Nicholas New

Setting poles around energized powerlines. Developing a pre task plan every morning. Locating underground utilities with shovel and vac. Spreading hot phases onto hot arms. Pulling in rope and hanging shives. Pulling in wire and setting up the grounds on the wire side. Sagging wire with a stop watch. Clipping in phases with armor rod or with out. Hanging transformers. Making up transformers. Setting junction boxes , switchgear and transformers. I’ve made up 200+ elbows. Making up junction boxes and labeling them. Making up underground transformers. Hanging guys , framing poles. Making up jumpers on 69 line. Putting Mack’s on the line and running jumpers hot. Holding back hot phases so they can set the pole. Installing anchors and hanging down guys. Climbing poles to clip in when it’s to muddy or when needed.

Built mufflers for kalmar trucks.

Nov -April I was a still doing my same groundman job just getting apprentice hours and pay. April -July I was the low step apprentice on a pole change out crew. I delivered poles to the sites. Framed poles, dug pole holes by hand, helped set poles, handed up material , made up triplex connections. Climbed when necessary. We went on a couple storms in ks.

Layed 6 inch pipe in a duct bank as deep as 15 feet down. We also set manholes. I operated a skid steer and a dump truck daily. I did a lot of hand digging to find utilities.

I climbed everyday and trimmed the trees over the powerlines. We would get 10 feet of clearance away from the primary. Sometimes we would use bucket trucks and back yard machines. Did a fair amount of storm work in kc to get the power back on. Sometimes we would climb as high as 80 feet and remove all the limbs that were hanging over the line.