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Holy Crap!!!!!
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yeah it was crap alright.....I don't mind steep ground but when its hot and socked in with smoke its not all pleasant .

I have a video loading of the fire line dug by hand in a steeper part, that's the hike in on the fire edge

here is a "road" we punched in with a dozer that came up from the south on that topo map , had its own special kinda danger even though it wasn't on fire edge

 
trying to get a shot of our line , couple miles through a box canyon...grueling terrain

 
Yep, I couldn't find it. Thanks rip.

Here's some pics that were taken over the last year or so of my 15 year lineman career as a broadband tech. When I was first hired, I started out at the bottom of the ladder doing non pay and voluntary disconnects, installs, changes of service, then moved my way up to ground man and tech II and did house service calls, then to system tech, headend tech, and ultimately to anything they needed done and was on call 24-7 for 7 systems in 3 states, and I've been called out round the clock and every major holiday there is and usually twice on Christmas.

Anyway, here's a few pics and a brief description of some of what sometimes goes into bringing cable tv, and internet to your box.

Here is one of the smaller headends. A headend is the place where the satellite and antennas and other assorted equipment is that bring the channel to you and put them on a certain channel so your TV can pick it up.

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Being a line tech, usually requires you to work more during the worst possible times. I've worked 27 hours straight, and as many as 149 hours in a 2 week pay period. And just for the record, they had to manually do our pay during that payday because the computer wouldn't calculate a 27 hour shift in a day. LOL

Cold. Pfft.

Wet, nothing to it.

At least until you have to start working on the power and fuses and such.

Hot and humid and miserable. Yep, I've done it.

Tornado's; check.

When most people are hunkering down, I've went straight to the middle of it. BTW, this pic was taken about 2 PM in the day.

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Snowy and cold weather. No problem.

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Tracking where the fiber has been shot in-two by a 20 gauge. Been there and done that.

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Making your way to the 2nd highest peak in the state on a narrow trail only as wide as a bulldozer blade is always a challenge. While this may not look too bad at first glance, it's 5 miles of this to get to that headend and about a 3500 ft elevation difference from gate to gate. I have seen a little drizzle at the bottom of the mountain change to 3 inches of snow even in April.

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And sometimes even if you make it up the mountain with out any major problems, sometimes just getting back off of the mountain is a job. Especially if a tree falls blocking the road while you're up there.

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And then, some days are just perfect

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Yeah, there's been a bunch to those too. Sometimes worse. But they've usually got a huge tv to watch springer on and the service line is usually on speed dial.
 
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Thats actually a sticker on the file cabinet at work. I laugh every time I walk by it.
 
I have a bunch more from my last deployment I'll load when I get some rest....40 mph wind in the Columbia River Gorge, pushes Rowena Fire into The Dalles, Or....we caught it just at city limits. Fire goes from 400 acres to 2500 in this time lapse.

We had it hung up with retardant and heavy helo's on the rim then it just went off and kicked our ass. We shook it off about dark and if you go full screen hi resolution you can see the left flank go out from the top to the bottom. That was my division after we regrouped

 
I have a small architectural fabrication shop, mostly high end residential and commercial type stuff. I do custom wood and steel projects. Staircase i built and finally got installed last week, Mig welded with Miller 252, .030 wire 75%/25%
and pic number 2 is various wood projects in the works., Pic 3 is a wood and steel structure i finished earlier in the year.
Most of my work is for architects and designers. My welding background comes from working and building off road race trucks, I just can not stand working in the automotive race world, it is a small world,full of people who have egos that need not have an ego to begin with. And i was a custom cabinet/woodwork guy from way back in the day.

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this was from my previous job. the machine in the middle is a rototiller on steroids. its pushing a fully loaded liquid asphalt tanker, and pulling a loaded water truck, it mixes the hot asphalt, water, and cement dust, (spread on the ground before tilling) into the dirt. When the water and liquid asphalt combine it creates a foam, and when mixed into the cement and dirt is used to make a sub-base for roadways. the tiller is powered by a V-12 Mercedes diesel pushing a little over 700 horses foamed.jpg
 
I'm not as cool as you guys. My job sucks... all I do is make sure public money is spent appropriately and if it isn't I blast people, write nasty letters to board members and in rare instances involve authority figures and lawyers. And I can't give out any specific info based on confidentiality reasons. I don't make anything useful.

CPA - Can't Produce Anything
CPA - Copy, Paste, Assemble

I could give a pic of this hotel room I'm in... in the middle of a Hasidic jewish community that I am currently auditing. BTW.... they drive like maniacs.... including the school bus drivers.

I did landscape in my younger days but being half Hispanic... that's like a given ;)
 
Built this a few weeks ago for a friend of mine that works for the gas company. He wanted a a spud crescent that he could pound on things with, i came up with this. I call it the the SPAMMER. spud wrench, line up tool hammer.
I started with a Old hammer that had a broken claw, cut the head off, ran a 3/8" rabbit down the head, cnc plasma cut a plate to attach to the crescent head and tig welded them together with a high carbon content tig rod.

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