Originally Posted by Cab_Burge
I never thought I would climb telephone and power poles,, telephone only poles in CA are 25 or 30 Ft. tall with 4 or 5 Ft. in the ground so your working with your head around 22 Ft. above the ground.
I needed a job and found out the local phone company was hiring in their construction dept. so I signed up and got hired. I learned after getting hired that I was going to work in their pole line construction department as a apprentice lineman, not in the office building department shock shruggy
I needed a job so I grab it and a year later decided to turn it into career up
The tallest pole I had to climb was a 90 Ft antenna pole for our company vehicle radios, after the first 45 Ft. it all looks like along ways down whistling
It is amazing what you can do when you want to up


My son is 17 and told me this is what he wants to do. I did tell him he's going to be out in the woods as the apprentice, doing all the stuff the junior man has to do to learn. He's going to be enrolled at a lineman school and then we'll see about getting him a job. If I had to do it over again I might try this, being in the power house has its advantages and disadvantages. I don't know if it's the turbine or Iron Maiden that has cost me some hearing.