A Day With A Lineman #41 ~ Up In Flames

As of midnight that day, the local police were giving the ability to chase criminals again in their patrol cars. Well this jack wagon, after calling multiple times threatening “suicide by cop” decided to do a hit and run. The police were led on a high speed chase outside of town for about 10 or so miles. Attempting to take a turn at 90mph in a mini van was another piss poor decision he made that day. He smashed into a pole, flew off the road into the field and his vehicle caught fire.

As crazy as it seems, this nut job walked away from this incident. Well he was hauled of in an ambulance and tried fighting the medical personnel while he was in there. I guess even after the wreck he still had some fight left in him.

After doing a bit of scrambling around to de-energize this section of like we got to work. It was a bit confusing because we had just replaced about a mile long section of this circuit. They changed the way it normally fed so we looked a bit like those firefighting clowns at the circus.

Instead of have over 50 people and a bunch of irrigation pumps out of power, we only had one person without power while we made repairs. We were really short handed this weekend. Just 3 of us answered the phone.

I heard rumor that you can pick up cars really cheap at the local tow company’s shop

Poles like this one are pretty much a “slam dunk” for us. Having done hundreds of these car hit pole jobs in my 20+ year career as a Lineman. I failed getting progress pics because we were short handed and I was running the job. It works out that way sometimes.

We finished up just as the sun set. Then another outage call came in… oh great!! Here we go again!!

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