Pranks

[MI-Lineman]

I know we all have good stories about prankin at work. Got any you all can tell about with out any "REPERCUSSIONS".

We had a crew leader who could lie his way out of any corner. He never wore his hard hat and would have a new excuse every time he got caught without it. He also liked to prank. So one day I came in off of rest one late Thursday morning and everyone was at a funeral for a retired lineman I didn't know. I found his hard hat buried in the bottom of a bin in his truck. I took a packet of dry blue raspberry koolaid, lightly wet the inside of his sweatband(YA GOTTA UNFOLD THE BAND) and rubbed the whole inside of it with the raspberry. You want it a little wet so it sticks inside the band and doesn't fall in his face and give up the prank.:cool:

The following Monday my crew leader and I were terminating a live front PMH gear and he and his crew came to help. They used two buckets to build the riser. Couldn't be any perfect...we were on a busy road so he decided to wear is brain bucket this "HOT SUNNY AFTERNOON". HE WENT UP IN ONE BUCKET AND A JRNYMN IN ANOTHER....I'm laughing to myself...my crew leader can't figure out why....but then 15 Min's later he's coming down, takes off his hardhat, and proceeds to wipe it out at the front bumper of his truck:D. Finally I tell my leader whats up, so he's hysterical. Later in the bullpen the jrnymn tells me how the two of them were going up in their buckets at the same time and then he looks at the leader and says "WHAT THE F#$%K IS WRONG WITH YOU"? He had blue running down his nose, down both sides of his face, and a ring around his forehead that was still there at the end of the day!:D

He never figured it was me. in fact no one did cause I usually don't prank. Three weeks later I finally told him cause he was after everyone. I've used that one a few times now!!!

If you smell something fruity when you start working...LOOK OUT!!!:rolleyes:

[MI-Lineman]

That's funny shit.:D

"Back in the day"..., I've told this story before...but it's been lost in past threads.

Worked with a guy we use to call "Pretty Boy". A "Perfect Hair dude." His hair was NEVER messed up, no matter whether he was climbin, or in the bucket. He just happened to be...a real asshole too.

"Somebody got a bottle of "Nair", (look it up), and when he untooled for the day, "somebody", got hold of his hard hat and rubbed the Nair, all around the inside and the straps on the top....and put it back.

Next day...hotter than hell...... Put his hard hat on. Kept it on for about 5 hours. When he took it off, after about 2 hrs....alot of his hair was attached to it. After 5 hours, it was not cool to see....down to the roots. His head looked like a tic tac toe drawing.

It all grew back in a few months, but....."Ya had to been there".:D I know...Sadistic.:p

That would be Law Suite shit today.:D

You definitely gotta watch your ass with the new kids these days! Used to grease apps until someone claimed they got hurt.

Funny rat, that definitely would have been funny to see! I knew you would have a good one or two ol'timer!

[BillyMac]

Oh got a couple of good ones for ya!
First ones a bit like MI-Lineman's, down here when working live LV/HV we wear the cotton inner, ya gloves Class 0, 00, then the leathers over the lot, so the trick is put some chalk from ya string line (preferable the same colour as the gloves, red for Salisbury) in side the 0's or 00's. If ya mate don't air test his gloves, well let's just say at the end of the day they can be caught out red handed.

The next one is to collect the old gloves 0's/00's that fail test (torn cuff ect.) and zippy tie them on the exhaust of the truck, they get a fair size before goin' off with a boom!!:eek:

And the old favorite grease under the door handle......

[loodvig]

My favorite was when the guy up in the air needed new connectors. I'd find an old dreid up dog turd. I'd throw up one new bug then a dog trud, then a new bug, etc. He'd catch each one and drop em in his bug bag. Now you wait till he reaches in and comes up with the turd! Make sure your far away when he finds the turd!

[T-Man]

We had a guy who liked to send a hack saw up on a hand line by stuffing the rope thru the saw and around both ends. . .now you have two half hitches on the blade in a continous rope line and waiting for the kid on the pole to finger that one out. . . .I had to figure it out once myself. . .DOH!

We also had a guy that was vain and needed to color his hair. . .Him and I were putting up some primary one stormy rainy night and I looked over at him and he had green dribble running down his face. . .I said Paul what the hell you using to color that gray old mop? He was a mess. . .He didn't need Kool Aid I tell ya!:D

[adamr_41]

Tied a peice of p-line to the drive shaft of bucket truck once. Made an awful racket and the lineman at the time couldnt figure it out, So he kept driving and it finally tore the air lines loose. Needless to say we wont do that again.LOL.

[tolex42]

Worked for a small line contractor. The owner of the company hired his useless brother to be a shop man and go-fer. The brother was always trying to push his weight around with the linemen, who pretty much just ignored him.

He showed up out on the job in brand new pick-up truck on a very hot Friday just before lunch ranting and raveing that the overpaid linemen didn't do this or that. One of the linemen had a can of sardines for lunch. Someone on the crew, I won't say who, asked that he leave one fish in the can along with the juice.

The can was sliped under the seat of the truck. He returned the truck to the shop, rolled up the windows and left. After a very hot weekend he had to drive the truck for weeks with the windows down to blow out the stench. Since he had visited several crews that day, he never was able to determine who put the open sardine can under the seat.

[MI-Lineman]

OOOH Yeah, Learning some good ones!:D

Ever use ampacts(which I wish we used here at the co.). If yeah then you probably know this one? Take a blue shell, stick a lag in it(point first dah), and tape were they meet. Give her a toss in the air behind you and like we use to do in Detroit, watch how many crack heads hit the deck thinking the dope man coming for his money!:D

Had a crew leader and jrnymn who liked each other almost go to the dirt cause the jrnymn threw one just before the leader and I went hands on on a buck pole. I wouldn't suggest that one!:rolleyes:

P.S. Make damn sure you tape it and don't use a higher power shell than the blue....Seen a safety memo....something about an app...lag....and his eyebrow!:rolleyes:

[jrwhd68]

Baby powder in the defrost of the trucks during winter makes for a good laugh?

[MI-Lineman]

Baby powder in the defrost of the trucks during winter makes for a good laugh?

That reminded me of another good one!:D My buddy when I hired into the co. was an app. at the time. One night when he was on-call he and his crew attached a porcelain house knob to my former crew leaders pull cord for his air horns( an old trick we always did) and propped it somehow on the drivers door. But, they also packed the horns full of glove dust. When he opened the door the next morning we heard a loud pluppe(?) sound and looked just as the dust shot out of the horns just missing our feild leader as he walked by!:D We park inside so it made one hell of a mess!:D

[Edge]

Penatrox under the wiper blades...

[Edge]

Can of Beans and franks in the exhaust

[Edge]

padmount xformer locking all the ratchet wrenches together in a chain

[Edge]

tying the door handles of the truck togeather form the INSIDE

[Edge]

taking a pile of cow shit and putting it in the cabin filter of the crew cab the GF drives

[Edge]

takin the hand line of a mouthy ape on a highline job and cross looping it then pulling it through... next time he tosses it out you can ask him if he needs the rope ladder to climb down

[Edge]

park the dozer in frount of the shitter when the inspector is in there and go have luch

[Edge]

theres hundreds of them maybe more... but why bother... instead of fu(kin g off do your job...

for what it's worth...

Edge

[electriklady]

I feel odd posting in the Linework section of this site, as I am not a lineman, but..................I have had so many pranks pulled on me over the years(all by linemen) that I could write a book. All in good fun, and they sure have produced some good memories, and still can make me laugh when I think about them. A little levity in such a serious industry is good for the soul.
It sure has been a fun roller coaster ride for the last twenty years, wouldnt have traded it for the world.:D

[MI-Lineman]

theres hundreds of them maybe more... but why bother... instead of fu(kin g off do your job...

for what it's worth...

Edge

Hey Grouch! Sounds like ya had these pulled on you!:D

[Edge]

Hey Grouch! Sounds like ya had these pulled on you!:D

Only ever had one prank pulled on me bub... one of my shit for brains grunts greased the door handle of my old powerwagon...

when he left the showup that dragday he made it about 150 yards down the road when the wheels on his f150 passed him...

word got out not the fu*k with this ole grouch...

looks like theres another prank for ya...

Edge

[MI-Lineman]

Only ever had one prank pulled on me bub... one of my shit for brains grunts greased the door handle of my old powerwagon...

when he left the showup that dragday he made it about 150 yards down the road when the wheels on his f150 passed him...

word got out not the fu*k with this ole grouch...

looks like theres another prank for ya...

Edge

Maybe I learned a new prank or just NOT TO F#$%K WITH THE OL'TIMERS?:D

[lineman1010]

take a coil of guy wire and stick it in the cab of a truck and cut the bands, talk about a mess and some damange being done.


no one ever did it to any company trucks but it happened to this one guys car and he deserved it

[Squizzy]

My favourite was going to the wash up point and taking the tub of orange hand cleaner and all the soap I can find in the section,emtpy out the hand cleaner and get the mechanics to fill it with axel grease and sand and just wait for the guy that always grabs a big handful of cleaner as the nearest section is 200 meters away lol...

[yager024]

Only ever had one prank pulled on me bub... one of my shit for brains grunts greased the door handle of my old powerwagon...

when he left the showup that dragday he made it about 150 yards down the road when the wheels on his f150 passed him...

word got out not the fu*k with this ole grouch...

looks like theres another prank for ya...

Edge

Sounds like he can give a joke but can't take one! We will see in his next post....

[MI-Lineman]

Sounds like he can give a joke but can't take one! We will see in his next post....

Nah, he's probably just all business. Some people are that way. I'm sure he enjoys a good laugh now and then!:D Glad I'm not working with him though!:rolleyes:

[Edge]

Nah, he's probably just all business. Some people are that way. I'm sure he enjoys a good laugh now and then!:D Glad I'm not working with him though!:rolleyes:

Yep thats about right...

Edge

[johnbellamy]

Yep thats about right...

Edge

Yep thats about right......

Be careful who ya **** with.......

Wait, there was this one time, at band camp......

Grow the **** up.

[MI-Lineman]

Yep thats about right......

Be careful who ya **** with.......

Wait, there was this one time, at band camp......

Grow the **** up.

HUH???????

[yager024]

One of the guys always comes in with his shoes on and changes to his boots so we took his shoes and put water in them and put them in the freezer. Needless to say he didnt go home in the shoes :D

[MI-Lineman]

We got a few like that where I'm at Yagar. I'll remember that one!:D

We had a guy that use to fill out applications where ever they had lunch and volunteered for odd things like tee-ball coach or mentor for kids. Problem was HE DID IT ALL IN HIS CREW LEADERS NAME!:D Made for good conversation every morning!:cool:

[whitefox01]

Here's a good one to do on someone:

When the person is gone on vacation, go get one of them FOR SALE by OWNER signs then write their cell phone number on it and put in the front yard of their house so while on vacation they keep getting phone calls about their house for sale.

[lineman1010]

a good one to do to an ap while he is on his hooks is to drive a lag through one of the holes on his pole strap and watch hime try to get it out with out being able to see, it even better when they dont climb with all there tools and they dont have a tool to get it out

[Edge]

HUH???????

I think JB was pretty much saying he's on the same page as being all business...

and try not to bring up that band camp thing... Koga's still working with him on that...

Edge

[Lineman North Florida]

Had a lineman years ago when I was an apprentice that did'nt want to do anything that was related to linework, but he loved pilfering around hunting arrowheads and such, we were re-conductering and moving the pole line and all the URD dips had to be spliced and new risers built so at every pole we had to dig in 4x4 splice pits, hard digging and this lineman never dug out so much as one shovelfull of dirt, until we brought a handful of arrowheads from home, first hole that morning I pulled out a nice arrowhead out of my pocket and put in the dirt and made out like I found it, he rushed over and wanted it right away and I told him no-sir that I aimed on keeping it, about 15 min later I pulled out another and said look what I found, he rushed right over and said give me that shovel that he was'nt gonna let me find all them arrowheads and he dug the rest of the holes that day and never found the first arrowhead and was puzzled why, he was some kind of pissed off the next week when we told him.

[linehandjlc]

Yep thats about right...

Edge

im with you edge, i play around plenty, shootin' the white water, softball, football and basketball, depends on the season. but its after work. don't let someone pay you for goofin'. where's the integrity in that?

[Chazz2771]

I've been on the receiving end of many pranks and jokes. My foreman and journeyman love to mess with me. My lunch box is actually a "stunt box". Let me think now: It's been buried by a back hoe, run over by a backhoe, drug behind a pick-up down the shoulder of the highway, had a belt of firecrackers and a "100 missile salute" detonated inside of it, dropped from 50' in the air, submerged in the river, filled with garbage, was used to store a dirty diaper found on the side of the road, and mauled with a 15" cresent wrench. Nothing beats an Igloo Playmate. ;)

[MI-Lineman]

im with you edge, i play around plenty, shootin' the white water, softball, football and basketball, depends on the season. but its after work. don't let someone pay you for goofin'. where's the integrity in that?

Yeah, I'm sure right at the starting bell you run to the boss, get your orders, jump in the truck, head "STRAIGHT" to the job, bust out some work until lunch, shit on your unpaid (29 minute) lunch, go straight back to work, jump in the truck with exactly enough time to make it to the shop, and turn in your time somehow right? So when you retire you'll have some dandy stories to tell to....who?:rolleyes:

I have plenty of integrity! I also don't live to work, just work to live!:rolleyes: Especially for a co. who screws its customers and workers as much as they do!

[tolex42]

I've been on the receiving end of many pranks and jokes. My foreman and journeyman love to mess with me. My lunch box is actually a "stunt box". Let me think now: It's been buried by a back hoe, run over by a backhoe, drug behind a pick-up down the shoulder of the highway, had a belt of firecrackers and a "100 missile salute" detonated inside of it, dropped from 50' in the air, submerged in the river, filled with garbage, was used to store a dirty diaper found on the side of the road, and mauled with a 15" cresent wrench. Nothing beats an Igloo Playmate. ;)

Sometimes there's a fine line between pranks and harassment!

[yager024]

Sometimes there's a fine line between pranks and harassment!



How in this day and age are even lineman becoming Pussys. I am revoking your man card for saying that.

[MI-Lineman]

How in this day and age are even lineman becoming Pussys. I am revoking your man card for saying that.

Hell! If anything it's good advertisement for the lunch box!:rolleyes:

[linehandjlc]

Yeah, I'm sure right at the starting bell you run to the boss, get your orders, jump in the truck, head "STRAIGHT" to the job, bust out some work until lunch, shit on your unpaid (29 minute) lunch, go straight back to work, jump in the truck with exactly enough time to make it to the shop, and turn in your time somehow right? So when you retire you'll have some dandy stories to tell to....who?:rolleyes:

I have plenty of integrity! I also don't live to work, just work to live!:rolleyes: Especially for a co. who screws its customers and workers as much as they do!

there is down time in this industry in which i try to do things that pertain to linework. some guys dick around with other guys drag, prankin' and stuff but, when there is a work ticket in my hand, your explaination is pretty much what i do. depends on how much work gets done before lunch as to how long i take to eat. i was raised that way bro. besides the day goes by so much faster. btw there's other outfits out there if you hate your employer so much.

[MI-Lineman]

there is down time in this industry in which i try to do things that pertain to linework. some guys dick around with other guys drag, prankin' and stuff but, when there is a work ticket in my hand, your explaination is pretty much what i do. depends on how much work gets done before lunch as to how long i take to eat. i was raised that way bro. besides the day goes by so much faster. btw there's other outfits out there if you hate your employer so much.

Nows not the time to be switching jobs with a disabled kid in my home. If you bleed your co. colors, that's your deal...FIND ANOTHER THREAD BRO!!!:D

[linehandjlc]

Nows not the time to be switching jobs with a disabled kid in my home. If you bleed your co. colors, that's your deal...FIND ANOTHER THREAD BRO!!!:D

look man, i bleed red like anybody else. im currently looking for work due to an altercation with a deceptive foreman that the company sided with 100%, so don't label me as a company man and rave about difficulties in this economy. im sure it is difficult with a disabled youngin' @ home, everyone has thier own trying circumstances, but why do you feel the need to insult me? first your condescending now your telling me what to do! you don't know me, i haven't direspected you, who are you to talk to me like this? you don't work the way i do, big deal, it takes all kinds. you don't have the personality i do either that supports me having to work alittle harder than most to make up for my lack of interpersonal skills. you get on here to talk tough? does it do you any good? times are tough but, i've applied for approx. 25 jobs that have been posted in the last 3 weeks, just gotta be willing to move. no sense in getting in an argument when im in colorado and your in michigan. looks like the majority of the work right now is in the northwest, the appalachians and southwest. you might check it out, who knows might work together some day, no reason to start a grudge match now. theres enough stacked against us already with me being a buckeye fan (born and bred) and you i assume a michigan fan. be cool, were just typing.:D

[tolex42]

How in this day and age are even lineman becoming Pussys. I am revoking your man card for saying that.

I enjoy a good practical joke or prank as much as anyone, even when it's pulled on me. But it looks like they may be going a little far with Chazz277. We have probably all seen pranks and horseplay go to far resulting in someone getting embarrassed, hurt or even someone losing a job. So I'll repeat, there is a fine line between pranks and harassment.

[MI-Lineman]

I enjoy a good practical joke or prank as much as anyone, even when it's pulled on me. But it looks like they may be going a little far with Chazz277. We have probably all seen pranks and horseplay go to far resulting in someone getting embarrassed, hurt or even someone losing a job. So I'll repeat, there is a fine line between pranks and harassment.

Most people know who they can mess with or not! Sounds like Chazz's crew knows. This thread was for fun! Start one about harassment or some boring political B.S. if you like!:cool: AND FOR GOD SAKES DON'T TAKE OFFENSE TO THIS REPLY!!!:confused:

Hey Linehand check your P.M.

[yager024]

:rolleyes
I enjoy a good practical joke or prank as much as anyone, even when it's pulled on me. But it looks like they may be going a little far with Chazz277. We have probably all seen pranks and horseplay go to far resulting in someone getting embarrassed, hurt or even someone losing a job. So I'll repeat, there is a fine line between pranks and harassment.


So am I harrasing you or busting your balls?:rolleyes:

[lineman1010]

do u guys pull pranks on each other sitting in the office with . kind of hard to pull pranks on the 5 guys u sit in the office with while u guys run the neat apprenticeship im sure it gets boring in the reading over the monthly reviews so u must need to prank each other and dont try to say you are not an instructor of the neat apprenticship

[loose neutral]

This may be an old one but it's a good one, especially if your working in town. Take a shotgun (grip all stick) and open it up. Sneak up behind someone, hook it on the middle belt loop of their britches and snap it closed. Theres only one way they can get it loose.

[MI-Lineman]

This may be an old one but it's a good one, especially if your working in town. Take a shotgun (grip all stick) and open it up. Sneak up behind someone, hook it on the middle belt loop of their britches and snap it closed. Theres only one way they can get it loose.

We've got one always extended out on the truck.:D I'm using that one on my 30+ yr crew leader!:D

[tolex42]

:rolleyes


So am I harrasing you or busting your balls?:rolleyes:

I just think you are ignorant.

[yager024]

I just think you are ignorant.


ignorance is bliss :D

[T-Man]

When I got out of training they put me on a crew ( we had training truck back then) I was told that I would frame out this pole to carry single phase pri and a transformer.It was a dead end pole in a gravel trucking yard so it was nothing special except there was nothing on it yet about a 35-5. I got to the top tied my hand line on the pole and got out my skinning knife and ruler and before I could start measuring for holes the pole was rocking back and forth I almost cut out! I didn't know what was going on at first but I looked down and there was the foreman with the rope around his butt just giving er all he had. . .I had a pretty sharpe knife because we were always told to keep our gear ready to work so I cut the line off the pole and the old man hit the deck. . .he was pissed. . .I wasnt sure if I should come down after that.
A couple days later we were going to tie in the single phase that came off the main line down to the Transformer pole, maybe six eight spans with a small 15 degree or so corner about half way down. I got the corner pole. So I went up to take the pulled to sag pri out of the pully to tie into the pin and there was some tension on the corner. Being the dumbass new kid I got on the inside of the corner and tried to push the wire out of the pully and get it to drop on to the pin but it got away from me and caught me right about at neck level and twisted me over on one hook before I could stop it. Well this was prefect. . .the old man started giving me the " Now what ya gonna do Mr. wise guy?" stuff and how the heck was I going to get out of this one. . me stuck with the wire knocking my hard hat off and trying to take me off the pole, one hook in the pole the other leg parallel to the horizon. They were starting to think I needed help but Being the hard head I am, I managed to muster the strength to over come the wire and I forced myself to put it back on the pole. . .It's a Ha ha today but I tell ya it wasn't so funny that day or the next morning when my body ached and was screaming do we have to go back to work today? I think it was a turning point, I didn't get harassed so much any more, not sure cause I sent the boss on his can or I put that wire back up on my own. I would not suggest it to anyone to do either, Both could have cause someone a lot more than a Ha ha.
The things we do to get to here. . . .?

[returntotheeve]

I roomed with this one guy who hated snakes, So of course when I came across one I snatched it for back at the room. Now this snake was about 9" total bright green cute little guy. I place it in his bucket in the room while beverages were served. after about an hour he's cleaning out his bucket and finds it. "AAAAAAHHHHH!!!!!!" "Those M-Fers" "Those M-Fers!" "SEE! They HATE ME!!!!" " I TOLD you! They HATE me!" We let this go one for another hour. It then took me about another hour to convince him that it was me. "NAH man, You're jus' sayin' it so I don't go kill 'em!"

[T-Man]

We had a guy we used to say was so slow you had to line him up between two stationary objects to see if he was moving. He and I were doing some padmount switching and he always would say "you open the tub I don't like snakes" and I'd kid him a bit and crack it open and say "OH no there is one" and this guy would back up 15 feet till he knew it was safe. Well we finished up on a pad sitting in a vacant lot one day and heading back to the truck I spot a coil wire from an old distributor cap just laying in the grass ( the good cars had them)( the ones a guy could fix in his driveway) anyway I picked this wire up and said hey look out and tossed it at my buddy. . .I don't think he ever stopped running to this day?

[returntotheeve]

This was horrible... Before linework I was on a crew with a guy who loved animals but didn't want to be near them. Yeah I know, wtf. So one of the guys on the crew found a dead cat, literally flat and mummified, somehow it was between a couple of bags of fertilizer, another wtf. Well he hung it off the first guys tool belt. First guy reaches around to grab his square or whatever and ends up grabbing the cats leg. Complete horror. "GET IT OFF!" Poor kitty, Poor Mikey.

[tolex42]

do u guys pull pranks on each other sitting in the office with . kind of hard to pull pranks on the 5 guys u sit in the office with while u guys run the neat apprenticeship im sure it gets boring in the reading over the monthly reviews so u must need to prank each other and dont try to say you are not an instructor of the neat apprenticship

I AM NOT AN INSTRUCTOR OF THE NEAT APPRENTICESHIP.

[linescum]

The one i always liked was making a GAY DRIVER sign and sticking it on somebodies car and see how long it would stay there..lots of guys don't check their vehicles very good before getting in them:D

[MI-Lineman]

Tried the shotgun trick a few times this week!:D That's just f@#$n hilarious!:D

[returntotheeve]

I AM NOT AN INSTRUCTOR OF THE NEAT APPRENTICESHIP.

Baker?????

[tolex42]

Baker?????

Sorry, not him either.

[returntotheeve]

Sorry, not him either.

Can you help me, I lost my 3-2 book. And I can't explain why my handwritng looks suspiciously like my girlfriends in my 3-1 book.

[lineman1010]

Can you help me, I lost my 3-2 book. And I can't explain why my handwritng looks suspiciously like my girlfriends in my 3-1 book.

haha becareful or he is going to take some hours away from you or throw a good hand out of the apprenticeship becasue he has the power too. all those guys are on a power trip.

[returntotheeve]

haha becareful or he is going to take some hours away from you or throw a good hand out of the apprenticeship becasue he has the power too. all those guys are on a power trip.

Well, I wouldn't go that far. They have a job to do. You try keeping a few hundred amateur knuckleheads trying to become professional knuckleheads inline.

On of the funniest ass chewings I ever got came from that board.

[tolex42]

Can you help me, I lost my 3-2 book. And I can't explain why my handwritng looks suspiciously like my girlfriends in my 3-1 book.

I can't help you, call NEAT.

If you need to cheat to get through your apprenticeship, you don't deserve to be called a "Journeyman Lineman" some day, do you.

[lineman1010]

Well, I wouldn't go that far. They have a job to do. You try keeping a few hundred amateur knuckleheads trying to become professional knuckleheads inline.

On of the funniest ass chewings I ever got came from that board.

no i hear ya man but they have thrown out some good hands for no good reasons, john baker threw out a 7 th step who was a wicked good hanf becasue he told baker to go f him self , ya he probablly shouldnt of done that but u shouldnt throw some one out who is a good hand and is an asset to this trade, the kid started all over and did it all again and topped out.


and tolex i dont think his post had anything to do with cheating on any of his books i think he was making a joke but sounds to me only a neat instructor would take that as some one cheating. i know alot of guys who cheated on those books and are wicked good lineman and they are true journeyman lineman who know and understand all aspects of this trade.

[returntotheeve]

no i hear ya man but they have thrown out some good hands for no good reasons, john baker threw out a 7 th step who was a wicked good hanf becasue he told baker to go f him self , ya he probablly shouldnt of done that but u shouldnt throw some one out who is a good hand and is an asset to this trade, the kid started all over and did it all again and topped out.


and tolex i dont think his post had anything to do with cheating on any of his books i think he was making a joke but sounds to me only a neat instructor would take that as some one cheating. i know alot of guys who cheated on those books and are wicked good lineman and they are true journeyman lineman who know and understand all aspects of this trade.

Not defending anyone, but where do you nip it? Heard a number of stories of varying degrees. Lesson is if I or anyone else kept their noses clean none of this would matter.

No one should worry anyway. I found my 3-2 book under the wire stretcher at the show up. I just hope someone, (not tolex) at NEAT doesn't now go looking through someone's 3-1 looking for "girlfriendy" handwriting.

Tolex sounds a bit like "yiwork". He was a poster on here awhile back. Amazing posts!

[Squizzy]

Here is one for you. Get a dinning fork and sharpen up the ends, then paint it black, then find some ones boots whom you dislike. Put the sharp black fork in their boots ( points facing upwards and towards the toes) and a drop of glue to hold it still is also recogmended. When your victem puts his boots on he tries to get them off but can't as the fork will dig into his foot so he ends up with a boot stuck on his foot he can't walk or work with:D

[MI-Lineman]

Yeah, thats as bad as pissin in a rats water jug!!!:eek:

[Edge]

Actually...anytime I worked around, or were in "Proximity" of union Lineman...I took "steps", to protect myself and my crews...from union "Pranks".:cool:

and I always took "steps" to bring non-union Lineman to a better life...

for what it's worth

Edge

[Edge]

maybe not a prank... but as a "trick"


of the trade...

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