Power Talk

Two-man band: Team of two workers, one operating a crane and one fixing a power line

Tub: Transformer on a pole

Cut-outs: Fuses 20 poles apart (“Drive to the next cut-out”)

Hooking it: Climbing a pole when it’s inaccessible by crane (“Gotta go hook that pole”)

Main run: High-voltage power line running over a main street

Spur: Side-street power line, coming off a main run

Loop: Line coming off a spur