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Is that a way to temporarily replace a post or just a way to access the wires? I prefer the ladder… the latter!
Looks like it’s just to hold up the wires while they wait for a replacement pole. BUT, the lines are more than strong enough to hold a person on a ladder. There are actually hooks on the top of that ladder (not being used here) that can hook onto the wire to allow a person to work on connections that are not at a pole.
I have a hunch that the cones mark where the chalk outline was drawn.
“We like to keep this area clear.”
Doog one…..lol
I sure hope that’s a wood ladder. There’s a lot of wet on the ground.
It’s fiberglass, about a 75LB ladder. it’s being used to maintain minimum height since apparently the pole (just about 15′ to the left of the ladder) has been hit by a car. It is certainly a Cable TV coaxial like
It’s fiberglass.
Stairway to Heaven is out of order – Please use ladder
For the win.
And there’s Smoke on the Water, so Don’t Rock the Boat. It looks like you’ll have to take the Night Train to Memphis.
Good thing that ladder is made of metal…
It’s actually fiberglass. Also, that looks like phone or cable, not power.
And I’ve been using a brick to hold my ladder in place.
Mario hit a brick in the sewers and a ladder went up, now he will climb this ladder and run along the wire over the flag-and-castle zone to the secret skip level tube!
Looks like a fiberglass ladder, and is probably holding up telephone wires rather than power. If they were power, there’d likely be three wires (in the US), spaced apart rather than bundled together (unless it was service to a house, but then you wouldn’t likely have a pole).
Still a shocker when I first looked at it.
Ya, looks like fiberglass to me. You are right, it is likely phone or cable, but i say that because of the loop. On the secondary side of the transformer the wires would be twisted together, not separated. When you say the wires would be separate, that would be the primaries, and there would only be 3 if it was a three-phase system, otherwise there would only be one.
Actually these wires are often used for 240v power in places with earthquakes or where arcing caused by wind could start bush fires
Typical public utilities worker. As soon as he got his ladder in position he was gone in a flash.
Climbing the corporate ladder is not all it’s cracked up to be.
This fix… is obviously an EXTENSION of their creativity! Who ever did this should expect some LADDERal movement within the company, and full SUPPORT from upper management!
I recall swerving around ladder on highways in southern California but never on a sidewalk!
If a ladder is vertical does that mean that its zone of bad luck travels indefinitely in two directions? Think of the billions of people being impacted by this. I smell a massive class action lawsuit in the near future.
You’ll find that climbing this ladder might be a shocking experience.
If only it were a metal later that was touching power line. Neither of which is true.
@KG: I think you’re missing the point of this site. We don’t mind an explanation of what is actually happening, but a toss around a joke or two next time. This is good therapy here,
Really. Lighten up. If you get too wired, we’ll have to subject you to shock treatment.
This must be one of those public suicide booths I’ve been hearing about.
This would be much more dangerous were it not for the guy down in the manhole holding the ladder steady.
If the ladder’s made of metal, you’d get shocked, wouldn’t you?
It’s a fiberglass ladder, and that isn’t a power line.
It would still be funny if it was made of metal & it was near a power line.
What, are you saying you’ve never played Shocks and Ladders?
Well…it’s a kludge, but if the alternative is leaving however many homes without phone and internet, or perhaps even power, for however long it takes to get a new pole installed (maybe some time given the snow), I’ll take the kludge.
Now all we need is a little basin at the bottom and a clown with an ubmrella at the top of the ladder.
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Race you to the top!
I see the ladder crop is coming in.
OMG THIS IS SO FUNNY! I have the inside scoop, this was MY COMPANY and MY DEPARTMENT WHO DID THIS!!!!!!! so EPIC!!! I LOVE Cheezburger! EPIC WIN!!
(sorry)
Please, enlighten us. Does this represent the means, or the end?
It’s actual a new money-saving intuitive by the power company. No more need for trucks with cherry-pickers to get linesmen to the top of power poles, you just have them climb the ladder-pole.
Jacob’s ladder just wasn’t quite long enough…
YOU MUST CONSTRUCT ADDITIONAL PYLONS.
StarCraft I, a Blizard classic!!
Yes, the two orange cones will keep the children away.
Without regard for safety, the orange cone, Mike, has double dog dared Ike to climb to the top.
I realize this is nearly a year old already, just thought I’d confirm for anyone curious that it is in fact Cable TV mainline being supported by the ladder. I work with the technician that did the fix. The pole was hit by a drunk driver and there was a wait while a new pole was set. The ladder is fiberglass and was chained and locked to the lines.
The funny thing is that it is metal. XDDDD