I like "Joe"

[Old Line Dog]

:d:d

[Lineman North Florida]

That makes two of us.

[Orgnizdlbr]

Joe is head and shoulders above the other guy. But who taught Joe to use chain pullers in the primaries on what looks to be #2 ACSR. My 9 yo granddaughter can pull #2 with slack blocks.

[Lineman North Florida]

Joe is head and shoulders above the other guy. But who taught Joe to use chain pullers in the primaries on what looks to be #2 ACSR. My 9 yo granddaughter can pull #2 with slack blocks.

I suspect that you would be quite amazed at what some of them are being taught at some of these schools.

[Orgnizdlbr]

I suspect that you would be quite amazed at what some of them are being taught at some of these schools.

Oh boy......

[stiffneck]

I suspect that you would be quite amazed at what some of them are being taught at some of these schools.

What's an alternative to going to "School", when trying to break into this line of work?

[Lineman North Florida]

What's an alternative to going to "School", when trying to break into this line of work?

Here in Fl a young man that wants to get into this line of work only needs to enquire with contractors to start as a grunt, but there is plenty of work here and that may not be the case in other places. I certainly don't blame anyone trying to break into the trade for getting started however they can but it seems like every other month a new school or training program pops up, a lot of these are at local community colleges and are always hunting full time instructors for very little $ and you can only guess what type of instructions those young people are getting, most hire on thinking that they are lineman and you spend a lot of time getting them on track for where they really are. There are some good programs that have excellent instructors because they have a structured program and realize that you get what you pay for and when you get a kid out of their program you can tell that someone with background in the trade has spent some time with him,but there is no substitution for OJT and they will get that on the job.