Any of you fellas remember this?

[T-Man]

What's wrong with this picture?

[Hurricane Harry]

His cigarette is out.

[BigClive]

I think that's the sort of image a lot of the guys on this forum aspire to.

Perhaps he's lighting his cigarette with nothing more than a bit of damp wood bridged across the primary for a few seconds.

[bones]

Brown boots with black belt? Obviously doesn't give a hoot about his appearance, representing the company, or putting forth a professional image...obvious scab:rolleyes:

jk

[topgroove]

Brown boots with black belt? Obviously doesn't give a hoot about his appearance, representing the company, or putting forth a professional image...obvious scab:rolleyes:

jk

I agree... and what was he thinking with the silly hat? if your gonna accesorize at least pick out something tastefull!

[tolex42]

Isn't that Paul Neuman before he got into acting?

[loodvig]

They sure didn't cover up much back then!
The guy looks like Chuck Connors from the old RifelMan TV show.

[Koga]

hes trying to open the cut out switch on the old square transformer. Mist be a 2400 circuit. Thats the way we used to do it :D

Koga

[MI-Lineman]

Looks like one of the "pioneers" of our trade!

Shame on him for not wearin a hard hat, safety glasses (with side Shields), sleeves, usin rubber, hand line, violatin MAP, no choker, no dielectric boots, no FR, probably no tail board slip, cones (oops I mean "Traffic Channelizing Devices!), and signs!!:mad:

Course that IS HOW THEY USED TO DO IT! Can't really fault him for followin the "excepted" practices of his time!

I don't know about the rest of you though but I don't "ASPIRE" to be a dead man!:cool:

[lewy]

Is that you Swamp?

[arkansas traveler]

I believe that's an old boy working in Portland, Or in the early 50's for Portland General Electric. LU 125. I remember seeing my dad working for PG&E in the same era dressed the same. Times sure have changed,for the better.

[MI-Lineman]

Who ever it is because of guys like him and the sacrifices they made our jobs are that much safer! To bad some on this forum have forgotten that and they'll chastise him for doin only what he knew then!:mad:

Usin this picture is a GREAT way to show the positive strides in safety that our industry has taken but my only hope is "the man himself" won't be disrespected!

[bones]

Is that you Swamp?

Can't be. I think I saw hooks on his legs:D

[LEAFMAN]

Looks like one of the "pioneers" of our trade!

Shame on him for not wearin a hard hat, safety glasses (with side Shields), sleeves, usin rubber, hand line, violatin MAP, no choker, no dielectric boots, no FR, probably no tail board slip, cones (oops I mean "Traffic Channelizing Devices!), and signs!!:mad:

Course that IS HOW THEY USED TO DO IT! Can't really fault him for followin the "excepted" practices of his time!

I don't know about the rest of you though but I don't "ASPIRE" to be a dead man!:cool:



I don't really think "CONES" would benefit this guy up there. Probably had to walk to this trouble call.

[T-Man]

I remember an old Troubleshooters told me they got a light out bag and a car pass and rode the electric street car to their calls. Back then old guys worked 2200 volts in leather gloves and they wore a blue and white striped cotton rag hat, that they puffed up the top so when they got close to the conductor the hat would touch first. It gave them an edge. They also would open one of those cutouts and if they drew an arc, they stuck their rubber gloved hand in to break the arc, or swing their hat thru the arc to knock it out. They made western union splices where you twist the wire together in each direction then have a hot solder pot sent up and solder the connection right there in the air.. Part of me back when I started wanted to do it safer but back then we did it the way they did it. We learned to work safe and alone. Yes it was dangerous but we were expected to know our work and do the right thing. I remember thinking what the hell am I doing this for, I should have stayed in school and become a brain surgen. But I found a way to do the deed and stay safe. Now we have a lot of rules and two man procedures that I see as better than the way I had to do it but I'm proud I came thru this life when I did. I guess it's all timing. My pop was an avaitor and flew a private jet for a big company and when he watched the first space shuttle land he said he was born too soon, He would have loved to pilot one of those. I feel like him only glad I had it the way it was for me. .
You all work safe. You should come home at night better than when you left in the morning.

[MI-Lineman]

I don't really think "CONES" would benefit this guy up there. Probably had to walk to this trouble call.

Yea right!;) I just couldn't wait to drop the new name our company's usin for cones!:D

[PA BEN]

The Utility wanted them to do the work, no matter how many got killed. Remember! All of the safety rules we work by today were written blood.

[slimdalineman]

thanks t-man and the rest of you old timers. sacrifices you all made during your careers will enable several generations after you to work safer and earn more than you probably imagined when you first strapped up. rest assured when you crabby old men finally pull the plug and call it a career that you left the industry in better shape then when you started. and most of us appreciate that.

[electric squirrel]

Anybody notice the patch of hair that's missing and a burnt up ear?

[tramp67]

Looks a lot like present day Port Arthur, Texas!