Trusting your equipment.

[dkopp 1]

This a picture of one of our linemen reattaching a conductor to an insulator during the ice storm of 2009. I had no idea these guys leaned out this far to reach where they needed to reach. There is some serious trust in that belt holding him to the pole!

[wh79d160 52]

That looks like 2 lineman. That's what me nephew does. He was just sent to St. Louis.

[dkopp 1]

Yes, there are two guys up there but the one is really stretched out and nearly upside down.

[6wheeler 669]

I'm not afraid of heights, but thats just wrong. I slipped in my tree stand last fall, my harness held, but I was glad I had on large undies... :banghead:

[jusjeepn 59]

Not to toot my horn, but this job is awesome!

That me on the right! This shot was so awsome that they made a shirt out of it!

[Rollerman 290]

Pat you have my respect for being out there in the worst weather keeping the power going so people can depend on it.

But.....I'm sure when your up on a pole on a cold, rainy, windy day......awesome is not what your thinking.

Cool shirt too. :banghead:

[dkopp 1]

Buckets! You guys have buckets! What voltage is that you're working on?

I'm an Engineer and don't get to climb or go up in the trucks except when they have a demonstration machine in for review or testing. I've been up in a Altec 100 footer double squirt machine with two other guys and that was a little unnerving to say the least.

[jusjeepn 59]

Thanks Steven! Weather is only bad when your not busy working! I think your job is probably more dangerous though! To many idiot drivers out there!

Primary voltage is 7200. I was finishing connecting the new 208 bank we had just built. The guys on the other pole were wrecking out. This was taken in the parking lot of a local finance company that was reconfiguring their parking lot. One of the employees took this through a tinted window in the building. The shirt was made after the 2009 Ft Wayne, IN. ice storm. The shirt designer found the picture on our company's web sight after my wife posted it there without my knowledge. Pretty cool surprise when we got our shirts sent to us after working the storm.