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SplicerLife4me
1/30/2000
IN N.C., ON THE SIDE OF A MOUNTAIN, WAS A POLE THAT GOT A TRUNK AMP AND NEEDED A LADDER TO MAKE LOOPS. WELL FOOTING LET GO UNDER LADDER WHEN I WAS 15 OR SO FEET IN THE AIR. I RODE THE LADDER DOWN THE SPAN UNTILL ONE OF THE LINE HOOKS CAUGHT. THE LADDER SPUN AROUND, (W/ME HOLDING ON FOR DEAR LIFE) THREW ME OFF AND ONTO THE GROUND FLAT ON MY BACK. IT WAS SLEETING, AND NO ONE AROUND. I DIDNT MOVE FOR 30-40 MINUTES JUST TRYING TO GET MY BREATH BACK. ALL THIS HAPPENED IN LESS TIME THAN IT TOOK YOU ALL TO READ THIS! BAM!!!
Mark A.Pickrell
1/30/2000
Okay, here's another: (approx) 1982, Lakewood, Colo. I'm working R&D (Research and Developement) for TCI Corp. I'm working with a fellow colleage on a modification of an amp bracket. We just came off a pole, jumped into our buckets and headed bad to the office real quick to make a drill press modification to this part. My colleague is in way too much of a hurry and walks up to the drill press, holding the bracket in one hand and the press handle in the other starts to drill the hole. The drill grabs the bracket "quickly" and alone with it two of my colleages fingers! Leaving his hand behind! Well, I'm working up too the better stories.........
KenM
1/30/2000
And then there's the guy who went to replace a tight midspan and instead of cutting at the house first, he shot himself like an arrow off the ladder. He actually died twice in the emergency room, and survived after they removed his spleen. There is no glory in being the fastest!
SplicerLife4me
1/30/2000
geesh! nasty mark! but try this one! hooking easement all day. last pole of the day was next to a driveway, no cars in it. coulda/shoulda used the bucket, but instead was already set up 4 hooks. good thing it wasnt a crucial piece to be spliced. never made it up. got into a hurry and basically 'ran' up the pole, put my right hook right in an elevator shaft while at the same time pulling my left hook out....SWOOSH!!! down i went! long story short, i was off work for 2 weeks whle i recovered from the burns and splinters embedded under my flesh. all of which i pulled out myself and was still pulling splinters 3 weks after!
KenM
1/30/2000
It brings on a whole new meaning to,"that's gonna leave a mark!"
private
1/30/2000
MARK TREUBIG WHERE ARE YOU? LET ME KNOW
SplicerLife4me
1/30/2000
i prefer to call it another 'battle scar' myself!!! lmmfao
cablegod58
1/30/2000
i know everybody's heard the one about a lineman on a pole looking at the 90 block as the truck pulled 2-750&4-500 when the pole bracket broke. i saw it happen in 1980 in breckenridge texas. it damn near took his head of but to everybody's amazement he climb down the pole and passed out when his feet touch the ground. very luck man but he has a nice set of flase teeth top and bottom . he is still in cable just not on the pole's anymore
Global Cable Services, Inc.
1/30/2000
I am looking for the online or CD version of the cable tv factbook. If anyone could please email me this information I would greatly apprectiate it. Regards, Scott Hisey Global Cable Services, Inc. Reply to: Hiseys@*****.com
DRV Construction
1/30/2000
I was out doing a street crossing on a busy street with a backhoe when when of my installers drove up. I went over to the truck to see what was up, I looked inside and the seat was covered with feces. the installers pants were ripped all the way up to the inseam. He said he needed to go to the Hospital, he thought he broke both of his legs. I called to one of my laborers and told him to get him to the emergency room asap. There was no way I was getting in that truck with all that crap everywhere and besides I was needed on this busy street crossing. This was also a result of placing the ladder on the wrong side of the midspan drop and getting catapulted off his ladder. He recovered and went right back to installing..