On becoming an electrician

Borzak

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The only thing I look for in a hard hat is if it will collect raina and pour off onto somerthing you are reading or writing on with the bill. No rain catchers. You know guys have been around forever when they still have an aluminum hard hat in their office.
 
Erronius

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Kajiimagi said:
Not sure they are even rated for it. Been a minute since I've been in a NFPA70E book but I think the high C kits had blast shields for scenarios where that could occur. Any linemen on here? They may know.
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I mean, if we're talking about having to put on hot gloves or similar, then I think you're well into face-shield territory. Never mind the stuff for wearing full arc blast gear.

What terrifies me is when 'there is no safety gear rated for this'.


For the Class E hardhats, I could have sworn just about everything was E rated these days, until I had to go shopping for new hardhats. Talk about a fucking shit-show.

I had to get a hardhat with a chinstrap for a specific client's site. I haven't had to wear a chinstrap since the Army and I'm annoyed that this client makes it mandatory. You already have to tie off at 4'+ even on a ladder, but adding on these climbing-gear~ish helmets is just fucking overkill.

Then I bought that short-bus looking helmet and I've never even gone back to that site.

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Did my first solo panel swap on residental this morning, didn’t take a before picture but what a mess it was. View attachment 625357
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I totally get why you had to use wirenuts on that sort of panel swap, but I was always taught to never face them down like that. They'll just collect any water than drips down, but /shrug. At least you tried to keep it all tucked behind the hots on that side.
 
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Erronius said:
I mean, if we're talking about having to put on hot gloves or similar, then I think you're well into face-shield territory. Never mind the stuff for wearing full arc blast gear.

What terrifies me is when 'there is no safety gear rated for this'.


For the Class E hardhats, I could have sworn just about everything was E rated these days, until I had to go shopping for new hardhats. Talk about a fucking shit-show.

I had to get a hardhat with a chinstrap for a specific client's site. I haven't had to wear a chinstrap since the Army and I'm annoyed that this client makes it mandatory. You already have to tie off at 4'+ even on a ladder, but adding on these climbing-gear~ish helmets is just fucking overkill.

Then I bought that short-bus looking helmet and I've never even gone back to that site.



I totally get why you had to use wirenuts on that sort of panel swap, but I was always taught to never face them down like that. They'll just collect any water than drips down, but /shrug. At least you tried to keep it all tucked behind the hots on that side.
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Good call, next time will do that. Which hopefully is never, we typically don’t do residential and I hate every second of having to tippy toe around a residence.
 
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Hatorade said:
View attachment 630303View attachment 630304View attachment 630305Had to get a hardhat for a gig, comfy but a bit goofy. Leaning pole unrelated, it being held up by cable tension post storm.
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Had these on the way to my house after an ice/wind storm. Snapped a bunch of them like toothpicks. Out of state crews came in to help restore service to huge parts of the state. Drive 6+ hours then work all fucking day out in bitter cold.

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Borzak

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I like the power poles in the panhandle. You drive along and they are the same height as your truck. Then when it gets to a turn off/road they have a tall one on each side so a vehicle can fit under it. Guess it makes working on them easier.
 
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