Edison? STRONG!

Well, we're back to it after a long weekend. Yesterday was the first day of class for the week, we then had evaluations. It's nice to hear positive feedback for things that you do, and the evaluations were a chance to do just that! Also, this blog was specifically mentioned :-D.

One thing I've been working on a little bit is a t-shirt design. Before you see my design you should know that our "little" chant is one person shouting EDISON and then everyone shouting STRONG! And the full chant is, Who are we? EDISON What are we? STRONG! IF IT IS TO BE IT IS UP TO ME! EDISON *grunt* So he's my template for a shirt... so far.

Edison Strong

What do you think?

So at some point this week, we're going to be working with cross arms, and handlines. Send up a cross arm, installing it, Send up a drill, making holes, etc... I'm really looking forward to that. Tomorrow we're working in underground completing our competency for primary elbows, but today we did what I consider the most essential training a entry level apprentice lineman can get.

We dug hand holes. 

6' deep, 20" across, ready for poles!

The spade and the spoon....

The abyss...

McCormack and Meyers

Then the skills builder was a contest to see what crew could put on all their gear that fastest. We won! So we got another "skills builder" sticker! here's a video of a couple of the crews' turn.

Well, that's it for now. I'll do an update in about a week!