fun with the power co

[treeman82]

A few months ago I took down a good sized maple tree with a crane. The tree was behind a house, and we put the crane down in the road. Closed the road down after speaking with the HOA, secured the work area with tape, signs, locks, cones, and an alert ground team. Pre-job briefing, PPE was being worn by everybody in the work zone, we made sure to maintain minimum safe approach distance from the power lines on the oposite side of the road. Before we took the crane down a rep from the power company came by to make certain that we were maintaining minimum approach distances from the 7.5Kv lines. No problems, and he left.

This past weekend I was working for another client, noticed some schmucks on the far corner working for a neighbor. DEAD elm tree, over the road, within 2 - 3 feet of 17Kv power lines, with some other wires not far away on the other side. Not 1 piece of PPE anywhere on the crew, and traffic control consisted of 1 man using his hands to stop passing cars on a blind corner. Did anybody show up to give them a hard time? nope.

Makes me proud to play by the rules.

 

[lfnh]

A few months ago I took down a good sized maple tree with a crane. The tree was behind a house, and we put the crane down in the road. Closed the road down after speaking with the HOA, secured the work area with tape, signs, locks, cones, and an alert ground team. Pre-job briefing, PPE was being worn by everybody in the work zone, we made sure to maintain minimum safe approach distance from the power lines on the oposite side of the road. Before we took the crane down a rep from the power company came by to make certain that we were maintaining minimum approach distances from the 7.5Kv lines. No problems, and he left.

This past weekend I was working for another client, noticed some schmucks on the far corner working for a neighbor. DEAD elm tree, over the road, within 2 - 3 feet of 17Kv power lines, with some other wires not far away on the other side. Not 1 piece of PPE anywhere on the crew, and traffic control consisted of 1 man using his hands to stop passing cars on a blind corner. Did anybody show up to give them a hard time? nope.

Makes me Alive to play by the rules.

Ah, that's just my thinking...

 

[RAG66]

Good work, I'm half way between you and the schmucks. I do have PPE but I know when I'm beat and do not take on work that I can not do within my skill set.

 

[treemandan]

you don't want to underestimate power lines the less jack asses the better.

 

[jefflovstrom]

You will be over it tomorrow,
Jeff

 

[treeman82]

You will be over it tomorrow,
Jeff

I was over it by the end of the morning. One of my friends however, he's a bit of a stickler for those type of things. I'm proud of the knowledge and skills which I have aquired over the years, and having the awareness to know what's right, what is wrong, and then what's flat out stupid.

Plus I needed a reason to start a new thread.

 

[sgreanbeans]

"Waylen? you there?"
"yep, whats up scott?"
"gotta line over here, watcha doing today?"
"WATCHA COOKIN?"
"Brats and Hotlinks"
"whats the address?"

How I handle lines! Gotta excellent contact crew here with the Big O, guys came up in the private side then switched to ROW. I cook meat over a flame. They take the risk.
Their gas, their time, my guys ground for them, often they do WAY more than I need them to, just so they can hang out!

I have their cell numba's, call them first, then I call into the Power Company, if delay is in the air, I contact my client Ryan, who is the Director of Maintenance for the Power Company! he gets things moving!

Networking, Networking NETWORKING!! Gotta do it fella's, dividends are huge!

Jackwagons messing around like the ones you seen? I stop and let them know, Jackwagons they may be, but they still are people, I don't wanna see anybody burn.
Quote I got from a video that one of you guys posted on here a while ago, about the Indian Climbers for Date Palms
"Fear is for the educated, I am not educated so I have no fear"
Jacked up, but true. This could easily apply to those guys you seen