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    When working in Los Vegas, the steel poles we where setting where two piece. The bottom piece at the joint was capped one foot down. As a spur of the moment we got a new hard hat, union sticker-ed it and all signed our names with a sharpie and dated it. If I would have had the time I would have put a news paper with that days date in there too. I like to put IBEW stickers on the top of transformers, just to remind folks we where there. Have any of you guys done a Union time capsule?

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    Nah...but I've cussed out many a former lineman for leaving me nice boulders, various railroad parts , or tangled fence wire "time capsules" beside the poles I must replace

    I suppose if I hand dug a canyon of a hole back in the day, I'd throw a car door in the pit also. Ehh, why not?

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    I've left stickers and signatures along with dates on transformers in back lots on storm all over the country.

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    Ditto on the above!

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    Everything labled "Hooch" 2000 and later is me.. 1998 and before is my father. They are out there everywhere.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Special ED View Post
    I've left stickers and signatures along with dates on transformers in back lots on storm all over the country.
    Done the same Special Ed...........there are several pole top pins scattered around on the florida coast with my moniker on em!!!!
    Old Lineman Never Die......We Just Don't Raise Our Booms As Often

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    I left a bucksqueeeze at the bottom of a pole hole....

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    I had an old pole buddie that cut IBEW backwards into the top die of the 100ton... every loop and DE and spilce we press on al. had the IBEW logo on every crimp... he's dead and gone now but he did some of the prettiest work I've ever seen... and his stamp is prolly still on a ton of lines...

    for what it's worth...

    Edge

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    Quote Originally Posted by Edge View Post
    I had an old pole buddie that cut IBEW backwards into the top die of the 100ton... every loop and DE and spilce we press on al. had the IBEW logo on every crimp... he's dead and gone now but he did some of the prettiest work I've ever seen... and his stamp is prolly still on a ton of lines...

    for what it's worth...

    Edge

    I love this story!!!! Thanks for sharing!!!

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    Without wanting to be a killjoy, I'd suggest against a sudden rush of grinding logos into crimping dies. You can bet that in this day and age if a suitably embossed crimp failed somewhere they'd blame the "unauthorised modification".
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