US Elections (& Politics) :)

Bell Wrench? Remember those? We all had them hanging from our belts...

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Used to beat the dogs that attacked you too...haha, no I didn't
Yep, that's the one. You could use the hole to hang it on the backside of a thru-bolt.
OK, I'm done....back to "U.S. Elections and Politics." :cool:
 
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Wow never used a power drill. We had to hand drill all our poles. I installed new Coax for Cable companies. We were paid by the foot. We would run, on avg. about a mile of cable a day. That is installing hardware, running the strand wire, coming back and running the cable and then lashing the cable up. Bug Nuts, now there is a term only Linemen know.. They were used to tie off lashing wire. So now thinking back, the mile mentioned was strand wire install, we would come back later and work on the cable which took longer.



We used preform wood loop makers, did it by hand, alot seem to have changed, we only single wire lashed too. I was hanging 3/4 inch coax for trunk installs, like the video. Did 1/2 coax for distribution/subdivisions. Also, we had to do so many wire wraps (I think 3 or 4 each) around each bolt side of the Bug Nut then tighten the nuts. We are talking 80-90s, hard to remember details ;)

Last story, not to ruin this Thread, we had to lash up a cable across a freeway, I-45. They had to stop traffic, of course, I remember running across across the freeway pulling a lasher with a rope, haha. Had to jump the center barrier...
Alot of our lashing was with a rope to a truck and we just held down on the rope and walked behind the truck...this only worked on roadside lashing/poles, of course.

Sorry :offtopic:

At the end of this video, is that what's called the loop? I see them all over around me, what is the purpose? Extra 'slack' in case a pole gets hit or tree on line?
 
Listen to what this moron says:

“Donald Trump is the most dangerous candidate for president in my lifetime. His disdain for the sanctity of our Constitution, the sanctity of democracy, the sanctity of the rule of law and the sanctity of the peaceful transfer of power should disqualify him from the office of president ever again......”​
Although very articulate, he's so stupid that as this passed over his lips...."his disdain for the sanctity of our Constitution, the sanctity of democracy, the sanctity of the rule of law", it doesn't occur to him those words are just as easily applicable to the current president. Springsteen wouldn't recognize any of those if they bit him in the ass.
 
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At the end of this video, is that what's called the loop? I see them all over around me, what is the purpose? Extra 'slack' in case a pole gets hit or tree on line?
Slack for expansion/contraction of the cable. No service loops in coax cable...
 
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Their campaign internal polling numbers must be tanking. Looks like the all-out effort by the media to save Walz is not working.
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Does The Regime Want Appalachia To Suffer?​



Would America’s federal government deliberately undermine recovery efforts to try to achieve its own desired political ends? Would the corporate press deliberately fail to cover the inadequacy of these efforts, hoping to prevent a candidate it fears doesn’t win?

For those that understand the true nature of the state, the answer is an obvious one.