OMG I am leaving my job

I worked for NG for a couple of years and always found them a good company to work for. Generally good people who know their jobs and leave you to get on with yours. Lots of opportunity for social type stuff and keeping people informed of what is going on.

Just remember that electricity can bite back and in the case of NG it can bite back hard!
 
Old Salt said:
I worked for NG for a couple of years and always found them a good company to work for. Generally good people who know their jobs and leave you to get on with yours. Lots of opportunity for social type stuff and keeping people informed of what is going on.

Just remember that electricity can bite back and in the case of NG it can bite back hard!
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I know. I do it now with Nat Highways, only difference now is the high voltage tickets, they are putting me through those courses whilst I work on LV underground supplies jointing which is what I am doing now. Looking forward to it, the height of pylons excites me. I love being in the air.
 
Old Salt said:
Just remember that electricity can bite back and in the case of NG it can bite back hard!
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400kV doesn't bite, it eats you and spits you back out in the shape of something black and shriveled. One of our guys had a very lucky escape recently with MV. Came in contact with 3.3kV
 
I know its not the same deadly voltage but when I was an apprentice, one mechanic, Abdul from Mauritius, was impervious to the high voltage on cars. He could pull a plug lead off while the engine was running, put his finger in the cap, put his nose a quarter of an inch from the bonnet rod and let the HT sparks jump from his nose to the bonnet rod! The barsteward had a thing about doing the same thing with the plug lead and grabbing hold of an apprentice as they walked past him so you quickly learned to give him a wide berth!
 
One more example of electrical stupidity from me. I’ve posted this before:

Mottie said:
The worse bit of diy wiring I’ve ever seen was when we moved into a new council house with a garden in the early seventies. I was about 14 at the time. My dad went out and bought a secondhand 'home made' electric lawnmower from someone who lived in a block of flats. It was basically a cylinder push lawnmower that the bloke had mounted an electric motor on to, welded a couple of pulleys on it and connected them with a fan belt. However, the cable coming out of the motor (no switch, just connect up and go) went to a single socket outlet bolted to a piece of wood on the handle. Consequently, the extension lead had a three pin plug at either end! My dad was excitedly setting it up when he got it home and told me to plug it in indoors when I noticed that and told him it was dangerous. He told me not to be silly and touched the pins at his end and promptly got an electric shock. He still used it after that but plugged the lawnmower end of the cable in first!
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