I was a wireman in the Army, trained in pole farms at Fort Ord. Those were nice new poles and climbing with spikes was not too hard. Out in the real world the poles were less then perfect, old, hard and a lot of them tar covered. Changed my MOS to radio repair, liked my feet on the ground!

@culbyj3665

Жыл бұрын

MAy I ask what timeframe that you were as a Wireman? The methods and procedures to me of the Military are fascinating as they are the framework that began the Lineman Trade as it is Today in My opinion.

As a cable splicer for Illinois Bell in the early 1980's, we were instructed to remove any existing customer drop wire cross arms in the Chicago area when we replaced cables on that run. Granted, the ones that were placed were only about half of that length, but often times the through bolt/nut was too rusty to budge, so had to be hack sawed off by hand, all of this while using pole steps and a body belt as well. Fun times, glad I survived them.

My grandfather was a lineman in the Pacific theatre during WW2, with the Army Air Corps, he didn’t talk much about the war so we don’t know much about where exactly he was, I was 11 when he passed in 1981, I actually got more out of him about the war than my dad ever did, I remember him telling me about being in the Solomon Islands. I recall him not being able to throw a baseball because he was wounded at one time. I wrote to see about getting his service records but the archives said they were destroyed in the fire back in 1973

My dad did this in the Vietnam War as well as driving an ambulance. He did not like talking about it too much. He also mention losing his good friend while serving. But this video should show the will risk, it was a very dangerous job and you had to be extremely fast in a stressful enviroment. Thank you for your service Dad!

I worked for a Bell System company. Fond 1970s memories of pole school in Newark, NJ where we learned how to use hooks to climb and set cross-arms.

My Uncle served with 926th Signal Battalion 1943-1945. He was a lineman on the front lines, D-Day, Battle of the Bulge, to Germany. The 926th received the Meritorious Unit Citation.

Believe it or Not during my stint in the military we were shown these films,as training even during the “ Vietnam era “ a big ole thumbs up 👍

@eric5906

4 жыл бұрын

Q: did they really show sex ed films in the military (warning u about STD 's) or is that just made up?

@dwightl5863

4 жыл бұрын

@@eric5906 Look here: kzread.info/dash/bejne/m2ekrMejhNLLpKg.html

@Force05289

Ай бұрын

@@eric5906unsure about Vietnam but they do it now. But I have seen posters from ww1 about safe sex, so I believe it’s been a modern military priority for a while .

My Pops worked at Brooklyn Electric when VietnamWar was going on and he knew he was gonna get drafted so he enlisted, and went Alaska then Vietnam

My grandfather was a lineman in the CBI Theatre from 1943-1945

Didn't previously know a single thing about this? Well, you do now.

@satanofficial3902

4 жыл бұрын

One learns something new every day...

Very well done, the place your phone number is, is called the "number card", the terminal block with a legend of location numbers on the side is "the network"

Nicely done as always 👍 💯

Oh crap! I'm gonna go to jail for building telephone poles and lines for my model train layout. And I have some glass insulators in my possession too.

outstanding!!!

Looking for part one of this video when they put the poles in the ground

Some of these old telegraph poles still exist

@mitlereeeee9574

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah just hard the place to look is the railroads expect some are taking em down

This film is restricted! Anyone caught building their own telephone poles at home will be arrested and prosecuted!

@TexasRailfan2008

2 жыл бұрын

Looks like I’m in trouble 😅 *sweating intensifies*

@imark7777777

2 жыл бұрын

Forget about that just for seeing this information I could be in trouble, that's some serious top level government information there that nobody would be able to duplicate without it.

You can't be wired too tight to do this kind of work.

Who’s is doing those jobs now?

@philharmonic6481

4 жыл бұрын

Illegal immigrants

@Chris_at_Home

Жыл бұрын

Many places bury the phone lines. Also single lines aren't run but multi pair cables are used. In many areas fiber optic is used to a node the last mile is copper.

KEEP YOU'RE KNEES LOOSE !

Restricted film! We must not let the Reds get their hands on rough lumber and lag bolt technology!

@Schneids1216

4 жыл бұрын

well, we must not at least learn it from them

@eric5906

4 жыл бұрын

Thnks for the idea. I'm going to sell this info to the Soviets.

@stevehomeier8368

4 жыл бұрын

Da Kamarade!!!!