Dont call a lineman an electrician. “Electrician” = inside wireman. Linemen are a different animal.
Source: am electrician, live near a lineman IBEW local
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SailorFuzz@lemmy.world 4 days ago
That’s a Lineman.
All linemen are electricians, but not all electricians are linemen.
Dont call a lineman an electrician. “Electrician” = inside wireman. Linemen are a different animal.
Source: am electrician, live near a lineman IBEW local
you have to be able to troubleshoot a home to be considered a proper electrician.
SO are electricians considered more skilled? Genuinely curious. I feel like a lineman would be since they deal with more deadly stuff but what do i know.
Nah, not much more deadly kinda If something sends electricity to the lines when they are supposed to be off, it gets risky which is pretty much an issue since people are stupid and will do it accindentally by connecting their generators or solar pannels where they shouldn’t
I suppose. My knowledge of electricity ends at watching ElectroBoom and StyroPyro. Entertaining, sure. but don’t learn a whole lot. ElectroBoom teaches more but i don’t retain it.
Here’s the thing
Line men are absolutely not always electricians
That’s not a lineman. That’s tower crew for cell phone towers.
Zachariah@lemmy.world 4 days ago
So the juvenile lineman could still be called an electrician until it matures?
fulcrummed@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I think you’ll find they’re actually all jackdaws.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 3 days ago
It’s like calling an osprey a bird
Zachariah@lemmy.world 3 days ago
What’s a baby osprey called?