Why I got paid the big bucks!

[Mace Canute]

For many years I worked as a Lineman and often got asked what I did to get paid such a good wage. I wish I had this photo to show them, seeings as how one pic is worth a thousand words.

 

[smstonypoint]

Yikes!!!

Any idea as to whether the photo has been enhanced via Photoshop?


Steve

 

[jinman]

Yep! Too bad they couldn't find a pictures of baseball sized hail stones and an alien space ship to Photoshop into that picture too. It must be that picture tweekin' doesn't pay the big bucks like being a lineman. :thumbsup:

 

[RoyJackson]

Yikes!!!

Any idea as to whether the photo has been enhanced via Photoshop?


Steve

I'd guess it's a fake...not so much because of the lightning...but no one (not even a Canadian Lineman) in his right mind would be working that close to a tornado!

 

[DAY]

Has anyone here seen the REAL videos of linemen riding the helicopter strut, and using a long pole to ground themselves to a 50,000 volt line? Or the training videos of "rescuing" a fellow lineman on said high tension towers? They earn every penny!

 

[joemd11]

Photoshop or no photoshop, bottom line is they go out in all kinds of bad weather so that when we flip the switch the lights come on. For that I say thank you!:thumbsup:

 

[Mace Canute]

Yeah, definitely a shopped pic, but I recall one time we were energizing a new 25 Kv line and making the connections out of an insulated double bucket truck with 40Kv gloves..."hot work", eh. We were crimping up the connectors on the three jumpers and a storm was approaching; we could see the lightening flashes in the distance and they were about four miles away, but getting closer. We wanted to finish up the job and get the heck out of there so we weren't sitting up there enjoying the scenery but on the very last crimp, a good big strike took place really close by and both of us were darn near put to our knees. It felt like every muscle in our bodies contracted! I literally had the breath squeezed out of me and so did my fellow worker in the other bucket.

Out of all the hazards I faced as a Lineman, lightning was the scariest by far.

 

[moored4]

Has anyone here seen the REAL videos of linemen riding the helicopter strut, and using a long pole to ground themselves to a 50,000 volt line? Or the training videos of "rescuing" a fellow lineman on said high tension towers? They earn every penny!

One of our EL/INT men where I worked had done that. He woke up one morning and didn't go to work, said it wasn't fun any more.

 

[Bird]

Photoshop or no photoshop, bottom line is they go out in all kinds of bad weather so that when we flip the switch the lights come on. For that I say thank you!:thumbsup:

I agree. Don't need any photoshopped pictures to convince me they have a tough job.

 

[mmurphy]

I have seen lots of storms pass that take out power. Seeing those guys in the bucket during intense storms, makes me happy I did not take that path.