I have several locations that I splice from a ladder on a pole.  It isn't
my favorite way to do things, but it is workable.  If you're going to need
to do it in inclement weather, I would probably purchase a strand-mountable
ladder tent - providing steel strand is present.

-Jason

On Mon, Dec 3, 2018 at 3:54 PM Adam Moffett <[email protected]> wrote:

> I'm looking at some rural places where for some reason the power company
> chose to run their pole line about 100 yards off the road behind the
> houses.
>
> I cannot drive a bucket truck to some of these places.  Sometimes you'd
> be crushing a corn field to get there or other times it's brushy and
> untamed and you couldn't drive anything less than a forestry mulcher
> through it.
>
> How do you equip someone for fusion splicing out in the bush like that?
> If we build on this route, we'll have to be able to splice out there at
> some point.  Do you clear a space on the ground and set up a tent or do
> you climb the pole and set up an aerial tent and lash a work table to
> the pole?
>
> -Adam
>
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