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Pro tip: I quit grounding the messenger at every single tap after 9 years, and a lineman in Dayton set me straight
For years I grounded the messenger wire at every tap on a run, just because that's how the guy who trained me did it back in 2015. Last month a lineman in Dayton watched me do it on a 300 foot span and asked why I was wasting the hardware. He told me the messenger is already bonded at the pole grounds, and adding extra bonds mid span just gives corrosion a place to start. He said 'you're not making it safer, you're making it rustier.' Now I bond at the ends and at the equipment, and I've cut my hardware use by about a third. How many of you are still bonding at every tap because that's how you were taught?
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