its not a mandatory rule.Funny that the unwritten rule doesnt mention anything about a bucket.While I agree that one should be used ,Im very guilty of not having one while on a pole @ 3am or 4 am in the morning as a one man...I really dont know if thats allowed anymore....Now back to the mandatory rules....Im sure most guys cant even remember them all now days...we used to have to know them word by word...12 in all...Only ones that may know them all is the young apprentices....then as time goes by,meaning years ,they fade away from the mind.Sad in a way.:mad:

[US & CA Tramp]

Need some help here!! Does OSHA require a handline be hung on every pole or in bucket while working? If so then where in 1910.269 is it?

The answer is NO, it is not a requirement and you will find no mention of it in 1910 269 or 1926 subpart V.

[neil macgregor]

why would you not climd/go up in the bucket without a rope ?

taking a rope up should be common practice

[gumbo]

why would you not climd/go up in the bucket without a rope ?

taking a rope up should be common practice
No one has time for a handline when you can just overload your bucket with all you'll need so that the man on the ground can leave and go do something else besides watch you. I myself have bailed out of a stuck in the air bucket a few times. No rope--you wait 4 a mechanic or someone to set up a truck to rescue you. Speaking of which--it's hard to do pole top rescue without a handline.

[bluestreak]

Just saying that when climbing you should always have a 1/2 in handline just so the guy coming up to save your butt don't have to bring one ,that said what do people use for bucket rescue CL&P still has Sky Genies in all their buckets trouble is most are thirty years or more old. Stirred up some **** five years before I retired trying to reassess the program tried to get a new technology like what Mt. climbers use it also tied in to the kind of harness people used the Co. seemed interested then saw it might cost a few bucks and dropped it. I believe it might be a requirement for 1 man trucks.

[busman]

No one has time for a handline when you can just overload your bucket with all you'll need so that the man on the ground can leave and go do something else besides watch you. I myself have bailed out of a stuck in the air bucket a few times. No rope--you wait 4 a mechanic or someone to set up a truck to rescue you. Speaking of which--it's hard to do pole top rescue without a handline.

I have this hanging inside my bucket at all times. It's under the bucket cover, so it stays out of the weather. Other than that, I work alone most of the time, so a line to the ground would be pointless.

http://www.gmesupply.com/media/catalog/product/0/5/05706_lg.jpg

[neil macgregor]

I have this hanging inside my bucket at all times. It's under the bucket cover, so it stays out of the weather. Other than that, I work alone most of the time, so a line to the ground would be pointless.

http://www.gmesupply.com/media/catalog/product/0/5/05706_lg.jpg

you should never walk alone


hail hail

[busman]

you should never walk alone


hail hail

Nice of you to be concerned, but most here know that I am an electrician who does some MV work. I am self employed, so this is my choice. I never work primary alone. I don't have great concern about working secondary and pole lights alone.

i worry much more about the trouble guys from the local utility who do have to work alone. I always stop and offer a second set of eyes/hands when I see them handling a call alone.

mark

[in the bucket]

I just had training today for bucket escape. The product was like mountain climbing gear with a deadman grip on it. It was simple to use and I wouldn't mind having one on my truck so I wouldn't have to wait for another bucket to come and get me. OSHA says you can go from bucket to bucket as lone as you are tethered at all times so you would need two fall restraint devices.

[bobbo]

I just had training today for bucket escape. The product was like mountain climbing gear with a deadman grip on it. It was simple to use and I wouldn't mind having one on my truck so I wouldn't have to wait for another bucket to come and get me. OSHA says you can go from bucket to bucket as lone as you are tethered at all times so you would need two fall restraint devices.

Those **** bags over the boom. If it's tight and double circuit and hitting field sides. Those **** bags are such a pain. Sometimes one inch can you get to the other side and work clear. That bag catches phases, span guys or whatever they want in the air.