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Thumbs up from Tennessee. Have a question. If you take the blocks off the hand line how are you supposed to pull the replacement transformer up? We just got the ox so it's new to me. My thought was to replace the loooong rope and blocks we have and use the ox with the hand line to do everything. But I don't see how I can do that cause my hand line will have to keep the blocks in it to get the new tf up the pole. Therefore my handl line is a mile long when I don't need it to be 99% of the time? Just need some understanding. Thanks.
Yeah in case you need to let it down hot haha. Open the switch from the ground with an extendo and remove the high side with an 8 foot shotgun and you'll never get close enough to primary to need gloves or sleeves. Unless Pike makes you wear them, I wouldn't know.
Once I was sitting in a restaurant waiting for my meal. behind m was a man sitting alone. Soon he was joined by his friend the following conversation happened. #1 "Hay, how is every thing in Legal"#2, "fine, how about advertisement? "#1, " wonderful, soon our bran name will be a household word."#2, "Great, then we can start taking them to court when they use it like one."The word "ox block" in and of its self has no meaning. Some one could mistake it for a animal, a beast of burden, a cow. Is it part of harness for a team of oxen? I took a course in scaffolding and they used the term "Calvin Clamp". I was totally confused ,and I was trained and worked in rigging in the Navy. One day I found, laying on the side of the road, a bag with a U-bolt and roddle wire rope clamp. the package proclaimed that it was a "Calvin Clamp". No where was it labeled as a wire rope or cable clamp. The Milwaukee Sawzall never had it noted in either packaging that it was a reciprocating saw. Therefore, they are called on the job sawzall no matter who makes them. Some on asked me if they could barrow my "Klines" I told him that I had Kalvin Clines an my butt and Patsy Cline in my car. He pointed to my lineman's pullier. Band-Aid and Kleenex, Westinghouse did not think that it was necessary to include the generic names in their advertising or packaging. Roller blades forgot to tell every one they were skates. All of these and more have found it necessary to go to court to protect their trade marks. Ford never had that problem. To day you might see an add for Ford but 100 years ago, when autos were new, all o the ads were for Ford Automobile Co. or Ford cars never just Fords. They never had to take any one to court for Trade Mark infringements. An interesting one that has come up in the last few year is bird brain civilians calling the Landing Craft Personnel Vehicle (LCVP) landing boat as a "Higgins boat". Higgins Boat Works in Louisiana not only made the LCVP but also PT's that were called them Higgins PT's to distinguish them from another manufacture. If you watch the clips they show you well see Landing Craft Missionized (LCM) 3's and English boats with their own designations.
