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Post by mindyabiness on Aug 5, 2024 12:36:15 GMT -5
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Post by stc1993 on Aug 5, 2024 12:50:01 GMT -5
I use to take the Red Cross classes every year. When we had the PCHs. It was required. It's changed since I took the classes. Now it's just CPR no longer the breaths too.
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Post by ferris1248 on Aug 5, 2024 12:58:40 GMT -5
That's a neat pic.
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Post by tampaspicer on Aug 5, 2024 13:56:59 GMT -5
I use to take the Red Cross classes every year. When we had the PCHs. It was required. It's changed since I took the classes. Now it's just CPR no longer the breaths too. Last time I took one just chest compressions unless it was going to be a long time to get help. Forgot how long that was but main thing is to keep blood flowing to the brain.
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Post by One Man Gang on Aug 5, 2024 14:14:01 GMT -5
30 to 2. Just took a medical PIC class and cpr refresher. Now I can effectively give the constipated libs around here a proper enema, a IV drip of morphine, or suture their lips closed without killing them.
Crazy pic.
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Post by linemannf on Aug 6, 2024 6:24:08 GMT -5
When I was taught pole top rescue many years ago we were taught to assess the injured's condition and give 2 breaths and begin CPR if needed prior to lowering the victim and this photo of these 2 JEA lineman was always shown, I only had to perform pole top rescue one time in my career and because of my training it went smooth as silk, we used to have to be certified in pole top and bucket truck rescue every year.
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Post by stc1993 on Aug 6, 2024 16:04:07 GMT -5
I have a BIL that's a treeman. When he was young he worked for Davie tree co. In Tampa. He got into a high voltage line. His groundman jumped off the bucket truck and left him. He lived and was in the hospital for a long time. It blowed out his ass and feet. I've seen his feet they're still messed up. I was told he has a hole in his buttock you can sit a beer can in. He's still alive about 70 y.o. He still does stump grinding.
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Post by linemannf on Aug 6, 2024 18:30:48 GMT -5
I have a BIL that's a treeman. When he was young he worked for Davie tree co. In Tampa. He got into a high voltage line. His groundman jumped off the bucket truck and left him. He lived and was in the hospital for a long time. It blowed out his ass and feet. I've seen his feet they're still messed up. I was told he has a hole in his buttock you can sit a beer can in. He's still alive about 70 y.o. He still does stump grinding. Electricity is not very forgiving, two different lineman that I worked with a lot retired and went to work elsewhere have been electrocuted and didn't make it, it's a pretty hard pill to swallow because the mistakes that each one of them made was not reflective of the good lineman that they were. We always had a saying "Open, Check Open, Test , Tag and Ground, doing these things will help keep you around". You have to live by these rules because complacency kills.
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Post by illinoisfisherman on Aug 6, 2024 19:25:50 GMT -5
I just had a tree company cut down a bunch of trees out of higher tension wires. I couldn’t watch
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Post by PolarsStepdad on Aug 6, 2024 20:15:25 GMT -5
I have a BIL that's a treeman. When he was young he worked for Davie tree co. In Tampa. He got into a high voltage line. His groundman jumped off the bucket truck and left him. He lived and was in the hospital for a long time. It blowed out his ass and feet. I've seen his feet they're still messed up. I was told he has a hole in his buttock you can sit a beer can in. He's still alive about 70 y.o. He still does stump grinding. Electricity is not very forgiving, two different lineman that I worked with a lot retired and went to work elsewhere have been electrocuted and didn't make it, it's a pretty hard pill to swallow because the mistakes that each one of them made was not reflective of the good lineman that they were. We always had a saying "Open, Check Open, Test , Tag and Ground, doing these things will help keep you around". You have to live by these rules because complacency kills. Who dud you work for
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Post by linemannf on Aug 6, 2024 22:13:58 GMT -5
Electricity is not very forgiving, two different lineman that I worked with a lot retired and went to work elsewhere have been electrocuted and didn't make it, it's a pretty hard pill to swallow because the mistakes that each one of them made was not reflective of the good lineman that they were. We always had a saying "Open, Check Open, Test , Tag and Ground, doing these things will help keep you around". You have to live by these rules because complacency kills. Who dud you work for I worked for GRU for about 35 years, prior to that I worked for several contractors as a grunt/apprentice.
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Post by PolarsStepdad on Aug 7, 2024 9:20:14 GMT -5
I worked for GRU for about 35 years, prior to that I worked for several contractors as a grunt/apprentice. I worked with Henkle & McCoy (wrinkle and destroy 😁) on a couple of jobs And Dillard Smith for a short while. H&M were good to work for. I enjoyed my time with them. DS wasn't terrible but it was a swamp job. I was only there a short time before being transfered back to an I side job. If I wasn't already almost 3/5 of the way through the inside program I'd have probably switched to SEALCAT and became a lineman.
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Post by One Man Gang on Aug 7, 2024 11:10:01 GMT -5
My hat is off to you guys who do this kind of work. Y'all are nuts.
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Post by linemannf on Aug 7, 2024 15:26:06 GMT -5
My hat is off to you guys who do this kind of work. Y'all are nuts. I always loved it even on the bad days it was good, that was back before being a lineman was cool and somewhat well thought of, one of my old boss men used to tell me that we ( his lineman ) were a little closer to the barstool than we were the church pulpit LOL and outside of them just needing us we were just one mess up away from being unemployed, but the truth was he loved us and would do about anything for us as we would him. I'm a different man today as I stay far away from any bar stools and find myself closer to the church pulpit than back then ( if he could just see me now LOL ) even though it was just a job I couldn't have done anything else.
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Post by tonyroma on Aug 7, 2024 15:48:48 GMT -5
No better feeling than seeing those bucket trucks rolling down your street after the powers been out for a week, you are appreciated sir.
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