Very well put. Don't think I've ever heard it explained so simple. Spot on!

Does anyone else feel like you are being required to do more with less?? I'm sure all of you do, but seriously? Do you ever seem to think "****, this used to be a four man job for safety reasons but...

I feel your pain and that's a little excessive, but how do you effect the hours they get? Don't take this the wrong way, but your an apprentice right, not a skill or craft. They should be placing...

You know what I love?... When you need people to stay late or some blood money comes up on a weekend job the room is quiet. But Lord help us if its holiday stand-by or a gravy outage every douche...

Extremely dedicated or a broke mofo...lol

That ain't $h!t. We have to make something like 75% of our call outs. Y'all must not have a duty week or something. Although we have a few guys like that lol...somehow

Extended elbow? Now where is it longer? We use bushing extensions on 600a bushings for T-bodies on primary cable such as 1250mcm. Mainly because its not as easy to bend as smaller cables.

I'm in Tx. I here both but the most common is stand off.

Yea like last week the cable was bad on the x primary leading to the open point so someone stood it off to isolate it and made the loop back hot and it was never fixed.

Thanks for the info.

Well JY here makes $35 and some change so I was just curious. I like to be prepared. As far as the union goes I don't want to be that guy. Lol if I get there I'd like to finish my career there lord...

I didn't say it was bad. I was asking about how it was I am having a hard time finding good info on them. As far as getting 'ripped' just didn't know how the guys take to new hires from different...

We always check the open point for our visual disconnect. Depending on the situation after walking it out we can isolate and re-fuse or put a megger on each leg to test the insulationif nothing is...

Can anyone give me some advice/info regarding this co. I know it's non-union which will be a change for me but a brief synopsis would be helpful as I recently applied.
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Free climb or fall...

Yes. They had 2 head jy's, 2 app's, and a boss. Also, there was no contact just flash from the secondary bushings on a vault type xfmr