On Thursday, August 30, 2012 1:49:51 PM UTC-4, Lloyd E. Sponenburgh wrote:
Jim Stewart fired this volley in news:k1o8m9$4r0$1

@dont-email.me:



Come on Lloyd, tell us why you'd need a

35-foot hot stick.



I'm truly "in the boondocks". My power line to the shop is the only

highway between two big oaks on my power easement. Like clockwork, about

every six weeks, a squirrel decides to make a "reconaissance stop" on my

line transformer, and blows the cricket -- not to mention his brains.



Where I live, a "single residential/rural" customer outage takes up to

five hours response-time.



I'd like to be able to "respond" myself.



LLoyd

Damn, 550 bucks for a hastings telescoping unit (ST-240), pricey buggers.