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So that's what it looks like up there above me !! , they're saying snow down to 3k ft so that's 500' above me

 

To be totally honest I've never looked at one of those books. I suppose I should as your not the first to ask. I have to go up there later today for some stuff. I'll take a look and get back to ya. I can't imagine it will be in depth but could be a guide for basics.

 

Afternoon everyone

It's a wet and cold day here with it currently at 50 deg and falling . The big storm is supposed to hit my area about 1700hrs and should see snow down to 3k ft . My area is supposed to get mud / debris flows and flooding

Not doing much today may go to the weight room and throw some steel around and walk on a treadmill

 

Thanks.
They close early today btw.

 

Well that ought to help that shoulder

 

So, just as I'm getting ready to fire up the excavator I'm told there's a 7 kv powerline next to the waterline. So you can imagine my interest when I pulled up an old phone line that wasn't supposed to be there as well as it being on the wrong side of the waterline. But, since there wasn't a fireball, I figured I was alright.

 

That doesn't look like fun !!!

I remember back in 1985 while working as an Electrician in Scottsdale at the Scottsdale Sheraton Resort . watched a landscaper using his backhoe to dig a hole for a palm tree . he found a 12.5 k volt underground cable and when he pulled up on his bucket there was a loud explosion and flash

 

This happened to me 4x this last summer...

 

That's what Advil is for after exercising !!!

 

Ok, thanks for the heads up. I should be ok, it's not quite noon yet.

Just cloudy and cool in the PNW. Ever so slight chance of snow maybe tomorrow I highly doubt it though.

 

I normally dig in the same direction as the pipe, but since there wasn't supposed to be anything on that side (and I believed them), I went against my better judgement and just started following the leak. I was being gentle but still managed to snag the wire. The lesson here is to trust nobody.

 

Damn dude.
Well here electric can be a foot apart and a foot up or down from each other in same ditch.

 

Yep.
Landscapers .....

 

Yeah but you guys always want to check people shorts !!!! :}

Cypher

 

LOL !!!

I remember the electricians nickname on a jobsite was called Sparky

Ahhh the fun we had on jobsites and being in control of the power needed for other trades !!!

 

I kinda like the fact that here we are well within our duty to cut the ends off extension cords and just about anything else to do with power. This is my yard and it will be kept tidy.

 

@US Marine-Yes Chuck it is just up the hill from where you are, I should have given you a shout out as I came by the bottom of Cajon pass. Yo could have followed us as we crept up 138 and the 2 at <15 MPH!

 

wow those are two beautiful dogs. but man they are intimidating looking. I'm glad they are not chasing me

 

I can't help it when she asks. Mans gotta do what a mans gotta do.

 

CBYD ?
Made a lot of money fixing stuff that got dug up.
Even when we set poles, you couldn't always trust CBYD markouts and end up hand digging rather than shredding up stuff with the auger.