Another Graduating Class of Linemen

[Tucker301]

This is a great program they do at the Community College near me.

All of the people who graduate this course have job offers by the time finish the 11 week training course.

A damned good deal for all involved!

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The most recent graduating class.



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[missed]

There a heck of a program, I went through in 1998.

 

[fdkay]

I notice there are no women in that photo.
Odd, so many femi-nazis want good paying jobs, there is always a demand for lineman, yet you don't see them out there.

 

[oneshot86]

Real cool

 

[308pirate]

What a great picture: real men doing real work for real money and very little (if any) educational debt.

In the meantime, faggoty-ass beta males sink to their eyeballs in debt to come out of college only to end up serving me coffee and food for the mercy of my tips.

LOLOLOL

 

[pmclaine]

What a great picture: real men doing real work for real money and very little (if any) educational debt.

In the meantime, faggoty-ass beta males sink to their eyeballs in debt to come out of college only to end up serving me coffee and food for the mercy of my tips.

LOLOLOL

Next time tell them my tip is "You shouldn't have majored in Gender Studies"

 

[buffalowinter]

Of course they're hiring...it's a hard job with long hours. You get to work in hurricanes and blizzards. There is a good possibility you could be killed. I t does not appeal to those with a Master's in Fine Art.

 

[sirhrmechanic]

That's an awesome picture...

And, yes Buffalo, you are right on! Very few latte-sucking boozles have the cojones to work the overheads!

But for those that do... good money, job security and, well, the satisfaction of knowing that 3 days without power will turn a lot of people into helpless mush.

Thanks for posting, Tuck!

Cheers,

Sirhr

 

[missed]

Those look like CCA poles, I hated climbing those. Hard splintering pieces of crap. I'm inside generation now

 

[Maggot]

Those look like CCA poles, I hated climbing those. Hard splintering pieces of crap. I'm inside generation now

NO shit. I did some of that when younger. The first thing thy showed us was a guy who slipped and grabbed the pole. Got a spike right under the rib cage. I remember working a bucket truck in the snow and ice. I got the wand saw too close to a line and could feel the ions crossing form the high voltage line across the snow flakes. That was spooky knowing that another inch or so and I would light up like the Xmas tree.

 

[missed]

We have a big like mine in our system, they have since then gone to all underground and S&C PME gear.... But I was out there one night, it was blowing 50-60mph and humidity in the single digits it was green lightning everywhere. Friggin spooky as hell, especially when you close in the feeder and could see the step potential rings on the ground when it faulted.

Man I don't miss nights like that. Just get to deal with our floating systems in the plant and 480 and 6.9kv with high impedance neutrals that don't trip on a ground.

 

[myronman3]

i went through climbing school many years ago. the instructor said if you gaff out, to push away and not hug the pole...and i had been around long enough to know why he said that. it was 17 below zero, and we were out climbing. i was climbing, and a combination of being tired and cold, i missed the pole and gaffed out about 16 feet up. i pushed away from the pole. the instructer said "in 35 years of teaching this, that is the first time i ever saw someone not hug the pole". i told him i have fallen a helluva lot higher than that, and that the hardest part was not bringing my feet and knees together.

 

[QuickNDirty]

Aren't all those outside fucks (except the dude in the bottom right) violating protocol?

You posed to keep that hat on, motherfuckers!