| 15kv rubber line hose: U-bangi |
| 5kv rubber line hose: Gut |
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| A.R.: Automatic Recloser |
| Adjustable wrench: Knuckle buster |
| Aerial cable spacer: Crow |
| Aerial device: Aerial bucket, lift, bucket truck, cherry picker, lift platforms |
| Alive: Wire that is energized |
| Alley Arm: A side arm brace, used when cross-arm is not balanced on both sides of pole but extending out on one side only |
| Alligator: Tie Stick |
| Anchor: Deadman |
| Angle-iron punch: Goathead |
| Apprentice: Clum Some, mud flap, grunt, squeak |
| Armsling: Chicken Catcher |
| Auxiliary Arm: Layout arms, hot arm |
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| Baker Board: Platform Board |
| Baloney: Cable |
| Baloney Bender: A wireman who works with heavy Cable |
| Banjo: Shovel, straight blade and long handle |
| Bear Grease: Z.L.N. electric contact aid |
| Becky: Cable Sling |
| Bell: Suspension or dead end insulators |
| Bell Wrench: Wrench for tightening various square head bolts |
| Bender: Hammer |
| Bible: Electrician's code book |
| Bicycle: Chain Drill for boring holes |
| Boatswain's Chair: A small wooden seat supported by four ropes secured to a ring or tied at a common point above the workman's head |
| Bolt cutter: Pie knife |
| Breaking clearance: Minimum approach limit |
| Bucket Truck: Cherry Picker |
| Bull wheel: Butterfly |
| Butterfly: Bullwheel |
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| C.L.F.: Current Limiting Fuse |
| C.S.P.: Completely Self-Protected transformer |
| C.S.T.: Customer Subsurface Transformer |
| C.T.: Current Transformer, transfers current from on value to another |
| Cable: Baloney |
| Cable grip: Widow |
| Cable in conduit: Tube |
| Cable Sling: Becky |
| Cant Hook: Gut wrench |
| Canvas tool pouch: Nose bag |
| Capstan hoist: Cat head |
| Card Tag |
| Cat head: Capstan hoist |
| Cattle Guard: Plastic of Metal Guy Guard |
| Chain Drill: Bicycle |
| Chain Hoist: Coffin hoist, gut wrench |
| Channel Lock Pliers: Cheaters |
| Cheaters: Channel Lock Pliers |
| Cherry Picker: Bucket Truck |
| Chicken Catcher: Armsling |
| Chicken Tracks: Epoxirod tri-unit |
| Chicken Wing: Steel post insulator standoff for distribution construction |
| Chili Bowl: Oversized pintype insulator |
| Choker: Nylon Sling |
| Christmas Tree: Pole mounted auxiliary arm used for lifting conductors |
| Clamping in: Clipping in, tying in |
| Climbers: Hooks for climbing poles, leg irons |
| Clum Some: Apprentice |
| Coffin Hoist: Chain Hoist |
| Cold: De-Energized line |
| Come-a-long: Wire grip for holding conductor or strand under tension |
| Coming Up Easy: Pick up load or increase tension |
| Completely Self-Protected transformer: C.S.P. |
| Compression fitting: Squeeze on |
| Conductor cover: Line gut |
| Corn Cob: Thimble adapter pin |
| Cotter key puller: Mickey Mouse key puller |
| Cover ups: Pig |
| Crosby Clip: Wire rope guy wire clip |
| Crow: Aerial cable spacer |
| Crows Feet: Epoxirod Tri-Unit |
| Current Transformer: C.T. |
| Customer Subsurface Transformer: C.S.T. |
| Cutout: Jack |
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| Deadman: Wood pole with u-bracket fitting for setting poles by hand without a truck; Short wood pole section, buried as an anchor; Any kind of earth anchor |
| De-Energized line: Cold |
| Diaper: Rubber blanket pinned on overhead construction |
| Dig Pole: A transition pole for going from overhead to underground distribution |
| Digger/Derrick: line truck digger, radial boom derrick |
| Digging Bar: Long, round steel bar with 2-in. chisel on one end |
| Digging bar and spoon: Pen and pencil set |
| Dillibob: Extension link |
| Dip pole: Transition pole going from overhead to underground distribution |
| Disconnect stick: Switch Stick |
| Diving Board: Platform board |
| DOCO: Dropout Cutout; open type cut out |
| Dog Bone: Special EHV yoke plates; vibration damper |
| Door: Fuse tube on open type cutouts |
| Double Arming Bolt: D.A. Bolt |
| Drive and screw hook: J Hook |
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| E.H.V.: Extra High Voltage |
| E.P.D.M.: Rubber material used in underground elbow and other connectors (Ethylene Propylene Diene Modified) |
| Eagle Eye: Leveling cross arms by sight with no measuring instruments |
| Eels: Line hose, temporary cover up |
| Egg Breaker: Guy Strain Insulator |
| Egg Sucker: Grip-All, hot line tool |
| Elbow: Underground cable terminator |
| Elbow terminator: Pistol |
| Electrician that works inside: Narrow back, wire twister |
| Electrician's Code Book: Bible |
| Elephant Ear: High strength strain insulator |
| Epoxirod Tri-Unit: Chicken Tracks, crows feet |
| Equalizers: Pair of connectors of club when used in a fight |
| Extension arm: Hot arm |
| Extension link: Dillibob |
| Extra High Voltage: E.H.V. |
| Eyeball: Visual determination without the use of instruments |
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| Finger-Line: 1/4" line |
| Fish : Glass strain insulator |
| Fixed prong tie stick: Potato hook |
| Flip-cutout: Open link cutout |
| Floating deadends: Openers, live line openers, slug, poor boy |
| Flower Pot: Universal bushing well, padmount transformer |
| Fork suspension attachment: Pizza plate |
| Four and a Quarter: Porcelain dead end insulator |
| Fuse chamber: Door, cartridge, fuse tube, gate |
| Fuzz Box: Noisy tester |
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| Gate: Open type cutout's fusetube |
| Generator: Leroy |
| Generator: Perkins |
| Gin: Temporary lifting device |
| Glowlight: Jiggler, wiggle, secondary voltage tester |
| Goathead: Angle-iron punch |
| Goathorns: Guy hooks, iron |
| Goat-skin: Tarp for covering unfinished work for the night |
| Goulash: Insulating compound |
| Grasshopper: Flip-cutot |
| Grip-All, hotline tool: Egg Sucker |
| Ground rod clamp: Peanut, acorn |
| Groundhog: Lineman's Helper |
| Groundman: Limberneck |
| Grunt: Lineman's Helper |
| Gut: 5kv rubber line hose |
| Gut Wrench: Cant hook |
| Guy Guard: Cattle Guard |
| Guy hooks: Goathorns |
| Guy Jack: Chain hoist |
| Guy Strain Insulator: Egg breaker, Johnny-ball |
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| Half-power: Lineman working off a jag |
| Hammer: Bender |
| Hand: Tie Stick |
| Hand line hook: Meat hook |
| Hard hat: Lid |
| Hard Head: Lag screw |
| Hard line: Steel bull line for pulling in wires |
| Headache: Vocal warning of danger; something that falls from pole |
| Heavy hammer: Single jack |
| Hog liver: flat porcelain guy strain insulator |
| Hog wagon: Temporary transformer |
| Hood: Insulator cover |
| Hook stick disconnect: Knife switch |
| Hooks: Climbers, used to climb poles |
| Hookstick: Insulated disconnect stick |
| Horizontal post insulators: Jugs |
| Horse collar: Preform thimble |
| Hose: Rubber or plastic cover up equipment |
| Hot: A live or energized line |
| Hot arm: Extension arm |
| Hot line clamp: Tap clamp |
| Hot line tool rack: Music stand |
| Hot link: Ball and socket link or other extension links |
| House bracket: Secondary rack |
| House knob: Wire holder |
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| Idiot Stick: Long, round steel bar with 2-in. chisel on one end |
| Instant foundation: Streetlight foundation |
| Insulated disconnect stick: Hookstick |
| Insulated jumper clamps: Mack clamps, red head jumper |
| Insulating compound: Goulash |
| Insulating line hose: Reptile, snake |
| Insulator cover: Hood |
| Insulators, Suspension or Dead End: Bell |
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| J Hook: Drive and screw hook |
| Jack: Cutout |
| Jack Straps: 2 in. blocks for pulling up small wire secondary |
| Jacobs ladder: Portable rope ladder |
| Jiffy deadend: Non-compression deadend for copper |
| Jiggler: Glowlight, secondary voltage tester |
| Johnny-ball: Guy Strain Insulator |
| Jugs: Horizontal post insulators |
| Jumper: Slack electrical connection between two points |
| Jumper holding stick: Wire holding stick |
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| Kettle: Overhead transformer |
| Knife switch: Hook stick disconnect |
| Knuckle buster: Adjustable wrench |
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| Lady slippers: How old-timers refer to present day climbers |
| Lag screw: Hard Head |
| Lead head: Nail, pin with threaded lead top for porcelain insulators |
| Leg irons: Climbers, hooks |
| Leroy: Generator |
| Lid: Hard hat |
| Limberneck: Groundman |
| Line gut: Conductor cover |
| Line hose: Eels |
| Line profile: Scaled, side view drawing of actual line for engineer's review |
| Link stick: Tag-out |
| Live or energized line: Hot |
| Lobster claw: Adjustable insulator fork |
| Luff blocks: Small set of rope blocks |
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| Mac: Mechanical load pick up jumper |
| Machine bolt: Thru bolt |
| Mack clamps: Insulated jumper clamps |
| Meat hook: Hand line hook |
| Mickey Mouse key puller: Cotter key puller |
| Milking stool: Yoke used on the end of a structure for supporting hot line tension tools |
| Minimum approach limit: Breaking clearance |
| Moles: Underground line crew |
| Movable grounding device: Traveling chain |
| Music stand: Hot line tool rack |
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| Narrow back: Electrician that works inside |
| Nitros: Street light bulbs |
| Noisy Tester: Fuzz Box |
| Nose bag: Canvas tool pouch |
| Nylon String: Choker |
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| O.C.B.: Oil Circuit Breaker |
| Old Man: "A" frame transformer gin |
| Open link cutout: Flip-cutout |
| Open type cutout's fusetube: Gate |
| Overhead transformer: Kettle |
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| P.T.O.: Power Take Off |
| Padmount Transformer: Flower Pot |
| Pen and pencil set: Digging bar and spoon |
| Persuader: Hammer |
| Phase: Single conductor |
| Pickle fork: 2 of 3 prong tie stick |
| Pickles: Wire connectors |
| Pie knife: Bolt cutter |
| Pig: Cover ups |
| Pig livers: Special yokes used on EHV lines or dead ends |
| Pig-tail: Spiral disconnect or spiral link stick |
| Pineapple: Spool insulator |
| Pintype Insulator, Oversized: Chili Bowl |
| Pistol: Elbow terminator |
| Pizza plate: Fork suspension attachment |
| Plastic protective cover: Tupperware, tacos |
| Platform Board: Baker Board |
| Platform Board: Diving board |
| Pogo stick: Telescoping tools |
| Pole Buddy: Temporary lifting device |
| Pole crab: Wire tong saddle |
| Pole reinforcer: Pole stub |
| Pole stub: Pole reinforcer |
| Pole type transformer: Tub |
| Porcelain dead end insulator: Four and a Quarter |
| Pork chop: Come-a-long or wire grip for holding conductor or strand under tension |
| Portable rope ladder: Jacobs ladder |
| Potato hook: Fixed prong tie stick |
| Pothead: Point where separate or overhead electrical conductors come together and continue as cable; termination device used on end of an underground cable |
| Pouch: Tool bag |
| Power Take Off: P.T.O. |
| Preform thimble: Horse collar |
| Primary step: Down transformer |
| Pull rope: Stringing rope |
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| Rake: Tie Stick |
| Red head jumper: Insulated jumper clamps |
| Red one: Extremely short distance |
| Reptile: Insulating line hose |
| Rest break: Skippy |
| Ridge pin: Pole top pin |
| Riser pole: Transition pole going from overhead to underground distribution |
| Rope block: Sheaves |
| Rough neck: Trouble chaser |
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| Secondary rack: House bracket |
| Secondary voltage tester: Jiggler |
| Service drop: Conductor between pole and terminal on a building |
| Sharp shooter: Shovel with long narrow blade for digging holes in ground |
| Sheaves: Rope block |
| Shield wire: Static wire, ground wire |
| Shoe-fly: Temporary line built to by-pass a construction area |
| Short Hook-up: Cord and clips for electric drill |
| Shot gun stick: Grip-All, hot line tool |
| Shovel, cup shaped with long handle: Spoon |
| Shovel, straight blade and long handle: Banjo |
| Single conductor: Phase |
| Single jack: Heavy hammer |
| Sister eye: Eyebolt or anchor rod eye for guy strand or insulator. |
| Skippy: Rest break |
| Skywire: Ground wire on top of poles and towers to protect lines from lightning |
| Sleeve: Splice |
| Slip stick: Grip-All, hot line tool |
| Slug: Solid blade on open type cutouts |
| Snake: Insulating line hose |
| Solid blade switch: solid fuse |
| Spiking cable: Spearing cable |
| Splice: Sleeve |
| Spool bolt: Upset bolt used to support spool insulators |
| Spool insulator: Pineapple |
| Spoon: Shovel; cup shaped with long handle |
| Squeeze on: Compression fitting |
| Squeeze wrench: Hand compression or cutting wrenches |
| Squirrel cage: Steel bracket mounted on a pole to support line conductors |
| Staking: To survey and mark location for each new line pole |
| Stinger: Wire from cutout to transformer |
| Strand: Messenger cable |
| Street light bulbs: Nitros |
| Streetlight foundation: Instant foundation |
| Strong arm: Chain or strap hoist for pulling wire |
| Switch Stick: Disconnect stick |
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| Tacos: Plastic protective cover |
| Tag: Card |
| Tag line: Rope used to tie off line or to control load being lifted |
| Tag-out: Link stick |
| Tap clamp: Hot line clamp |
| Telescoping tools: Pogo Sticks |
| Temporary lifting device: Gin or Pole Buddy |
| Temporary transformer: Hog wagon |
| Thimble adapter pin: Corn Cob |
| Three phase set: 3 shovels (spoon, spade and shovel) |
| Thru bolt: Machine bolt |
| Thumper: Underground fault locator |
| Tie Stick: Alligator, hand, rake |
| Toilet seat: Insulator retainer for trolley pole |
| Tongs: Used to control pole when setting |
| Tool bag: Pouch |
| Transformer bank: 2 or 3 transformers at same location connected to the same circuit |
| Transformer gin ("A" frame): Old man |
| Traveling chain: Movable grounding device |
| Traveling chair: Fabricated aluminum two wheel trolley with an attached chain |
| Traveling ladder: Wooden ladder with fiber rollers generally used when work or inspection has to be done on transmission hardware or conductor |
| Triple drum puller: Waterfall |
| Trouble chaser: Rough neck |
| Tub: Pole type transformer |
| Tube: Cable in conduit |
| Tupperware: Plastic protective cover |
| Turkey wing: Steel post insulator standoff for distribution construction |
| Two pound: Lineman's hammer |
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| U.R.D.: Underground Residential Distribution |
| U-bangi: 15kv rubber line hose |
| Underground cable terminator: Elbow |
| Underground fault locator: Thumper |
| Underground line crew: Moles |
| Underground Residential Distribution: U.R.D. |
| Universal bushing well: Flower Pot |
| Upset bolt: Spool bolt |
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| Vault: Manhole, chamber, maintenance hole |
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| Walking crab: Lever lift |
| Waterfall: Triple drum puller |
| Weatherhead: Top of the conduit that contains the customer service conductors, constructed so it will resist the action of rain, sun etc. |
| Widow: Cable grip |
| Wiggle: Glowlight, secondary voltage tester |
| Wiggle wire: Formed wire used for securing conductors to insulators |
| Wildcat connection: 3 phase 4 wire delta |
| Window pole: Disconnect stick |
| Wire bender cutout: Open link cutout |
| Wire connectors: Pickles |
| Wire holder: House knob |
| Wire rope guy wire clip: Crosby Clip |
| Wire tong saddle: Pole crab |
| Wire twister: Inside electrician |
| Wrench, to tighten square head bolts: Bell Wrench |
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