u/JohnProof

For guys who are in hot stick-only territory, how seriously do you take the stick care?

I'm a substation guy and the places I've worked counted on gloves as the insulation on distro, even while sticking, so nobody worried too much if the sticks were kinda beat up or needed waxing.

Where I am now is no gloving, only sticks as the insulation. But everyone seems to have no problem still using beat up sticks that aren't really getting cleaned between yearly tests. Is this as cowboy as it seems, or am I overreacting?