Pulling underground with a pickup truck
Your hardhat was the only safety equipment required
4 guys sleeping in 2 beds, 2 guys on the floor
The Onan having more lashing wire and bug nuts than a city pole
Smoking pot at 6am
Coolers full of beer
Walking on telephone with 3 phase 2' above your head
The boss saying NO MORE DRINKING IN THE F'N TRUCKS!! and opens the door and a beer bottle rolls out
Putting pole clamps on E brakes
Security guards watching fiber reels
My first day flagging and a grunt saying, look stop those cars and then stop those cars.. Then just walks away.
Brace and bits and jack stands, pulling 1500' runs with 2 guys
Pulling figure 8's by hand
Driving the wrong way and running a cop off the road while hanging out the window of a Telsta giving him the finger, while he was doing the same thing
The cops drinking White Russians with us while flagging in NJ
A lineman sitting on the sidewalk rocking back and forth because he ate mushrooms
Drinking til 3am, sleeping til 5am, puking off the pole at 700am, working til 6pm, then doing it again at 9pm
A box of free holes and that elusive cable stretcher with the red handles
Re: You know your "Old School" when:
Member #: 20347
Registered: 1996-2001
Posted:
113
Name:
Bull
Occupation:
Overhead Linemen
Location:
Easement
Personal:
early 40s
Experience:
~27 years
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