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I've never had to climb a pole wearing Gaffs, as all our HV poles wear climbing studs, just lean a pole ladder up against the pole and extend it and you find access to the pole, you have to be wearing your pole belt and safety strap, otherwise you can't work, just gripping to the pole!.
Besides most of our poles are made of Concrete, for HV applications.
Bill,
Thanks for the link, mate, I'd forgotten about that one!

There was a pic submitted to ECN not long ago, that showed a couple of guys using a ShotGun Hot-stick and Bjarney replied to it, I have been trying to find it, can anyone give us a link?

Trumpy,

Is this it?
https://www.electrical-contractor.net/ubb/Forum17/HTML/000039.html

Bill

No, Bill, I think that it was a discussion on PPE.
I am just drawing at straws, here, mate.

Nick
Thanks for the reply, when I went to Radio school the wiremen were right next door with their gaffs and poles, and remember seeing a couple of guys 'Gaff-out' half-way up,, Ouch.
and since then have never seen anyone use them.

Wm.Colt

Bill — Trumpy may be referring to a image of two guys in arc-blast suits applying a portable ground set in metal-enclosed medium-voltage gear, using a shotgun/gripall stick.

It may have been a training/demonstration photo of a crew at a military base about a year ago.

Bill,
They were using the Shot-gun stick with a Ball-type fitting on the end of it to ground a fitting in an outside panel, against Static Electricity, at least I think that was what they were doing!.
Hope that last sentence, makes some sort of sense!.

Bjarney,
You've nailed it there, mate!.
That's the one, can't find it anywhere,
I thought it was originally posted in the Pictures for Discussion Area?.
I have also been known to be wrong too!