And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
The unsung HEROS that go out in the worst weather to keep your lights on.
Next time you're in a hurry driving by their repair trucks PLEASE Remember to give them safety space. We had one in my Emergency Room recently when his truck was hit and RUN and he fell from his ladder.
Part of the problem is all the lights attract the drunks and sleepers. While running a towtruck for the CHP, they advised to keep the amount of lights to a minimum to avoid this.
Was there ever a part that Karl Swenson couldn't play? A master of accents, equally excellent at playing good guy or bad guy, genius or mental case. GREAT actor!
I have a Norman Rockwell calendar on my kitchen wall, and another Norman Rockwell calendar on my bedroom wall, plus, I have three (03) books of Norman Rockwell paintings, including his Christmas book, and his "FAITH OF AMERICA" book.
That tool he has in front of him runs along the steel support cable while a bobbin spins around and around and wraps a wire around the telephone cable to hang it from the support cable. It's unpowered, when they are ready to wrap the next section a rope is attached to the tool that runs to the next pole and around a pulley. Then a guy on the ground hauls away and as as the tool travels to the next pole the wire spins around the cable.
As I drive around my town these days I look up (from habit) and cringe. The direct copper infrastructure is falling apart and lots of splice jackets and sections of cable are just hanging there swinging in the wind. Almost every house has it's old telephone drop cut and swinging in the wind. I spent the first five years of my career putting that stuff up.
The unsung HEROS that go out in the worst weather to keep your lights on.
ReplyDeleteNext time you're in a hurry driving by their repair trucks PLEASE Remember to give them safety space. We had one in my Emergency Room recently when his truck was hit and RUN and he fell from his ladder.
With all the cops being hit while their cruisers have all the lights going...what chance the poor telephone repair guy by his van?
DeletePart of the problem is all the lights attract the drunks and sleepers. While running a towtruck for the CHP, they advised to keep the amount of lights to a minimum to avoid this.
DeleteIf Norman Rockwell were still alive, I don't think he would want to paint much of what's out there anymore.
ReplyDelete"I am a lineman for the county..."
ReplyDelete“And I drive the main road…”
ReplyDeleteThat’s communications, not power.
ReplyDeleteMr McBeevee!
ReplyDeleteBut, where's his shiny hat?
DeleteOne of the best episodes ever!
Was there ever a part that Karl Swenson couldn't play? A master of accents, equally excellent at playing good guy or bad guy, genius or mental case. GREAT actor!
Deletehis toolbelt jingles!
ReplyDeleteI have a Norman Rockwell calendar on my kitchen wall, and another Norman Rockwell calendar on my bedroom wall, plus, I have three (03) books of Norman Rockwell paintings, including his Christmas book, and his "FAITH OF AMERICA" book.
ReplyDeleteThat tool he has in front of him runs along the steel support cable while a bobbin spins around and around and wraps a wire around the telephone cable to hang it from the support cable. It's unpowered, when they are ready to wrap the next section a rope is attached to the tool that runs to the next pole and around a pulley. Then a guy on the ground hauls away and as as the tool travels to the next pole the wire spins around the cable.
ReplyDeleteAs I drive around my town these days I look up (from habit) and cringe. The direct copper infrastructure is falling apart and lots of splice jackets and sections of cable are just hanging there swinging in the wind. Almost every house has it's old telephone drop cut and swinging in the wind.
I spent the first five years of my career putting that stuff up.
It's a lasher.
DeleteWe called it a football and we had the grunt just pull it from the ground.
Yeah and we did it on hooks, too.
Daddy is working the pole so mommy doesn't have to
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