In a message dated 1/26/2007 1:42:42 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Also I thought that putting up signs on wooden utility poles posed a danger to the crews that had to climb the poles. Is this and urban legend or simply no longer relevant? I haven't seen a utility person actually climb up a pole since the days when I chased behind the horse-drawn wagons delivering ice to the houses on my street in Dorchester (arguably, America's first Streetcar suburb, by the way) where families didn't have electric or gas refrigerators.** Have you ever seen one? The utility companies send their crews out in trucks with cherry-picker hoists. Al Krigman Left of Ivan Grozny ® ** The reason for chasing the wagons was to steal little chunks of ice when the iceman was inside the customer's dropping off the block of ice.
