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    Default Working in the rain...

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    What's your company's policy or in your contract about working in the rain or inclement weather. I know there are exceptions like a feeder is burning on the ground or cops are directing traffic cause a pole is in the roadway. But what constitutes an emergency in your yard? A single phase pad xfmr needs change in the pouring rain or broken insulator? Everywhere I've been it's been a common practice of something you just don't do. Do you touch primary in the rain? Does it matter if it's 14.4 or 12470? I wanna know what's your guidelines?

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    If there are lights out we work in it, unless the lightning is hammering close or the wind is in your opinion gusting to high to work safely, it's all left up to the common sense of the lineman on the call, I was taught early on if there was one or a thousand customers out we were to work with a sense of urgency to get them back on, working in bad weather is just one of the things that set lineman apart from most all other trades. If there are no lights out, we cab up.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lineman North Florida View Post
    If there are lights out we work in it, unless the lightning is hammering close or the wind is in your opinion gusting to high to work safely, it's all left up to the common sense of the lineman on the call, I was taught early on if there was one or a thousand customers out we were to work with a sense of urgency to get them back on, working in bad weather is just one of the things that set lineman apart from most all other trades. If there are no lights out, we cab up.
    I agree.There are times when it doesnt stop raining for hours,A little rain never has hurt a lineman...To me the answer is fairly easy.....If you own rain gear dont you use it in the rain or do you use it until it starts raining?Its up to the lineman working.....and yea.....lightning changes everything

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    Get on with it. " YOUR NOT MADE OUT OF SUGAR".
    IF IT WASN'T FOR BAD LUCK WE WOULD HAVE NO LUCK AT ALL. !

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    If there's an outage, we work in it..... Like,LNF says, lightening nearby or high winds you gotta use some common sense.....
    "It is not the critic who counts:The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena" Teddy Roosevelt

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    LNF and Org, say it like it is. We only worked trouble where we had to make it safe for the public and if customers were out of power we worked to get them back in. Line crews usually stayed in the garage until there was a problem. Trouble did as much as they could to bandage the system or set up outages for crews replacing whatever needed to be replaced. You get to finding out weather is your friend. . . .it really rings up the ching ching and ya get to take momma out once in a while, or buy that boat or scooter you been eying up.

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    Its sad to say,but there are lineman that see a few sprinkles and are ready to cab up......either you is or you aint that type of lineman

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    I bleve our contract said we wunt be denied work due to inclement weather and we sure wuznt cause thats when the real work began

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    Default These gentelman will work in the rain

    this is how it was done......lets cab up....the wind is blowing 60 mph and its pouring outside.............before windows in vehicles...https://images.search.yahoo.com/imag...arch.yahoo.com

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    Quote Originally Posted by reppy007 View Post
    Its sad to say,but there are lineman that see a few sprinkles and are ready to cab up......either you is or you aint that type of lineman
    Whatever the the contract says do. If it's an outage situation. Test and ground and go to town. But it better be for premium time. Company provided rain gear. You do what the contract says. If they are working energized primary, it should be sticks. Working energized primary in the rain is for fools. I have been caught in downpours finishing up, it's painful and stupid. Where I am at and where I have been, you don't work in the rain. We support the conditions that it took 100 years to get. If you work in the rain and it's not emergency storm. Nor will I go nowhere if it's something different.

    Clean up I have done to keep public and property safe I have done.

    Remembered I was on a crew. The GF was screaming we need to get this done. Cut and kicked the pole with dark clouds coming. We had to transfer it. In my hooks transferring 3 phase dead end. Extremely painful, since that day never again. Nor would I would work in a local that permits that. This was when times were super lean and no one said this was stupid. The GF said to me it was a mistake of him. And he really appreciated what I did. But this was before these phones and radar. There is no excuse for not knowing what weather is coming.

    As far as transmission. Worked while bucket loads was coming down. It was stupid. Everybody in the yard was sick that one day of half ass productivity, cost loss of productivity in the long run.

    i just follow the contract. Whatever my steward says and what the hall says I do. No wishy washy interpretation. If the steward or hall says bring it in that's what happens.

    See company heroes in a few years destroy our conditions. Once you do something not in the contract, you will lose conditions. And I have seen conditions go down a lot.

    Large ge projects seen guys pick up bolt patterns, get material ready. Maybe dig holes. Where you could cab so often. URD installation where you throw in some cable in a hole. Throw a guy a bone if the paycheck is weather short. Seen that done. Safe to do with a few sprinkles.

    in a bucket or pole with just a glove option on energized regular work, it isn't an option for me. Rather be next to my wife, not cabbed up looking at old porn and lineman farts!

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