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  1. Thread: Safety Man?

    by buzzit125
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    safety first

    I work at a very small municipality, after leaving the big city gig. We have a “Safety sponsor”, that comes in once, very two months, to me that’s not enough. So we as a group use this post off this...
  2. Thread: ARC Distance

    by buzzit125
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    750,000

    Those men on the flying platform fuzz on to 750,000 volts with a wand.
    The arc looks to be about 2.5 to 3ft before they make contact to the conductor.
    The size is 1750 ACSR
    Relative humidity at...
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    opposite phases

    Well I think it real bad engineering to put opposite phases in a single-phase loop. Then go to the N.O. pad and close. A,B,C,D… Oh D phase is for the Neutral…. Never heard that one, I’ll go for it...
  4. Thread: Pole Death

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    Deaths in the Trade

    First of all, to many deaths and injuries are going on today. It is if the trade is going back to the beginning of its time, when the safety was poor, and the products and equipment to keep us safe...
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    lineman injured

    prayers to the young man and his family
    I say more training, the trade can do better...
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    Vero Beach

    Where are the rubber gloves in this accident?
    AC don't jump out and get you. I'm with Scammy... :confused:
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    induction

    I had a good friend killed from the same BS 25 years ago, induction is no joke. It is a very dangerous threat, for any lineman or cub. No way to measure the potential of voltage stored in the...
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    Troubleman

    I was with Indy power and light for 22 years, six years of that I was a trouble man. I never changed out a single transformer out, or was asked to...clear the legs jump the balls out call for that...
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    Grounding

    When it all goes Bad, the only thing that keeps us all alive is our rubber gloves.
    Buzz here, I now work a small gov job; in a small town, it's sweet.
    There are only four of us; the super, the...
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    Poll: Woodwalker

    I'm soon to be 51, in the trade 31 years.
    Well; for me it's underground one day maybe two, then overhead the rest?
    I have worked jobs that were nothing but easement work, all by hand. Dig, set...
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