• Mr_Blott@feddit.uk
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    13 hours ago

    I think with the advent of cordless angle grinders, we’ve moved on from bolt cutters, haven’t we?

    Certainly makes my visits to National Trust properties a lot more interesting

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      2 hours ago

      When I worked on the ambulance, we once needed after hours access to a small electric company park to land a helicopter (mountainous area, not many flat spaces). That was the night I learned that the fire department keeps a “universal key” (bolt cutters) on hand for just such an occasion.

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            6 hours ago

            Nah, if I want to use a grinder in a situation where it’s not a daily thing I need to have a permit to do that. It doesn’t achieve much, it’s just an insurance thing that says that they know what I’m doing and makes me aware to do things like make sure whatever I’ve worked on cools down safely.

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              2 hours ago

              The permit to do work in an electric cabinet without turning off the power used to also be called a hot work permit, mainly because it was the same from.

              Now work near live power more than 24VDC is banned unless the power is keeping someone alive, or the person performing the work is a contractor.

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                55 minutes ago

                To us hot work is work that creates heat.

                What you call “hot work” we call “working live”. I don’t think that there’s a limit on what you can work on live, I think everyone or most isolate first.

            • Mr_Blott@feddit.uk
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              2 hours ago

              Christ on a bike I’d fucking hate to live in an oppressive regime like that

              Where are you, North Korea or somewhere like that?