ELITE Lineman - Learning to Climb Day One

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  @thomasn8826 · 5 years ago

  Receiving a complement from this guy while climbing must have felt like you won in life.

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• CH

  @charshii3745 · 6 years ago

  What a fun job. And that instructor is like something right out of a movie, I want him to teach me everything

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• CU

  @culbyj3665 · 5 years ago

  If ed Bassmaster was a lineman apprentice..

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• RE

  @RealJeep · 4 years ago

  31 years as a professional firefighter and when asked if I wanted to be a lineman all I could say was "Aw, hell no!"  Balls of steel those guys have.

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• IC

  @icarusamerica3436 · 5 years ago

  I trained as lineman in the US Army Signal Corp, at the time MOS was 31K (wire dog) as we were called, it was a lot of fun. When we trained on the poles we would throw a ball from soldier to soldier, if you dropped it or threw it badly, you had to retrieve the ball from the ground and climb back up.

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• BI

  @billkussmaul2940 · 4 years ago

  I went through Boston Edison's line school in 1970. we had to free climb a 35 foot pole before they even gave us a belt . there were wood chips around the base of the pole in case we fell. different times I guess.

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• EV

  @evilengine9 · 2 years ago

  I remember being in pole school when I started in Bell Atlantic 27 years ago. We had a training yard setup similar to this and our instructor made us climb up to 30 feet and toss a basketball back and forth to each other to improve confidence and maneuverability. If you were the one to drop the ball…. Guess what… down you’d go to retrieve it and then bring it back up. I remember on graduation day, our instructor put our certificates on a hook at the top of the pole forcing us to climb one last time.

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• BR

  @bravobear1844 · 5 years ago (edited)

  This looks some Attack on Titan scout training 😂😂 LOOKS AWESOME

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• DS

  @dsocowboy3636 · 2 years ago

  I was a new lineman 30 years ago and did it for a number of years in the cable tv industry. We never had  the secondary safety strap. Bare hands to grip better with was the rule for us...lol I enjoyed it very much especially the outdoors and the freedom but, also the satisfaction of getting a hard job done. Here's to the linemen!!

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• GU

  @Gunbudder · 5 years ago

  god bless the linemen. these are the guys that get your power and internet back up at 3AM in the middle of winter during a blizzard. unless you have lazy linemen, then it takes a week lol

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• GA

  @GageMason · 5 years ago

  God those hammer sounds at the beginning were safisfying.

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• LI

  @LineManforHire · 5 years ago

  You can learn the basics in a day. But it takes weeks to be good!💪🏾

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