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I just about had one working on here for the first time, my buddy says "wait till you feel the static" lol it feels like stuff is crawling all over you nonstop. The lines actually shake there is so much current running through at that 250kv voltage.

240kv lines

Looked into it. Insurance covers up to 250 off property and 500 on property. But the deductible is 500 so it's not worth it at all.

I know what you are saying but I doubt anyone will fork out 1600 bucks for a employee who was unlucky. I did file a police report when I got home from the job though. And checked all the pawn shops nearby and let them know about it. I just feel like I'll be labeled a snitch or something if I try and Sue a coworker for loosing my tools. Nobody admits to being the ones who actually loaded them in the truck.

Can't so that to a fellow coworker. I would feel bad about it.

They should have been. But I didn't put them in someone else did, that and the fact the driver was whipping it around like a brand new lamborghini prolly didn't help.

Only have of them are ingraved because I borrowed a buddies and I didn't have all the tools I lost at the time to engrave.

Didn't have time to file a police report. Had to go to the job. They only do it in person for a claim that big. It was on company time and it was dropped from a company truck outside our shop. We did a u turn and went back but in under 90 seconds it was gone. No car pulled over or sign of it nothing... I'm gonna talk to the owner and see if he can use my week of vacation from this year and my one from next year to pay for it and I'll work those days instead...

Well. All of my hand tools have been stolen. There goes $1600... Been acquiring them since I started electrical work at 14 and now I gotta start all over... Super passed. Moral of the story, joppatowne Maryland is a slime ball trashy town where anything that is not chained down will be stolen. Hope everyone is having a good day. Make sure to lock your tools up, you won't realise how much they mean/cost until you have to replace them.

I love that picture, the dudes in that pic are the baddest mofos. Its crazy how things change just like DR99 said, but in the tower industry it still isnt as safe as it should ben unfortunately. Some contractors require tying off above 6 feet, but on a 8 foot ladder if you tie off it literally does nothing to arrest your fall, so a harness only makes it more dangerous adding extra weight to throw you off balance lol. It takes around 15-18 feet to arrest a fall in a standard harness. So if there is something 10 feet below you or 14 feet below you, you will still hit at a super fast speed....

That's coo That's cool. Doing service on it I assume?

I would love to have even 60's right now lol!

Sounds slightly better then climbing in the north and in BC.

No offense taken. All ill say is its one thing talking on the ground. Whole nother ball game up there.

Lots of freezing cold downtime waiting for material etc.

http://i.imgur.com/YQ4wxIw.jpg[/img Pics from today. I hate ny life

Yep, based out of timonium, no doubt have driven by their office at one point during work haha. I am getting my journeyman electricians license first though.

Let me know how these are, thinking about getting them instead of my normal 16" channel locks for threading rigid conduit together.

I just like how DiResta comes up with all kinds of crazy ideas. Plus he just does what he wants it seems haha

Not really the adrenaline rush as much as being part of something bigger. How many people climb cell towers in the world? 11,000 maybe... Even less working from helicopters on live 500kv lines.. That's why I like it.

I hope to eventually get into the linemen field with BGE in the next ten years or so. I really wanna do aerial line work from choppers, that's the ultimate job for me... http://youtu.be/9Lbmis-VUW0

Working for bge on the gas side?

So you work for bge on the gas side?

Hope you feel better DR. Gotta love accidents...