it’s the thing power pole repairmen used to use to climb up power poles. Government makes them use lifting platform trucks now.
Holy shit, I learned something from Lemmy Shitpost!
Honestly though, one of these has been draped over a fence in my neighborhood for like a week, and I’ve been wondering what it was.
an homage to a another time?
They still use a straight up climbing strap? We still mostly climb manually still but have a full on harness with 2 layers of fall arrest strapping and the ladder is strapped to the pole so you can’t fall off that either.
I thought they were nipple clamps.
i mean… they can be…
Cable guys used em too. Can still remember how they smelled from hugging my dad when he’d get home from work as a kid. Leathery and sweaty lmaoo
Away safer to use a platform.
