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?
I thought they were nipple clamps.
i mean… they can be…
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.
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.
