Hmmm....

[rcdallas]

35 primary contacts in the last 5 years, and now this?

Is it just bad luck?

[LINEHAND]

Gotta love working a pin on (rolls eyes)! Working primary with no lower insert on a regular basis llike it's 1989! No wonder they have so many contacts! Makes no sense to work that crap equipment not from an ergonomic, production, safety, or any other stand point for that matter!

[topgroove]

what contractor is this?

[rcdallas]

Who needs a lower insert when you just follow basic strategy...you know don't go phase to phase or phase to ground...besides the third stage is fiber. hehehe

No contractor top.

[topgroove]

holy crap:eek: I didn't realize utilities still used pin on buckets:o I figured it was some rat contractor.. Do you mind telling us who this was? 35 contacts in 5 years leaves me speachless!

[rcdallas]

Even a contractor realizes the more productive they are the more money they make.

Am I wrong?

[Divemaster]

Ok guys, don't be diss'in pin-on buckets. We've got one that does a great job. It sits in the corner of our cold storage building upside down and does a great job of keeping the dust off of the floor underneath it. Other than that, a couple questions: We're in the left lane, in the dark with oncomming traffic with no cones, signs or flagmen or flashing beacons? Looks like a blacktop road and we didn't use any outrigger pads? Most importantly, 35 contacts? Don't tell me, I'll bet the bosses name is Joseph Mengele. Just that tells me that Forest Gump really is a genius compared to this fubar organization.

[Highplains Drifter]

Funny Dallas hasen't responded to the questions about his...erroneous post.:D


No it’s not funny , but a harsh fact of life for you to deal with! He might have you on a boycott and is not going to lower himself to reply to any of your remarks!

[rcdallas]

Actually there is a little more to it than you think Swamp as I'm not at this time willing to risk any legal ramifications by publicly broadcasting the name of the company. I still have a long ways to go before I retire.

I'm sure you have heard people have to watch what they say on social media sites such as Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, etc. One main reason why I don't use any of them, as employers will do chicken shit things in their background checks by looking at your off duty life.

I am however willing to share that there is well known company out there that has had 35 primary contacts in the last five years...then as late things like that happen.

This is just the things that we know about it. What else don't we know?

[rcdallas]

Ok guys, don't be diss'in pin-on buckets. We've got one that does a great job. It sits in the corner of our cold storage building upside down and does a great job of keeping the dust off of the floor underneath it. Other than that, a couple questions: We're in the left lane, in the dark with oncomming traffic with no cones, signs or flagmen or flashing beacons? Looks like a blacktop road and we didn't use any outrigger pads? Most importantly, 35 contacts? Don't tell me, I'll bet the bosses name is Joseph Mengele. Just that tells me that Forest Gump really is a genius compared to this fubar organization.

I noticed the little things like the cones myself when I got ahold of the picture. It's easy for one to disect a picture and nitpick all the little things as someone might do something different, but overall some of the small stuff equates to more then just a truck laying over on its side.

I suppose it'll be one of those 6 month investigations leading to the cause; bad luck or is it something much deeper then that. I'll never know.

[topgroove]

Actually there is a little more to it than you think Swamp as I'm not at this time willing to risk any legal ramifications by publicly broadcasting the name of the company. I still have a long ways to go before I retire.

I'm sure you have heard people have to watch what they say on social media sites such as Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, etc. One main reason why I don't use any of them, as employers will do chicken shit things in their background checks by looking at your off duty life.

I am however willing to share that there is well known company out there that has had 35 primary contacts in the last five years...then as late things like that happen.

This is just the things that we know about it. What else don't we know? I here what you're saying bro! you are so right on about legal ramifications down the road..... some things are best un-said. No one should jepordize their career by posting on social media sites. Excelant post by the way:cool:

[climbsomemore]

we went round and round over pin on baskets and gloving primary at Consumers Energy years ago.

For the record, "America's Safest Gas and Electric" company was not lining any buckets --- and they gloved on a system with a fair amount of 14.4/24Kv primary... and a lot of 12kv class wye and delta around the state also.

Someone in Tools and Methods buddied up to the Fleet Services folks and pitched a scheme that was based on the premise of getting "two trucks in one". What they failed to note... the Utility in Lincoln NE had tried to get OSHA blessing to use the same type of trucks for a similar mission- and were discouraged with some pretty damning techincal information from the OSHA regional folks in the Midwest (this was in the mid 80's).

I'd been asked to work up a training program and found the OSHA and Nebraska stuff while researching the work methods we could use with such a boom and basket. I presented the information... and was promptly told to note my career disapation lamp flashing quickly..

They company ordered at least 30 units... the UWA folks ignored the data... and men began to glove out of these trucks.

About a year into it... lot's of the baskets were being used for umbrella stands and flower pots at warehouses around the system.

It quietly got back to me... the booms would not pass the company dielectric standard for basket trucks... (that was higher than our digger derrick standard). The booms could not be kept clean enough to pass dielectic tests... and they guys just found the bucket was in the way when the truck was used for lifting and a pain in the nads to remove and re-install... and the leveling brake for the bucket never quite worked right... etc.

[lewy]

We are not allowed to rubber glove anything over 15 kv phase to phase out of a squirt boom, never mind an RBD because we have to test for leakage & the fiberglass is not as clean moving in & out of the steel boom.