Hester
hesterosexual
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i was just talking to a friend of mine about this last month. he said that at his company they helicopter the linemen to the big transformers and drop them down. they then do their thing then climb down, get picked up by the heli, and do it all over again. apparently they save so much energy in not climbing and they can do so much more work that it's more efficient to use the helis. he said something like what rr wrote about actually being in the circuit. i'd hate to see what happened if someone got accidentally grounded, though.rosco rathbone said:Oh, you are going to be a lineman? That's fucking cool. What's that thing they have now where you are actually wired into the electric circuit? I saw it on a Discover channel, the super-high current kind of passes through an electromagnetic suit that you wear.
From what I know about linemen, they either climb those wood poles with the spike boots (but I haven't seen that in ages, now they all use snorkel lifts and I think that was telco anyhow), or you are just climbing some kind of steel ladder or thing with handholds. So do your dips, your pullups and cardio and you'll be fine.
dangerous job, rimmy, but you can make good money.