Re: Re: One day in 1963
Val Golding
Sunday, October 14, 2001 11:22 AM
That's an amusing story, Bob, but in Yakima on the Brill
Master Unit we had to do just the opposite, put the other pole up before
taking the first one down, because if the air compressor was on, it would
draw an arc you could see a mile away...
At 09:54 PM 10/13/01 , you wrote:
>Peter,
>
>I programmed myself to lower the back pole first even if the interior lights
>were out and people wanted to get on. It's the only way for me to make sure.
>Even so there were a few incidents but I never went that far.
>
>Glad you made it without mishap.
>
>I never pulled down overhead though I broke a few span wires.
>
>Once I threw a pole at speed with a PCC in San Francisco and damaged the
>pole. So I put it on the hook, put up the front pole and during that
>interval the rear pole sagged down and earthed out on the metal roof and the
>overhead started smoking and then vaporised in a big plume of smoke. About
>200 yards of copper wire ended up in little droplets on the street.
>
>Bob Murphy
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: <[email protected]>
>To: [snip]
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At 09:54 PM 10/13/01 , you wrote:
>Peter,
>
>I programmed myself to lower the back pole first even if the interior lights
>were out and people wanted to get on. It's the only way for me to make sure.
>Even so there were a few incidents but I never went that far.
>
>Glad you made it without mishap.
>
>I never pulled down overhead though I broke a few span wires.
>
>Once I threw a pole at speed with a PCC in San Francisco and damaged the
>pole. So I put it on the hook, put up the front pole and during that
>interval the rear pole sagged down and earthed out on the metal roof and the
>overhead started smoking and then vaporised in a big plume of smoke. About
>200 yards of copper wire ended up in little droplets on the street.
>
>Bob Murphy
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: <[email protected]>
>To: [snip]
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