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A Day With A Lineman #43 ~ They have a long night ahead
5 years ago by jlsplatts (68)
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Damn dude, you live a crazy work life. I made a post about not taking a painting job because the scaffolding was just too much for me. I couldn't imagine getting in a cherry picker, in the winter, with the snow, wind, and freezing temps, way up in the air around electrical wires...you might be crazy splatz! ;)
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I am gonna pretend you didn’t call my bucket truck a cherry picker... LOL. Many do call us crazy and when my dad first brought up the idea to me about getting into the trade he said, “ya, you’re crazy enough”. Lol. Stupid or crazy not sure sometimes. But I do enjoy hanging from the bottom of a helicopter on a 60 foot rope flying from tower to tower. Feet never actually touch the ground until the end of the day. That is fun. 😉
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LOL! I was under the impression that any truck with a movable bucket was in essence a cherry picker. No mean to insult your truck, haha. Please feel free to enlighten me on the difference :)
The helicopter ride sounds fun, but still not for me. Glad to know you get so much joy out of it though.
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I don’t know why but I laugh every time I see that along with this one...
Ya... I’m not right in the head....
Bucket trucks are highway worthy cherry pickers have to be hauled on a trailer. Not sure if that is the exact definition but that is a lineman’s definition. I have seen vans with a boom and bucket on them. They look hilarious. I was trying to get our meter man to order one for his next company rig. Lol.
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Ok, that helps clear the confusion.
That second gif I have seen before, but like you, it got me lol'ing in my car before work. I probably looked like a lunatic, staring at my phone hidden from outside view, giggling like a school girl. Even now, catching a glimpse of it, can't help but laugh.
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Not gonna lie, I am surprised how the pole did almost no damage to the top of her car.
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The front of the car had a decent dent in it but ya... I think it was pretty rotten and broke really easily. “Na, it needed to be changed anyway, we just needed an excuse to change it”. LOL
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It was a routine check, via collision!
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Does it ever get complicated between the two companies from a logistical perspective? I mean treading other others toes or one doesn't want to work effectively with the other?
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They have their lines and we have ours. We never touch each other’s lines... that came out a little weird. We really don’t have any issues. Most of our lines run out in the countryside or rural areas. Within the city we are mainly underground. The way they build their poles is totally different than the way we build our. As far as he workers go, we all get along great. With lineman hard hat logos don’t matter.
The 2 companies butted heads a bit when the golf course wanted to switch to over the our company. That battle went on for a couple years. The other company was really trying to screw the golf course and basically punish them for switching financially. After a long drawn out court case, we now service the golf course but people who want to switch over in the future... they have to pay a significant amount of money. Which basically makes it impossible for the customer to have a choice. So in the end I think the big company won.
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Ah ok, its good that any shenanigans don't spill-over to the linesman themselves and you guys (and galls?) have a good respect form one another. It seems a complicated system though.
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