“I’m called to teach,” Tallman Equipment trainer Doug Kirk said as he opened up his most recent class here at our Columbus, IN headquarters. “I used to think I was supposed to teach high school. I went to college for it, but when I got into my first student teaching...
Every connection a lineman makes carries risk. When something goes wrong, personal protective grounds are what stand between a close call and a serious injury. They create a controlled path for fault current, pulling dangerous energy away from the worker and safely...
Temporary protective grounds and jumper sets from Tallman Equipment are built to the highest standards. The design and construction are meant to be durable enough to hold up to repeated use and a long service-life. But power linemen are well aware that the realities...
In a world full of acronyms and initialisms like OSHA, ASTM, IEEE, and ANSI, it’s easy to get confused about what they all mean and when they matter. Take ASTM for example. At Tallman Equipment, we say we are an ASTM member, and we build our temporary protective...
The frost on my windshield this morning is a cruel reminder that the cold months are here, and if you are or have ever been a member of a line crew, worked as a linemen or known a linemen or thought about a linemen or used electricity, it is time to think about winter...
The fields around Tallman Equipment headquarters have gone from green to golden and now to bare. The harvesters have come and gone. The farmers around us are finishing up with the last of their crops, and the silos and grain bins are bursting at the seams. The dust is...
