Had some time to spend in the shop yesterday while the ice storm was going on so decided to make a bird house
Saw this online somewhere so i copied it but gave it a twist.
Yes I am a retired (WOODWALKER)

I climb trees if the monetary motivation is high enough. But never a power pole yet. I did get asked to cut down some old ones by a power coop once

Ran into a few power pole in my day….

Creative work on the birdhouse.

I like it .

Been there done it for 40 years. That looks like Shakey Jake on that pole.

That is some great work you did there, and thanks.

Not a lineman but my son is attending OSUIT lineman program. He really enjoys climbing and he should start his first internship at the end of the month

I was thrid string tackle in highschool.

Dad used to be a lineman. If he was still alive I would be sending an offer.

Shakey on here is, but at the moment he is courting a Minnesota wolf in his workshop.

6 years with LE Myers/Parr etc then 37 years with Pacific Power/Rocky Mountain Power

I was for 34 years, left in 03 stuff was wearing out.

Phone guy for 34 years, climbed a lot of power poles and some little phone poles. Little was harder! Great job on the birdhouse.

Tomorrow evening it’ll be thawed enough…lol

Those lineman schools are good, but I’m not so sure on the training they get up to J status. When going to the rodeos down south, the J men get ticked off when our apprentice is drinking with us other J men. When they find out that ours start 12kv hot work within a year they get more ticked off. Sounds like they’re ground men until J status then jump into the thick of it, very dangers approach. Now at Manitoba Hydro a trainee is doing 25kv hot work after 1 year. Climbing…..lots of climbing. A lot of our infrastructure is no access and we only got a few of them fancy flex track buckets spread out across the province. When North Dakota cam to help in 2019, we couldn’t believe the equipment they had! Unreal, heck of a convoy!
One thing for sure, in the USA linemen are treated like the gods we are…….lol. Not so much up here.
Cool bird house!!

Looks like you have him climbing an old cross arm?

Yes old crossarm
stashed em away for years
built many things out of old crossarms from fences and chickin coops to houses
now adays there using them fiberglass arms around here

I've used a bunch on the farm and still have a few left in the pile. Handy sticks of wood.