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This is me last year giving our marketing guy a nice photo that he asked for

Lmao... Almost nsfw! Did he ever use that photo?

Unfortunately no I was a little disappointed 😭😭

Maybe you should of taken your shirt off too, they might of used it for a calender. Lol

Local 77 Lineman of the Month. Ha ha ha

That was an awesome story. It also looks dangerous - stay safe. The most dangerous jobs on dry land are supposed to be logger and miner. I'll bet lineman comes in third - and that is without chasing fires!

Believe it or not a lineman used to be the most dangerous job.
“Let’s see what happens when we do this?”
Boom
You dead
Better record that is the safety standards book.
All of our safety precautions and guidelines are written with the blood of lineman in the past. With increasing knowledge and safety standards it has dropped on the list.

I totally believe it. We had to watch an arc flash hazard presentation at work. There were some things in there that I wish I could un-see.

I hear ya, that is my worst fear, to be severely burned from and electrical shock. Cooked from the inside out.
🤮🤮

Wow - that's some impressively big country you got out there. And quite an impressive stream in the 4th photo.

Wheat fields as far as the eye can see. This is all dry land wheat, non irrigated. They just plant it and hope for the best. Lol.
A couple years ago we had a fire rip through and burn 30+ poles down. Not my favorite type of work to deal with but the money is good😜

I was holding it for a while

Are you cooking jerky again? Hahahaha

Wheat smoke flavor is a delicacy 😉

You guys have work on your hands dealing with fire....if that is how dry your country can be, and how extensively you grow wheat. Anyway, glad the farmers are armed to stem it . Which country is this by the way?

Washington State in the U.S.A.
These farmers can hold their own pretty well.

Oh, thanks. Anyway a farmer is a farmer, always having to over come so many risks and uncertainties.

I've managed to end up out on some brush and field fires to take pictures for our newspapers and the few times where the farmer was out and had equipment to take care of it, the fire was always put out faster. The problem is always going to be distance. Where is the fire station. How long does it take for someone to report. How long does it take a volunteer fire department (in our case) to respond, suit up and arrive? How long does it take to organize lines when they get there.

A farmer with a harrow cutting off a fire's fuel supply getting there within seconds of the fire starting and making a few trips around it is always going to have a better chance at it.

Here, of course, it used to be more common for the farmer to burn a field to prepare it for next year. The law may have changed, since I don't see as many of those as I used to. Driving up and down I-5 you could run into quite a few of the fires, and the smoke when the wind shifted. I was never really that concerned about them, but I believe people get quite upset about even the controlled burns.

They still burn fields off here after harvesting.

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