First let me give you a little warning. Some images may cause you to get a little queezy if you are sensitive to seeing dead animals. Don’t worry I will give you a fair warning Your Hive Lineman is at

My Lineman Sculpture still stands after 7 years. Nailed a hard hat to the top of the pole, painted a smiley face, and added a baby doll head to the end of a bolt… This is outside the city dump. #legend

Just so you know… These are the people building and maintaining the electrical grid. Are they 14yrs old or 40? Lineman… a different breed of people - pumping water out of the oil containment for the substation

As we were checking transformers and vaults for the cause of the outage, the other Lineman opened a vault lid… ”Oh CRAP!! A bunch of smoke came out of here!! My response… “Yeah, that’s most likely not

Another Day… Another Dollar… Mornings in the Lineman Bull Room start out slow but quickly escalate into a room full of laugher. Great way to start the day #linelife #lineman #linetrash #lacethemboots

The Boys and I just doing a little energized pole change out. Moving wires energized @14,400 volts to accommodate the new pole… No Problemo… piece of cake!! #linelife #hotwork #linetrash #electricity

Certain times of the year we simply can’t de-energize the line to replace poles and string in new wire. Springtime is super important to the farmers around here. Their irrigation pumps are basically running

Wrapping up another day… Yep, that’s an air hockey table in our lineman bullroom😉 #linetrash #lineman #humpday #kickyourfeetup

Warm winds melted the deep snow causing water to flood over the road. On a rural highway dividing the orchards, traffic is sparse in the middle of the night. With each vehicle driving through the puddle

I have been hit and miss when it comes to sharing with my fellow Hivers what is it like being High Voltage Journeyman Lineman. Sharing with the Hive community a little insight as to what we we do to keep

Here is a prime example why some power outages take so long to restore. Us Lineman don’t just flip a switch and TA-DA the lights are back on. Sometimes one problem develops into another extending the outage

Surrounded by trees weighted down by the snow, blue skies above, and down below Whitney Creek makes a turn. Not a bad place to be if you ask me. Though I do wish it was for fun instead of work but hey,

Welcome back to another edition of... A Day With A Lineman #16 Replacing a Broken Pole ~ Time Lapse I’m mixing things up a little bit with this one. If you follow me you may have seen the pole that recently

What do to while waiting for the guys to show up with a new pole to replace this one that blew over... Make a Stupid Snapchat video!! Typically customers exaggerate when reporting issues... not this customer.

Don’t mind that lunatic with the chainsaw... he is just clearing the right-of-way... The Dewalt cordless chainsaw earned its keep the past few days.

Being a Lineman ain’t so bad... just out doing line inspection and enjoying the view.

Typically when I trim trees away from the Powerlines, I like to give them the “Lifetime Cut” AKA “Cut it at the Base” These Russian Olive Trees got lucky... those thorns are evil!!

Well this is my first post using Dapplr... Playing the short video game is something I can have fun with. So we had an outage and had to test to see what caused the fault. We first looked things over really

What is happening my fellow Hivers? I hope everyone is happy, healthy, and enjoying Life. Getting a phone call at 2 am to go to work doesn’t seem too enjoyable but you gotta make that lemonade with those

... into the mountains and put some wire back up in the air due to a tree falling through the lines. It was a bit chilly at first but once that sun broke through... Perfect!!! With the sun beating on your