Gidday George,
Lineman Class A, eh?, do you do Live Joints?.
I call it quits at 66kV, the Flashover distances are just too small for my liking!.
I had a real hard time learning Live Glove And Barrier work, was out of my time and still couldn't do it properly, and all of a sudden things just clicked, have had no problems since, Hot Stick work was a sinch compared to LGAB, at least you were a fair distance away, if something went wrong, hence the photo by Bjarney!!
I don't work on Transmission either apart from doing the odd "look-see" in a chopper, just to generally inspect the Local DC link and other EHV lines, you wouldn't get me that close to the lines!.
Transpower(they own the Grid over here), have thier own Line crews, for all of the Heavy Duty stuff!(thank God). [Linked Image]

[This message has been edited by Trumpy (edited 04-27-2003).]