kiwi crew at work. "Auckland"

[bren guzzi]

Did 2 years in Newzealand in the late 80s. :)

[T-Man]

Well. . . there sure aint anybody standing around watching!

Nothing hot on that stick I hope. .

Different strokes for different folks is all I can say without more info as to how ya'll do things down there.

[lewy]

I have to ask was that the norm for working down there?

[T-Man]

Lewy, I haven't seen that many guys working in a substation!

[bren guzzi]

We had 20 linesmen in our crew.. All lv done live. Tempory insulated jumpers and swaped over a phase at a. Time.... :). We had 18 maoris one samoan an little old me. Token white guy. Really good money. And the option of working as many weekends as you liked. Double time at weekends. Unless it rained then you got treble time. (Yahoo) also got paid "CASH" every wensday. "Good times". :)

[lewy]

We had 20 linesmen in our crew.. All lv done live. Tempory insulated jumpers and swaped over a phase at a. Time.... :). We had 18 maoris one samoan an little old me. Token white guy. Really good money. And the option of working as many weekends as you liked. Double time at weekends. Unless it rained then you got treble time. (Yahoo) also got paid "CASH" every wensday. "Good times". :)

It looks like primary from the picture, what do you consider lv?

[neil macgregor]

worked with some kiwis a few years ago they told me they used ladders all the time
carrying them into the bush up hills the lot
they were sound guys

[bren guzzi]

I consider lv anything under 400 volts... The kiwis low voltage was 220volts. Coz the platforms are insulated we didn't. "Always use rubber gloves". They called it "open hand" it was sometimes very uncomfortable useing gloves in the summer coz of the heat.. Also let me put on record that the maoris I. Worked with were the. Best ,kindest, most hard working and genouroud guys I ever had the pleasure to work with....m. "Kia ora" Bros.. "Choice" x