At our office that had 3 Phase one day I can in to work and started turning on the lights. Parts of the lights worked, some were dead. Check the electrical panel and one of the hot phases was dead. It was not a fuse, but the transformer on the pole outside.

Transformers...

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Robots is disguise

When they were replacing the transformer there were pieces of the insulators that had been destroyed in some sort of short or failure. I asked what the voltage on the wires at the top were carrying. I think it was 120,000 volts. Yea, that would be a big bang.

I watched from a distance!

Can't imagin being a lineman. Uncle was a lineman before I was born. I only knew him as a phone company executive. Remember overhearding him tell my dad his accountant told him to get a new car every year to save monies. That was before he got a boat, lol.

He had a downs syndrome son my age that lived into his mid 50's. Don't think he ever got over about 15 years old mentally.

Morning all. whew I barely made it to work on time. Had to get up feed the cat and dog eat breakfast and walk to the dining room...……………….

My father-in-law was a lineman. He could scamper up a utility pole like a squirrel. He was on call back when we were just married. A local BIG nitrogen fertilizer plant lost one leg of electricity. They were such a big user they had three separate sub stations, one for each leg of the juice. He asked if I wanted to come watch and I said sure.

He unlocked the gate of the one substation that had an issue. A fuse the size of my leg had exploded and blown pieces 100 feet. The one warning he gave me was unnecessary. "Don't touch anything" so that was easy to follow. He met another guy there that was another "old grey" and they nodded to each other as a greeting and said each other's names. The had a little building inside the plant with a phone and controls. It was air conditioned and it had no electrical meter. The made a call to headquarters and and basically told them who was there, and they they were ready to proceed. He wrote down some authorization codes, and read them back. They proceeded to change some controls settings, when to a cabinet, pulled out a fuse that was just gigantic.

One guy walk out there to replace it and the other was right behind to observe. That took a few minutes, they called back and got more codes, repeated things back, and said they were going to put it on-line. Bang, the power was back and they cleaned up some, nodded to each other again, and left. I bet they did not say 10 words to each other. On the way back home my FIL mentioned that the other guys a good friend for over 30 years. I mentioned they did not chat much. He said we had nothing to chat about, they knew all the stories, and worked together all the time. The wanted to concentrate on not getting hurt or killed. Good plan!

It's BRUCE Goff.... he was a famous Architect.... very well known.
Frank Lloyd Wright considered him a great designer.

Company owned a iron foundry. The furnace was electric. The local power company could only provide enough power at night so that's when they poured. Walked around in the room under the furnace where all the electricals one morning. With no power it made all the hair on your body stand up straight and your teeth kind of buzzed. The guys that worked there laughed at me cause they were used to it. They said it was basically a big electrical short that melted the metal.

Okay Bruce then. Mom's cousin was Gene Bavinger and his son's were Bob and Bill. Too many B's. Besides If you care, it says Bruce on the link and everything on the net about the Bavinger house.

Again too bad it wasn't made a landmark and saved from demolition.

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A loaded El Camino.

The boss's wife came in my office in the middle of another busy work at home day. She "needed" my El Camino and me of course. I had to file the forms in triplicate to the HR department and get permission from the boss to take time off. :rolleyes:

We went down to the local gardening center and picked up 14 - 40 pound bags of top soil, 4 bags of cypress mulch and two bag bags of cotton seed hulls. The soil alone is 560 pounds. The other stuff is likely another 100 pounds pounds at least.

I knew before we left it was going to be a full load for my Elky. I aired up the rear tires to 36 PSI and aired up the air bags for the load leveling to 20 PSI. Some young kid likely in his early 20s loaded it up. We had the fun of unloading it in the corner of the driveway by the compost pile and west garden. Of course all that stuff will need further hauling and shoveling. :eek:

The air bags are back to 8 PSI and the rear tires are back to 24 PSI. If I run more in the rear, the centers wear out long before the edges. At 24 it is super even wear. The things I learned after 27 years and 300,000+ miles of driving it.

The demo was a terrible shame..... incredible house. He designed hundreds.

A good friend of mine, an architect, was a student in one of Goff's architecture classes at OU.
He saw the Bavinger House.

Got my BMW back from getting tires put on my a Porsche garage recommended tire shop. On the way home the car was really squirrelly. Checked and all four tires were at the 46 psi max load pressure listed on the side of the tire! Bled them down to the door recommended pressures and they were fine. Said something to the shop and they told me they didn't need my business. Have not gone back to that tire shop since.

Gene did some crazy looking Art

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Glen, you need a beefier suspension for your Elky!

Dad's youngest brother was a lineman. Lots of awards for stuff and when he retired the main HQ had him down for a retirement party and then showed him the wall with a mural and his pictures. Some were 1:1 size. He used to walk out on the high tension lines and hang the ladder on the pole arm and climb down to fix whatever needed fixed.

No way.

The frame is just a C channel or not boxed frame. It is NOT a 1/2 ton pickup, is is a car with a really really BIG and open trunk. It is the extended frame from the station wagon version of the Malibu. It is even longer than the station wagon frame. When I need to haul more, I can borrow a pickup or rent a trailer.

For 99.8% of the time, the cargo bed is empty. It is just handy to have it there when I need it.

I have hauled a $490,000 camera system as the most expensive thing.
I have hauled trash to go to the land fill on the lest expensive end.

But look how cool it could be!

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Yea, that just screams trailer park trash.

Most of the Elkys I see are modded out rust buckets, or beat to death POS remains of a car used as a pickup, or pristine restored show cars. Very few daily drivers in really nice shape like mine. It is far from a show car, but perfect for my needs. There is no vehicle on the market to replace it.

I looks great. They just have car envy...………..

This one is a bit lower but has the tires to go with it. This one make at least 5hp more than the white one above!

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