I don't mind wearing sleeves when it's tight but can they build the straps better?

[bobbo]

Those straps only break when you are at the midpoint of doing something delicate and harry. I think mine broke for a 100 the time this year. I eventually put rope in them. It's just ignorant they haven't come up with a beefed design in thirty years. When they break I finish what I have to do, get in the clear and whipthem on the ground and just wear my gloves. Then the foreman reminds me I must wear them, then I tell him start fixing them. Of course he doesn't have spare buttons. Then he has gotta dig his out for a button, which is buried in his pick up box. And I just keep working then I am done. And he is still looking for his gloves and buttons. Don't care about the BS anymore. It's ridiculous.

Single phase I don't understand why you have to wear them you are dealing with one wire. Or delta with two and eight foot spacing. Just crazy now.

dont understand the sleeves for secondary. Just use tape for bare spots or secondary blankets. Open wire has the only hazards really. Triplex just bend your connection points in the clear. A good pair of dry Kunz are fine. Don't understand sleeves for secondary.

and why an outage on a broken arm? Unless it was a climber and the voltage too high, or it was the only way. Now I do things hot more because all the hoops you got to go through to do it dead. All the phone calls and arrangements. REAs don't have all that management as the big utilities. You can do anything if the customer isn't home or a knock on a door. Rural people are nice and accommodating.