I've been using a Werner work platform.  They're actually made to stand on,
but provide me with some work space.  Various manufacturers make
ladder-mount splicing workstations, most are outrageously expensive though.

On Mon, Dec 3, 2018 at 5:09 PM Adam Moffett <[email protected]> wrote:

> Do you mount a work table on the ladder?
>
> On 12/3/2018 5:39 PM, Jason McKemie wrote:
>
> 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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