ZR600......I'm currently using a 100' #12 wore out extension cord w/ missing ground prong and smallish alligator clips at the rusted out service to provide a modicum of power for our drills, porta-bands, and pony threader. Am I happy with it?... No! Can I realistically provide something better (safer)?.... No! Do I worry about it?...I did for the first five minutes(that was a week ago). Is it against code?.....No (90-2(b)5.
As a traveling crew specializing in building electrical transmission substations, there are four of us. One is an experienced journeyman lineman (foreman), the second is an experienced groundsman/operator, the third is an experienced operator/intermediate lineman ( who was, by the way, the other surviving person in the bucket alongside his lineman buddy and watched as his buddy was killed by adjacent power line static down at the Fairfield power house in the recent past. The fourth person is myself, an experienced licensed journeyman wireman. We are building a small 138kv switch/end station for a pipe-line deep in the middle of north east Texas country, deep in the middle of the rain, cold, lots of mud, no place to warm up, and no grunts to help out. All I'm saying is that the welder probably didn't like it anymore than us but he has a job to do and has to do it with what he has to do it with.......Burns
