Aerial Device - aerial bucket, bucket truck, aerial lift, cherry picker, aerial-lift platforms
Aerial Cable Spacer - crow
Alive - hot, energized, alive, heat it up
Anchor - dead man
Apprentice Lineman - mud flap, trainee, learner, grunt, helper, squeek, chump, JAFO (just another #$% observer) dipstick, no class, whistle-pig
Auxiliary Arm - lay out arms, hot arm
Backfeed - {Live secondary, because of generator, jumpered bus break, extension cord form neighbor's house feeding back through transformer and energizing primary}.
Bolt Cutter - Pie Knife
Bracket Grounding - Box groundin
Bull Wheel - butterfly
Cant Hook - gut wrench, hook ,peavy
Capstan Hoist - cat head
Chain Hoist - guy jack, coffin hoist, strong arm
Chain Saw - sander, gas axe
Clearance (for work) - work permit, lockout/tagout protection, LOTO, outage, mark up
Confined Space - enclosed space, restricted space
Connector - bug, fargo, blue dot, double deuce, deuce bug, 336, big bug, green dot, single bolt, double bolt, #6 bug (all depending on
the size)
Controlling Authority - dispatch, system control, controlling operators, control room
Daylighting -potholing
Deenergized - dead, cold wires
Digger/Derrick - line truck digger, radial boom derrick (RBD), standard line truck digger (SLTD), electric line truck.
Drill - brace & bit, saw dust pump
Elbows (Load Break and Non Load Break) - pistol grips
Electrician (indoor) - narrowback
Energize - light, light up, liven up, power up, going hot, heat it up
ESR Footwear (shock resistant footwear) - DP (Dielectric Protective Footwear), Electrical Resistant Footwear, F.R. clothing
Extension Link - dillibob (Uually an 18" fiberglass link, used when a single phase primary is coming off of a three phase pole w/crossarm, it extends the single phase line out past the three phase arm it goes between the eyebolt and the dead end insulator, epoxillator) ,donkey-dick
Flagger - flagman, flag person, traffic control person, road kill
Floating Dead-ends - openers, live line openers, slug, poor-boy
Fuse Chamber - door, cartridge, fuse tube, gate
Generator - leroy, perkins
Gin - pole buddy, old man, davit
Guy fitting - guy hook, goathead, bullhead, steerhead, guy attachment, p hook, pig ear, ram's horn, bear paw (not the donut)
Guy Strain Insulator - egg breaker, johnny ball, insul stick
Ground Gradient Mat - Ground mat, switch operating platform, ground plate
Groundman - helper, grunt
Ground Rod Clamp - peanut, acorn
Handline Hook - meat hook, pulley hook
Hazard - danger, widow maker,
Hog Wagon - a temporary transformer (enclosed in a small trailer with reusable leads)
Hot Pole - a pole where the insulators breaking down or cutout is leaking though the post to the bracket causing the pole to be energized.
Jaw Grip - wire grip, bulldog, cum-a-long, chicago grip, pork chop, widow, dutchman jaw clamp, wire clamp,
Job Briefing - tailboard conference, tailboard briefing, toolbox talk, tailgate talk
Jumper - {One man jumper holder- parrot stand, solo holder} {Squeegee or a spring jumper, curly-q, its a piece of wire wrapped up like a coil with a hot line clamp at either end to make a quick jumper for bypassing a tap, also used on either a transformer or a cutout, although design engineers do not like it.}
Lag Screw - hardhead
Lateral Tap - spur, lateral, tap, primary tap, run off
Live Line Clamp - hot line clamp, tap clamp
Minimum Approach Limit - absolute limit of approach, {Breaking clearance" especially on transmission work, getting too close to danger}
Operating Drawing - one line drawing, single line drawing, operating map
Outriggers - stiff legs, stabilisers
Plastic Coverup - rigid coverup, tupperware, hard cover, barriers
Pole - stick
Pole Down Ground - vertical,
Pole Platform - diving board, baker board, insulated pole platform, live line board, hot board
Pole Top Pin - lead head, bayonet
Pot Head - riser, terminators
Pole Shock - electric shock from a hot pole.
PoleTop Pin - ridge pinPotential Tester - jiggler, wiggle, pot tester,P.I.-Potential Indicator
Powerline Worker - lineman, lineperson, lineworker, line installer/repairer, linehand, powerline maintainer, line mechanic, powerlineman, power line technician, distribution line technician, line techs, powerline repairer, clum sum, electrical linepersons overhead lineworker, electrical lineworker, powerliner, GIB (guy in bucket), Scratch and Sniff crew (outage response crew) hiker; line servicer, bucket monkey, pole jock, pole cowboy, skywalker, {Supervisor's versions - coffee drinkin', knuckle draggin', over paid bucket monkey's}
Powerline Worker, Transmission - hi-liner, hi-line tech, static head,
Preform Grip - stringing sock , sugar grip, flexible mesh pulling grip, horse cock, sock line, kellum grip, chinese string, dog cock
Preform Thimble - horse collar, #1744, pig ear
Quick Sleeve - pickle
Pull Rope - stringing rope, bull line, pulling line, pulling rope, hard line
Primary Step - down Transformer - ratio transformer, rabbit
Reel Handler - Coca-cola (the reel thing), Finigan Pin
Rest Break - Skippy
Riser - stinger, lead, primary lead, sweep, siphon
Riser Pole - terminal pole, transition pole, dip pole, dig pole
Rope Ladder - jacob's ladder, flex ladder
Rubber Blankets - rubber covers
Rubber Dead End Cover - pig
Rubber Hood - insulator cover
Rubber Hose - line hose, hose, rubber, flexible protective equipment, eel, guts, reptile, snakes, rubber covers, coverup, slinky
Rubber Gloves - condoms
Rubber Sleeves - arm rubber
Secondary Cables - triplex, {cutting sections is called cribbing, splitting the crib, or pigtailing the ends, or cut back}
Secondary Fault - hotspot, holiday
Shield Wire - static wire, ground wire, counterpoise, sky wire
Shotgun - grip-all, clamp stick, grab-all, egg sucker
Sleeve - splice, (quick sleeve - pickle)
Solid Blade Switch - solid fuse, slug, bypass
Spiking Cable - spearing cable
Spun Bus - Wrapped Secundary, aerial cable
Spurs - hooks, climbers, westerns, lady slippers, sky hooks, hikers, gaffs, money makers, mortgage lifters, jumpers, jojos, leg irons,
Strain Insulator - dead-end insulator, suspension insulator, bell insulator, elephant ear, fish, four and a quarter, poly link,
Strand - messenger cable
Stringing Block - traveler, dolly, roller, stringing sheave.
Switch Stick - disconnect switch, hook stick, P2 Head, window pole
Switching - Arcing and Barking (closing in on fault)
Switching Order Form - Order-to-Operate, Operation Order,
Swivel Stick - chicken catcher (2 inch ring on end of switch stick used to install preformed tie on top tie or side tie)
Tacos - plastic protective cover
Teasing - fuzzing, buzzing
Thumper - surge generator, impulse generator, capacitive discharge set, banger
Tag - card
Top Tie Insulator - bottle, chili bowl, post
Transformer - pot, can, trans, kettle, bug, stepper, tanks, tubs, tx
Vault - manhole, chamber, cable chamber, maintenance hole
Vibration Damper - dog bone, johnny ball,
Worksite Protection - traffic control
Terminology of our power brothers
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