Why I got paid the big bucks!

[keegs]

Not sure lineman work is for me. Word has it you can lose your mojo.

 

[orezok]

Lineman work is much like bush pilots. Hours of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror!

 

[bironacad]

Electrical workers die from electrical shock more often then then fatalities for police and fire workers combined. My father worked for the hydro and when there was a bad ice storm or such he would be home just to sleep and out again. As kids we made up a song:

My old man is a hydro man and wears a yellow hat the only time he comes home is to take a ..........anyway. My two cents.

 

[Car Doc]

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.

That looks like Kansas where I live I thought you were from Canada Mace?

 

[Lineman North Florida]

There is no better job for me than that of electrical lineman, I had all my high school credits by the halfway point of my senior year of high school and was able to get on a work program, got a job with an electrical contractor building power lines and that was all it took, been doing it ever since. I probably like transmission work the best but it all suits me, our work as lineman today is so much easier than when I first started ie bucket trucks are commonplace instead of a luxury and polymer deadends and insulators on hi lines weigh about 1/4 of what the old porcelain ones did and the list goes on and on, although it's still not for the girl scouts I tell my guys it's got so easy we will be hiring some anytime.:laughing:

 

[om21braz]

polymer deadends and insulators on hi lines weigh about 1/4 of what the old porcelain ones did

And they probably don't get thinline cracks resulting in messing up folks radio signals like they used to.

 

[GaryS]

This video was popular some months back. It's simply amazing to see.

Stairway to Heaven.

 

[tglass]

This video was popular some months back. It's simply amazing to see.

Stairway to Heaven.

Can't even imagine that.

 

[Sigarms]

Makes me wonder how I used to do it all day.

Have to laugh, I asked my father in law that over the weekend when he was helping me cut up and haul some trees (how he did it all day).

He was a lineman in rural Vermont for 30 years, retired early at 55. I hear some of his stories about the hours he worked and some of the snow he had to go through to get to lines, and I know I would never of been able to do it.

I know he EARNED every dollar he made.

 

[two_bit_score]

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!

Absolutely, and, I really think it's a cheap shot to make fun of what they do.